Just rattling off what comes to mind:

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Take the Cannoli by Sarah Vowell
No Man Knows My History by Fawn Brodie
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins by Dr. Seuss
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Monkey/Journey to the West by Wu Cheng-En
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Odyssey by Homer (Robert Fagles translation FTW!)