I enjoy Louis Lamour books (I met Lamour once) and "The Hobbit" but PUHLEASE, as novels they just don't rank with the quality of writing found in From Here To Eternity. BTW, Jones' The Thin Red Line ranks as the best war novel ever (From Here To Eternity is more of a pre-war novel.)
Moby Dick (Melville)
For Whom The Bell Tolls (Hemingway)
Watership Down (Adams)
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
A Study in Scarlet (Conan Doyle)
The Turn of the Screw (James)
The Yearling (Rawlings)
Brave New World (Huxley)
1984 (Orwell)
Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut)
USA Trilogy (Dos Pasos)
Lord of the Flies (Golding)
The Age of Innocence (Wharton)
Heart of Darkness (Conrad)
Scoop (Waugh)
The Jungle Book (Kipling)
The Man Who Would Be King (Kipling)
The Call of the Wild (London)
The French Lieutenant's Woman (Fowles)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (McCullers)
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Bradbury)
I, Claudius (Graves)
Q.B. VII (Uris)
NOTE: This list is by no means exhaustive, and I might be able to think for awhile longer and come up with more. Some I might like better than others, and then next day come back and rearrange the order all over again.
Guess it comes from being "attention deficit," but really, this is a choice the kind of which I can never make.