Here are some absolute masterpieces that have left a lasting impression on me:

- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

- A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

- Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa

- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

- Stoner by John Williams

- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

- Confessions by Jaume Cabré

- A Treatise on Shelling Beans by Wiesław Myśliwski

- The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco

- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand