"Six Classic Books That Live Up to Their Reputation" by Ilana Masad (via Apple News) recommends:

• The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu (translated by Dennis Washburn)
• Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville
• Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray
• Middlemarch, by George Eliot
• Almanac of the Dead, by Leslie Marmon Silko
• Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace