I actually rather enjoyed Remains of the Day. Read it for freshman English at U of M. That and short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri. :-P

Also, there are several others by Conrad that realllllly should be on this list, like the Secret Sharer, even though it is technically a short story.

I'm also curious as to why Dostoevsky's The Idiot didn't make it on here, nor most philosophy books, such as Kirkegaard's Sickness Unto Death, Plato's Republic, etc.