Some random recommendations:
Tale of Genji, the very first novel and perhaps the greatest ever written.
Shusako Endo, Deep River and Scandal
Toer, Prameodya Ananta, The Buru Quartet
Dasi, Osamu,No Longer Human
Prose, Francine, The Peaceable Kingdom
Booth, Alan, The Roads to Sata
Fergusson, Will, Hokkaido Highway Blues
Coover, Robert , Briar Rose
Higgins, Aidan, Balcony of Europe
Wall, Mervyn, Leaves for the Burning
Lavin, Mary, Selected Stories
O'Connor, Frank, Collected Stories
Richards, Alun, Selected Stories
Powys, John Cooper, Autobiography and Weymouth Sands
Ilf and Petrov, The Twelve Chairs
Himes, Chester, The Quality of Hurt
Denby, David, The Catacombs
Reed, Ishmael, The Free-Lance Pallbearers and The Terrible Twos
McClanahan, Ed, Famous People I Have Known
Leskov, Nikolai, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Tynyanov, Yuri, Lieutenant Kije
Shukshin, Vasily, Stories from a Siberian Village
Dovlatov, Sergi, The Suitcase and Ours
Murphy, Delia, Eight Feet in the Andes
Moore, Tim, Continental Drifter
Carter, Angela, The Bloody Chamber
Androvic, Ivo, Bridge on the Drina
Tully, Jim, Beggars of Life
The Journey to the West
Mo Yan, The Republic of Wine
Zola, Emile, The Earth and The Abbe Moure's Sin
Dick, Philip K, The Laughing Policeman
Cather, Willa, My Antonia
Sommerville and Ross, The Real Charlotte
Saroyan,Wiiliam, Not Dying
Klima, Ivan, Love and Garbage
Steiner,George, After Babel
Moore, Geroge, Hail and Farewell
Watson, Ian, Chekhov's Journey
Jen, Gish, Mona in the Promised Land
Kerouac, Jack, The Dharma Bums and Orpheus Remembered
Ha Jin, Ocean of Words
Abbey, Edward, The Monkey Wrench Gang
Voinovitch, Vladimir, The Extraorianry life and Adventures of Private Chonkin
Moore, Brain, An Answer from Limbo
Becett, Three Novels
O'Brian, Flann, The Third Policeman
Kavanagh, Patrick, The Green Fool
O'Flaherty, Liam, The Black Soil
Least-Heat Moon, Blue Highways
Bowen, Elizabeth, The Last September
Rhys, Jean, Collected Short Stories
Freeling,Nicholas, Love in Amsterdam
McGahern, John, Collected Stories
Kadohata, Cynthia, The Floating World
Shen Congwen, Imperfect Paradise
Kenzaburo Oe, A Personal Matter
Oda Sakunosuke, Stories of Osaka Life
Kamata, Suzanne, The Broken Bidge
Davidson, Cathy, 36 Views of Mount Fuji
Hong Ying, Daughter of the River
Hessler, Peter, River Town
Guanlong Cao, The Attic
O'Brien, Kate, Mary Lavelle
Houellebecq, Michael, The Elementary Particles
Keneally, Thomas, To Asmara
Burgess, Anthony, The Doctor is Sick
Martinson, Harry, Aniara
MacGill, Children of the Dead End and Lanty Hanlon
Gorky, Maxim, My Childhood
Masuji Ibuse, Black Rain
du Maurier, Daphne, The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte
Bodenheim, Maxwell, Replenishing Jessica
Hamill, Pete, Loving Women
Constant, Benjamin, Adolphe
Altick, Richard, The Scholar Adventurers
Collins, James, Sixpence House
Pessoa, Fernando, The Book of Disquietude
Thomson, David, Woodbrook
Fletcher, Martin, Almost Heaven
Howells, Wiliam, The Rise of Silas Lapham
Twain, Mark, The Guilded Age
Dos Passoss, Three Soldiers
Bulgakov, Mikail, The Master and the Margaritta
Simon, Claude, The Road to Flanders
Graves, Robert, Count Belisarius
Stuart, Francis, Black List Section H
Berrigan, Daniel, To Dwell in Peace
Clarke, Austin, A Penny in the Clouds
Poers, J. F., Collected Stories
Berberova, Nina, The Italics are Mine
Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope
Cao Xingjian, Soul Mountain
Rushby, Kevin, Eating the Flowers of Paradise
Kennedy, William, Quinn's Book and Roscoe
Rexroth, Kenneth, An Autobiographical Novel
Lenz, Sigfreid, Selected Stories
Jackson, Kenneth, Invisible Forms
Hubbell, Susan, A Country Year
Dilliard, Annie, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Bierce, Ambrose, In the Midst of War
Briusov, Valerii, The Fiery Angel
Pelevin, Victor, Homo Zapiens
Shalamov, Varlam, Kolyma Taels
Zinoviev, Aleksandr,The Yawning Heights
Zoshchenko, Mikhail, Collected Stories
Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

These are all great reads. I suppose I could go on, but I've got to get back to the book I'm writing. k.mceneaney@yahoo.com