This is a (necessarily incomplete, necessarily incompletely-organized) collection of books I happen to remember 
reading in the past few {months, years}. 
It will probably grow. 
A few of them have comments. A few more may get comments :) 

* poetry
Czeslaw Milosz: A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry
Ovid: Metamorphoses
Rabindranath Tagore: Gitanjali

* middle east 
Asne Seierstad: The Bookseller of Kabul 
Jean Sasson: Mayada, Daughter of Iraq		 
	     Princess, A True Story behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
	     Princess Sultana's Circle
	     Princess Sultana's Daughters
[All of these by Jean Sasson are rather brutal tales, especially of the treatment of women who transgress. 
If they're true -- and they seem believable -- it opens up a shocking dimension of a comfortably-unknown world...]
Azar Nafisi: Reading Lolita in Tehran [I loved it, primarily because it brought back some forgotten memories of my 
				       glimpse inside an Arabic home...]

* immigrant & south asian fiction
Jhumpa Lahiri: Interpreter of Maladies. *my favourite* 
	       The Namesake
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: The Mistress of Spices [The writing was a lot of fun!]
			    Sister of my Heart
			    Vine of Desire
			    The Unknown Errors of Our Lives
			    Arranged Marriage 
Anita Desai: Fasting, Feasting
	     Games at Twilight
Monica Ali: Brick Lane
Salman Rushdie: East, West
Vikram Seth: A Suitable Boy [Fun, but loooong.]
Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things [Eh. Overrated. I had issues with her writing as well.]
Bapsi Sidhwa: Cracking India
Amulya Malladi: A Breath of Fresh Air [eye-opening story re: understanding the Bhopal Gas Tragedy]
		The Mango Season [entirely avoidable]
Manju Kapur: Difficult Daughters [extremely nice, in spite of the virtually unknown author...]

* misc fiction
Rabindranath Tagore: Binodini, Chitrangada
Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon ["incredibly great"!]
Jostein Gaarder: Sophie's World
		 The Solitaire Mystery
Alan Paton: Cry, the Beloved Country *another absolute favourite* 
Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence
Michael Frayn: Copenhagen [awesome!]
Jane Austen: Persuasion
Pearl Buck: The Good Earth
Anton Chekhov: Short stories

* misc non-fiction
Rilke: Letters to a Young Poet [amazing, eye-opening, and just plain beautiful]
Virginia Woolf: Three Guineas
	      : The Moment and other essays [lovely]
Art Spiegelman: Maus I, II
Dava Sobel: Longitude
	    Galileo's Daughter
Primo Levi: The Reawakening
Jung Chang: Wild Swans
Leo Marks: Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War
Dominique Lapierre & Larry Collins: Is Paris Burning? 
Cornelius Ryan: The Longest Day [too much military detail! watch the movie!]

* mystery
These are my two current favorite mystery writers! 
Boris Akunin (translated): The Winter Queen
			   Murder on the Leviathan
Alexander McCall Smith: The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency
			The Full Cupboard of Life
			The Kalahari Typing School for Men
			Morality for Beautiful Girls
			The Sunday Philosophy Club
[The reviews that called it a 'Miss Marple-like character in Botswana' say it all. They're just ... precious :)]

* recent bestsellers
Dan Brown: The Da Vinci Code [it's FICTION! And as for language... the Language Log summarizes it best!]
Alice Sebold: The Lovely Bones [ok]
Janet Fitch: White Oleander 
Tracy Chevalier: Girl with a Pearl Earring