[nihzm]

Roughly sorted by thickness (for the editions I own), these are among my favourites and arguably a good starting point

* Animal Farm - George Orwell

* The Fall - Albert Camus

* Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes

* One hundred years of solitude - Gabriel García Márquez

* The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov

[internet_points]

Master and Margarita is wonderfully burlesque and beautiful, and not that thick ;-)