Tender is the Night and Like Water for Chocolate are wonderful, particularly the latter. I read Memoirs of a Geisha a while back and to be honest was a tad disappointed with it... maybe it's just because everyone was telling me it was such an amazing book before I read it my expectations were too high? (So maybe I should give it another try.)
LOL - Naughty Fairy Tales. Everyone needs one of those in the summer. (Someone gave me The Bride Stripped Bear for xmas - erotica about a bored housewife who leads a secret life, lol, sounds corny but it's actually pretty good. It was published anonymously which really intrigued me, but turns out the author was 'outed' not long after publishing... she's a previously unpublished housewife... hmmm lol)