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It's tempting to write a very long list, but I'll keep it to a few that have been mentioned:
Frank Herbert, Dune
Clifford D. Simak, Highway of Eternity
Iain M. Banks, Player of Games
And a few that have not:
Frank Herbert, Destination Void (although not a generally appealing book, the subject matter, mind and consciousness, fascinates me)
Vernor Vinge, Across Realtime (an omnibus of sorts; Marooned in Realtime is the more fantastic of the two stories. A Fire Upon the Deep receives an honorable mention, because while most of the book is amazing, the last fifth fell flat. Rainbow's End was a very well-balanced story, so I'm hoping he's really hit his stride as a writer.)
Stanislaw Lem, Solaris (is the Clooney movie any good?)
Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun (it took me a few tries to get started on this, but once I got into it I couldn't stop. Wolfe may be my favorite author)
David Drake, the Northworld trilogy (available for free from Baen's website; also Hammer's Slammers and Cross the Stars.)
Of course, the best novel may be sitting on a shelf in some used-bookstore, you never know, so it's important to keep searching for it....
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