Thanks to the "What's your favourite novel of all time?" by MrSmith I added:
I have finished them, now my ratings:
7/10 The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
6/10 House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
4/10 Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
8/10 On the Black Hill - Bruce Chatwin
8/10 Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
9/10 The Big Clock (New York Review Books Classics) - Kenneth Fearing
8/10 Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
6/10 Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
7/10 Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War - Anthony Swofford
8/10 Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System - William Poundstone
6/10 To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld Saga, Book 1)
a bit more then $25, but what the hell it's winter.