Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco After reading too many manuscripts about occult conspiracy theories, three editors invent their own conspiracy for fun. [640 pages]
Perdido Street Station by China Miéville In an interview, Miéville described this book as "basically a secondary world fantasy with Victorian era technology. So rather than being a feudal world, it's an early industrial capitalist world of a fairly grubby, police statey kind!" –Wikipedia [640 pages]
Shōgun by James Clavell Feudal Japan in 1600. The rise of a warlord as seen through the eyes of an English adventurer. [1152 pages]
The Stand by Stephen King A wipes out 99 percent of the world’s population. The Stand is a post-apocalyptic vision of life for the remaining 1%. [1472 pages]