I'm a huge classics fan too! Especially Charles Dickens (Bleak House, Little Dorrit, David Copperfield...)! But one that I just read that really got to me was George Gissing's The Odd Women. Some others I've enjoyed:

Adam Bede by George Eliot
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee

Let us know what you end up starting with!