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[eruthros]

From the Guardian's silly polls. (I note that many of these books are, trala, Great Classics, by which I mean "frequently required reading." Or are books that people think make them look cool and well-read.)

I've read everything in bold.

Men's "watershed" books. I have read

The Outsider by Albert Camus (though I usually see it translated as "The Stranger.")
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Ulysses by James Joyce
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
1984 by George Orwell
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Women's "watershed" books.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (for class; I didn't care for it)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (because everyone told me I should; I don't remember it)
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (for a project on dystopias, for which I also read my only Kafka)
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (this one I actually like)
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Oranges are not the only fruit by Jeanette Winterson
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Little Women by Louis May Alcott
Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (ick)
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee