It would appear that I’ve read few of Time magazine’s top 100 Novels from 1923 to the present — and many of those I read were either high school reading assignments or genre fiction.
That said, Catch-22 and The Catcher in the Rye were never assigned to me in school — and I’m glad, because I hated them both.
Incidentally, if you look at the Readers’ Choice list, I’ve read most of the top 20:
- 1984
- The Lord of the Rings
- The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
- Watchmen
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Things Fall Apart
- The Great Gatsby
- The Catcher in the Rye
- Snow Crash
- Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
- Lolita
- Catch-22
- Ubik
- A Clockwork Orange
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Animal Farm
- Lord of the Flies
- Slaughterhouse-Five
- Beloved
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Atonement