I think my top 50 is ready for publication. It's frustrating though. I've seen about 4,000 movies, and out of those, it's very easy to find 100 that I really like. But I've only read about 250 books, so there are nowhere near as many that I love. I just can't read fast enough.
1. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824, James Hogg)
2. Frankenstein (1818, Mary Shelley)
3. The Stranger (1942, Albert Camus)
4. The Catcher in the Rye (1951, J.D. Salinger)
5. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949, George Orwell)
6. The Sound and the Fury (1929, William Faulkner)
7. Notes from Underground (1864, Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
8. Les Misérables (1862, Victor Hugo)
9. Our Lady of the Flowers (1943, Jean Genet)
10. The Master and Margarita (1967, Mikhail Bulgakov)
11. Naked Lunch (1959, William S. Burroughs)
12. As I Lay Dying (1930, William Faulkner)
13. Dead Souls (1842, Nikolai Gogol)
14. Lord of the Flies (1954, William Golding)
15. Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953, James Baldwin)
16. We (1921, Yevgeny Zamyatin)
17. Hunger (1890, Knut Hamsun)
18. Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948, Truman Capote)
19. Slaughterhouse-Five (1969, Kurt Vonnegut)
20. Crime and Punishment (1866, Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
21. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884, Mark Twain)
22. Moravagine (1926, Blaise Cendrars)
23. Dream Story (1926, Arthur Schnitzler)
24. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971, Hunter S. Thompson)
25. Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids (1958, Kenzaburo Oe)
26. The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962, Carlos Fuentes)
27. Things Fall Apart (1958, Chinua Achebe)
28. Fahrenheit 451 (1952, Ray Bradbury)
29. Black Boy (1945, Richard Wright)
30. Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964, Hubert Selby Jr.)
31. Camel Xiangzi (1937, Lao She)
32. A Long Way Gone (2007, Ishmael Beah)
33. The Time Machine (1895, H.G. Wells)
34. Brave New World (1932, Aldous Huxley)
35. The Metamorphosis (1915, Franz Kafka)
36. Flowers for Algernon (1966, Daniel Keyes)
37. The Blind Owl (1937, Sadegh Hedayat)
38. Say You’re One of Them (2008, Uwem Akpan)
39. Captains of the Sands (1937, Jorge Amado)
40. Beasts of No Nation (2005, Uzodinma Iweala)
41. Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853, Herman Melville)
42. Zombie (1995, Joyce Carol Oates)
43. The Satyricon (c. 100 AD, Petronius)
44. Pather Panchali (1929, Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay)
45. All Quiet on the Western Front (1929, Erich Maria Remarque)
46. The Forever War (1974, Joe Haldeman)
47. Rabbit, Run (1960, John Updike)
48. A Clockwork Orange (1962, Anthony Burgess)
49. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler (1979, Italo Calvino)
50. Fifth Business (1970, Robertson Davies)
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