35 books people should read at least once

[SFG75]

Quite an impressive list. Not sure if I would have chosen a number of those books, but then again, it's a list of books to at least read once, not necessarily believe are the best things created in their respective times.

http://www.businessinsider.com/35-b...f-motorcycle-maintenance-by-robert-m-pirsig-1

 

[Peder]

I always count.
Twenty read! Better than 50% is not bad for me. Usually about 30% . Hooray!.

 

[direstraits]

Blah. 12.

An alternative link here (http://www.businessinsider.com/35-books-you-must-read-in-your-lifetime-2013-9?op=1) where you see everything a single page instead of having to do the slideshow clickety-click 35 times.

 

[Meadow337]

22 LOL ... clearly I read too much and the ones remaining on the list I'm not likely to read as they aren't my cup of tea.

 

[Zach Ezo]

I shove East of Eden into every face I see. I think I've done more promotion for John Steinbeck than his agent. It is, without a doubt in my mind, the greatest novel ever written. Ulysses isn't even on my top ten. Convoluted Irish yammering.

 

[direstraits]

Interesting. East of Eden, huh? I shall take a note of this - I somehow have an unexplained prejudice against the book. I don't know why.

 

[Ell]

I shove East of Eden into every face I see. I think I've done more promotion for John Steinbeck than his agent. It is, without a doubt in my mind, the greatest novel ever written. Ulysses isn't even on my top ten. Convoluted Irish yammering.

Twenty-two for me. East of Eden is one I've not read.

Ulysses isn't on this list, is it? I like picking it up from time to time just to read excerpts out loud. It has one of the best openings: "Stately Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressing-gown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him by the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned: Introibo ad altare Dei."