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Today’s meme is: Indicate which books from Time’s list of top 100 English-language novels from 1923 to the present you have read. Since English is not my mother tongue, I must be forgiven if my list isn’t as complete as someone else’s.

• Animal Farm
• The Big Sleep
• The Catcher in the Rye
• The Confessions of Nat Turner
• The Crying of Lot 49
• The French Lieutenant’s Woman
• Gravity’s Rainbow
• Herzog
• Lolita
• Lord of the Flies
• The Lord of the Rings
• Neuromancer
• 1984
• On the Road
• Ragtime
• Snow Crash
• The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

Two Pynchon’s and two Orwell’s. I don’t know if that means something.

To my personal list, I would surely add “The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams, “High Fidelity” by Nick Hornby and something by Robert Heinlein, Tom Wolfe (”The Bonfire of Vanities”) and Tom Robbins. Not exactly classics, though, but neither “Neuromancer” nor “Snow Crash” are.

(Via Andrew)