Instinctual subjective list: Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut New York Trilogy by Paul Auster Emma by Jane Austen Moby Dick by Herman Melville The Sellout by Paul Beatty Malloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett The Hobbit by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway Franny & Zooey by Jerome David Salinger One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Middlemarch by George Eliot Parable of Talents by Octavia Butler Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck