I know there's a "top 5" thread for books at the minute, but I was thinking about this while on hols - what are the novels that everyone needs to read, books that maybe have changed the way you look at things, or yo've re-read a zillion times, or just haunted you for years
Here's a little list from me to start off with:
John Steinbeck - Grapes of Wrath
Joseph Heller - Catch 22
Kurt Vonnegut - any 2 of: Slaughterhouse 5, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, Breakfast of Champions, Mother Night, plus Timequake (you need to read a few to understand Kurt's buzz I think)
Franz Kafka - any book (just so you'll understand the word "Kafkaesque")
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the time of Cholera
Henry Miller - Sexus
Oh and one extra, not necessarily a great book, but sowed the seeds of my atheism when I read it at 16 - Illusions by Richard Bach
Here's a little list from me to start off with:
John Steinbeck - Grapes of Wrath
Joseph Heller - Catch 22
Kurt Vonnegut - any 2 of: Slaughterhouse 5, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, Breakfast of Champions, Mother Night, plus Timequake (you need to read a few to understand Kurt's buzz I think)
Franz Kafka - any book (just so you'll understand the word "Kafkaesque")
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the time of Cholera
Henry Miller - Sexus
Oh and one extra, not necessarily a great book, but sowed the seeds of my atheism when I read it at 16 - Illusions by Richard Bach