Top 10 books ever

[jock]

What are the top 10 books that you really must read?
Fiction/Non Fiction, Classics, Contemporary��Important Ideas? I'm sure answerbankers have an opinion on this!

[jock]

Thank you!
ok, books I reckon I need to read are:

Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky

Madame Bovary - Flaubert

Don Quixote - Cervantes

The Famished Road - Ben Okri

Brave New World - Huxley

Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Outsider - Camus

5 people that you meet in heaven - Mitch Albon

The Handmaid's Tale and Cats Eye - Margaret Atwood.

Cloud Atlas - David Mitchel

Paradise - Toni Morrison

His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

Perfume - Patrick Suskind

Good Omens

The Lovely Bones

The Time Travellers Wife

Memoirs of a Geisha

The Merry Hall trilogy by Beverly Nicols

Tiger in the smoke by Marjorie Allingham

Heart of darkness - Joseph Conrad

Shout - Phillip Norman.

Gladstone - Roy jenkins.

Brick Lane - Monica Ali

Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

All the Small Things - Chinua Achebe

Dr jekyl and mr hyde

Thanks for all the feedback - the ones i haven't listed, I've either read already, A couple of mine that I'd recommend are:

I Claudius/Claudius the God - Robert Graves - Brilliantly enligning Roman history - made me think about history completley differently, being about real, sosphisticated people with aims & ambitions rather than dull facts!

The Machine in Ward 11 - Charles Ray Willeford, Wierd, spooky short stories that hang together in a strange way, and stay with you.

Anything by James Ellroy. Dark, horrible, mysoginistic, nasty, fascinating and moral. His autobiography - My Dark Places - is a MUST read.