There are far too many books to be read – important books, not fluffy time-fillers. Therefore, this is not by any means a list of the most important or pressing literary works. This is a list of books that you should reado right away. Hurry to your local USED bookstore and pick up the following:
1. Notes from Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. We the Living – Ayn Rand
3. Zen and the Art of Monorcycle Maintenance – Robert M. Pirsig
4. Nine Stories – J.D. Salinger
5. Exploring the Crack in the Cosmic Egg – Joseph Chilton Pierce
6. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
7. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
8. The Divine Comedy – Dante
9. Still Life with Woodpecker – Tom Robbins
10. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
This is not listed in order of importance – or any order at all. And you will not know why you need to read each one until you have. Now, go book shopping.