“People are always ruining things for you.” — Holden Caulfield
After reading the article about books disliked by likers of The Catcher in the Rye, a college pal hit me up on FB, “I loathe that book, can you tell me what haters like me like so I can get some ideas for what to read next?” Here’s the top 40, offered without commentary.
- The Great Gatsby
- Jane Eyre
- Great Expectations
- Lolita
- Dubliners
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Frankenstein
- Emma
- Wuthering Heights
- The Quiet American
- The Sense of an Ending
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Beowulf
- David Copperfield
- In Cold Blood
- Excellent Women
- Fifth Business
- The Goldfinch
- The Old Man and The Sea
- Wide Sargasso Sea
- Brideshead Revisited
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Station Eleven
- About a Boy
- Infinite Jest
- Madame Bovary
- The House on Mango Street
- Stoner
- Portnoy’s Complaint
- Watchmen
- To The Lighthouse
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- White Teeth
- High Fidelity
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
- Ghost World
- A Clockwork Orange
- The Sound and The Fury
- A Death in the Family
- The Handmaid’s Tale
This is definitely a feature we are going to add to either the app or the upcoming site, using an emotional vector as a gateway to discovery.
