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I don't understand how "One Hundred Years of Solitude" or "Catch-22" are on here. Maybe you just have to be at the right place in your life, but I just plowed through those in college.

I've never gotten around to reading "A Brief History of Time", but I still hold out delusions that I'll get through "The Road to Reality" by Roger Penrose some day.

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I feel like 100 Years gets a little repetitive in the middle-end. I skipped (shock! horror!) a good 80 pages or so. Everyone’s got the same names as ghosts of their ancestors walking around and I kept having to flip to the family tree in beginning to keep up.

This being said, it provides a wonderful perspective on how the stories that define us come from a magical yet misty history.

And hey, maybe the prose is like Faulkner or McCarthy in the native language and you can gallop your way through those sections, I dunno.

I still put it in my top 10!

I totally agree on "One Hundred Years of Solitude". It is almost a page-turner. Don't let this list scare you away from it.

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