Iconic and reads at the pace life should probably be lived. Never surpassed by Kerouac, but not for lack of trying

Utterly impossible to describe, unique in 19thC fiction, and modern fiction too. In my top 5 best ever.

I had to pick this really, but you can't go wrong with Marquez, Love in the time of cholera, The general in his labyrinth, take your pick...

Classic russian literature gets a little pompous and melodramatic, but this comes out of it like the october revolution and establishes an new epoch

Tolkien's best book by a long way, don't feel you need to read Lord of the Rings, it dissolves into a trite medieval romance, this however, is spot on.

I couldn't begin to say how important this book is. Get out of hell, march up that darned hill and see what a miserable bunch of wretches can become. Bon giorno Beatirce!

Where'd he learn to write like this? I want to know, dammit!

You can't live without existentialism. What a terrible joke, however, this is a great book. Meursault, won't you shed a tear? For the sake of society! Oh, so its not just me then, thats reassuring...

Remarkable, revolutionary structure, even enlivens the subject matter, probably ranks as genius, yes, on reflection, it does.

Don't deny the holocaust, its not big and its not clever! But this is the best account of a human tragedy which no-one seems to have learnt anything from. Rwanda anyone? Bosnia? Iraq? etc,etc.

Speaking of which, best film ever. No, don't argue, THIS IS THE BEST FILM EVER MADE!!!!!!!!!

You're getting the hang of this now, right? Incidentally, The Invention of Morel by Bioy Casares is worth a read (Marienbad was based on it), but don't give away the ending!!!!