for the similar! otherwise, as an advocate for the anti-to be read/must read brigade, ignore this list, my opinion is irrelevant, read what you want

• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
• The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• The Crucible by Arthur Miller
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• The Heptameron by Marguerite de Navarre
• Watership Down by Richard Adams
• Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
• Delta of Venus by Anais Nïn
• Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene
• Passing by Nella Larsen
• Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
• Les fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire
• Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
• North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
• The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
• Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
• Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
• Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
• Heidi by Johanna Spyri
• The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
• Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan
• Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
• Hiroshima by John Hersey
• Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
• Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
• The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan
• Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant
• Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
• Vita Nuova by Dante