Dr. Peter Boxall's "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2008 edition)"

The books I read to go from 9 to 10% are, in order from most to least favorite: 1. The Invention of Curried Sausage, 2. A Clockwork Orange, 3. Lolita, 4. All the Pretty Horses, 5. The Enormous Room, 6. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 7. Pricksongs and Descants, 8. The Sorrows of Young Werther, 9. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, and 10. Nightwood (the only one of these I would not recommend reading). This was a very strong list so that number seven, Pricksongs and Descants, for example, would have easily been a number two or three entry for other groups of ten books read. I say again, this was a very, very strong list of excellent books.