I have run through this list of the Top 100 Books of all time provided by the Guardian and find that I have read 28 of them. So, not nearly as close to half-way through as I am personally on the lifecycle scale, but then I also found that there are only another 24 that I actually want to read!
No serious objections to the content of the list, though I'd add Victory to Conrad's tally and For Whom the Bell Tolls to Hemingway's. I have my reservations about Pedro Páramo and if Blindness is good enough to be on this list, so are The Catcher in the Rye and The Great Gatsby. Dostoevsky is perhaps a little over-represented, so I'd dock him one book and add Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time.
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