This list of 100 books to read showed up on reddit today. I leafed through it and thought I’d do the general public a service by giving some annotations

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

1984 by George Orwell

The Republic by Plato

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Ulysses by James Joyce

Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Art of Warfare by Sun Tzu

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Hamlet by Shakespeare

A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Absolutely not. Go read The name of the rose instead, it’s a masterpiece.

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
If you find the novel too slow paced, see the mini-series with Gerard Depardieu, it’s fantastic!

A children’s book.
I saw the movie or the play, didn’t read the text itself.

Stellar, unforgettable, a must read.
Highly recommended.
Well worth a look, but doesn’t leave a lasting impression.
Mediocre.
Interminable.
Gave up, the author could not convince me it was worth reading in a reasonable amount of time.