as i’m whittling down my book queue at home–i’m about 30% through the time traveler’s wife–i took a gander at my “books to read” list that i keep on amazon and there’s something i noticed about my list of 94 books. with the exception of a new translation of the aenid and some cookbooks, my list is basically post-2005 novels. not much in terms of nonfiction and a great lack of older “great” literature. the last piece of lit that i read was lolita and it was truly an amazing novel.

i’ve been looking at the top 10 lists that have been posted on amazon’s book blog recently and it made me wonder if i need to add some older books to that list. so i’m looking for suggestions from you.

what would you consider to be a “top 10″ greatest novel?