Books Some Guy Says We Should Read

I was given this book as a gift for Christmas. It covers a variety of subjects from Mathematics to Science to History to Music. It even goes over the widely untaught-in-American-schools subject of Geography. There are, of course, sections for English and the Classics. I flipped through it, wondering if I had really got everything out of high school and/or college that I should have.
According to this book, here's the list of 100 must-read novels (in alphabetical order by title, although the first is extremely relevant today):

1. Orwell's 1984
2. Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!
3. Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March
4. Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
5. Wharton's Age of Innocence
6. Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet
7. Warren's All the King's Men
8. James' The Ambassadors
9. Dreiser's An American Tragedy
10. Stegner's Angle of Repose
11. Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
12. O'Hara's Appointment in Samarra
13. Faulkner's As I Lay Dying
14. Naipaul's A Bend in the River
15. Huxley's A Brave New World
16. Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey
17. Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
18. London's Call of the Wild
19. Heller's Catch-22
20. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
21. Burgess' A Clockwork Orange
22. Koestler's Darkness at Noon
23. West's The Day of the Locust
24. Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop
25. Bowen's The Death of the Heart
26. Dickey's Deliverance
27. de Cervantes' Don Quixote
28. Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms
29. Jones' From Here to Eternity
30. Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain
31. James' The Golden Bowl
32. Ford's The Good Soldier
33. Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
34. Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
35. Waugh's A Handful of Dust
36. McCullers The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
37. Conrad's Heart of Darkness
38. Greene's The Heart of the Manner
39. Bellow's Henderson the Rain King
40. Hughes' A High Wind in Jamaica
41. Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas
42. Wharton's The House of Mirth
43. Forster's Howard's End
44. Ellison's Invisible Man
45. Kennedy's Ironweed
46. Bronte's Jane Eyre
47. Kipling's Kim
48. Faulkner's Light in August
49. Conrad's Lord Jim
50. Golding's Lord of the Flies
51. Green's Loving
52. Fowles' The Magus
53. Lewis' Main Street
54. Hammet's The Maltese Falcon
55. Rushdie's Midnight's Children
56. Percy's The Moviegoer
57. Mailer's The Naked and the Dead
58. Wright's Native Son
59. Conrad's Nostromo
60. Maugham's Of Human Bondage
61. Bennett's The Old Wives' Tale
62. Kerouac's On the Road
63. Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
64. Nabokov's Pale Fire
65. Ford's Parade's End
66. Forster's A Passage to India
67. Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
68. Huxley's Point Counter Point
69. Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
70. Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany
71. Austen's Pride and Prejudice
72. Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
73. Fleming's Octopussy
    
74. Doctorow's Ragtime
75. Lawrence's The Rainbow
76. Forster's A Room with a View
77. Waugh's Scoop
78. Conrad's The Secret Agent
79. Bowles' The Sheltering Sky
80. Dreiser's Sister Carrie
81. Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five
82. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers
83. Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
84. Camus' The Stranger
85. Farrell's Studs Lonigan: A Trilogy
86. Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises
87. Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night
88. Achebe's Things Fall Apart
89. Grass' The Tin Drum
90. Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
91. Woolf's To the Lighthouse
92. Caldwell's Tobacco Road
93. Miller's Tropic of Cancer
94. Joyce's Ulysses
95. Murdoch's Under the Net
96. Lowry's Under the Volcano
97. Cheever's The Wapshot Chronicle
98. Butler's The Way of All Flesh
99. James' The Wings of the Dove
100. Lawrence's Women in Love
101. Bronte's Wuthering Heights (#73 was a joke)
     

As if I didn't already think of myself as a bad literature major in college. I've only read 17% of this list. After scanning the list, I've convinced myself that the list was commissioned by Penguin's Classics and that the list's author has a hard-on for Faulkner and Conrad. But don't worry everyone, I'm sure John Grisham and The Da Vinci Code will make the list in five years, tops.