What are the most important fiction books one should read in his life?

>compares inbred shitskins to Scandinavian warrior pimps
>tells others to read history

One of these doesn't belong.

Why are then Vikings acknowledged as invasive barbarians and Muslims as peaceful refugees?

They both were/are annoying and dumb savages who would do the world a favour if they all jumped off a cliff.

Important? I'd say these: (not ranked)
- Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
- Dickens: Great Expectations, Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, Nicholas Nickleby, Oliver Twist, Pickwick Papers, Little Dorrit, Dombey, Our Mutual Friend
- C. Bronte: Jane Eyre
- Austen: Pride & Prejudice, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Sense & Sensibility
- Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress
- Melville: Moby-Dick, Billy Budd, Stories
- Swift: Gulliver's Travels
- Poe: Selected Stories
- Twain: Huckleberry Finn
- Dostoevsky: Crime & Punishment, Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, The Devils; Notes from Underground
- Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass
- Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Mayor of Casterbridge, Jude the Obscure, The Woodlanders, Far From the Madding Crowd, Return of the Native
- Smollett: Roderick Random
- Thackeray: Vanity Fair
- Turgenev: Fathers & Sons
- Dumas: Three Musketeers, Count of Monte Cristo
- George Eliot: Silas Marner, Middlemarch
- Cervantes: Don Quixote
- Voltaire: Candide, Zadig, Micromegas
- Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
- Flaubert: Madame Bovary, Sentimental Education, Three Tales
- Tolstoy: War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Stories
- Gogol: Dead Souls, The Overcoat
- Chekhov: Stories
- Maupassant: Stories
- Kazantzakis: Zorba the Greek, The Greek Passion, The Last Temptation
- Balzac: Old Goriot, Eugenie Grandet, Cousin Bette, Cousin Pons
- Zola: Germinal, Drunkard, Human Beast
- Conrad: Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, Nostromo
- Giovanni Verga: The House by the Medlar Tree
- Proust: In Search of Lost Time
- Fontance: Effi Briest
- Kafka: Metamorphosis, The Trial, Stories
- Verne: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in 80 Days
- Pushkin: Eugene Onegin, Stories
- Aesop: Fables
- Camus: The Outsider
- Laclos: Dangerous Liaisons
- Fitzgerald: Great Gatsby, Stories
- Joyce: Dubliners, Ulysses
- Diderot: Jacques the Fatalist
- Orwell: 1984, Animal Farm
- Steinbeck: Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row, Mice and Men, Red Pony
- Hemingway: Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises
- Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy
- Rabelais: Gargantua & Pantagruel
- Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- Stendhall: Red and Black
- Nabokov: Lolita
- Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
- Samuel Richardson: Pamela
- Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
- Faulkner: Sound and the Fury
- Lampedusa: The Leopard
- Galdos: Fortunata and Jacinta
- Quevedo: Paul the Swindler
- H.C. Andersen: Fairy Tales
- Grimm: Fairy Tales
- Capote: Breakfast at Tiffany's
- Achebe: Things Fall Apart
- Knut Hamsun: Hunger
- Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse 5
- McCarthy: Blood Meridian
- Buzzati: Tartar Steppe
- Eca de Queiros: The Crime of Father Amaro
- Sinclair Lewis: Main Street
- Heller: Catch-22
- Jiminez: Platero and I
- Coetzee: Disgrace
- Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Henry James: Portrait of a Lady, Turn of the Screw
- Doyle: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Wilde: Picture of Dorian Gray
- Hugo: Les Miserables, Notre-Dame de Paris

I guess because CNN didn't exist in the time of Alfred the Great.

>lolita
>picture of dorian gray
>catch-22
what the fuck? why?

...

1. I believe Lolita is among the finest examples of prose in English. Content aside, the book is a stylistic work of astonishing genius. Lucid, elaborate, intricate, witty. The story was, to me, contrived and unrealistic - but the spellbinding use of language overwhelmed me. I found Pnin to be a more agreeable book, but less ingeniously-composed. Pale Fire is a bit too baffling.
2. Dorian Gray sums up a key figure in literary history, maybe not as key a figure as say Goethe or Dante, but quite important nonetheless. It exhibits like no other work the man's incredible wit as well as having a surprising moral lesson (unfashionable as that is these days) and perfectly captures the times, the decadent late-Victorian era, scoffing at traditional values and sinking into bitterness.
3. Catch-22 was something I had to return to, after attempting it once before and giving it up. Again, it sums up the historical setting very well - the madness and nonsensical nature of war and the officialdom behind it. It was well-written, and epic in scope of its comedy and devastating tragedy.

Read all the books mentioned in this thread, what do i do now?

lllad

>Falling this hard for memes

Where the fuck is Borges, gringo?

The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

The fault is in our stars

There's this place called /pol/

>spelling mistake
>Veeky Forums

>Categorizing the greatest books in the world as "memes".

Read them again

Haven't read him, except for the story "The Library of Babel", which was quite excellent.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokklubben_World_Library

You should basically read everything thats a real book (narrows the field considerably).

But Homer, Dostoevsky and Nabokov if you need to prioritise. The first two are important to living, the last one to language/writing.

At the very least if you read that lot you can be a more effective reader as you'll know what quality looks like and it will make you resistant to hacks from thereon.

Misery by Stephen Kings

Aye, but not just for him.

>implying Orwell has any literary talent
>implying Thomas Hardy is either good or important as a novelist
>implying Thackeray is still readable today
>implying Camus is worth wasting a single brain cell on
>implying Gogol is worth anything to non-Russian-speakers
>no Twice-Told Tales
>no Sportsman's Sketches
>no Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>no Kipling
>no Stevenson
>no Wells
>no Woolf
>no Lawrence
>no Borges
>NO SHAKESPEARE
Kys pleb

Only the last one is a novel you nincompoop. Most of those are poems.