The following books were voted the ones that had most changed men's lives in a 2006 Orange/Guardian survey carried out by Professor Lisa Jardine and Annie Watkins of Queen Mary College.
The Outsider by Albert Camus
Heart of
Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The
Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
Catch
22 by Joseph Heller
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Ulysses by
James Joyce
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Book of Laughter and
Forgetting by Milan Kundera
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Lolita by
Vladimir Nabokov
1984 by George Orwell
The Catcher in the Rye by JD
Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Male Book Case customers have added suggestions of novels by Rose Tremain and Alice Munro and the following (as well as approving the titles above in bold). Further ideas welcome!
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan
Kundera
The Kindness of Women by J G Ballard
The Man in my Basement by
Walter Mosley
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Anything by Kurt
Vonnegut Jr.