I wasn't cool enough to like "Slaughterhouse-five." I picked it up sometime in college, of my own free will, but dropped it when I had to keep asking myself, "Wait, what was the plot again? Right, the guys in the slaughterhouse. What's going to happen to them?" Which I'm pretty sure was all beside the point of Pilgrim being unstuck in time and all, but I'm a slave to narrative.

I love how the list is seemingly divided between high school/college required reading and the NY Times bestseller list of the last five or so years. Makes sense, considering where it comes from.