A Book List - And I Fail The Literati Test

The Times has a list of the top 60 novels from the last 60 years.

I like lists like this. They're highly subjective, and you could argue for hours over them.

I've reproduced the list below. What surprises me is how few of them I've read. I've coloured in red those I have read.

1949 Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
1950 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis
1951 The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger [can't believe I've still not read this]
1952 Pigs Have Wings, P. G. Wodehouse
1953 Casino Royale, Ian Fleming [a good read, but not his best Bond novel. From Russia With Love was in my view his best, but I also enjoyed the silliness of Goldfinger and Dr No]
1954 Lord of the Flies, William Golding
1955 Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
1956 The Hundred and One Dalmatians, Dodie Smith
1957 Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
1958 Our Man in Havana, Graham Greene
1959 The Leopard, Giuseppe di Lampedusa [God I'm an ignorant savage. Never even heard of this one]
1960 To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
1961 Catch 22, Joseph Heller
1962 The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
1963 The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
1964 Funeral in Berlin, Len Deighton [I read this and was not inspired]
1965 Dune, Frank Herbert [entertaining enough, but no way does it deserve to be on any list like this]
1966 Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
1967 Towards the End of the Morning, Michael Frayn
1968 2001, Arthur C. Clarke
1969 The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles
1970 Play it as it Lays, Joan Didion [never heard of this one too. Back to school for me]
1971 Americana, Don DeLillo
1972 Watership Down, Richard Adams [the saddest book I ever read. But I was only about eight. The film gave me nightmares for months. Poor widdle wabbits all died]
1973 Crash, J. G. Ballard
1974 Fear of Flying, Erica Jong
1975 Salem’s Lot, Stephen King
1976 Even Cowgirls get the Blues, Tom Robbins
1977 A Scanner Darkly, Philip K. Dick
1978 The World According to Garp, John Irving [started well but then became tedious. Like most Irving books I've read]
1979 Smiley’s People, John le Carré
1980 Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess
1981 Lanark, Alasdair Gray
1982 The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende
1983 Waterland, Graham Swift
1984 Money, Martin Amis
1985 Love in The Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1986 Tourist Season, Carl Hiaasen [another one I've never heard of]
1987 More Die of Heartbreak, Saul Bellow
1988 Mother London, Michael Moorcock
1989 Sexing the Cherry, Jeannette Winterson
1990 Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard
1991 The Famished Road, Ben Okri
1992 The Secret History, Donna Tartt
1993 Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
1994 How Late it Was, How Late, James Kelman
1995 Northern Lights, Philip Pullman
1996 Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt [am reading this at present - God it's grim]
1997 Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, J. K. Rowling [was this the best 1997 could do?]
1998 The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
1999 Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee
2000 The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
2001 The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
2002 Atonement, Ian McEwan
2003 The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
2004 The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst
2005 Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
2006 The Road, Cormac McCarthy
2007 A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini [oops, never heard of this one either]
2008 Netherland, Joseph O’Neill
2009 The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters

That's less than a third I've read. How will I hold my head up in literary circles?

How did you do?