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Research on the novels that mean the most to men highlight the divide between sexes when it comes to reading habits. From this article in the Guardian, men prefer reading on indifference, alienation and angst. The idea of “aloneness” against the world also figures highly in their reading habits. Women, on the other hand, go for deeply held feelings and the struggle to overcome passion and circumstances.

Curiously (or maybe not) from the full list of books men consider a milestone in their lives, mine is included, One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Marquez. I just don’t know if I should rejoice for owning thirteen more of those books.

The full list:

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
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut