What Should I Read Next?

What Should I Read Next allows you to enter the books you’ve already read and provides suggestions accordingly. I can’t say I’ve built my list up very well yet, but I’m curious to enter 10 or 15 more and see what it makes of my reading habits. What recommendations come from William Gibson, Bret Easton Ellis and Hemingway? I do see this as an interesting tool for readers whose friends aren’t exactly the literary sort. I have friends who can read, they apparently choose not to do so. This leaves me with precious few peers from whom I can glean recommendations, and perhaps most powerfully, the mystical tubes of the internets.
In the past few years I have been especially reliant on lists and Amazon reviews/recommendations, which have been better to me than I might have guessed beforehand. From my research the most premier list of novels is the Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels. I can dig The Board’s List just about as much as anyone can when it comes to these “top whatever” lists, but I must say I am far less in agreement with The Reader’s List. Do we really need that much Ayn Rand and L. Ron Hubbard in the top 10? Either I missed something with Rand or simply haven’t joined the right science fiction based religion…
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As quick note, I hope any readers out there from my generation never shy away from speaking with the “older folks” about classic/good books. It’s the same old story in that there are so many other distractions for the younger demographic that discussions on books seem to be less prevalent (or acceptable?). Don’t underestimate the opinions of your parents’ or grandparents’ generations as many of my favorite books first made a splash during their day. Just because none of your Twitter homeboys are intimately familiar with a 90 year old book doesn’t mean it’s not worth reading.