reading classic books to convince people I'm smart

Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

O Pioneers! by Willa Cather

Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Something Wicked this Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Gentleman Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos

The Yellow Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

True Grit by Charles Portis

Despair by Vladimir Nabokov

Grendel by John Gardner