10 books to read before you die

There have been a few book memes running around, and today AOL jumped onto the bandwagon with their list of 10 Books to Read Before You Die. I've been too busy to go through the 100 books links, but 10 seemed like a reasonable number, so I clicked on the story.

Here's what they came up with--

1. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
2. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (Ha! Cheating already, listing a trilogy as a single 'book'. But I can't disagree with the recommendation).
3. Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling (Cheating again, they recommend all 7 novels)
4. The Stand by Stephen King
5. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
6. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
7. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (What? Dan Brown rates two entries on this list?)
8. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
9. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
10. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

What struck me most about the list was the number of SF&F genre titles. It looks to me like someone listed their personal favorite books, and then threw in a few literary titles at random to "class up" the list. It would have been more interesting if they'd stuck to their guns and simply gone with their personal favorites.

So what books would be on your list?

ETA: lnhammer points out that the Lord of the Rings was written as a single novel and broken apart for publishing reasons. So in that sense, it counts as a single book.