The 1000 novels you must read (or how to spend three years of your life)

For the last week or so, the Guardian newspaper has been trying to organize the world biggest book club and have started publishing installments of their list of 1,000 novels everyone must read. (The emphasis is mine, though their language is already pretty emphatic). Imagine if everyone actually did read the recommended 1,000 books...? Oh, what a wonderful world that would be.