Andrew L. wrote:I'm going with Frankenstein and Lolita.

Good call. I think these are excellent choices.

how bout 19th, 20th and 21st...

Conrad: The Secret Agent (ok, ok, 1907, whatev)
Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
Wallace: Infinite Jest (once again, not quite in the correct century... but close... 1996)

gio wrote:Wallace: Infinite Jest (once again, not quite in the correct century... but close... 1996)

He wants to teach them, not incite them to burn him in effigy.

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:

Andrew L. wrote:I'm going with Frankenstein and Lolita.

Good call. I think these are excellent choices.

I do, too.

Frankenstein is an inspired choice that nobody on the thread suggested (that I saw, anyway).

Good luck!

Love the Frankenstein. Wish they taught me that one instead of Arthur Miller, for chrissakes....