1000 novels everyone must read

Ummm, that's a lot.   I have read exactly thirteen off your list.  I do not truck with academic snobbery.  (not that you are a snob!) 

"A Confederacy of Dunces"
"And Then There Were None"
"Slaughterhouse Five"
"1984"
"Lord of the Flies"
"The Shining"
"The Haunting of Hill House" 
"The Great Gatsby" (school assigned)
"To Kill a Mockingbird" (school assigned)
"A Clockwork Orange" (school assigned)
"The Bell Jar"  (what a downer)
"Lolita"
"Fahrenheit 451"

I tried to read "Catch 22" and "Brave New World" and I couldn't make it.

The only way you could get me to read "War and Peace" is if I got to have sex with Mark Ruffalo for the same number of hours it took me to read the book.