35! bam in your face. From what I've seen I thought the BBC wanted me to watch interior design shows all the time. Also any list beginning with Jane Austen is highly suspicious. Also, I don't think you want to take romantic advice from a woman who lived with her parents her whole life and died without anyone ever having loved her enough to marry her.
"Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone." -- Mark Twain
Ok so as not to be completely negative here are the top 5 books you should read in ascending order according to length (so that you can work your way up to a big book):
1. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Harmony Press) 244 pgs.
2. The Wind in the Willows (Penguin Classics) 240 pgs.
3. Catcher in the Rye (Back Bay) 288 pgs.
4. Lolita (Every Man's Library) 366 pgs.
5. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Haper Perennial) 448 pgs.
definitely already read catcher in the rye (and it wasn't for school - BOOM), and i started reading "reading lolita in tehran" but never finished it, does that count?
that definitely does not count. in that case exchange Catcher in the Rye for The Bell Jar (also 288 pages)