Good starting points

Hello. I stopped reading for a good amount of time, and now it seems i want to get into books again. I want some books to really get me interested into making reading a perpetual habbit, and not make this some temporary wish. So, i made a list with what to start  : Catcher in the rye, Slaughterhouse 5, Amsterdam, To kill a mocking bird, Lolita, Great Gatsby, Ubick, The Cement Garden. Are these books good for what i'm aiming for? And, considering that i haven't read any of the "big books" yet, recommend me some good starting points.

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yeah go ahead an read all of those books most of them are fine

atonement before amsterdam

1984, The Razors Edge(Maughm), Dune, The Hobbit, Great Expectations,

op centre
apache
red sea rising
3para

i recently just started reading again because of snowcrash, it got me back into the habit

I'm just about to fall to sleep so I'll try to keep this brief
Paul Bowles - "the spiders house"
Somerset Maugham's "of human bondage"
Yasunari Kawabata's "palm of the hand stories"
Franz Kafka's short stories (complete edition)
Collected stories of Nikolai Gogol (complete edition)
Don Dellilo's "White Noise"
Courmac McCarthy "Blood Meridian"
Carson McCullers' "the heart is a lonely hunter"

I'd recommend the Paul Bowles books first - that is, assuming you decide to read anything on this list.  Bowles has somehow married the mystical sensibilities of the beatniks (sans their sloppy prose)to the conventions of the 19th century gothic novelist and then set everything in the Morocco pre-1956.  BTW, this isn't just the febrile imaginings of some retarded tourist.  Bowles went native, learned to speak Arabic and bought a house in Tangier where he lived for over 20 years.  At any rate, it's highly recommended.  Okay, off to sleep.

The Count of Monte Cristo
The Stranger
The Sun Also Rises
A Farewell to Arms
The Stranger
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Disgrace
The Inferno
The Death of Ivan Illych
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
Notes from Underground
Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamazov
Demian
Steppenwolf
The Hobbit
Brave New World
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
A Tale of Two Cities
Exodus
Master and Margarita
Disgrace
Grapes of Wrath
Interpreter of Maladies

Personally, I consider John Wyndham quite a brilliant author.
Don't try it if you don't like post-apocalyptic stories though.
I'd mainly recommend The Day of the Triffids.