Show me the way

Hi /book/. I come to you with a big request. Long story short, i'm living in the middle of nowhere in eastern europe. Here, they don't teach classic universal literature books in schools, they only praise local writers. This being, i haven't had the chance to form a general opinion about universal literature. Writers that everyone should know, books that everyone should read, that's what i mean. But now i'm willing to fill in this gap in my culture, and i want to make myself a reading routine. So, what i want from you, /book/, is to recommend me "big" books, and writers that i should get into, considering i have read, probably, none of them by now. Also, keep in mind that i'm not a retard that won't understand a great book just because i haven't read much before. Literature just isn't my domain, i'm deep into others. I would like to mention that i might prefer postmodernist or existentialist books, even if i shouldn't start with those.

So, i started by reading Slaughterhouse five, Catcher in the Rye, East of Eden and Blindness, Great Gatsby and i'm going to read Catch-22, Atonement, 1984, Choke, and One flew over the cuckoo's nest.

Help?

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Thank you, i'll check it out.

Keep them coming, someone there will surely take into consideration your advice. You're not helping a dead imageboard, you're actually influencing a person.