Oh I loathed Catcher in the Rye too. The only Dickens novel I haven't hated was A Tale of Two Cities but that's because I read it when I was 12. I tried re-reading it as adult and thought it was rubbish. But DO read Jane Eyre and Crime and Punishment. They're worth it, although the second half of JE is a little Victorian and the ending a bit pat.

I should do this. I've read a frightening number of the books on this list, although I don't know what that says about me.