85. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

One of the great works of American literature, Gatsby is set in 1922 in what Fitzgerald termed "the Jazz Age". The narrator is for once not the focus character - that instead is Jay Gatsby, a wealthy society type who spends most of the novel obsessed with Daisy, an old love who has married someone else.

I really liked this book, though there was a lot of subterfuge which was sometimes difficult to follow as the narrator, Nick Caraway, struggles to know what is truth and what isn't too. It's definitely a classic and captures the feel of the era.