My ongoing, complimentary and in no particular order reply to Jorge Luis Borges and his list:
http://www.openculture.com/2015/03/jorge-luis-borges-personal-library.html
Let’s begin with a beautiful and irreplaceable starter:
Greek Mythology
Lord of the Rings
Three Musketeers
Brave New World
We
A Hero of Our Time
Gulliver’s Travels
The Day of the Jackal
Of Human Bondage
Dune
Gormenghast
One Thousand and One Nights
The Red and Black
The Stranger