And I think you're right to do so, JC.

For me, Catch-22 contains more wisdom and insight into the pain, the horror, the absurdity, the hypocrisy of the life we are doomed to lead than any other book.

And is also a laugh-out-loud scream of a read, full of the beauty of humanity.

If only one book could be saved as the seed for a new human library to be dispatched through space as we flee our burning planet, to blossom into a million others on some new Eden, I would choose Catch-22 as that seed.

Obviously that's an absurd proposition, since if we're heading off on an interplanetary evacuation I'm guessing we could also save every single digitised work of literature in the history of humanity on the tiniest of chips.

But anyway - my vote is for Catch-22.

Yeah, sounds like you may have let a good one go, I'm afraid, JC.

But not 'the'. There are others - have the faith in yourself to identify them. But if they don't like Catch-22, I'd be very suspicious.