Forty-eight books that have stayed with me over the years, and what they (maybe?) tell me about my own preferences

Was reading Edward St. Aubyn's satirical novel Lost For Words, which is about the judging of a literary prize that closely resembles the Booker, when I came across (and highlighted) the following musing, which in the mind of one of the judges right after she has had a negative interaction with her daughter and then, suddenly, thinks about King Lear:

And …