Once upon a time Thomas Wolfe* would be on a list like this. Lately, though, people have even stopped pretending to have read him.
Lately, Toni Morrison would make a list of authors people lie about reading. Also, something massive and sufficiently multicultural like The Tale of Genji.
I liked “The Bonfire of the Vanities” but have not read anything else by Tom Wolfe.
I have read Thomas Wolfe (not Tom Wolfe of Bonfire of the Vanities fame) but I can’t remember the titles of his books. arrrggg.. getting old.