Holy cheerful reading lists, Batman!

My college age daughter was saying she felt she needed to read more classics so she could be better versed in what 'everyone' is supposed to have read.  We looked up a number of those 'top 100' reading lists that are published online and going through them one thing was very evident:  they were horribly depressing!  Seriously, anyone who sat down to read through these lists would delve into the depths of cynical depression by the time they were halfway through.  "Why," I asked, "don't any of these lists have a genius like P.G. Wodehouse on them?  Why do they have multiple titles by Depresso-Man Steinbeck but nothing featuring Bertie Wooster?"

So, after seeing multiple depressing, dystopian, cynical and dysfunctional title lists being thrust at tenative exploratory readers who then conclude they "don't like the classics" and wander off to youtube videos how about a list of GOOD books for a change? 

I'll start it off with pretty much the entire works of P.G. Wodehouse, add some Dorothy Sayers and C.S. Forester and say - tell me more!  Classic writers that are witty and funny and upbeat?  yes!!

Also, if any of you happen to know the whereabouts of a reading list that isn't half 'oh no, we're all gonna die' and the other half horrible titles people are forced to read in school programs because the reading lists were assembled in the 50s and never updated, please please show me the way.