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Which books should one have read to be able to call oneself "well read'?

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McDreamy · 02/04/2008 21:54

just wondered

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MarsLady · 02/04/2008 22:04

all the ones that I've read!

JODIEhavingababy · 02/04/2008 22:04

I loved Brave New World, 1984, In Cold Blood, To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men, I suppose they are 'modern classics'

janeite · 02/04/2008 22:04

Austen, Hardy, Lawrence, Dickens really it should be the complete works of each but since Dickens is so awful, I'm making an executive decision and saying you only have to read one of his!

Frankenstein.

Middlemarch - I hated it though, so am probably a pleb.

Lolita.

Wuthering Heights.

Jane Eyre.

Madame Bovary.

Vanity Fair.

Rebecca.

For a start.

QuintessentialShadows · 02/04/2008 22:02

Barbara Cartland?
no seriously

Kafka, Ibsen, Hamsun, Homer, Plato, Dostovjevski, that sort of thing, in addition to all those modern writers such as Calvino, Perez-Reverte, Dan Brown, Coehlo
gosh I dont know.

Probably a newspaper, actually

zippitippitoes · 02/04/2008 22:00

crime and punishment

war and peace

titus groan trilogy

tristram shandy
a rebours

sons and lovers

bleak house

frankenstein

diary of a nobody

middlemarch

tess of the durbervilles

kinflicks

the tin drum

magic mountain

CoteDAzur · 02/04/2008 21:59

It's probably more about 'how many' than 'which'.

southeastastra · 02/04/2008 21:57

lol biogs are good

zippitippitoes · 02/04/2008 21:54

the ones richard and judy havent read