100 books to read before you die. What's your score?

[CeceIsMyFave]

I got a nice round 50 and I'm slightly freaked out- if I don't read the other 50 can I still alive longer?!

www.listchallenges.com/bbcs-top-100-books-you-need-to-read-before-you-die

I did cheat slightly and tick both the Bible and Shakespeare.... I've read the greatest hits, as it were.

43 ... not too shabby.
I’m only in my mid 30s, so truly hope I have time for the other 57

73. I cheated on War and Peace which I've started about 10 times and never finished. I want credit! Do I get the Bell Jar if many skinny, callow youth quotes it at me during my teens to try to impress?

56. I'm in my 50s so I'd better get a move on with the rest!

3.5 and a movie or 2

In fairness They werent my kind of book though . Animal farm and Lord of the flies were school books

17 here, haven't read a book in a long time

I'm impressed with 73!

I also cheated with War and Peace skipped the horrifically long speeches and most of the section of the Napoleonic war, but I feel I deserve the tick anyway.

47

I've only read 36, I need to catch up 🙂

55.....lots of ones that I feel I've read but haven't actually IYKWIM

51

The completist in me is struggling with the fact that there are a few I don't WANT to read. I just can't get on with Thomas Hardy and there are a couple of others I've tried and abandoned...

Only 27 🤔

Will definitely be reading some of them this year though!

57. There's not many I haven't read that I intend to read anytime soon though so doubt I'll get much higher.

41

That list was bullshit though! The Da Vinci Code? Seriously, it was complete crap.

63, but I take issue with the fact that that The Da Vinci Code is apparently a book you must read before you die! (I have read it tho...)

36, and I'm 33. 64 to go. 2 a year seems doable 😁

44 here but I counted a couple I didn't finish. Atonement, I'm looking at you!

It's a great list. I must reread a few

65 not bad; I have never met anyone who has read Les Miserables however!

61. But I have actually read all of War and Peace, the Great works of Shakespeare and the entire Bible

How the hell did Dan Brown make it on the list?

Can't get the full list to load but I have usually only read about a third of these lists. There are some I have no interest in ever reading.

78 - a lot of them I read when I was at school. I think I've only read a few of them more than once - a Town like Alice I used to read every couple of years.

52. I went through a phase in my early 20s of reading loads of classics. Otherwise my score would be about 12! I've barely opened a book that's not cooking, child or work related since DS1 was born 4 years ago!

66 but I have no intention of reading any more Dickens ever and I have too much stuff to do like occasionally clean my house/go to work to read a suitable boy

64 - also lots that I feel I've read because I've started and stopped and/or seen the film

13, should probably start reading again

41. A lot I started and didn’t finish though!