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.

65, but I've only counted the ones I finished! Like PPs I'm not sure my score will get any higher, I've either tried and failed or don't intend to try. Anyone who has read the entirety of Shakespeare deserves a cheer though!

38% on the Guardian one, even worse!

My actual scores are probably lower as I've cheated a bit on e.g. Shakespeare (read a fair bit but not the complete works) and short stories – I've read some Borges and Kafka but again not the whole lot.

This thread has inspired me to read more, though, starting with Metamorphoses. Excited about that

How, that Guardian one his heavy on the Russians! And I've only read a measly 14 in total :(

The Dan Brown was awful

51 - I have read all of War and Peace but can't remember much about it. In fact, a lot of these books I know I have read but have also forgotten.

48 not sure I feel motivated to read all of the other 52 though.

13
Many of them I already know the story or have watched the film whatever so haven’t bothered to actually read them
I will get round to read them one day

59. A pitiful 13 on the Guardian list though.

What an odd selection. Why more than one by several authors, and so many fantastic writers left out?

I got 14 on the Guardian list - few not ticked but I'd again not read but knew about but many I've never come across at all.

97-"haven't read Dune, Germinal or the da Vinci Code.

Some very odd choices there, though

83 - there were some books on there I'd never even heard of! My initial reaction was to go back over the list and note them down to load on my kindle, but then I realized --Dan Brown. Nah. I've got enough recommendations to keep me going, thank you. What an odd list.

(confession: have only read about half of the bible :))

42

I read 78. Have no intention of reading the remaining 12.

22 on the Guardian list! I'll stick with the first list I think....

Some odd choices on the list. I thought The Time Traveller’s Wife was crap.

59. There's a few more i probably should read, but some I don't want to. Its an odd selection!

51 for me. Some books there I don’t fancy will try for more this year

Only 65

30 on the Guardian list. These were much more meaty books. Not likely to read many more of these I don't think.

And only 77 on the Guardian list (which is very, very Guardian...)

Interesting people are incensed about Dan Brown (which I haven't read) on the other list, but no complaints about Harry Potter. I read them on Kindle Unlimited the year before last - badly written and derivative, but presumably (as, I assume, the da Vinci Code was) included because of cultural impact as opposed to literary merit.

47 for me, but I’ve never read Jane Austin and not much Dickens after being bored to death by ‘Hard Times’ at school, so that’s about 10 down.

I thought The Time Traveller’s Wife was crap.

I haven't read it but her other stuff is a bit shit. And I don't think it was exactly a cultural phenomenon, was it? Which something like Dan Brown or Bridget Jones, although I may not like them, can at least claim.

32 on the Guardian list, helped by a Russian novel spree in my late teens.

43...I'm almost 50.