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

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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.

57 and I'm impressed with myself

Tbf it was a bit of a bizarre list

49 but I'm never going to read them all as these days I mostly only read books by women

73 (but I have included all the Bible and Shakespeare in that.) I have seen the films or heard the Radio 4 adaptations of quite a few others.

Got it now (wifi playing up). 29. There are quite a few I'd like to read and some I haven't read for 20+ years that I should re-read. One or two I didn't rate at all (Captain Corelli, Memoirs of a Geisha).

Only 31!

57 - I am in my 50s. There are a few I have never heard of - it’s an interesting list.

78 + Bible & Shakespeare so I'm rounding up to 80 :-)
Weird list though. Oh and Les Miserables is a fabulous book- I highly recommend it!

73, which I'm a bit smug about

There's a few crap ones in there, mind you, ha!

45 for me

Didn’t include books I’ve started but not finished or the bible, or complete works of Shakespeare (there’s an awful lot of boring bits in both!)

49 and I'm surprised at some included on that list, and some that were omitted. Anyway, it's given me some good ideas for what to read once I've finished the pile of unread treasures that I've got stashed away.

It was a strange list. Think it was trying to appeal to as wide a population as possible- I mean, the Lovely Bones?!

Oh god 36 on that list was bad enough but I only got 6 on the Grauniad top 100.
And I have a good Eng Lit degree too.

74. I'm feeling pretty smug about that, although my mother should get the credit as I think only a handful weren't from her bookshelves.

69. A few to go!

73 - including Les Miserables, which may make me unique! Really ought to read the copy of One Hundred Years is Solitude that has been sitting looking at me on the bedside table for 18 months!

32, more than my age :)

Really ought to read the copy of One Hundred Years is Solitude that has been sitting looking at me on the bedside table for 18 months!

I did tick that, but tbh, I bought it for the pretty cover and I did not have a clue what was going on

I did see at least more than 10 books on there that I haven't read that I've wanted to. I now have my new year resolution.

I think the list was made around 2000, hence the popular but not standing the test of time titles - Bridget Jones, Captain Corelli, Da Vinci etc

57. Most of the ones I haven't read are probably never going to be read because I don't want to.

I'd also like to be able to claim back the hours wasted on The Great Gatsby and Brideshead Revisited. Loathed both.

37 and about 10 I never finished. But come on, all of the bible, Shakespeare, uylleses! Even James Joyce never proof read that fecker back.

80 if you include the ones I tried and gave up on. About 10 I will never read - I hate dickens - but a few to go in my wish list. I’m 60 and a lifelong committed reader.

What a weird combo of books! Some of my favourites on that list and some I HATED despite them being classics. To a PP- Les Miserables is a beautiful book!

Also I'm in awe of anyone who's read the entire Bible. I tried once but couldn't get past the mind-numbing family tree bit. And the whole works of Shakespeare!