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.

I've read 6 of those. I have no intention of reading any of the others.

79. It was interesting to have it highlighted to me that I have a huge gap in Russian novels.

So that's on my to do list.

But I'd disagree with the list anyway!!

7, I read a lot but none of the books on the list interest me at all. (Apart from the ones I've read on the list)

75, partly owing to a childhood obsession with 'pound classics' from the local book shop, and I own at least another 5 or 6 that I have started and never managed to finish.

I've read lots of them, but who on earth thinks their life is not complete if they haven't read The Da Vinci Code, Bridget Jones' Diary or The Five People You Meet in Heaven? Really?

I have read 30 but my love of books has always been non fiction.

57 because I've read a lot of old classics. If you took them and the children's books out and just left the modern adult books I hardly have read any of those.

There did seem to be authors who had several stories, and others I would have expected to see there who had none.

Where was "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" anyway?

47. I wouldn't recommend Ulysses but the rest were all worth reading, even Dan Brown! I've got Frankenstein on its way, surprised that wasn't on there. I haven't read any Austen which is clearly a mistake for these lists.

62 completed.

Few more read some of (Shakespeare, Bible) or gave up on.

Have never got on with Dickens or Hardy.

23. But I'm forrin and there were none from my native literature. Do I get extra points for reading the French ones in the original . Saw a few more in film format too

86. I have to say that I don't have much interest in reading most of the ones I've missed.

85 plus more I've started and not finished (Ulysses, bible etc)

Read most of them when I was in my teens /twenties. I'm less likely to persevere with a book that doesn't grab me these days.

53 + am currently reading Great Expectations because it was free on Kindle (not sure I will finish it, only read a couple of pages so far). Only downloaded it because I thought I should read more classics.
Probably won't read many others that I haven't already. I hate Jane Austen, was forced to read Pride and Prejudice for GCSE and Sense and Sensibility for A Level and definitely won't be reading anything else by her. I don't have time in my life for the entire Bible or Complete Works of Shakespeare.

38. Handful of others started and not enjoyed so ditched. One or two, I'm thinking have I or haven't I?? If you can't remember whether you've read it, then I guess it's a no... Some ideas for future reading. Others just don't appeal at all. Thanks for drawing it to my attention- interesting and fun!

I have actually read the whole bible as a result of mind numbing sundays in church as a kid. There's an awful lot that never gets used in sermons as people simply wouldn't relate to it and which would go against people's perceptions of christianity.

(as others have noted) The simple appearance of The Da Vinci code renders the list useless.

It's also interesting to note the absence of the "classic" book I was forced to study for O-Level ... leaving me feeling slightly vindicated.

62. Several of which were utterly unmemorable and certainly should not be on there.

Several serious gaps. No Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie? Solzhenitsyn? Gorky? Primo Levi?

Best get cracking on the rest!

71+ I was a bit harsh where I think I have but I couldn't remember them well. (Anna Karenina or Madame Bovary, for example)

I'm ordering all the ones I haven't heard of.

But Bridget Jones Diary? I don't think so.

And 'the 100 year old man who jumped out of the window and ran away' should be on there!

And if Shakespeare "counts" why not Wilde, or Shaw ?

51 but some of those that I had read on the list were awful so I don’t consider the others must reads. There are a couple of classics on there though that I keep meaning to read and forgetting to so I’ll have to try to catch up with those.

74 here. Have always been defeated by Heart of Darkness, Midnight’s Children and Possession, despite all being on my bookshelves. I absolutely loved Mobutu Dick though.

Moby Dick - Mobutu has quite a nice ring to it though!

I wonder what books people feel should have been on the list ?

Melvyn Bragg had an interesting list of "Books that changed the world" ...

Principia Mathematica (1687) — Isaac Newton
Married Love (1918) — Marie Stopes
Magna Carta (1215)
Book of Rules of Association Football (1863)
On the Origin of Species (1859) — Charles Darwin
On the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1789) — William Wilberforce in Parliament, immediately printed in several versions
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) — Mary Wollstonecraft
Experimental Researches in Electricity (three volumes, 1839, 1844, 1855) by Michael Faraday
Patent Specification for Arkwright’s Spinning Machine (1769) — Richard Arkwright
The King James Bible (1611) — William Tyndale and 54 scholars appointed by the king
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776) — Adam Smith
The First Folio (1623) — William Shakespeare

12 and I'm a huge reader. Just not of these 'classics' apparently.

If you include books which I've seen the movie of instead, its shoots up to 22!