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 have a copy of 1918 Married Love by Stopes.

It is quite an eye opener. One of my best charity shop finds!

I'm surprised none of Haruki Murakami's are novels on the list. He has been named as one of the top 100 influencers by TIME in the past.I guess it depends on whose compiling these lists.

It was an odd list.

18 love reading just not the classics though

29......rubbish as I read a lot! To be fair there's some I think I've read but wouldn't know unless I looked inside the book! I did count the great hats by which I only got half way through as it was a complete yawn fest!

Dan Brown is an unimaginative plagiarist and has not earned a place in this list. Pah!

Some I read when I was still at school and just didn't resonate so I remember zero and wouldn't count them in any recommended list of mine: the Great Gatsby being one such!

Dan Brown I've flicked through and yes I'd read a book about all the same conspiracy stuff years earlier that left far more of a mark.

Who decides these lists? I'd rather perform a pedicure with a chainsaw than read some of those.

75. It would have been 76 but I only managed part of Ulysses before I gave up on it.

44, but there are some bullshit books on there.

Surely the point of Dan Brown being on the list is because of its popularity, kind of a cultural zeitheist, part of the current cultural identity, rather than as a brilliant piece of literary genius. I don't think anyone would claim that! That's my take on it anyway.

Zeitgeist not heist, although that should be a word for something!

I've read 51.

Some were duds imo. Cold Comfort Farm, zero memory of it. Midnight's Children I remember loving it but have no recall. Whereas I do remember another book I read that year because they were in a bundle loaned to me by my dad's workmate!

(Don't read Jude the Obscure is my sincere advice.)

And I think I'd like to read about 3 more off that list.

52 and I'm aged 44.
It's a bit arbitrary. Why is The Lovely Bones included? While it's not awful, I don't think it's either a bona fide modern classic or a particularly zeitgeisty title (which the Dan Brown book can claim to be, for all its faults in other areas ). And it's an odd selection of children's titles.

Surely the point of Dan Brown being on the list is because of its popularity, kind of a cultural zeitheist, part of the current cultural identity, rather than as a brilliant piece of literary genius. I don't think anyone would claim that! That's my take on it anyway.

In which case it's just a list of popular books (For some values of "popular") over the past few centuries, not a "you must read before you die".

And in Dan Browns case, I'd take death over another of his tomes.

That said, I guess there is a zeitgeisty thing, seeing as how the entire plot of TDVC was around for years before he packed it into an airport potboiler.

A Town Called Alice is one I would really like to reread.

Round 50 here too.

One or two I haven't read that I still might

I like reading A Christmas Carol every couple of years in December but that is all the Dickens I'm likely to read now.

I've read 73 in full and discarded several others. I think the list isn't particularly great as it's dominated by old farts. Also, the entire Bible? I think nit ( when I was in my teens and moaning about being bored my mum bet me a tenner I couldn't read it all. She won).

Shame more contemporary woman aren't on it

78 - I'm shocked!

(Don't read Jude the Obscure is my sincere advice.)
Much to my own surprise, I really loved this

It would be a dull world, etc!

1. To be fair I've read a lot of books just not the majority of that list.

Surprised myself. I have read quite a few of those.

There should be a max 2 per author on the list.

Why no "Catch -22" and "Alice's Adventures"

Probably read half of them. It would have been a more interesting and varied list if they'd limited each author to one book.