World book Night 2012 - how many of the 25 books have you read?

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And how many more of them do you fancy?
The list is here www.worldbooknight.org/about-world-book-night/wbn-2012/the-books
I've only read 3 off the list and would be interested in about 8 more.
I certainly had read more off the 2011 list.

Agree the list is less inspiring this year. I guess last year was full of people's all time favourites as it was the first year.

I have read 8 of the books. I loved Notes from a Small Island, The Book Thief and Room. Hated The Remains of the Day and The Time Travellers Wife. The others were Tale of Two Cities, Rebecca and The Road.

I've read 6 of them - Pride & Prejudice, Notes from a Small Island, A Tale of Two Cities, Rebecca, The Remains of the Day and I Capture the Castle. I tried to read The Time Traveller's Wife but couldn't get on with it, so that's only part read.

On my TBR pile, I have The Book Thief and Room, and I quite like the sound of The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic.

Quite a nice list I think :)

NoraHelmer, if you liked those, then I would really recommend How I Live Now - an incredibly powerful book, and beautifully written.

I've read 5 of them (Room, Misery, Time Travellers Wife, Good Omens, and the Book Thief), I'd read all 5 of them again quite happily!

I've also read eight. What's the logic behind the list? There are some on there I wouldn't touch with a barge pole.

(The eight are Notes from a Small Island, The Book Thief, The Remains of the Day, I Capture the Castle, Rebecca, Small Island, Pride and Prejudice and A Tale of Two Cities.)

Funnily enough, I was trying to persuade my DP just yesterday that Touching the Void was really famous, but he'd never heard of it.

I've read eleven of them. one was Martina you slag Cole. In my defence I was abroad and English language books were hard to come by.

What is this list? It is certainly not a list of books so great that you should definitely read them.

Ian M Banks' "Player of Games" was just OK - one of the weaker sci-fi books I've read. And The Book Thief is superficial and childish written for teenagers. Stephen King's Misery is not a great book by any definition of the word, and is in fact one of his weakest.

I've read 11 of them this year - I Capture the Castle, Room, The Book Thief, Harlequin, The Remains of the Day, Rebecca, Small Island, Pride & Prejudice, Time Traveller's Wife, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, Notes from a Small Island.

Had this problem last year too - couple of people trying to give away their allocated books in the playground and I'd already done them. Don't much fancy the others as I feel I know the stories too well in the case of The Tale of Two Cities/Damned United or just don't fancy - Martina Cole, Sophie Kinsella.

I bloody hated The Alchemist- had to read it at book group - crap

I'm not sure how they compile the list or who does it. It is a very varied list (good) but I'm not sure they are the best of each author's really.

Last year I gave away Toast.

I loved the Time Traveller's Wife and hated Room. Read a couple of the others but none I would be grateful to receive.

I agree re The Alchemist. Wishy washy philosophy-lite about how life will work out in the end I couldn't bear it 20 years ago and can't imagine why it would be on any must-read list today.

I've read four, but attempted about seven of them. Also, seen the film of one.

I've read 15 of them. I'd recommend Touching The Void, you don't need to be keen on climbing to enjoy it. Joe Simpson writes very well.

I've read 8 of them:

Notes from a Small Island, The Alchemist, Room, Rebecca, How I Live Now, Touching The Void, I Capture the Castle, and The Book Thief.

All good books IMO, although 'How I live Now' is a bit of a teen book and I didn't enjoy it that much. I Capture the Castle is one of my all-time favourites.

I've read 8, possibly 9. Really good ones for me were the Book Thief, I capture the Castle and Touching the Void.

Obviously fantastic - Pride and Prejudice and Rebecca

Just ok- Room, Notes from a Small Island and vanishing Act

I would like to read The Road and The Time Travellers Wife, the others don't really appeal.

I've read four, and can pretend to have read another four (have either read bits, or skimmed, or seen a film etc)

A dozen of this year's, and a dozen of last year's list.
There's three or four that are on my mental 'To read' shelf.

I've only read three but a few more were on my to read list

I've read 13 of them. Mostly I've really enjoyed them.

Of the others, I have no intention of reading Stephen King, or anything with shopaholic in the title. I've been avoiding the Road and Room because they sound a bit too grim.

I've read 14 and heartily second the recommendation for 'Touching the Void'. Oh and 'The Book Thief' was a smasher as well.

I have read and would like to read another 3

that should be 9

I've read 17 of them. Of those 17 most were really good.