How many of these have you read?

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Just came across this. It is fun, but quite scary. Am too embarrassed to reveal my own score here! Don't know if the link will work, and would be grateful if someone more knowledgeable than me could amend it. Thanks

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I was lower that I thought I would be but I reckon they are missing some good books. Also I tend to read by author so I have read all Radclyffe Hall and all JD Salinger but they only had one of each.

Interesting list - for me I seem to have read loads of the 19th Century stuff and v little else. Need to get cracking. But I agree that it's a bit of a funny list - it seems to have just about all Toni Morrison's stuff and all Thomas Hardy, but lots of 'bigger' writers' stuff missing, even if only in part. Though the Toni Morrison and Hardy bumped my score up, so mustn't grumble too much.

125 - fewer than I thought it would be. I didn't count the ones (and there were quite a few) that I've started and then didn't finish, including Moby Dick, Middlemarch, Crime And Punishment and Madam Bovary and The Sea. Not that many of the remaining are ones that I really feel the need to read either.

Does watching the film count?

155 - but some of those books are really NOT very good IMO

I notice I am on there, heh

167. Quite a lot of 21st century and late 20th, tales off in the early 20th, fair bit of 19th century and all the mad 18th century Gothic stuff (Vathek etc).

111 - less than I thought - there is a lot missing though

Only 56. But I often choose factual books rather than novels. I did spot you F and Z!

only 109 for me... and I have an Eng LIt degree! I agree, some odd choices and ommissions!

86

Thank you, that was fun!

32 definitely not counting all the ones I didn't finish. Literature with a capital L is not really my cup of tea.

189, but only because I love 17th, 18th and 19th century literature, I had hardly any ticks in the first section.

47 - though have seen the film version of at least 10 more. Most of them were in the 1800s list.

I thought it would be around 3

I think I'll keep that as want some more things to read.

oh and I counted the ones I have started reading and hated - cos I'm never going to read them again as I didn't like them. (IYSWIM)

184. Not much before the 1900s for me, though. I suspect i may have missed some - I thought 'why not more barth' and went through and found another by him that I had read, but hadn't ticked.

It's a very English list. The only modern French author is Houllebecq, i think? (who I only read in French).

Oh, and quite blokey besides. No Anne Tyler.

There's one graphic novel. Very little SF (Cryptonomicon, some Vonnegut, and a bit of Asimov, oh, and one Heinlein.)

175

It's reminded me how much I hate some of these authors, actually.

Jose de Saramago - sheesh. Nobel Prize, my arse.

He clearly has a big hardon for Hollebecq, and Haruki Murakami, too.

Also some bizarre Edith Whartons. I thought I'd read all of hers, but there were three titles in that list I'd never heard of. It's not like she was that prolific.

Oh, and lots of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell - not just the good ones. I've read everything by both of them, but still.

And where on earth is Sherwood Anderson?

I thought it was quite an 'American' choice IYSWIM. I wouldn't have put all those Huxleys in either

Was Catch 22 in there? I can't remember

Oh yes! Quite!

The compiler does seem to have included some deliberately obscure stuff - some pretty dodgy early Toni Morrisons, but no Paradise?

44 finished.

A surprisingly large number of books I started or read parts of and did not finish - I say surprisingly as it is rare for me to not finish a book, but there are some dull tomes among that lot.