How many of these have you read?

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johnandsheena.co.uk/books/1001books_arukiyomi.xls

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

25, higher than I expected and I'm shocked by that because I tend to deliberately avoid books that I'm told I should read (total inverted snob I'm afraid )

Was I just scrolling to fast or was there no Chaucer on there? ( I actually enjoy reading him, just to be contrary)

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There were some rather odd books on the list with some trashy literature that has gone on to become films, captain correlli being a prime example.

Have realised that I have never ead any Dicken or Amis of either generation.

TwoIfBySea I thought about that as well, cider with Rosie was on the list which I read at school and hated,

Cider with Rosie was a cracking book!

It absolutely bored me to tears and it wasn't the teacher as I loved everything else we read in English.

nor me, twinset, and I am not particularly remorseful about it

Agree with earlier poster about odd choice of author's works - lots of Ishiguro but no "Remains of the Day", lots of Toni Morrison but no "The Bluest Eye"

with what criteria in mind was this list compiled?

I thought remains of the day was on there but maybe I was just making assumptions.

I didn't spot it, most of the others except When we were Orphans. Do you wanna a scrap about it?

It is a weird list. (But there was a lot of John Wyndham and I've read them all so that bumped my score up!)

I have read tons but don't have the time to do it these days.

I figure that I will have loads of time to read the top 100 when I am old and don't have fuck all else to do.

I have been trying to get myself more motivated reading wiose and try some new authors, perhaps could use this list as inspiration.

402 - but I read english. This list is so bizarre and totally lopsided.

Oooh, quattro, you are winning by miiiiiles

(not that it's a competition)

reading English is neither here nor there on this thread!

Well yes but surely no-one reads Fanny Burney unless they have been afflicted by a particularly ghastly tutor for 18th century stuff. I refuse to believe that anyone has read FB for pleasure anytime in the last hundred years.

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agree - weird list. and I had read very few of the 2000s ones. suspect DH will have read loads...

so few

197. I read and read and read....

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I've got the book that this list is taken from, and it's quite good to browse through for ideas when nothing in the bookshops takes your fancy.

131 read in full, cringing in delayed guilt at the additional 50 or so I should have read for courses in school and uni (Fanny Burney among them!)

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and I do read a lot

not much recent stuff on there though, is there?

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so many omissions on there!

What about Revolutionary Road
anything by Charles Bukwoski
etc etc

212....I love reading, and have to admit I read very fast so some could very well do with being re-read...
I actually read at traffic lights ( always have book in car...by loo...etc etc ), in meetings, whilst on phone...