How many have you read?

[Sean]

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/books/10...-_-U181208-TRD-hndbtrAWTRADE-_-b2cta&abersp=1

I got 69.5. I've never managed to finish Don Quixote despite three attempts.

 

[rae121452]

57. and about 25 that i started but never finished.

 

[someoneyouknow]

Without even looking I'm going to say 5. I've never been overly interested in what is considered literature. Let's see how close I was.

I counted six books in the list that I have read. That said, I have seen movies of several others including The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Counting the movies that puts me at an even dozen.

 

[Sean]

Without even looking I'm going to say 5. I've never been overly interested in what is considered literature. Let's see how close I was.

It's actually a decent list, no 50 shades or other dross.

 

[jomar]

Pushing half.

But it’s not infrequent that I get a third or so into a book and realize I’ve read it before.

 

[pantalaimonlyra]

I was surprised by a few of the ones listed. Interesting selection.

31 with an additional handful or so started and never finished. The ones I did read are favorites I've read over and over.

 

[Bill_Cosplay]

Seven after a quick skim, but a lot of those are classics and I'm more of a Hustler magazine reader. They needed more fantasy fiction on that list.

 

[Que]

27.

Interestingly eclectic list except for throwing Hemingway in there twice seems a little redundant.

The two that I was surprised to see on there was the girl with a dragonfly tattoo and The Kite Runner. Both of which were pretty good books

 

[IG_88]

I'm gonna call it 40 cuz of starts and stops and some I really can't remember if I read or not. I went thru a phase of reading classics and of course went thru many genre phases so I usually cover these kinds of lists pretty well and look smarter than I really am.

 

[Nicegirl111]

Ill go 30 and 40 If watching movies counts....

 

[bellisarius]

Most of them (80 or so). I can't help but wonder why, if they're going to throw in Solzhenitsyn, his "Gulag Archipelago" wasn't on the list? It was his tour de force.

 

[Lorilei]

Twenty-two.

 

[Emerson40]

55. There are several there I’m going to add to my ‘to read’ list, and a few I’ll never get to. So many books, so little time.

 

[trysail]

Forty-two and I don't usually read fiction.

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[ReadyMike]

26! Why? I'm kind of an idiot, but I read Tropic of Cancer because it was dirty and Moby Dick because it was long. I had to read Lord of the Flys, Invisible Man, and 1984 in high school. Are Steinbeck and Hemingway popular in England?

This is a very readable list, when a list comes out in the US it's full of shit that no one reads.

 

[phrodeau]

Most of them (80 or so). I can't help but wonder why, if they're going to throw in Solzhenitsyn, his "Gulag Archipelago" wasn't on the list? It was his tour de force.

Not fiction.

But then, neither is "Maus."

 

[doowdniw]

21. Where are In Cold Blood, The Piano Player, Stranger in a Strange Land, A Separate Peace, Kon Tiki? Not to mention Shakespeare.

 

[neci]

43 and a poorly read to the end of don quixote in spanish back in high school. the language is old. it dances around like a puppet on strings. what i retained, i couldn't tell you.

xote.

jote.

ho-te

kee ho te

 

[Gemma_0]

48. Some of them I've read more than once.

 

[butters]

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/books/10...-_-U181208-TRD-hndbtrAWTRADE-_-b2cta&abersp=1

I got 69.5. I've never managed to finish Don Quixote despite three attempts.

68 - the kite runner is one superb book

 

[mark_j]

I'd say between 25 and 30 that i actually read the entire thing. Might be close to 40 if I include those that I knew the story so well to begin with (parents were both well educated and Dad was a teacher) or ones that I started but didn't finish.

Actually went back and re-read some of the classics that I hadn't read since college over the last few years.

 

[beew]

Great idea, ShawnRag. I hate to admit that I read less than half.

To make it more international, I would add War with the Newts, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Madame Bovary and Ruslan and Ludmila to the list.
Americanah sucked for me, White teeth was much more enjoyable and on a similar theme.

What would have others added to the list?

 

[jaF0]

I'm gonna guess none based on the few posted here without having to go to an offsite link. Books are for morons. What was that Farenheit thing? They're good for starting fires in the woodstove too.

 

[Noor]

55, mostly during high school.

 

[Comshaw]

Twenty-two.

Ditto. 22 for me also. I tried reading Ulysses twice. Made it halfway through the first time and a third the second. I just could not for the life of me make sense of it. I was surprised at the absence of Jack London, Rudyard Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson works. Call of the Wild, Captains Courageous and Treasure Island should be on it.



Comshaw