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The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them( under here )

I saw this most recently from sarazarr and melissawriting. It's an interesting exercise in what you have that others don't.

From What Privileges Do You Have? - Based on an exercise about class and privilege developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois State University. If you participate in this blog ( Read more... )

1001 book to read before you die: bold the ones you have read

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Saturday - Ian McEwan
On Beauty - Zadie Smith
Slow Man - J.M. Coetzee
Adjunct: An Undigest - Peter Manson
The Sea - John Banville
The Red Queen - Margaret Drabble
The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
The Master - Colm Tóibín
Vanishing Point - David ( Read more... )