Booklists

[amberdulen]

Seventy-five mostly-literary books every woman should read and seventy-five mostly-literary books every man should read. I've got seven from the men's side and six and a half from the women's. I feel kind of lucky to have heard of half of them. To be fair, most of the ones I have read made a strong impression.

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[izhilzha]

I've read 8 from the women's side and 7 from the men's. I have impressed myself.

[floorlamps]

Five from the women's side, seven from the men's.

I find it ironic that in several cases I'd read some OTHER, less well-known book by the same author (e.g. Pale Fire instead of Lolita).

Others are on my to-read list, but time, haha, what is that?

Ones I've read:

[blue_sky_day]

# The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
# Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
# To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
# Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
# The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank (maybe)
# The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
Master and Commander, by Patrick O'Brian

Won't ever touch most Woolf - tried and failed. Same for Joyce. I've had Killer Angels on my bookshelf since elementary school (got it in DC, at Lincoln's memorial, IIRC) but never finished it.

[twapa]

I've read:

- The Brothers Karamazov
- A Good Man is Hard to Find
- Slaughterhouse Five

So that's... 1 from the women's list and 3 from the men's.

I don't read fiction, guys.

[ceteranna]

20 from the women's, 12 from the men's (or maybe 13, I think I sort of lost count there in the middle).

And tons of mean-to-read-it ones. Cool. Those are some of the very few book lists I've ever seen that actually contain a bunch of really good books rather than simply listing titles everyone's heard of.