Top 100 Books Read meme

[cupidsbow]

Only 61/100. That's pretty lame for someone who makes a living at being well-read.

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

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[calcitrix]

Somewhere around 60...but what an odd list. Some modern ones on there are fantastic ("Shadow of the Wind" and "Time Traveler's Wife"), but "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time." Meh.

But Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude," OMG, yes!

[paceus]

19! I used to read a lot but mostly for entertainment (romance, Stephen King -- not that there aren't titles like that here, but Crime and Punishment?). It felt weird to have read something you hadn't, like Les Miserables. I think a friend once posted asking people to make their own lists of books that everyone "has to" read; that was maybe more interesting.

[chopchica]

I love how the complete works of Shakespeare counts as *one book*. Also the Harry Potter series and the Narnia series and the LOTR series. Uh huh.

I was only at about 22 of them, but I've never been a girl who enjoyed the classics, and that knocked out a lot of options.

Why don't I have any book or reading icons? That seems like something I should have a lot of. *uses slices of tasty fruit icon instead*

[banksiapossum]

Hi Cathy