43 for me, not counting movies and partial readings.

I believe I am at 66 right now, with 6 more movies, but not counting those because of how hollywood likes to change parts for 'creative' purposes.

I thought I read #55, but then realized that I was thinking of it's porn sequel...The sale of two titties.  I can read complicated legal docs for hours, but put a book in front of me and I'm just gonna look at the pictures.

I've read a few of these wonderful books....and some others too,  mostly PORN!   LMAO

I've read 29 and a few others i would need to see the cover or prologue to say for certain.

Interesting list, although heavily weighted toward English books.

I have read 11 of them. I enjoy reading. Wondering why they left off "Return of the Native" by Thomas Hardy and Mary Shelly's "Frankenstein". I agree that it is heavy on English books but then it is from the BBC.

a 4th, and have a read a ton that aren't on the list.

70....,but worked in a library from age 14 thru college and minored in literature, so have to take into account both exposure and "forced" readings.............and here's a local syllabus on required readings for literature majors....

Beloved        Tori Morrisson
Catch-22         Joseph Heller
Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
Confessions of Nat Turner William Stryon
Deliverance James Dickey
Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Painted Bird               Jerzy Kosinski
Sons and Lovers D. H. Lawrence
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert Pirsig
Even Cowgirls get the Blues Tom Robbins
Electric Kool Aid Acid Test Tom Wolfe
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter Thompson
Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf
Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand
2001 Space Odyssey Arthur Clarke
Steppenwolf Herman Hesse
The Jungle        Upton Sinclair

...in the 9th grade and probably about 10 more on my own time, plus many, many, more not on the list. Reading is a great way to take a vacation without going anywhere! As a child, I would get lost in the world of Little House on the Prairie and Anne of Green Gables

xoxo
Caylee

Would you read me a bedtime story?  

You know, the ones where they end up in each other's arms naked.  Just a thought of course.

one  Shakespeare  and never another one. As for great books the list is missing most of them.

All but three on that list...  4 if you count the "complete" works of Willy S.

I have read a lot of his works (or his "so-called" works), but I can't say I have read them all.

I guess I should get to work and complete the list

Number 2 is actually a three book set.

Number 32 is actually part of number 29...  Number 29 is a seven book set.

Do the 7 Harry Potter books (Number 4) only count as one?



I'll go back to reading now...

act out all the stories....    xoxoxo

I'll be at the airport in the morning.  

I actually have read 42 from the list, but my fellow nerds out there will get the reference to the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.  It's so nice to know that I'm not the only bookworm here.

As an aside, I'm not sure I would have put put 'Bridget Jone's Diary' in the same league as the other books on the list.  It was OK, but I personally didn't think it was a classic.  If I were going to add another book to the list of "classics" I  think it might be The Sun Also Risises by Ernest Hemingway.
 
Does anyone else have any other books they would have put on the list?

I have read 35 of the 98 listed.  Many over 40 years ago.  I say + cause I can't remember whether I made it all the way through some of the others or not.

These days I read more on political and world events and then light fiction afterwards so I don't blow my brains out after the world events and politics!!  LOL!!

Then of course there are the inumerable hours spent reading various sites regarding my favorite past time!! :-P

Good Hunting!

Pheonix

And whats with the no ayn Rand, Dostoyevsky nor Anne Rice on the list???

tyvm,P.T.

I'm not counting movies or other media. I'm only counting actual books read. I said earlier 11 but hadn't considered that "Lord of the Rings" is 3 so my count goes to 13.

And repeating  I wondered why "Frankenstein"  and Hardy's "Return of the Native" aren't listed.

I can't speak for anyone but myself, but for me "dorking out" only makes you sexier.

I have definitely read 11 of these books.  I am such a poor and slow reader.  I have no idea how I got through The Inferno and Moby Dick.  Not sure about 1984, Animal Farm and Watership Down but I think that I read them.  I have to admit that I have not read these recently.  Only the Devinci Code recently.  I can't believe that there is not one Kurt Vonnegut or Ray Bradbury book on the list.  Vonnegut is a geneous and my hero.  I have read every one of his books.  There is one John Irving book on the list but not one that I have read.  This man must have the strangest mind known to man.  Just try and explain to someone what "The World According to Garp" is about.  LOL

but her novels are awful literature! She takes 1000 pages to say (with such 2-dimensional characters!) what she says much more coherently in her essays.

Only 10

I have read part of 2, 4, 5, 10, 22, 24, 33, 38, my favorite 63, 93 (sort of). I guess i need to read more.

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I am at 42, excluding movies, several unfinished novels.

Im surrounded by Dorks LOL The most erotic part of a womans body is her brain Reading is seXXXy and fundamental

tyvm,P.T.

Oh Im missed the Dostoyevsky on the list .. I adore the russian writers. Have read war and peace twice in its entirety and sometimes just open it up and start anywhere and do a chapter or two and Anna Karrenina a few times, the brothers karimozov ~ yummy. My grands came here from the now Byelorussia. outside of the Minsk area and All things Russian were the way to go . Ive got to get there someday. I want to go to the Hermitage is St. Petersburg so bad.. sigh...

.... and they were all while in High School for book reports.

It's so nice to know that there's another lover of Tolstoy here on the board.  For me there's nothing sexier than an intelligent woman.