100 novels everyone should read

[Nagy Vilmos]

This list[^] from the Torygraph claims these are the one wot we should read. I consider myself reasonably well read and yet only manage a paltry 12!

[OriginalGriff]

7. Or 9 if you count ones I was supposed to read for Eng. Lit. at school but didn't. And still passed...

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[Nagy Vilmos]

I have at least three of the missing ones on my to read pile. Unfortunately I'm buying books quicker than I read them at the moment.

[_Damian S_]

I just snuck into double-digits with 10...

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[Mike Hankey]

I feel miserably ignorant I've only read 5 and haven't heard of a lot of them.

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[Rage]

25,2. I only managed 0,2 from Crime and Punishment. And to be completely honest, about half of these I had to read, and did not choose to read.

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[HobbyProggy]

OMG the Trial.... Franz Kafka... horrific book, reason why i wrote my final secondary-school examination in english and not german.

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[Lost User]

I see Moby Dick is on the list (as if it's ever not on a list). For anyone who hasn't read it, here's the short version: Rope is awesome. Knots knots, rope, knots, oh yea baby. Also a white whale because reasons.

[OriginalGriff]

It's very UK centric - OK, there is a Samuel Clements in there, but only the one I could see. A US "classic books" list probably wouldn't mean a lot to UK readers either.

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[Chris Quinn]

Me too

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[Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter]

I have more than half, but others I never heard of...Isn't this list a bit 'local'?

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[megaadam]

13.02 (Where .02 is Crime and Punishment) but at least I can brag with having read 8 (or so) in my third language which happens to be English.

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[Rage]

Do you read eBooks or papeback ?

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[Mike Hankey]

It wouldn't make any difference I don't read a lot of popular stuff, I read a lot of tech books and more stuff like Lewis and Clarks Journal was the lastest non-tech.

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[Forogar]

I have read 11 of those, but if you include film versions then it goes up to 36.

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[Kenneth Haugland]

Hmm, have seen the movie, does that count? :-D

[Lost User]

Damn, now I have to go through it again and count them.

[Lost User]

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:

Isn't this list a bit 'local'?

It's aimed at the paper's readership. I expect the Jerusalem Times would print quite a different list.

[k5054]

Not to mention the importance of a water-tight coffin.

[Andreas Mertens]

23 - but I used to be quite a voracious reader...