I came across the link below whilst browsing and I found it quite interesting.

Apparently from the 100 books on the list it is estimated that most people would have only read six.

www.librarything.com/topic/61828

Taking a look through the list I have read 27, I'm in the process of reading through some others (Shakespeare, for example) and I've started others and lost the book, or lost interest in the book.

Just wondering how many other people have read.
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Interesting, I was surprised I'd even read as many as 23 of them and some of those had several books in the set. I usually only read technical or spiritual books and children's stories.
I would say you're doing well there then WSS as I've had a lot more years than you and you've still beat me working through the list.
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I haven't done as well as either of you: only 21.
When I read WSS post I thought, 'Oh, Great! Bet I've read about 50 or so of 'em!'
So I was disappointed...
Until it occurred to me that they'd picked the wrong 100 books!
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Definitely the wrong 100 books, I mean what person in their right mind would torture themselves with more than one Jane Austen novel?
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I got in touch with my feminine side. She emailed me back saying if I ever contacted her again she'd call the police.

I've read 22.
I've also read about half of 10 more books on that list. I really should finish them. Others I've been meaning to read for ages.

37 - some of those I was forced to read at school though. Started (and for various reasons) not finished a few of the others.

0, does that make me a dunce? lol

I don't think the list is trying to indicate anything in any way, just an observation. Some people read books, some don't. You can't label a person through whether they read or not, or what kind of books they read beyond that.

Also, I've added another book from that list, so 28.
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Only 11 and don't think there are any more I'd like to.

Mind you I've never heard of a couple of them.

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

These are the only books on the list that I could highly recommend, others I hear are really good and would love to read, but haven't got around to.
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I got in touch with my feminine side. She emailed me back saying if I ever contacted her again she'd call the police.

Bwahahahaha, I've read 6... And I was scared that I wouldn't even get to that. LOL Mostly children books though, read ages ago... 8 (if you count two movies I've seen on the books )

I feel bad... Haven't read anythin' in quite a while... I can't even remember the last thing I read... No, actually, I do... It was Steve Santagati's - The manual - A True Bad Boy Explains How Men Think, Date, and Mate--and What Women Can Do to Come Out on Top

PMSL... OR NOT. I need to think of this, but I didn't even read my pool books yet... Mehhhh LAMO

6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - read some, but not others...
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

20 of the sickest books of the whole selection, read avidly from cover to cover - some page corners even torn off and actually swallowed during the process...

I surprised myself 23!!!

I have read only 18 of them, all the Jane Austin books! So I am off to get caught up!