I've read 4 of these.

1984
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
The Handmaid's Tale


A couple are on my TBR list, though.

 

Nice list. Thanks for posting the link.

Interestingly, only nine of those titles are $3.99 or under in Kindle version. I think that means something about pricing, but I'll need to noddle on that a bit.

 

24. There are a few more I've been meaning to read, but I just haven't gotten around to it.

 

I'm looking at about twenty, but I appreciate that this is a much different list then what these usually are and there's a lot of variety.

 

I have do disagree with a lot of the books on the list.  Golden Compass, but not Narnia?  Lolita?  Really?  No ancient classics like Homer or the Canterbury Tales?

And don't get me started on all the political-social commentary books on that list...

 

Nearly all... some good picks!

I didn't think they were saying these were "the best" books (Valley of the Dolls? lol We passed that around in middle school, though...), just a collection to make you 'well rounded.' Interesting that a number of these have been (possibly still are?) banned books (in various school libraries).

 

46

And I just added 6 of those I haven't read to my cart.

I think this is a really cool list. No top-whatever book list will have everything people think it should, but this is a lot different from lists I've read before. I love that non-fiction was included, I read a ton of it. Probably one of the most affecting books I've ever read is on that list, A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah about his time as a child soldier in Sierra Leone. Powerful, powerful truth telling.

 

Interesting list! I appreciated the diversity when it came to age range (picture books, middle grade, adult literary, etc.).

I've read 35, and I definitely need to add some of those titles to my TBR pile.

 

I just can't believe none of MY books are on there.  Sheesh.

 

I've read nine, and loved them all. And I started four of them on the list and could not finish them because they were bad, or boring.

 

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Wow, I'm impressed with that! I've read 37 of them.

There are undeniably some wonderful books there. And one or two surprises, as well, that I haven't read and really wasn't intending to at all. (Probably I have something to learn, there.)

Lolita? Really?

For sure: a beautifully written classic by one of the world's greatest ever authors. I'm biased because I'm just reading his autobiography (also fascinating).

No ancient classics like Homer or the Canterbury Tales?

I don't still have the list in front of me now, but are they perhaps all books originally written in English? (I think most people wouldn't really call Chaucer "English", in that translations into English are also published?). That would account for it?

Interestingly, only nine of those titles are $3.99 or under in Kindle version. I think that means something about pricing, but I'll need to noddle on that a bit.

I entirely agree, and will noddle with you, if that's ok.

 

12.

Wait. Does it count if you've seen the movie?

 

I've read 19 of them.  Some were very good, others not worth the while.  That list is too heavily weighted towards modern books.  Some of those titles I wouldn't read if you paid me.

 

18, most because I had to for some related project, but among them are others I thoroughly enjoyed like Dune, P&P, and The Handmaid's Tale.

 

28

"we didn't want the list to feel like homework"=no free classics.
Even their few titles in the public domain cost money because they were annotated.

As lists go, less serious than usual.

 

I entirely agree, and with noddle with you, if that's ok.

Sure. I'll start a new thread so that it doesn't get in the way in this one.

And yes, I realize I misspelled noodle. I think 'noddle' has a certain charm. Like, thinking about something for a while then nodding off.

Or maybe non-verbally comforting someone. Listen to them, nod your head...noddling. Eh. Anyway.

 

28 1/2. I didn't make it through the Great Gatsby, but I'll give myself a half for it. Too many books I like are missing from that list, and too many I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole are on it. 

 

Angela's Ashes; Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret; Alice in Wonderland; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Charlotte's Web; Great Expectations; Man's Search for Meaning; Pride and Prejudice; The Great Gatsby; Omnivore's Dilemma; The Stranger; Kitchen Confidential; Me Talk Pretty; The Corrections. Of those that I have read, I like Angela's Ashes and The Stranger the best.

 

For sure: a beautifully written classic by one of the world's greatest ever authors. I'm biased because I'm just reading his autobiography (also fascinating).

If you can gag past the content.

 

For those who'd like a simpler list to check:

[*]1984 ~ George Orwell
[*]A Brief History of Time ~ Stephen Hawking
[*]A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius ~ Dave Eggers
[*]A Long Way Gone ~ Ishmael Beah
[*]A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning: The Short-Lived Edition ~ Lemony Snicket
[*]A Wrinkle in Time ~ Madeleine L'Engle
[*]Alice Munro: Selected Stories ~ Alice Munro
[*]Alice in Wonderland ~ Lewis Carroll
[*]All the President's Men ~ Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
[*]Angela's Ashes: A Memoir ~ Frank McCourt
[*]Are You There, God? It's me, Margaret ~ Judy Blume
[*]Bel Canto ~ Ann Patchett
[*]Beloved ~ Toni Morrison
[*]Born To Run - A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen ~ Christopher McDougall
[*]Breath, Eyes, Memory ~ Edwidge Danticat
[*]Catch-22 ~ Joseph Heller
[*]Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ~ Roald Dahl
[*]Charlotte's Web ~ E.B. White
[*]Cutting For Stone ~ Abraham Verghese
[*]Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead ~ Brene Brown
[*]Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 1 ~ Jeff Kinney
[*]Dune ~ Frank Herbert
[*]Fahrenheit 451 ~ Ray Bradbury
[*]Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream ~ Hunter S. Thompson
[*]Gone Girl ~ Gillian Flynn
[*]Goodnight Moon ~ Margaret Wise Brown
[*]Great Expectations ~ Charles Dickens
[*]Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies ~ Jared M. Diamond
[*]Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone ~ J.K. Rowling
[*]In Cold Blood ~ Truman Capote
[*]Interpreter of Maladies ~ Jhumpa Lahiri
[*]Invisible Man ~ Ralph Ellison
[*]Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth ~ Chris Ware
[*]Kitchen Confidential ~ Anthony Bourdain
[*]Life After Life ~ Kate Atkinson
[*]Little House on the Prairie ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
[*]Lolita ~ Vladimir Nabokov
[*]Love in the Time of Cholera ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
[*]Love Medicine ~ Louise Erdrich
[*]Man's Search for Meaning ~ Viktor Frankl
[*]Me Talk Pretty One Day ~ David Sedaris
[*]Middlesex ~ Jeffrey Eugenides
[*]Midnight's Children ~ Salman Rushdie
[*]Moneyball ~ Michael Lewis
[*]Of Human Bondage ~ W. Somerset Maugham
[*]On the Road ~ Jack Kerouac
[*]Out of Africa ~ Isak Dinesen
[*]Persepolis ~ Marjane Satrapi
[*]Portnoy's Complaint ~ Philip Roth
[*]Pride & Prejudice ~ Jane Austen
[*]Silent Spring ~ Rachel Carson
[*]Slaughterhouse-Five ~ Kurt Vonnegut
[*]Team of Rivals ~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
[*]The Age of Innocence ~ Edith Wharton
[*]The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay ~ Michael Chabon
[*]The Autobiography of Malcolm X ~ Malcolm X and Alex Haley
[*]The Book Thief ~ Markus Zusak
[*]The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao ~ Junot Diaz
[*]The Catcher in the Rye ~ J.D. Salinger
[*]The Color of Water ~ James McBride
[*]The Corrections ~ Jonathan Franzen
[*]The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America ~ Erik Larson
[*]The Diary of Anne Frank ~ Anne Frank
[*]The Fault in Our Stars ~ John Green
[*]The Giver ~ Lois Lowry
[*]The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials ~ Philip Pullman
[*]The Great Gatsby ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
[*]The Handmaid's Tale ~ Margaret Atwood
[*]The House At Pooh Corner ~ A. A. Milne
[*]The Hunger Games ~ Suzanne Collins
[*]The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks ~ Rebecca Skloot
[*]The Liars' Club: A Memoir ~ Mary Karr
[*]The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) ~ Rick Riordan
[*]The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
[*]The Long Goodbye ~ Raymond Chandler
[*]The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 ~ Lawrence Wright
[*]The Lord of the Rings ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
[*]The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales ~ Oliver Sacks
[*]The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals ~ Michael Pollan
[*]The Phantom Tollbooth ~ Norton Juster
[*]The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel ~ Barbara Kingsolver
[*]The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York ~ Robert A. Caro
[*]The Right Stuff ~ Tom Wolfe
[*]The Road ~ Cormac McCarthy
[*]The Secret History ~ Donna Tartt
[*]The Shining ~ Stephen King
[*]The Stranger ~ Albert Camus
[*]The Sun Also Rises ~ Ernest Hemingway
[*]The Things They Carried ~ Tim O'Brien
[*]The Very Hungry Caterpillar ~ Eric Carle
[*]The Wind in the Willows ~ Kenneth Grahame
[*]The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel ~ Haruki Murakami
[*]The World According to Garp ~ John Irving
[*]The Year of Magical Thinking ~ Joan Didion
[*]Things Fall Apart ~ Chinua Achebe
[*]To Kill a Mockingbird ~ Harper Lee
[*]Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption ~ Laura Hillenbrand
[*]Valley of the Dolls ~ Jacqueline Susann
[*]Where the Sidewalk Ends ~ Shel Silverstein
[*]Where the Wild Things Are ~ Maurice Sendak

 

Know I've read: 11
May have read: 6 (books I can't remember if I've read them, or am just remembering reading about them and/or seeing the movie [one of the side effects of getting older])
Definitely on my to-read list: 1

So I'll call that a 14 +/- 3.

 

I have read sixteen, possibly seventeen of them. But that's really a fraudulent claim, since I read several of those as a kid, but remember Literally nothing about them, or almost nothing. My memories of the Pooh books, for instance have been almost entirely overwhelmed by viewing the Disney cartoons a few years later. And I think I read Little House in fourth grade, but not positive.

I do have three of the books on my tbr list, Team of Rivals, the Lemony Snickett book, and another which escapes me now. They moved high enough that I've had them on my Kindle to be ready when the mood strikes me.

Added later, the third book was Diary of a Wimpy Kid.

 

I've read 34 and seen the movies of several I haven't read.

I wonder if they were trying to come up with a list to be read over a lifetime, from infancy on.  There are so many children's and young adult books that I have read, but wouldn't necessarily seek out as an adult if I didn't have children or grandchildren to read them to now.

At least I have heard of or know something about most of the books on this list, that isn't always the case.  A pretty friendly list IMO.

 

I've only read 11 of those.

 

About 22.
And I wish I could un-read Lolita
Interesting list, thanks for posting.