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BBC Believes You Only Read 6 of these Books

Bagpuss
Bagpuss Posts: 334
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Tried this? 59/100 - I spend a lot of time on the train.
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  • cafcrocky87
    cafcrocky87 Posts: 421
    Just 22 for me, so far. Have ten more unread on my bookshelf though.
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    36 - most of the rest are Jane Austin!
  • Red_in_SE8
    Red_in_SE8 Posts: 5,961
    29
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,146
    14 for me. Must do better.
  • CharltonKerry
    CharltonKerry Posts: 2,963
    Only 18 for me, surprise as I read a lot, but obviously not the right ones.
  • charente addick
    charente addick Posts: 3,812
    15
  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    44 for me.
  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 26,472
    35, although a lot of the classics I read at school.
  • RalphMilnesgut
    RalphMilnesgut Posts: 1,751
    20 for me
  • CatAddick
    CatAddick Posts: 2,388
    26 - but funnily enough two on the list (Woman in White and Tale of Two Cities) I've read since Christmas. ...

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  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,385
    A mere 31, and I'm an English graduate. A few of them are on my 'to do' list mind...
  • Cordoban Addick
    Cordoban Addick Posts: 5,448
    49 most that I missed were Jane Austen and the Brontes. I read a load of them with/for my kids though.
  • Shrew
    Shrew Posts: 5,751
    43 for me - I'm glad that 'A fine balance' got in the list, great book.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,079
    Read 9; left 4 unfinished. I read more factual books though.
  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,373
    7, I did read all 32 volumes of Janet and John but they weren't listed.
  • lancashire lad
    lancashire lad Posts: 15,640
    edited March 2014
    23 - s'pose years at sea is the reason

    The Little Prince is a wonderful book if you know what a hat doesn't look like.
  • Boom
    Boom Posts: 1,681
    2!

    Surprised its that many to be honest.
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,874
    Started 2, both for school, but don't think I completed either

    Very surprised how many others have read
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,381
    16 .. who drew up this list ? .. no more than 2 would make my personal top 100
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,041
    44.

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  • Bagpuss
    Bagpuss Posts: 334
    Lincsaddick said:

    16 .. who drew up this list ? .. no more than 2 would make my personal top 100

    "The Da Vinci Code" should be worth -ve points.

  • newyorkaddick
    newyorkaddick Posts: 3,053
    Have started about 25 and finished about 6.

    I've never really been enthused by fiction - probably not imaginative or maybe empathetic enough.

    Alan Curbishley's autobiography however.....
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,381
    Bagpuss said:

    Lincsaddick said:

    16 .. who drew up this list ? .. no more than 2 would make my personal top 100

    "The Da Vinci Code" should be worth -ve points.

    after 53 pages of the DV Code I gave up .. what a load of old rubbish .. sold trillions though .. does that make it a 'great book'? ... an 'essential read' ? .. does it f***
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,385
    (My excuse for only reading 31 is that since discovering Thomas Pynchon, literally nothing else measures up. CL Gravity's Rainbow book club anyone? :D)
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,557
    44
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,956
    14, most of which were childhood, but then it was virtually all classic fiction, hardly any biographies, sport, travel, music etc
  • Eynsfordaddick
    Eynsfordaddick Posts: 2,045
    52 but I teach English! So many of them I have always intended to read...
  • SE18Addick
    SE18Addick Posts: 375
    I have actually read 6 of them. although 3 others unfinished and i own almost all of them. I am only 23 though.
  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,016
    53! That's what an English degree does to your social life.
  • MattD
    MattD Posts: 1,530
    1. The Harry Potter Series..

    Not read anything since I was a kid.

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