# Books you've never read that everyone else has. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 12, 2005, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-youve-never-read-that-everyone-else-has/321238 "2005-09-12T13:53:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-youve-never-read-that-everyone-else-has/321238/1 "2005-09-12T13:53:48Z")
**DaVinci Code** Not sure why, usually popular books don’t intrigue me, but anything with a Hidden Code usually sucks me in. I’ll wait for the movie. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-youve-never-read-that-everyone-else-has/321238/2 "2005-09-12T13:58:41Z")
Anna Karennina or whatever. Yeah, I know-a classic that I will _love_ (and that is probably true–I just can’t pick the damned thing up). ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-youve-never-read-that-everyone-else-has/321238/3 "2005-09-12T14:00:36Z")
**Catcher in the Rye To Kill a Mockingbird** ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-youve-never-read-that-everyone-else-has/321238/4 "2005-09-12T14:06:19Z")
Jusat about all of them, including, but by no means limited to: **Lord of the Rings Lord of the Flies Catcher in the Rye Grapes of Wrath Moby Dick Adventures of Tom Sawyer and/or Huckleberry Finn** (or anything else deemed a “Classic”) **Da Vinci Code** Just about anything by Stephen King (I’ve read Cujo and a few short stories.) ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-youve-never-read-that-everyone-else-has/321238/5 "2005-09-12T14:11:05Z")
**To Kill A Mockingbird** I haven’t even seen the movie. ---
**Author:** ![CBCD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@CBCD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBCD)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-youve-never-read-that-everyone-else-has/321238/6 "2005-09-12T14:23:10Z")
**To Kill a Mockingbird** , which has been mentioned by two other posters already. Whaddup with that? ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-youve-never-read-that-everyone-else-has/321238/7 "2005-09-12T14:32:01Z")
**The DaVinci Code** **Harry Potter** from #2 on. Read the first one, thought it was pretty “Meh.” ---
**Author:** ![Cowgirl\_Jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@Cowgirl\_Jules](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowgirl_Jules)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-youve-never-read-that-everyone-else-has/321238/8 "2005-09-12T14:37:10Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > **DaVinci Code** Well, judging by this thread, you can’t be the only one. Me too, anyway. Someday I may get around to it, but I figure anything with that much hype probably isn’t worth it. ---
**Author:** ![Aholibah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Aholibah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aholibah)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-youve-never-read-that-everyone-else-has/321238/9 "2005-09-12T14:48:21Z")
**Lord of the Flies A Separate Peace A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Sounder Old Yeller Billy Budd Old Man and the Sea** And you people should definitely read **To Kill a Mockingbird** and see the movie, and run screaming from **The DaVinci Code** in any form. ---
**Author:** ![gaucho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@gaucho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaucho)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-youve-never-read-that-everyone-else-has/321238/10 "2005-09-12T15:31:10Z")
**Catch-22**. For some reason, I feel like I’m past the point in my life where I should read it. I haven’t and and have no desire to read **The Davinci Code**. ---
**Author:** ![Selkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Selkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Selkie)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-youve-never-read-that-everyone-else-has/321238/11 "2005-09-12T15:43:35Z")
**Good Omens** (and I’m a big Neil Gaiman fan!) **DaVinci Code** ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-youve-never-read-that-everyone-else-has/321238/12 "2005-09-12T15:50:30Z")
Most o’ them Harry Potter books. I saw the first couple movies, told people I hadn’t read the books, people said "OOOh! you’re missing so much; you _have_ to read the books; I read the first two and a half and didn’t find that my life had been made fuller, so I decided not to spoil the second half of the third movie. I’ll wait for the rest of them to come out as movies, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-youve-never-read-that-everyone-else-has/321238/13 "2005-09-12T15:50:31Z")
> [@Selkie](#): > > **Good Omens** (and I’m a big Neil Gaiman fan!) I just read it last week. Want my copy? I never read **Stranger in a Strange Land**. (Or **The DaVinci Code**.) ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-youve-never-read-that-everyone-else-has/321238/14 "2005-09-12T16:08:31Z")
Another no-DaVinci-Coder here. Also, I’m a fantasy fanboy who’s never read more than 70 pages of the _Wheel of Time_ monstrosity. _To Kill a Mockingbird_, though–now THERE’s a good book. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-youve-never-read-that-everyone-else-has/321238/15 "2005-09-12T16:47:58Z")
I’ve never read: The Da Vinci Code Any Harry Potter (saw the movies, though) Ann Rice To Kill a Mockingbird Catcher in the Rye Tom Clancy other than Hunt for Red October Terry Pratchett (I know, I know.) ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-youve-never-read-that-everyone-else-has/321238/16 "2005-09-12T16:54:34Z")
Another non-reader of **The DaVinci Code** Nor any of the **Left Behind** books. I read an excrement, er, excerpt on-line, and it stunk so bad I wished I had brain Lysol Nothing by Nicholas Sparks either, and he’s pretty popular ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-youve-never-read-that-everyone-else-has/321238/17 "2005-09-12T17:00:35Z")
I felt I needed to add some more: Harry Potter Wheel of Time Sword of Truth the Pern novels Terry Pratchet Terry Brooks Tom Clancy Ann Rice Although I _have_ read **To Kill A Mockingbird** , though it was many years ago for 9th grade English. ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-youve-never-read-that-everyone-else-has/321238/18 "2005-09-12T17:16:49Z")
Any work of fiction released in the last 15 years or so. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-youve-never-read-that-everyone-else-has/321238/19 "2005-09-12T17:25:42Z")
**The Bible**. Sure, I’ve read many excerpts, but far-flung fantasy just isn’t my cupatea. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-youve-never-read-that-everyone-else-has/321238/20 "2005-09-12T19:48:42Z")
No **DaVinci Code** No **Harry Potter** No Anne Rice. No **Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance** Np **Lord of the Rings** (though I did read _The Hobbit_ once, and promptly forgot it) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-youve-never-read-that-everyone-else-has/321238.md?page=2)