# 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:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-youve-never-read-that-everyone-else-has/321238/41 "2005-09-15T05:52:17Z")
The entire Left (&Right) Behind series. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-youve-never-read-that-everyone-else-has/321238/42 "2005-09-20T03:10:58Z")
nobody’s read any james joyce in here? yeesh! then again, being an english major has it’s perks. if you wanna call reading 19 books in a semester a “perk” i call it cruel and unusual punishment. but i ended up getting good grades out of it anyways. wnyone like melville? (is waiting the for the resounding NO!) ---
**Author:** ![PanicZone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2bfe46/32.png) [@PanicZone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PanicZone)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-youve-never-read-that-everyone-else-has/321238/43 "2005-09-20T04:10:12Z")
I enjoy non-fiction (but all varieties, just ask!), so I haven’t read these books/plays: The DaVinci Code LOTR series (I hate fantasy novels) Othello (though I’ve seen it performed twice) Hamlet King Lear any science fiction (except Vonnegut) Left Behind series any Joyce, except Portrait My knowledge is spotty, too. For example, I’ve read four or five Philip Roth novels, but nothing by Bellow. I’m not acquainted with any Hemingway or Updike, and I’ve read only Tortilla Flat by Steinbeck. ---
**Author:** ![CBCD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@CBCD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBCD)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-youve-never-read-that-everyone-else-has/321238/44 "2005-09-20T12:12:59Z")
> [@Least Original User Name Ever](#): > > nobody’s read any james joyce in here? yeesh! > then again, being an english major has it’s perks. if you wanna call reading 19 books in a semester a “perk” > i call it cruel and unusual punishment. but i ended up getting good grades out of it anyways. > wnyone like melville? (is waiting the for the resounding NO!) Is one of those English Major Perks knowing that the possesive ‘its’ does not take an apostrophe? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-youve-never-read-that-everyone-else-has/321238/45 "2005-09-20T13:12:59Z")
Anything found in the “Classic Literature” section of the bookstore. Boring. Shakespeare - great plots - annoying to read and translate at the same time. DaVinci Code - _sniff_sniff\* - smells like crap. Harry Potter - not into magic and fantasy. Clive Barker - blech! Neil Gaiman - liked Good Omens well enough, tried to get into the Discworld books, but I couldn’t get past the first couple of pages. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2005, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-youve-never-read-that-everyone-else-has/321238/46 "2005-09-20T14:38:38Z")
everything by John Grisham and Mary Higgins Clark [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-youve-never-read-that-everyone-else-has/321238.md?page=2)