Wow.
Waterstone’s: 24/100
Albert Camus - The Outsider? I’ll assume yes.
Board: 20/100
Reader’s: 27/100
Embarrassing, this is not my favourite list.
Radcliffe: 25/100
Burgess: 9/99
Ouch, sorry Tony.
Ward: 33.5/500
Give or take a few. I gave myself a point for “La Comedie Humaine” and 0.5 for Gargantua et Pantagruel but not much else in the "Complete Works category. I’m pretty sure I’ve read “Fathers and Children” as well, heh heh.
No guff.
I’ve read 100% of my favourite books though.
My tally is 35 from the Waterstones list, 34 from the Reader’s List, 32 from the Radcliffe List, and a measly 16 from the Board list. Heck, I’d never even heard of several of the books on the Board list.
There were a few books, like Ulysses and the two Pynchon books mentioned, that I started and never finished, but I refuse to feel guilty about it. What I do feel guilty about is never having read To Kill A Mockingbird. Hmmm. To the library!
71 on the Waterstone’s list
68 on the Board’s list
I didn’t count the other one–it was just too weird.
There were several cases where I’d read a number of books by a particular author, just not the one that was mentioned.
I’m a book ho.
20 on the list from the OP.
Oh–by “the other one” I meant the Reader’s list.
76 from the Radcliffe list.
57, British.
53, Modern Library.
61, Readers.
66, Radcliffe.
26, Burgess.
35, Ward.
I own and have read 41 of them so far.
Of course it is after all a british list and I found that it had good and bad points.
Orwell at 86 “Down and out in London and Paris” Should not be there, “Keep the asipidistra flying” (Orwell)was a much better book. I reckon because it was published first it has some historical value.
I noticed the Russians are on the list. I seriously doubt “Master and Margarita” (No. 63) Would have made an American Generated list.
Well, I have a few books I might just now have to go check out.
From the Modern Library: 3…whimper
The reader’s list: 7.
Radcliffe: 9
“Speaking on behalf of American writers, may I add that we don’t think all that much of you, either.”
uhm…you might want to speak for yourself there…
Posted by eunoia: “I’ve read 100% of my favourite books though.” :SNORT: 
I would not discribe myself as a well read person. I read for pleasure and not for enlightenment or any higher purpose.
I’ve got 28 frome the English list, 12 from the board list, 21 from the reader’s list and finally 24 from the Radcliff list.
I can’t help but think of what this means. I know that I am a no class, under educated, not-even-trying-to-pretend-to-higher-asperations girl from the boogy down Bronx. I’ve read less than one third of every single list. I think Spy Kids was sorta cute and I enjoyed watching it with my two 15 year olds.
We are doomed. aren’t we?
Only 14 on the Waterstones list???
10 on the board’s list starting to wonder if I should even continue
14 again on the reader’s list
18 on the Radcliffe list (good, I’m going up)
er…I’m not even posting my total for the Burgess list!
Waterstone = 27
The Board’s List = 12
The Reader’s List = 26
The Radcliffe List = 27
The Anthony Burgess List - 9
55 on the Waterstones and Channel 4 Television list.
45 on the Board list.
65 on the Reader’s list.
What I did on my summer vacations was usually park myself with a stack of books. Also a lot of those were from Honors classes in college.
46 on the Burgess list-which was an odd collection
37 for the Waterstones one…Who can tell me what abut “Wild Swans”? It always looked a bit schmoozy to me, but then, that would be judging a book by it’s cover…
Gormenghast was there! Excellent…
9 on the Boards list and…
19 on the Readers…
nefertari.
Okay, this threas has depressed and shamed me.
UK list - 27
US list (board) - 13
US list (readers) - 28
Burgess - 6
Radcliff - 26
Ward - 3 (and yes, that list completely freaked me out!)
The depressing part ? I went back to the OP’s list and found that, while I had read 27 of the books, I had seen 40 of the movies. For some reason, this embarasses me…
8 in the waterstones list.
5 in the random house boards list
and I will not take seriously any list that contains Hubbard.
… my score would doubtless improve if there was such a thing as a top 100 scifi/fantasy list.
27 from the Waterstone’s list,
16 from the RH boards list
They do seem at bit overloaded on the Anglo-American side. I thought Foucault’s Pendulum should be on the list along with Name of the Rose. And no Calvino? Mishima? Oe?
I’ve read 17 from the OP. Can we count movies? How about the books we started and couldn’t finish for one reason or another?
Waterstone’s: 18
Board’s: 6
Reader’s: 22
I read a lot, but evidently not what I’m “supposed to” read. 