About 30 of these....I'm not sure how this list should make one feel "well read"....after all...how does reading the Harry Potter series make me more "well read"? If GWTW qualifies to be on the list, why doesn't Scarlet? The classics..yes, I can see that, but a lot on the list are/were just popular fiction of a given time. If I haven't read those, well it doesn't make me any less intelligent :roll: (or more for that matter )