Originally Posted by sandpat
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 )
I agree with you sandpat. Some of these children books didn't exist when I was young; I have read some because of my children and education classes. Interesting that they listed the complete works of Shakespeare
and Hamlet, but not others. Including Hamlet, I have read 5 of Shakespeare's works. Another thing that interested me was that I took 2 lit classes in college and out of all the books assigned in those classes, only one (Heart of Darkness) was on this list. Now if I could count a book for each time I read it, I would score high on To Kill a Mockingbird alone. I started reading that in elementary school and have read many times. By the way, only 23 that I can remember reading. Oh well, was fun to check them out anyway. Thanks Henry.