Books everyone should read: a consensus word cloud
 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datab...ooks-read-100#

http://i.imgur.com/XeRPd.jpg

Nice to see Catch-22, which is probably my favorite non-fiction book, get some large font love. Also pleased to see Watership Down and Dune on there.

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I wouldn't have expected to see Hitchhiker's Guide so prominently featured, fun though it may be.

Very pleased to see One Hundred Years of Solitude in big letters. Just recently read that one and it truly is a remarkable work, one of those unforgettable experiences that only comes along every once in a while.

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Damn, only read 7 of them. Prob would be more had i read the books i was supposed to during HS rather than just BSing an essay.

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The Da Vinci Code, Kite Runner, and Beloved = NO

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Way too much Ayn Rand in there as well, but hey, it's based off of polls. This also explains Twilight and a few others. There are, admittedly, a few in there that I had genuinely never heard of (Middlesex and Scoop are two I noticed immediately).

The Handmaid's Tale also got some relatively large font love. I had always meant to read that and never did.

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No Chandler or Hammett. Fail :down:

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The Jungle deserves to be bigger, but all in that that is a pretty good list.

Oh, this is in the UK, no wonder the list is so good. I'm not sure I would want to see one from the United States.

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I picked up Wuthering Heights recently. I've never had to use the dictionary lookup on my Kindle before, but with this book I'm using it frequently.

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I wonder how many people polled just picked titles because they'd seen the film?

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I have an edition that has a glossary in the back. It's quite helpful.

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"A Fine Balance" should be there. No sale without it.

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Just read this a couple of weeks ago for a class. It's well-written, of course, with lots of great atmosphere, but I'm not sure I can say that I enjoyed it due to the thoroughly unpleasant characters throughout. I really just wanted everyone to die by the end.

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Thanks for posting this, jfoobar!

I'm going to share this with my AP Lit. kids on Monday. We're currently reading Crime and Punishment, and have read from the list Catch-22, Tess of D'Urbervilles, Heart of Darkness, and The Sound and the Fury.

Also nice to see a couple McCarthy novels there (Blood Meridian and The Road).

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There seems to be a book missing on that list. Oh yeah...


http://cdn1.sbnation.com/fan_shot_im..._goes_down.jpg


The only book I've ever read cover to cover.

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I suppose I should just be happy that Fahrenheit 451 and Invisible Man made the cloud at all, but I should not have had to look so hard to find either. One wonders whether the short story "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" would have made the cut had it not been adapted as Blade Runner. In any event, I'd say this is as good a place as any to start reading for those like me who always meant to read such fare.

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When it comes to having read the classics, I am woefully lacking. I keep meaning to start tackling one every month of two, just the ones that naturally interest me, but I always pick up something more current.

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I think that list is something awful. They have some classics but not enough of the right ones same goes for the modern stories.

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I've only read eleven of the titles listed, but I've seen almost all of the movies.

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Such as?

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i've read ten of those, started about ten more, but never finished, and seen the movies to also about twenty.

isn't do androids dream of electric sheep a short story?

The list is like half all time classics and the rest just popular books. No dr. suess?! Why'd you post this list! it's making me mad.

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"DADoES" is a novel. "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" was the short story from which Total Recall derived. Various other PKD short stories have also been transmogrified into film.

Although known/published here, Dr Seuss may not be as big/popular (iconic?) in the UK as in the US.

Methinks there are a good few such lists e.g.

I've read about 30% of these two iterations of the same list:
http://www.listology.com/dashforcove...t-live-without
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/mar/01/news

And 20% of these:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003...atures.fiction

The following is an alleged "best" rather than a consensus:
http://www.listsofbests.com/list/21-...ks-of-all-time
And I've read very few of them! (Less than 10?)

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I've read 26. Mostly "classics" and sci-fi/fantasy. Most of the more modern classics I read for school, but I was also on a classic lit kick for a while as a teen and read a lot of pre-20th century stuff on my own.

I started but didn't finish 2. Moby Dick I started 2 or 3 times when I was younger, but never got very far. Started His Dark Materials but wasn't that into it. I recall it had some interesting concepts, but was also a bit immature and I wasn't digging the plot, so I spoilered myself to see if the series as a whole was worth it and decided against it.

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I've read 25

School:

A Clockwork Orange
Wuthering Heights
Of Mice and Men
The Stranger
Lord of the Flies
Invisible Man
Dracula
The Sound and the Fury
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Scarlet Letter
Frankenstein
Brave New World
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
A Tale of Two Cities
Slaughterhouse-Five
Heart of Darkness
Great Expectations
Animal Farm

On my Own:

The Road
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Blood Meridian
Lolita
Catch-22
The Tin Drum
The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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I've read 43, I think. I hate clouds. I have also started but didn't finish Tristram Shandy, The Sound and the Fury, Stranger in a Strange Land, and The Old Man and the Sea. Only 8 of them were required reading.

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I think I'm close to 40 or so. There's a few I've been meaning to get at for a while.

I read this years ago and had planned on doing a re-read pretty soon, especially considering a lot of the politics I'm seeing from this new Congress.