Great, 10 more to add to my list.

1. I did read it.
2. Is it a lie if I admit I have only read some of it?
4. Same as #2
8. I did read it.
9. You would have to pay me a lot of money to read it. 

oh i read Madame Bovary in english before i could speak it!

11. On the Road - Jack Keroac
12. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
13. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

(Doing my best “Penelope”): I’ve read ALL of those books, to a crowd of 50,000 at Madison Square Gardens, and they taped me reading them and sealed the tapes in a vault in the Smithsonian, you can only see them through a thick pane of bulletproof glass. I actually secretly WROTE four of the books on the list, and the other six were written in honor of me. So…

ha ha… Joel B beat me to the comment I was going to post until I saw it already posted.

i want to read 1, but it seems to be sold out in every bookstore… war and peace i don’t know if i would like to read it only for its historical value. Nº 3 i read it when i was in school, and the rest of them i couldn’t care less about reading them. Except for the bible, i’m not sure which one is the real version, so i won’t bother either.

I’ve read 1,2, and 6.
But, I’d add ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ to that list, so many people say they’ve read that one and clearly haven’t…(which is a shame, it’s a favourite of mine.)

i haven’t read one of those. but i have read the hard copy of ‘the lost world’ before the movie.

I’ve read 1, 2 and 5. Tried to read 7 so many times but was defeated. It seems an arbitrary list in some ways.

This list sounds like arbitrary bullshit, like so much of the internet. The Rushdie book, for example, is not so widely cited as to come up in conversation or on similar lists. Typical UK trash list.

A screaming comes across the sky, it has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now. Gravity’s Rainbow is my favorite, and I think it fits this list. :-D

I think you could say that about a couple more of these books, Sarah. I’d like to see a list like this broken down by country or even region of country/U.S. I’m sure the Vermont list still has Proust, and the Alabama list probably breaks down the Bible into Ruth, Judges, etc. P.S. One of the best album titles ever was Lyle Lovett’s “Joshua Judges Ruth.”

I agree, Sarah. People who pretend they’ve read Proust are the worst. I should know. Nowadays, I only hang out with people who pretend they’ve read Derrida. A much better class of people.

Who needs to pretend they’ve read Proust? I think that is a sign you are hanging out with the wrong kind of people.

WAIT! WAIT!
Does it count if we saw the MOVIE?!?

I’ve totally nailed 1, 4, 5 & 6 for reals. I often talk like I’ve done 2, 3 & 8, although I would be the first one to say I’m saving Proust for old age. As for 7, 9 & 10, I’m all “meh.”

Soo…. Are we just supposed to trust the survey? How do we know that these are the books people are most likely to claim to read but not have read? Seems like a pretty odd list to me…

I’ve read them all.

I read “A Brief History of Time” but about half way thru a singularity opened inside my cerebral cortex.