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14 of the books, and add six if you count watching the movies they inspired!
I’m not much of a fiction reader, other than Michener, but Steinbeck and Hemingway were required reading in jr high. And What male kid never read “Treasure Island”?😀
All told, I’ll probably read 2 or 3 dozen books in a year’s time, easily.
I don’t watch anything but old movies, and I enjoy reading American History.
I’ve read “Atlas Shrugged”, but I rather thought it dragged. “1984” and others of HG Wells I really liked though.
Reon

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

ya!

GWB

A number of those books have been the target of being banned from schools. So just keeping them on school library shelves, much less getting students to read them, can be an issue in some areas.

Many libraries offer the service of being able to download ebooks. So all you need is an iPad, or other device to read them on, and an internet connection.

Tag. Always looking for good books.

i've read 61 books of these. most of them i read in high school. i didn't like a few of them, but most them, i like.

Have read 86 on the list, some multiple times. But never bothered to read several more than once...

I honestly have not "read" a book since graduating university in 1985. By contrast my wife, same school, reads multiple books a month often with two going at the same time. Mechanical engineering vs. social science brains?

I'm not sure how many I've read as I found it too tedious to scroll through all the pictures of the book covers and little blurbs about the books.

Do the have an actual list to read through and not a bunch of jibber jabber?

I'm being honest, my ADHD crap will have me stopping to play solitaire or listen to music before I get thru the first 25.

And Dang John, that's approaching the 90th percentile there!

Looked like I’ve read about 50%. Some others there I’ll have to look up.

Haven't read fiction since I knocked out 2 credit Lit. course in college, hard pass on most of the list.

If I want a "story" I'll watch a 90 minute movie, no need to spend hours/days on it.

God Bless anybody on the Campfire who has read "Ulysses".

Sycamore

Good topic and thread - thought provoking. Thx.

There are a lot of Yuppy hipster books on that list. It ignores Tolkien, Leon Uris- Exodus, Herman Hesse’s best book is Siddhartha, doesn’t include Dune by Frank Herbert or Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, it should also have Robert Heinlein Tunnel in the Sky, Not a single Stephen King book. Blood Meriden is better than the Road as it shows probably the most evil Antagonist out there. No Moby Dick either or James Clavell - Shogun or Zane Grey Riders on the Purple Sage.

Then when finished with Ulysses, pick up a copy of Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon.

So sorry you confused Michner with being a writer...

Easiest "No" on worthy books, ever!

A couple of you didn’t read that list very carefully. JRRTs LORT and The Hobbit are indeed on it. I’m surprised War and Peace isn’t on it, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich nor anything Shakespeare! That’s not much of a list in my estimation.

I’ve read 70 of them.

I never heard of most of those on the list I have not read.

Hamlet is on it. That’s Shakespeare.

I have read half of them. All Quiet on the Western Front should be at the top of the list for every young man, especially if he is thinking of joining the army to fight for The Great Cause, such as Vietnam or Iraq.

Huckleberry Finn, great book. Teen age boys can't find it in the library, libs have removed it because it uses the word "ni**er." The irony is that most of the white people are venal fools in the book and the one noble character is the slave "Ni**er Jim."

One book that should be included is Pulitzer Prize winner The Guns Of August, the story of the first month of WW1. The world has still not recovered from the events of those thirty days.