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What does it mean to be "well read" today? Are there certain books that you must read to consider yourself well read? That can include classics, books that are popular enough to be culturally important or books that contain essential stories, ideas and/or characters that everyone who claims to be well read should know.
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184 books · 49 voters · list created August 16th, 2014 by Rachel Eliason (votes) .
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message 1: by Rachel (new)

Rachel Eliason I am thinking that if we can get more than a hundred books on here and say 30+ people voting, I might make this a reading challenge, to read the top one hundred. Anyone else interested?


message 2: by Stephen (last edited Aug 18, 2014 04:03AM) (new)

Stephen Rachel, two things...

First, The copy of Brave New World that you selected is different than the one others have selected. The list can be de-duped but (because of the way GoodReads works) your choice is considered a separate choice and will never be combined with the others. You might consider deleting your vote and voting for the one that the others did.

Second, There are already some similar challenges that you might want to check out. Since they're already established, the discussions there might be more lively and I'm sure that you could make that even more true.

https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...


message 3: by Rachel (new)

Rachel Eliason The way Goodreads handles different editions of the same book drives me nuts at times. Thanks.
The second group looks interesting. I am trying to avoid prize winners or list made by an individual person or group, because what interests me is what sort of consensus will occur on this list over time. Of course it would be interest to compare which books make the list on a crowd sourced site like this with what, say, a literary professor might select.


message 4: by Mitali (last edited Aug 18, 2014 09:31AM) (new)

Mitali Nice list! Just FYI:
The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice and The Picture of Dorian Gray are on the list twice.
Also, you might want to choose an edition of Hamlet that is by Shakespeare instead of by Kenneth Branagh. ;)


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