How Many Have You Read? (Quiz)

[Julie]

I did quite well:

84 of 99 · 85%
You did better than 100% of users on this list
Your rank: #713 of 237.694 users on this list
You beat the avg. score of 24

But I'm surprised, that some of my "non-reads" are books I've never hear of (including two books by Eça de Queirós)

[J_BlueFlower]

I have heard of all except:
Os Maias 24,361 ratings 897 reviews
O Primo Basílio 7,217 ratings 258 reviews

Seems not too well known on Goodreads, too.

[Julie]

J_BlueFlower wrote: "I have heard of all expect:
Os Maias 24,361 ratings 897 reviews
O Primo Basílio 7,217 ratings 258 reviews

Seems not too well known on Goodreads, too."

I'm glad I'm not the only one ;)

[Sara, New School Classics]

71 of 99 · 72%
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Your rank: #2,376 of 237,698 users on this list
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Too many of these have been on my TBR for forever. Some books I just never seem to get to. I had also not heard of those two. Of course, all book lists are arbitrary...you could make up a list of 100 other books that would be just as valid.

[spoko]

What a weird, narrow list. How much Jane Austen does one list need? Not to mention Hemingway, Dickens, ugh. Even ones I've read & enjoyed, I don't necessarily think of them as being in the top 100 classics. To the Lighthouse? Really? The Oddyssey, The Iliad, and The Aeneid?

I stopped counting how many I had read; I just have no interest in seeing how much my reading overlaps with Julia Battagliotti’s.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I've read 28 of them. Not very good, I suppose.

[Pillsonista]

spoko wrote: "What a weird, narrow list. How much Jane Austen does one list need?"

Truly, as much as it can get.

[J_BlueFlower]

Have we ever made our own list (A list of our Own, hmmm)? The top 100 classics according to active members of Catching up on Classics?

I know we have
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...

But
1) That is only book that already have been group reads and
2) I lot of people are voting to bring books to the list rather than preference.

[J_BlueFlower]

Lets try it:

Please vote for the top 100 classic books:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

No omnibus in the same way as in the group reads (short story collections are fine, but not complete works)

[spoko]

Pillsonista wrote: “spoko wrote: “What a weird, narrow list. How much Jane Austen does one list need?”

Truly, as much as it can get.”

I would never include a single one, myself, though I can see how others might. But in a list of 100 books, there’s no reason at all for her to have multiples.

[Annette]

How do members account for different editions/translations of a book on lists? For example, I have read the trilogy Kristen Lavernsdatter but not the edition of The Wreath shown on the Best 100. I will usually only read one version of a book especially if I own it. Do you mark different versions as Read?

Edited: I marked it Read.

[Brian E]

65 of 99 · 66%
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By the end of the year I should finish In Search of Lost Time as I'm currently finishing the third volume after continuing on from January's read of The Swann Way. All that reading so I can add one measly book - but it gets me to the 2/3 mark. I'm really weak on the pre-18th Century classics as I shy away from the challenge.

[Terris]

This is my most recent update. I think I was only at 63 the first time I took the quiz in 2017. At least I'm making progress!

78 of 99 = 79%
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You beat the avg. score of 24

[Brian E]

Terris wrote: "This is my most recent update. I think I was only at 63 the first time I took the quiz in 2017. At least I'm making progress!
78 of 99 = 79%
You did better than 100% of users on this list
Your rank: #1,189 of 237,846 users on this list."

Good for you, Terris. Excellent work since 2017.

[Terris]

Brian E wrote: "Terris wrote: "This is my most recent update. I think I was only at 63 the first time I took the quiz in 2017. At least I'm making progress!
78 of 99 = 79%
You did better than 100% of users on this..."

Thanks, Brian! You're not far behind ;)

[Brian E]

Terris wrote: "Thanks, Brian! You're not far behind ;).."

At 65 books, I'm a little above the 63 books you were at in 2017. Since you averaged a shade over 2 list books a year in the interim, I'm at about where you were in 2018.
So that makes me about 6 years behind :)

[Terris]

Brian E wrote: "Terris wrote: "Thanks, Brian! You're not far behind ;).."

At 65 books, I'm a little above the 63 books you were at in 2017. Since you averaged a shade over 2 list books a year in the interim, I'm ..."

Well, what else do you have to do in the next 6 years?!
Keep Reading!! haha! ;)

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

76 of 99 · 77%
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Your rank: #1,427 of 237,892 users on this list
You beat the avg. score of 24

Some I still plan on reading. I don't see ever reading all 99. As with all lists I wonder how some make it and other don't.

[Terris]

Bob wrote: "76 of 99 · 77%
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Your rank: #1,427 of 237,892 users on this list
You beat the avg. score of 24

Some I still plan on reading. I don't see ever reading al..."

Me, too. Because there are some that I never want to read! So, like you, I'll never get to 99!! ;)