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Quiz - Are you well read in world literature?

This quiz is humbling and it gave me some great ideas for books for the international challenge. And, oh my, I felt a lot of cover love. I don't think I've even heard of many of the books (I had whole pages with no hits), but I managed to score slightly higher than average.

I've read 17 of 1000 2% Better than 57% of users. Didn't reach average score of 21.

I read a bit of international fiction and there were some books which I thought were missing on this list, but it was a very eclectic list and long. I wish I would have done better.

49 of 1,000 · 5%
You did better than 90% of users on this list
Your rank: #342 of 3,424 users on this list
You beat the avg. score of 21

I also thought the list was eclectic and long, but fun to go through and full of ideas for future reading.

I've read 24 of 1,000. I recognized a few authors for having read other titles by them not included in the list.

I also wrote down 88 that I'm interested in reading - 15 of which I already own, including 2 that are earmarked for 2021 challenges (Wolf Totem and Men In The Sun & Other Palestinian Stories).

I did really well.
55 of 1,000  ·  6%
You did better than 92% of users on this list
Your rank: #274 of 3,426 users on this list
You beat the avg. score of 21

I also have quite a lot included in my TBRs and I own them. Many great books here that I never heard of but would like to read.

Some of the French authors I nearly missed because I did not recognize the title. And 2 big reads this year for me are on list: Proust and Master & Margarita.

My quibbles: The Kreutzer Sonata appears twice, and some authors having multiple entries listed.

92.... Apparently I am not well read.

I've only read 27 of the 1,000, but I'm surprised that it's above the average of score of 21. A lot of them are on my TBR, some of them I've already started, but most I've never heard of.

You did better than 65% of users on this list

Your rank: #1,183 of 3,431 users on this list

You tied the avg. score of 21

although I saw a lot more that I want to read/have planned!

As I said in the other thread I've read 46. The ones I have at home and plan to read 'soon' are: If on a winter's night a traveller, Master and Margarita, Dog's heart, possibly the Hairdresser of Harare, Hunger Angel, and Woman at 1000°. Sorry for no links I'm on phone.

And I also struggled with the titles and covers since I know the titles in Danish better, at least the ones not originally written in English, and different covers.

Oh yes, didn't I see The Whale Rider on there? That's the first destination I'm flying out to :)

50/1000. So many that I’ve never even heard of. And quite a few unread on the shelves, sigh.

I did this in another ATY group. I have read 82. It helps to be older and also a literature major. But the list is weird, it starts with a lot of famous books but eventually gets to many books I have never heard of. Apparently it is not a list put together by experts, but just some person or group who decided it. There is also "1000 books to read before you die", which is a different list.

The problem for this group is that a lot of the lesser-known books won't have many tags.

A lot of these books are on the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list.

37/1000

You did better than 85% of users on this list
Your rank: #514 of 3,450 users on this list
You beat the avg. score of 21

It'a an interesting list. It included some of my favorites.

Cutting for Stone
Like Water for Chocolate
The Housekeeper and the Professor
An Unnecessary Woman
The Garden of Evening Mists

If all the other books on the list are as good, they're worth looking at.

49 of 1,000 · 5%
You did better than 90% of users on this list
Your rank: #345 of 3,451 users on this list
You beat the avg. score of 21

I did notice some authors I've read but they didn't include the titles I have read, plus a number I have on my want to read shelves.

BUT to be honest, I included one I am more than half way finished but still reading, The Bone Readers. Also, some are things I have discarded or have decided not to read after bringing them home.

And, The Whale Rider is coming to me for January from my library.

Jgrace wrote: "37/1000

You did better than 85% of users on this list
Your rank: #514 of 3,450 users on this list
You beat the avg. score of 21

It'a an interesting list. It included some of my favorites.

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Lol, I also scored 37!

I am impressed that we have readers here with more than 50. Kudos to you all. I do own another 10 or so that I haven't read yet, so there's hope for me.

Mary wrote: "92.... Apparently I am not well read."

If you read 92, you ARE most certainly well read . . .!!

I've read 33/1000, which puts me at over 80% of the users. I suspect I should look at the list more closely and broaden my reading.

I’m at 36/1000, with quite a few of them on my TBR. Interesting list.

I have a few more on my tbr.

Interesting thing with so many of these lists. Not all, but I found many of the ones I read kind of boring (literary? classics?).

But my results:

36 of 1,000 · 4%
You did better than 83% of users on this list
Your rank: #587 of 3,455 users on this list
You beat the avg. score of 21

34/1000, 3%
Better than 81% of users

Interesting Quiz! Thanks Nancy!

69 of 1,000 · 7%
You did better than 96% of users on this list
Your rank: #152 of 3,472 users on this list
You beat the avg. score of 21


Quite a few are on my TBR already ... some of which might be used during FLy the Skies.

LibraryCin wrote: "I have a few more on my tbr.

Interesting thing with so many of these lists. Not all, but I found many of the ones I read kind of boring (literary? classics?).

But my results:

36 of 1,000 · 4%..."

I was wondering the same thing. There are a lot of American lists like that too. You'll find boring classics on most of these lists, along with sentimental favorites, award winners, and maybe bestsellers. I was wondering how they compiled the list. I imagine they consulted experts all around the world, including critics and literature professors. I think it would be hard for them to compile a list of the best 10 books to represent their whole country.

My problem is that sometimes I love the books that others might call boring, and vice versa. I figure I'll use the ratings, blurbs and reviews to help me decide. So far I ruled out a book based on reviews that likened the author to Vonnegut (I'm just not a fan), and one that called the book an important historical document.

324, with at least another 100 TBR.
I’ve been working on the 1001 list since 2007, and in the last few years have started contributing to The Reader’s Room review of the Booker and International Booker prizes.
Along with that, I’ve vowed to read more diversely, so my number grows every day...

Tracy wrote: "324, with at least another 100 TBR.
I’ve been working on the 1001 list since 2007, and in the last few years have started contributing to The Reader’s Room review of the Booker and International B..."

Wow, Tracy! My hat's off to you!

Tracy, you legend!

Tracy wrote: "324, with at least another 100 TBR.
I’ve been working on the 1001 list since 2007, and in the last few years have started contributing to The Reader’s Room review of the Booker and International B..."

Dang! That is impressive!!

Tracy, I am in awe!

Bowing down, with my hat off to you Tracy!

Tracy wrote: "324, with at least another 100 TBR.
..."

Awesome, Tracy. I count 97, but still feel inadequte from this in reading breadth. Wonderful list anyway.

Wow Tracy! I got bored and didn't really want to go through all 25 pages. I had 13 on the first few pages but there were a TON of books that I've never heard of.

Wow, Tracy!

I've read 38 of those...

What if the book is on my tbr, can I count it? What if I saw the movie adaptation? What if I've read the author but not the book listed? Juuuuust kidding, I was honest in the quiz and...

I did worse than anyone in the group 😂🤣

I have some work to do.
Many on the list that are physically on my tbr or on my radar at least.

Tracy wrote: "324, with at least another 100 TBR. ..."

Wow! That's amazing!

Meli wrote: "What if the book is on my tbr, can I count it? What if I saw the movie adaptation? What if I've read the author but not the book listed? Juuuuust kidding, I was honest in the quiz and...

I did wo..."

Don't worry, it's not a competition!

Meli wrote: "What if the book is on my tbr, can I count it? What if I saw the movie adaptation? What if I've read the author but not the book listed? Juuuuust kidding, I was honest in the quiz and...

I did wo..."

I am with you at the bottom Meli-LoL that is why you do not see my score here. But I do have them on the TBR!

LibraryCin wrote: "I have a few more on my tbr.

Interesting thing with so many of these lists. Not all, but I found many of the ones I read kind of boring (literary? classics?).

But my results:

36 of 1,000 · 4%..."

Yes, some of them are boring. Some of them I won't read because they are Russian so they are going to depress me (and I won't ever read Dr. Zhivago because the movie was so sad, and that was when I still was into dark novels). Some I have picked up and discarded. Plus, the list is rather subjective as I noticed it was missing some important writers or it focused too much on the past hundred years or so, which for some countries means you lose a lot of important things. Or it would give an example and I have read or would rather read a different one (I'd rather read The Saga of the Icelanders than whatever it was they mentioned, for example).

I couple years ago one of the GR groups that reads historical fiction read Dr. Zhivago, and I think I was the only one that finished it, and it was a bit of a struggle. The romance that is the heart of the movie only takes up a really small part of the book. A lot of it is about politics and philosophy and about trying to survive. So it is sad, but in a different way.

Joanne wrote: "Meli wrote: "What if the book is on my tbr, can I count it? What if I saw the movie adaptation? What if I've read the author but not the book listed? Juuuuust kidding, I was honest in the quiz and...."

@Joanne - * high five, friend * 🙌

40 of 1,000 · 4%
You did better than 85% of users on this list
Your rank: #515 of 3,529 users on this list
You beat the avg. score of 21

Agree, strange list.

YOU GUYS - we have a Mary sighting. Hi MARY! Great to "see" you

Michael wrote: "Tracy wrote: "324, with at least another 100 TBR.
..."

Awesome, Tracy. I count 97, but still feel inadequte from this in reading breadth. Wonderful list anyway."

97, Michael?? I am impressed!!!

Tracy wrote: "324, with at least another 100 TBR.
I’ve been working on the 1001 list since 2007, and in the last few years have started contributing to The Reader’s Room review of the Booker and International B..."

AMAZING, Tracy!!!!! Absolutely amazing.

Robin P wrote: "I couple years ago one of the GR groups that reads historical fiction read Dr. Zhivago, and I think I was the only one that finished it, and it was a bit of a struggle. The romance that is the hear..."

I've been hemming and hawing for a while about read this. I think I shouldn't (politics and philosophy... ugh!)

I finished that book I mentioned and posted a review on it, but since it has been silent, here's the link to my review in case you want to add a Caribbiean born and raised plus set novel. I gave it a full 4 stars and it's a police procedural/mystery, which is excellent from me for that sort of book. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

It's not for naught he is a prize winning author.

Nicole D. wrote: "

YOU GUYS - we have a Mary sighting. ..."

Ssssshhhhhhh......... I'm hunting wabbits.