I can't resist list challenges, especially the ones about books...

[cloudsinvenice]

...but this is an incredibly weird list:

http://www.listchallenges.com/books-youll-never-brag-about-having-read/

I mean, there are the obvious blockbusters that people love to mock, like Twilight, 50 Shades of Grey and The Da Vinci Code, but otherwise a lot of the significance escapes me; they seem to be American popular political/psychological hits, plus the odd work of Nazi propaganda that a lot of history students will actually have read because they're studying the period.

Anyway, I've read 12/100, and I've got Peyton Place on the shelf waiting for me to get round to it...

Comments

[gairid]

I've read twenty of those things! Jacqueline Susann -- considered risque back in my high school years.Jonathan Livingston Seagull was what every teen girl read in 1971 or so; The Satanic Bibe is hilariously silly. Hammer of the Gods! I still have that book! The Rolling Stones & John Lennon tomes, The Amityville Horror (that house is right across Long Island Sound from my hometown---we all piled in the car one time to go see it.) DaVinci Code. OMG, Peyton Place! My mom had that hidden in her room, so of course I read it..I think I was 11 and it was already an old book by that time.

It's a weird list, though--so all over the place.

I see Mater's Sleeping Beauty made the list!

[cloudsinvenice]

Hammer of the Gods is one of those rock books I've always meant to read!

And yeah, had to laugh at (and of course tick) Sleeping Beauty!