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

[mumsisdaughter]

I have read Chariots of the Gods and thought it sensationalist and under-researched at the time. I remember feeling indignant that anyone would think humans incapable of building/making things in the past.

Also Jonathan Livingston Seagull because I was nurturing a gull with a broken wing at the time so of course it was called Fred Maynard Gull and I liked the photographs. I also have Neil Diamond's OST from the film.

Pride and Prejudice with Zombies, which I love because I laughed all the way through it.

I also have Mater's Sleeping Beauty trilogy but haven't read them.

[cloudsinvenice]

I think my mum had Chariots of the Gods back in the day; he's certainly one of those authors-a-Fortean-is-aware-of, but I heard the debunkings before I got around to reading him! At least there seems to be more talk these days about how subtly racist that stuff can be in its assumptions...