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[zevabe]

 The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.-Since I saw that this got little use I am changing it.  Italicize those you started but did not finish.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your

Comments

[yonihamagid]

I don't think those are repeats. Those are series and, arguably, the best known individual book within them.

[zevabe]

While that makes some sense for "The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe", Hamlet is not neccesarily the best known Shakespeare. I think it would be better to list a few works of Shakespeare rather than "The collected works", as almost no one has read every last play and sonnet. If you are going to list a series through (and there are several: Dark Materials, Harry Potter, Narnia), why list an individual work within the series?

[yonihamagid]

I would have to agree that this is not a well considered list (too much Dickens and Hardy, for instance). I wouldn't have put any series on a list of novels that have or haven't been read. I would put the initial novel as a stand in for the rest of the series. For instance, in the case of the Potter books or Lord of the Rings.

[zevabe]

But many of these books have sequels that didn't make the list. For example, hithiker's guide and the Three Musketeers. Are these series in the same way? What defines the difference if one exists?

[cellio]

The composition of parts of this list is odd. The repeats, in particular (as you noted).