BBC Book List Continued

[potentiality_26]

Thinking about that BBC reading list, I would say that solidly 80% of the books on the list that I've read, I read for school.  Thinking about it that way, I'm a bit surprised by the assertion that most people have read so few.

But anyway, then I started thinking about the books I read in high school/college that weren't on the list that I really enjoyed and/or got a lot out of.  Would anyone be interested if I made a post about them? 
  

Comments

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Yes, please do.

[potentiality_26]

<3

[thisbluespirit]

I am pretty sure that list is actually the top half of the list from the BBC's Big Read project from sometime in the early 2000s, which means it was just some randomly voted list, with a high per cent of voters being schools being organised into it. I suspect that whoever took the list made the low % claim, not the BBC, who were just doing a "find the nation's fave book" exercise, and you know what expertise the British public shows when it votes for things.

(The only thing that's giving me pause is that I know there was some Jacqueline Wilson in the Big Read list, but I think that may be because it was longer than 100.)

The answer to making a post about books or not round here is always yes!!

[potentiality_26]

That makes sense as the source of the list. There was one of those in the U.S. too, done by PBS, though the list was slightly different. I may feel a little less charitable about some of the books on this list if they were voted in that way, though, lol.

[verdande_mi]

Always interested in reading about books :D

I had read very few books on the list, but then again I don't live in an English-speaking country either.

[potentiality_26]

You make a good point. I guess I was assuming that since the list is from an English-speaking country the statistic was too, but if it's a worldwide average I'm less surprised that it's only six.