Laurel Fan's "Famous books that nobody reads"

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These books are such a part of our cultural context (kafka-esque, orwellian, quixotic..) that everyone seems to know what they’re about without having read them. Or at least can quote a few lines ("out, dammed spot").

  1. 1.
    War and Peace
    by Leo Tolstoy
  2. 2.
    Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories
    by Franz Kafka
  3. 3.
    Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare
  4. 4.
    In Search of Lost Time: Proust 6-pack (Proust Complete)
    by Marcel Proust
  5. 5.
    The Anarchist Cookbook
    by William Powell
  6. 6.
    Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  7. 7.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell
  8. 8.
    The Prince
    by Niccolo Machiavelli
  9. 9.
    The Holy Bible
    by Various Authors
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Created by Laurel Fan on Mar 19, 2007.
 

Comments

sipes23

Cool list — 2 years ago

So I’m stealing it and then adding to it. Awesome idea.

Dec 22, 04:44PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

Kat

Lol! — 4 years ago

Personally, I do not know one person that has read War and Peace. And personally, I don’t think anyone really has. :)

Apr 21, 02:56AM | 1 comment | Reply to this



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