What's Your Literary Score According To The Greatest Novels Ever Written?

I've read Dickens and the Brontes ,Conan Doyle, better than many of these so called greatest books ever written. No tolstoy no Don Quiote. I think it was compiled by Americans.

19/25 A Master Scribe.

I haven't even heard of some of these. They need to upgrade their books.

I got 8 and they said I was a literary scholar. The only reason I read Animal Farm and Lord if the Flies is because they were required reading. I have read Dickens, Hemingway, Hawthorne, Dumas, Kipling and many others. I read only what catches my attention...sometimes I see a movie and have to read the book to compare...often times the movie falls short but that may be because I prefer my interpretation of the book to the interpretation of the director.

I agree! I am a literary apprentice for not having read such masterpieces as “The Great Gatsby” and “ TheCatcher in the Rye”. Still, I have read Beowulf, both Eddas, and translated in Modern Greek the Nibelungenlied from the original text in Middle High German, the Song of Roland (also from the Old French original) and the Waltharius Manufortis (also from the original in Mediaeval Latin). And since I am so illiterate, I am asking myself if “The Lord of the rings” is the biography of Lennox Lewis or Cassius Clay… Dimitri Petalas, PhD in Mediaeval Literature and Philology

This is a seriously narrow, flawed, and incomplete assessment of how well-read we are. Where were Dickens, Hugo, Hawthorne, London, Dumas, Machiavelli, Kipling, Sun Tzu, Confucius, Faulkner, Shakespeare, Doyle, Lorca, Stevenson, Scott, Homer, Churchill, Christie, Greene, Frank, Cervantes, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Twain, the Brontes, Flaubert, DeFoe, Melville, Kafke, etc. The list goes on and on.

20/25. I love books!

15/25. Some of these books never heard of; can’t be that outstanding.

The right way to refer to this quiz should be "...some of the world's greatest books." And, 9/25, my score, does not make one a literary scholar.

I wouldn't call all of those "·the greatest novels ever written".

18/25 Not bad, since I am not American and I read a lot of English novels instead + European ones.

19/25 - I read a lot.

8/25 and I'm a literary scholar? lol...some I read in high school and some I chose to read after graduation at the encouragement of my brother. My mother had a copy of Lolita which she hid in the linen closet so I wouldn't read it, lol. I never did read it but I found and read her copy of Peyton Place and Valley of the Dolls...I was a voracious reader when I was younger and would read anything I could get my hands on (even cereal boxes) but now I prefer to read something light and funny.

I've only read a few books in my life. Just because I'm not a fan of reading, doesn't make me wrong. These writers are messed up.

Most on the mandatory reading lists from my high school and college