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

10/25...most before college.

dpetalas, I LOVE YOUR SARCASM ABOUT "THE LORD OF THE RINGS". I HAVE READ MOSTLY THE ENGLAND WRITERS. HOWEVER, THE BETTER USA ONES ARE UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, TOM SAWYER, LITTLE WOMEN. I DID NOT CARE FOR THE ABOVE CHOICE IN THE QUIZ..

THESE WERE MAINLY AMERICAN WRITERS. I HAVE READ A VERY WIDE SELECTION OF WRITERS OF ENGLAND : SHAKESPEARE, CHARLES DICKENS, THACKERAY, AND MANY OTHERS. MY COUNTRY, INDIA, HAS MANY GOOD ENGLISH AUTHORS, THAT I HAVE READ TOO. (R.K. NARYAN COMES TO MIND).

Not a fair representation of literary prowess. Not everyone likes fiction. I prefer history, biographies, and historical novels. IMO, reading those shows more literacy than entertainment in the form of fiction.

Alan Conyard, how can it be 15/15 when there are 25 questions?

15/15. Not too bad.

To be considered the greatest novels ever written, these titles should reflect an older, broader range of material. Many of these titles are too contemporary and haven't proven themselves to have withstood the test of time to be considered among the greatest 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.