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Is there any book all of us have read? Comment the book you’ve read that you think is so common that we all must have read it.

Is there any book all of us have read? Comment the book you’ve read that you think is so common that we all must have read it.

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Jan

The Grapes of Wrath

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ShiveshQuestion author

Well I don’t know this one…
I am new to the reading world???

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ShiveshQuestion author

What!!! I’ll add it to my list

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Robyn

It’s okay, I haven’t read it either. #addstolist ’cause of course my list wasn’t long enough -before- lol

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Amanda

To kill a mockingbird

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ShiveshQuestion author

I was waiting for this reply………its also one of the best books out there

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Amanda

It was on the high school curriculum in Australia in the 1990’s when I had to read it.

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Walter

on my TBR pile

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ShiveshQuestion author

Lucky …..my high school curriculum book was story of my life by Helen Keller

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Paul

Ooh yeah. I’ve read this already

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Desiree

Read that one

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Sandrine

One of my favorite books!

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Robyn

Nope again. I feel like I’m going to scroll through here and end up with a TBR list a mile or more longer than I had before lol. #goodtimes

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Maha

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

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ShiveshQuestion author

Book sounds nice never read it

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Maha

@Shivesh Highly recommend it along with The Fountainhead and We The living also by her.

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ShiveshQuestion author

Never read it (romeo and..) but somehow I know the story

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Medjie

You’re right.

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Aditee

Harry Potter
To kill a mockingbird
Sherlock Holmes

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ShiveshQuestion author

Sherlock Holmes yes that’s it I guess everyone knows it

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Aditee

Right!

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ShiveshQuestion author

Indian????

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Aditee

Yeah!! ?

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ShiveshQuestion author

Here 3 mistakes of my life is mist read ????

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Aditee

I read few Chetan Bhagat’s books …I realised my mistake ?.. but we learn from mistakes ..??

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ShiveshQuestion author

Never tried any of Chetan bhagat’s thank god!!!!

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Aditee

Good decision ??

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ShiveshQuestion author

Not many people here knows about Sherlock Holmes I’ve been asked if he was real

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Aditee

Never came across such people but I believe you, there may be I’m sure…??

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Barkha

i used to believe he was a real character

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Robyn

Well, I hate to disappoint, but I haven’t read Sherlock much (if at all). Nor To Kill a Mockingbird.

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Gordon

The Lord of the Rings
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Da Vinci Code

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ShiveshQuestion author

The da Vinci code could be it

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ShiveshQuestion author

Also to kill a mocking bird

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Alane

I’ve read the Davinci code

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Lorna

I have not read any of those yet, but I do have To Kill a Mockingbird on my shelf 🙂

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ShiveshQuestion author

You have the best one @Lorna

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Amy

Harry Potter or The Hobbit

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Shamusankwa

ok i would say we differ in the type of books we like.to my side i would say;da vinci code by dan brown,scarpetta by patricia conwell and the principles and the power of vision by dr myles monroe.

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Barkha

shining by stephen king?

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Robyn

Nope.

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Barkha

why not

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Gay

Davinci Code

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Christian

To Kill a Mockingbird.

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Angi

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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Barbara

I loved that book and movie.

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ShiveshQuestion author

Best one so far

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Stephania

To Kill a Mockingbird
Animal Farm
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Anthem
The Davinci Code
The Count of Monte
Cristo
The Three Musketeers
Pride and Prejudice
When the Wind Blows

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Katie

The Count of Monte Cristo is on my TBR list

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Stephania

@Katie oh my goodness! You. Will. Love. It. I read it in grade school. It was my moms book. I adored the protagonist. I fell in love with him–and France.

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Katie

That ie good to know 🙂

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Katie

*is

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Robyn

I’ve only read Animal Farm off this list. #longwaystogo apparently.

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Riska

Silence of the lambs

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Karen

Great series ?

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Cynthia

Great Expectations by Dickens.

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Mary

Jane Eyre

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Martine

1984

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Allison

I’d be curious what books are mandatory in the school systems in other countries. Here I read To Kill a Mockingbird but not for school. We did read Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, and the Taming of the Shrew in high school.
I read many of the books others listed, except Potter, but few were for school.
We read Lord of the Flies, and Roll of Thunder Head My Cry.

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Lissa

I did read To Kill a Mockingbird for school, also Macbeth (twice, switched schools it was 8th grade honors at one and senior honors english at the other), Emma, Huckleberry Finn, The Wizard of Earthsea and The Scarlet Letter.

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Robyn

I never read To Kill a Mockingbird, Taming of the Shrew, or most of Lissa’s list really, but did read Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, and Lord of the Flies for school.

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Sherry

Did you guys only have to do one book/year? We usually did one shakespeare play/year, but multiple books (at least 3/year)

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Christian

I live in the Caribbean so we read latin american authors in school. Books from Gabriel García Marquez like Chronicle of a Death Foretold, and “La Llamarada” by Enrique Laguerre. We also read Don Quijote, and The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes an anonymous spanish novella and a few others I don’t recall plus a few books about poetry. Pablo Neruda comes to mind.

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Kirsty

We did lord of the flies and roll of thunder xx

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Barbara

The Holy Bible.

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Chaity

Harry potter :p

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Siri

Romeo & Juliet

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Beth

The cat in the hat

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Jeni

Good one!!

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Kay

green eggs and ham

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Patricia

The little prince

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Aysegul

Little women?

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Julie

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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Kay

Charlotte’s web

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Thanikonda

The count of monte cristo

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Mnyepz

The Monk who sold his Ferrari
The alchemist
The seven habits of highly effective people/ teens

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Yentl

Twilight
The Vampire Diaries
The immortals
Wings,spells,illusions,destiny

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Sian

The hunger games

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Robyn

Well, it’s on my TBR, if that counts lol.

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Sian

Of mice and men (at school)

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Jenn

Yes, i did too, i really liked it 🙂

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Kelly

the 5 people you meet in heaven

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Brenna

The catcher in the rye.

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Stephanie

Lord of the Flies! Everyone had to read it for school

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ShiveshQuestion author

Not every where in the world

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Cindy

Hahahaha I rarely got books assigned for reading in school. I had ONE teacher challenge me like that… The rest just assumed I’d already read whatever they were trying to make the class read 😉

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Jenn

Nope i never did

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Shawntay

I never read this either

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Fadilah

I did!

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Cindy

The Cat in the Hat….

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Jennifer

Hobbit

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Dia

The little prince 😀

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Nicole

Animal farm
Harry potter series
Narnia series
The hobbit, Lord of the rings series
Stephanie plum series
Nicholas Sparks books
The giver
Willow
The invention of Hugo cabret
The mysterious Benedict society series
The hunger games series
The maze runner series
John green books
The count of Monte Cristo

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Robyn

I haven’t read all of this list (have read some, and Hunger Games is TBR), but I like it 🙂

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Shawntay

I’ve only read Harry Potter, The Maze Runner and Hunger Games from this list and two John Green books. Some of them I haven’t even heard of

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Barkha

count of monte cristoo.. Have read in school

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Barb

Blessed the beasts and the children

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Shawntay

I haven’t even heard of this one before

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Amy

Yeah me either lol

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Barb

Had to read it when I was in Jr. High school. There’s also a movie.

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Julie

Seems like Animal Farm or To Kill a Mockingbird…

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Rob

The hobbit.

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Stacy

Harry Potter

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Robyn

LOL

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Mustapha

The Power of Positive Thinking–Norman Vincent Peale

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Lisa-Marie

I’ve never even heard of this one!

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Mustapha

Published more than 3 decades ago

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Shawntay

I’ve read very few of the books on this list lol…. I don’t really read classic literature, mostly just newer books.

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Sherry

I think most classics posted were from school curriculums…no choice but to read them for class/marks.

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Shawntay

Well I never actually read them even when I was in school I skimmed them for answers but never actually read any besides Far From The Madding Crowd my senior year

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Firdyawkal

My dear sisters i think reading classic books enables you to add more values. And as to my experience there are so many classic books which do not related to school curriculums. Ex. The books of Dr. Tuesday L. Rampa…Albert Camus…Eckhart Tolle…Paulo Coelho…George Orwell…Kahlil Gibran…Nejib Mahfuz…Chinua Achebe…Krishnamurti…J.P. Sartre…Ayn Rand…Leo Tolstoy…Maxim Gorkey…Alexiy Tolstoy…Feydor Dostoevsky…Anton Ckehov…Franz Kafka…etc

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Shawntay

I haven’t heard of a single one of these…. I just don’t enjoy reading classics they don’t hold my attention and I end up not reading at all when I try to read them, also I can never visualize a story when reading classics since I can barely visualize while reading newer books

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Barkha

i have red george orwel and poulo coelho

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Michelle

Gone with the Wind

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Ahmad

The cat in the hat.

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Brian

Jane Eyre

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Daphne

Eclectic group so probably classics??? Wuthering Heights
Tale of two cities
Book Thief
Animal Farm
Harry Potter

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Sherry

Tale of Two Cities, Harry Potter

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Maria

I’ve recently re-read the ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ series. I know that A Game of Thrones was popular even before the TV series.

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Jenny

The Giver by Lois Lowry

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Jennifer

The road less travelled scott peck

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Rosie

The bible

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Snigdha

harry potter?

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Kirsty

And Macbeth and an inspector calls

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James

Of mice and men
Sherlock Holmes

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Gottfrid

The Hobbit.

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Amy

It’s probably the book that has the most number of ratings on Goodreads

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Nikhil

Of course 🙂

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Raluca

The little prince, Pride and prejudice♡, Wuthering Heights, Inferno…

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Mary

The Diary of Anne Frank or Romeo and Juliet?

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Anisa

To kill a mocking bird?

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Elinor

Pride and Prejudice

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Susan

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.

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Valerie

Jane Eyre

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Franklyn

Harry Potter

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Franklyn

The picture of Dorian Gray

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Lisa-Marie

The only thing I can gather from reading these comments, is that we’re all very different & all like different books. From what I can tell, even considering books many of us read for school, there’s no one book that every single one of us has read! I would say a play by Shakespeare is the one thing most of us will have read, purely as most students in a lot of countries have to study at least one play, but I’m sure there are many, many countries where they don’t study Shakespeare at all!
I would say that in the UK the books most likely to have been read by many (still not all) are Of Mice & Men or To Kill a Mockingbird. This is because they have been studied since the late ’60s at the least (my mum studied OMAM back in the early ’70s, but they were probably studied even earlier than this!) It is only this year that they have been taken off of the curriculum, which is a great shame.

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