Well Read?

According to this Buzzfeed quiz, I am not well read at all:

"You need to find a cozy nook and snuggle up with some more of this list. Or maybe this isn’t your kind of thing. Which is cool too."

I'd like to comment on the bad grammar ("cool too?" No comma?) or share my 2014 reading challenge with buzzfeed or show my goodreads account to prove otherwise, but instead, I've decided to create my own list of books that I think must be read for a person to claim they are "well Read."

1. Johnny Tremain
2. The Scarlet Pimpernell
3. The Great Gatsby
4. 1 book by George Orwell (not both, they're the same idea)
5. 1 book by George Steinbeck (See last comment)
6. NOT A Brave New World. If you need a good dystopian/utopian novel, I'd suggest both Anthem and The Giver.
7. Little Women
8. Pride and Prejudice
9. Great Expectations
10. Julius Cesar, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and A Mid Summer's Night Dream 
11. Oedipus Rex
12. Don Quiote
13. The Lord of the Flies
14. The Illiad and The Oddessy
15. The entire Narnia Series
16. Charlotte's Web
17. Little House on the Prarie
18. A Wrinkle in Time
19. Gone with the Wind
20. Frankenstein
21. The Hobbit
22. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
23. Something Big has Been Here
24. A Shel Silverstein Book
25. Night
26. The Diary of Anne Frank
27. The Devil's Arithmetic
28. Mick Harte was Here
29. Number the Stars
30. The Outsiders
31. The Harry Potter Series
32. The Face on the Milk Carton
33. The Book Thief
34. The Fault In Our Stars
35. The Hunger Games series
36. Three Cups of Tea
37. The Last Lecture (And watch the video!)
38. The Help
39. Les Miserables
40. The Secret Garden
41. The Little Princess
42. Where the Red Fern Grows
43. Old Yeller
44. Matilda
45. Cheaper by the Dozen
46. Harriet the Spy
47. The Indian in the Cupboard 
48. The Hatchet

Some of these books I did not love, but I think they are considered great works and you must read so you're capable of catching the references and joining the discussion. Also, some of these are not classics. I know. I still think they are good books that everyone should read.

I can't believe half of these books aren't on the buzzfeed list!

My children WILL read these books, even if they're not assigned in school.