What do you consider well read? If, having never read a single novel in my whole life...

What do you consider well read? If, having never read a single novel in my whole life, I chose 10 fiction and 10 non fiction books from internet articles, would you consider me well read? I'm talking about articles that list famous books "that everyone should read before they die." I haven't finished the list yet but it includes some titles like A Tale of Two Cities, Art of War, A Brief History of Time, LotR, The Stand... Pic semi-related, its my Library of sad, unfinished books.

Read whatever you want, dude

No one cares if you're well read or not. You read because you like it, not because you want to be "well read" because that's a meme

No it takes a lot more than 10 books to be considered well read, and triple that if you're reading pleb-tier crap like what you mentioned.

More like at least 10 books from each major country/time period.

If you read 10 Greek books, 10 Russians, French, Americans, Germans etc + 10 philosophy books then maybe you're pretty well read.

Sad shelf, what too much approval seeking must look like.

But I don't like reading at all. I'm 20 years old, and I've never read a book cover to cover. I read 120 wpm, my seven year old niece is more well read than I am. I graduated from high school, but I never did any homework, and I never read any required books.

I decided to take a super learning course, and start reading a lot. I've always said the reason I don't enjoy reading is because I have to reread stuff over and over again to retain it, and each iteration takes a long time anyways

What the fuck is a super learning course?

No, the social books are because that's my greatest weakness. Short story: I walked in the hot phoenix sun for 20 minutes to get to College everyday for a whole semester because the security guard looked stern and I didn't want to ask him for a free parking permit.The programming books are because that's what I wanted to do with my life.

lol

I guess speed reading that focuses on comprehension and memory, and not just reading fast.

looks gamer dweeb who wanted to be a programmer but didn't have the self-discipline to make it happen, sad shelf indeed