Top 10 Books Read by People On Buses Who Want to seem Clever

A Listmania! list by Olly Hogben
 
Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy
1.  Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder
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  "A clear winner in this competition.  Any pseudo-intellectual wouldn't be seen dead without it.  Apparently, it's about philosophy."
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The Pilgrim's Progress (Oxford World's Classics)
2.  The Pilgrim's Progress (Oxford World's Classics) by John Bunyan
The list author says:
  "Oh dear Lord, get it away from me.  It's at least 3,000,000 pages long, and all of them are as interesting as each other."
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Collins Classics - The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: The Alexander Text
3.  Collins Classics - The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: The Alexander Text by William Shakespeare
The list author says:
  "No one ever actually reads The Complete Works, but almost everyone has bought it for 25p in Oxfam.  Sadly, about 4 plays will get read in this anthology, whilst Cymbaline and others will never be."
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The Riverside Chaucer, 3rd Ed.
4.  The Riverside Chaucer, 3rd Ed. by Geoffrey Chaucer
The list author says:
  "As above - no one ever reads it, they just keep it around in case they pass a horse which needs to be clubbed to death with this enormous anthology.  Exceptions are the students who must read it."
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On the Road
5.  On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The list author says:
  "A favourite since the 1970s, although its place in the list is falling fast.  Perhaps the book is becoming too mainstream?"
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Treasury of Polish Love: Poems, Quotations and Proverbs (Treasury of Love)
6.  Treasury of Polish Love: Poems, Quotations and Proverbs (Treasury of Love) by Miroslaw Lipinski
The list author says:
  "Not necessarily this book, but you know the sort I mean; the kind of thing you'd have to look really hard to find on the bottom shelf of the library's World Literature section."
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The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character (Penguin Classics)
7.  The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy
The list author says:
  "It's always a favourite, except among people who've actually READ it, and know how unspeakably dull it actually is."
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Languages of Tolkien's Middle-earth
8.  Languages of Tolkien's Middle-earth by Ruth S. Noel
The list author says:
  "Oh, YOU know these people.  They've long since forgotten how to just simply read books and enjoy them."
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Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of Transfiguration
9.  Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of Transfiguration by Tracy B. Strong
The list author says:
  "The man with the name that can't be written correctly continues to raise a person's assumed IQ by at least 15%"
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War and Peace (Wordsworth Classics)
10.  War and Peace (Wordsworth Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
The list author says:
  "25 years ago, and this would have been number one.  Sadly, it's now been relegated to the perifery of this dubious field."
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