I'm the same. There are so many things that are popular and whatnot and when I say, for example, that I have not heard a piece of music some people think I'm lying and get angry because I really have never heard it :\

There was a series of programs on here not long ago about illustrations in children's books and in the episode where they discussed "iconic books for older children" I had only read about two of them D: And I read non-stop as a kid. I guess it's because I refused to read books about people, especially ones with other kids in them because they were always middle-class and complete pricks. I mean, books about pony riding? I couldn't get beyond the fact that the children in them could afford to go pony riding. On the list was things like The Famous Five and Swallows and Amazons, which were all about a bunch of well-off kids having rollicking adventures but still were in home for time for tea D: So out of the lists of "Books You Must Read Before You Die", I've read very few. I've started to read history books lately anyway. It's way wackier than fiction XD