I like to think of myself as fairly well read

but actually I'm not:

This is a list of the top 10 books assigned by each of the top 10 colleges combined into one list  out of the 84 separate books I have read 16 and dabbled in a few others:

Count	Text	Author
106	The Clash of Civilizations	Huntington, Samuel
88	Republic	Plato
87	Leviathan	Hobbes, Thomas
87	The Prince	Machiavelli, Niccolò
76	The Elements of Style	Strunk, William
69	Leadership without Easy Answers	Heifetz, Ronald
60	Letter from the Birmingham Jail	King, Jr., Martin Luther
57	Principles of Corporate Finance	Brealey, Richard
52	Wealth of Nations	Smith, Adam
51	The Communist Manifesto	Marx, Karl
44	Thinking, Fast and Slow	Kahneman, Daniel
43	A Primer for Policy Analysis	Stokey, Edith
43	A Theory of Justice	Rawls, John
40	The Metaphysics of Morals	Kant, Immanuel
39	Thank You for Arguing	Heinrichs, Jay
37	On Liberty	Mill, John Stuart
36	Quarterly Review	Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
33	Macroeconomics	Blanchard, Olivier
32	Confessions	Saint Augustine
32	The Social Contract	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
31	Learning and Teaching	Sheridan, Harold James
28	Lectures on Macroeconomics	Blanchard, Olivier
28	The Politics	Aristotle
27	“The Problem of Social Cost”	Coase, R. H.
27	Calculus: Early Transcendentals	Stewart, James
27	Capital	Marx, Karl
27	Introduction to Econometrics	Stock, James
27	Oedipus	Sophocles
26	A Short Guide to Writing About Art	Barnet, Sylvan
26	Civilization and its Discontents	Freud, Sigmund
26	Heart of Darkness	Conrad, Joseph
25	Economics	Krugman, Paul
25	Japanese, the Spoken Language, Part 1	Jorden, Eleanor Harz
23	Ethics	Aristotle
23	The Evolution of Cooperation	Axelrod, Robert
23	The Tragedy of the Commons	Hardin, Garrett James
21	Autobiography	Franklin, Benjamin
21	Econometrics	Hayashi, Fumio
21	Nicomachean Ethics	Aristotle
21	The Structure of Scientific Revolutions	Kuhn, Thomas
20	The Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent	Harle, J. C.
19	Analytical Politics	Hinich, Melvin
19	Canterbury Tales	Chaucer, Geoffrey
19	Globalization and its Discontents	Stiglitz, Joseph
19	Statistics with Stata 3	Hamilton, Lawrence
18	Cyborg Citizen	Gray, Chris Hables
18	Persuasion	Austen, Jane
18	The Logic of Congressional Action	Arnold, R. Douglas
17	Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing	Manning, Christopher
17	Macroeconomics	Barro, Robert
17	Public Finance	Rosen, Harvey
16	Code and other Laws of Cyberspace	Lessig, Lawrence
16	Macroeconomic Theory	Sargent, Thomas
16	The Learning Center	Brown, Robert
16	The Technological Society	Ellul, Jacques
16	The Transparent Society	Brin, David
15	“Creative Writing”	Stegner, Wallace
15	Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy	Schumpeter, Joseph Alois
15	Diplomacy	Kissinger, Henry
15	Office Hours	Foster, Norm
15	The Peloponnesian War	Thucydides
14	A Social History of American Technology	Cowan, Ruth Schwartz
14	Ethnic Groups in Conflict	Horowitz, Donald
14	Frankenstein	Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
14	Illuminations	Benjamin, Walter
14	Robinson Crusoe	Defoe, Daniel
14	Simulations	Baudrillard, Jean
14	The Discourses	Machiavelli, Niccolò
14	The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism	Weber, Max
14	To End a War	Holbrooke, Richard
14	Understanding Media	McLuhan, Marshall
13	Artificial Intelligence	Russell, Stuart
13	Rethinking the Public Sphere	Fraser, Nancy
13	The Control Revolution	Beniger, James
12	Two Treatises of Government	Locke, John
10	Invisible Man	Ellison, Ralph
10	The Odyssey	Homer
9	Anthropology	Boas, Franz
9	Democracy in America	Tocqueville, Alexis De
9	Let Us Now Praise Famous Men	Agee, James
9	Zapata and the Mexican Revolution	Womack, John
8	The Anti-Politics Machine	Ferguson, James
8	The Iliad	Homer

If you look at just the 10 most assigned books I do a little better - I have read 5 of 10 there.  Now whether I actually understood any of what I read is a matter for debate.