This is a collection of books that are considered the best ever written – correlated from several respected 'best books' lists. Highly educated types expect that you have already read these, as they have. But honestly, you'll never make the time to get through them all. How much time are we talking about? Each jacket shows the exact hours and minutes it takes to read that book at 200 words per minute. All told, you could be 'well read' in only 679 hours and 45mins. Or 28 days of straight reading. And that would relieve the lifelong pressure of feeling like you really should get to these...one day.