I feel no shame about not reading a book. That’s silly.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2023
The Q&A
The Guardian, put to a different person each week
24 questions, 1,228 answers to them so far. Every one of them is asked here as itself, with the format it came from on the page. Nobody answers as anybody else.
Which book are you ashamed not to have read?
I never finished The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2025
Probably all of them because I am not big into English literature. I read a lot of self-improvement books.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2023
Every question in this set
- Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought? 32
- How would you describe yourself in three words? 102
- What did you want to be when you were growing up? 42
- Which trait do you most dislike in yourself? 86
- What does love feel like? 59
- What has been your biggest disappointment? 52
- What is the worst job you have done? 60
- Which living person do you most admire, and why? 38
- What keeps you awake at night? 40
- What scares you about getting older? 49
- What is the trait you most deplore in others? 57
- What is the worst thing anyone has said to you? 71
- Which book are you ashamed not to have read? 29
- How close have you come to death? 42
- What most recently made you cry? 39
- Which moment embarrassed you most? 72
- Who most deserves an apology from you, and why? 48
- What do you consider your greatest achievement? 33
- What is the most important lesson life has taught you? 65
- What single thing would improve the quality of your life? 47
- If you could edit your past, what would you change? 36
- What happens when we die? 44
- What would you like to leave your children? 35
- When were you happiest? 50
The number is how many answers are on the record here. A dash means nobody has answered it yet, which is an opening rather than a gap.