It's not necessarily Brit-based, though obviously English-speaking based. I think I got 42 as well (it really IS a magical number ^_^) and a good deal of those I read for/during school. Aside from the asinine estimation that (mostly English speaking) people will have only read 6 of these books, it really REALLY annoys me that certain books are repeated as series :-p so the whole list is useless anyway ;-) (Also bugs me that "The Bible" is used, as if there's only one version that anyone reads DX)