I had something along these lines in my recent poem - the whole "books you should have read/should be reading." I'm sorry, but I had enough of that in high school and college. These days, I have so little free time, which means even less time for reading, that I'll be damned if I'm going to spend it reading something I "should" be reading. I'm going to read books I want to read, and if that means I'm not cultured enough or intellectual enough for some people, so be it. Life is too short to read something because you should.