In celebration of Entertainment Weekly‘s 1000th issue, the staff has put together various lists of what they consider “New Classics,” that is, their picks for the best movies, TV shows, albums, books, and more of the past 25 years.

As I ran down their list of the top 100 movies, of which these are the top 10—

1. Pulp Fiction (1994)
2. The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-03)
3. Titanic (1997)
4. Blue Velvet (1986)
5. Toy Story (1995)
6. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
7. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
8. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
9. Die Hard (1988)
10. Moulin Rouge (2001)

—I felt pretty good about my cultural literacy, for it turns out that I’d seen 62 of the 100 movies listed.

But then I turned to their choices for the top 100 books, which began with these 10—

1. The Road, Cormac McCarthy (2006)
2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling (2000)
3. Beloved, Toni Morrison (1987)
4. The Liars’ Club, Mary Karr (1995)
5. American Pastoral, Philip Roth (1997)
6. Mystic River, Dennis Lehane (2001)
7. Maus, Art Spiegelman (1986/1991)
8. Selected Stories, Alice Munro (1996)
9. Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier (1997)
10. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami (1997)

—and I was horrified to discover that I’d only read 11 of EW‘s top 100 books! Before flipping to the list, I’d assumed I’d beat my movies percentage, but instead, though I’d heard of almost all of the titles, I’d hardly read any. And so I hang my head in shame.

If you decide to measure youself against these lists, I hope you’ll do better. Meanwhile, I can see that I’ve got some reading to do!