Great but boring?

Hmmmm. I wonder whether there might be a correlation between the greatness of a book and its inherent boringness. Just spotted on another blog a list of the Top 100 books according to the Sydney Morning Herald, and couldn't help but notice that several of the books were also on the list of 106 most unread books (see earlier post). So I ran a correlation and 16.5% of the most unread books are considered to be good and vice versa - here are the results:

1984*
A Tale of Two Cities*#
American Gods
Emma*#
Jane Eyre#
Life of Pi: a novel
Love In The Time Of Cholera
Memoirs Of A Geisha
Middlesex
Persuasion*
Pride and Prejudice*#
The Catcher in the Rye*
The Kite Runner
The Mists of Avalon
The Time Traveller's Wife*
Wicked
Wuthering Heights#

I also just ran a brief addition to the correlation: *=made into a movie/s #=made into a TV series.

Does it have anything to do with the differing country of origin of the lists? Is it a coincidence? Or is every TV copper right and there are no coincidences? Only the Shadow knows (Mwahhahaha!!!!!!!)