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I appreciate this, and honestly, I'm not being contrarian (in this instance), but among the books I'm really glad to have once read are some that I didn't want to, and was forced to because of school. So I think the list is incomplete.
There are also books I've forced myself to read, and which I thought were a slog at the time, which in retrospect I'm glad I made myself read. Almost all of the "classics" fall in this category. So technically, I "wanted" to read them, but not because I wanted to read them, if that makes sense.
Came here to say basically the same thing. There are books I want to have read even if I don't necessarily want to have to slog through them. And for at least some of those books, the "want to have read" wins out over the "don't want to slog".