This is the oldest book on my list, and the first one I've become familiar with. I heard an excerpt when I was in children's church in 6th grade. In the 80's, I saw two movies based on the book (one live action, the latter animated) and read an article based on the portrait of a pastor from this book.
I finally read it in the '90's. I wasn't aware until then that Bunyan wrote two parts of the story. The above mentioned movies were based on the first one, and I thought it was stronger than Christiana's journey.
In "The book of Lists" I saw in the mid '70's, "The Pilgrim's Progress" was on top of "The Most Boring Classics." At first, I thought it might be anti-Christian bias on the compilers part, but after reading it, I can see why. There are a lot of discourses in the book, and it's easy to picture a non-believer to lose interest. Still, it belongs on my "Must Read" list.
By the way, this is the second of the two books that are on both my list and the Renovare list.
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