Pindias roterom skriver om BBCs liste over 100 viktige bøker som de mener at de fleste bare vil ha lest 6 av. Her er lista, med mine kryss for hvilke av bøkene jeg har lest:
1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen (x)
2. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien (x)
3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte (x)
4. Harry Potter series – JK Rowling (x)
5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee ()
6. The Bible (x)
7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte (x)
8. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell (x)
9. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman ()
10. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens ()
11. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott ()
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy ()
13. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller ()
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare ()
15. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier(x)
16. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien (x)
17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk ()
18. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger (x)
19. The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger (x)
20. Middlemarch – George Eliot ()
21. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell (x)
22. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald (x)
23. Bleak House – Charles Dickens ()
24. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy ()
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams (x)
26. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh ()
27. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky (x)
28. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck ()
29. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll (x)
30. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame (x)
31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy ()
32. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens ()
33. Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis (x)
34. Emma-Jane Austen ()
35. Persuasion – Jane Austen ()
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis (x)
37. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hossein (x)
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres (x)
39. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden ()
40. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne (x)
41. Animal Farm – George Orwell (x)
42. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown ()
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez ()
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving ()
45. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins ()
46. Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery (x)
47. Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy ()
48. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood ()
49. Lord of the Flies – William Golding (x)
50. Atonement – Ian McEwan (x)
51. Life of Pi – Yann Martel ()
52. Dune – Frank Herbert ()
53. Cold Comfort Farm ()
54. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen (x)
55. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth ()
56. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon ()
57. A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens ()
58. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley (x)
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night – Mark Haddon ()
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez ()
61. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck (x)
62. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov ()
63. The Secret History – Donna Tartt ()
64. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold ()
65. Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas (x)
66. On The Road – Jack Kerouac (x)
67. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy ()
68. Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding (x)
69. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie ()
70. Moby Dick – Herman Melville (x)
71. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens ()
72. Dracula – Bram Stoker ()
73. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett ()
74. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson ()
75. Ulysses – James Joyce ()
76. The Inferno – Dante ()
77. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome ()
78. Germinal – Emile Zola ()
79. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray ()
80. Possession – AS Byatt ()
81. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens (x)
82. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell ()
83. The Color Purple – Alice Walker (x)
84. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro ()
85. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert ()
86. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry ()
87. Charlotte’s Web – EB White ()
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom ()
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (x)
90. The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton ()
91. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad ()
92. The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery (x)
93. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks ()
94. Watership Down – Richard Adams ()
95. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole ()
96. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute (x)
97. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas ()
98. Hamlet – William Shakespeare ()
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl (x)
100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo (x)
Jeg har lest 40 av dem. Hvor mange har du lest?