Hittade
en gammal lista på bloggen från BBC av klassiker där snittet för folk i allmänhet var att ha läst 6st böcker. Då hade jag läst 18st nu är det 24st. En liten förbättring i alla fall. Tänk vad många bra böcker man säkerligen har missat! Hur många har ni läst?
De jag läst markeras med
fetstil och de jag äger men inte läst är
rödfärgade.1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8
Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
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
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20
Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchel22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
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 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
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
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
