This list has been claimed to be BBC´s top 100 books to read. Thats not entirely correct. About half of them star the British top 100 favorite books, voted by the public, and the others have been changed/added by who knows who. Also, they say that BBC thinks most people have only read six of the books on this list. BBC never said such a thing either.
I thought I had read Jane Austen, but perhaps I have only seen movies? Several of the books on the list made me wonder if I had read it myself or simply watched it on a screen, like Alice in Wonderland, Memoirs of a Geisha, Lord of the Flies, Dracula and A Christmas Carol.
So, what have you read? Any favorites or recommendations?
This is my list:
Books I have read
Books I attempted to read/series Ive read parts of
Books I would like to read
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen This is my list:
Books I have read
Books I attempted to read/series Ive read parts of
Books I would like to read
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 Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 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
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
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
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 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 Meaney - 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 Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
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
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 Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - 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 Alborn
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 Adam
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Id recommend Wuthering Heights. But I've read a few chapters of Pride and Prejudice and I'd recommend it as well...possibly Atonement. I've only seen the movie. And I'd remove Lolita and A Clockwork Orange from the list entirely.
ReplyDeleteTrur eg har lese omtrent 30 av desse, fleire står klar i bokhylla og ventar og så er det nokre eg har lese delar av eller byrja på men ikkje fullført.
ReplyDeleteNokken favoritta?
DeleteI would definitely try Mere Christianity in Norwegian, it's too good of a book to miss! :-) I would also suggest "A Wrinkle in Time." That book has to be in my top ten list for books that have influenced me.
ReplyDeletei will definitely read "a wrinkle in time", might have to order it online.
DeleteEg har lese desse:
ReplyDelete2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare : (Ive read hamlet and romeo and juliet)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
36 The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (some of them)
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
hehe, eg fekk lyst til å gå gjennom lista å sjå kor monge av desse eg faktisk har lest! Så godt at ein alltid har noko å gleda seg til å lesa:) MYkje gode bøker som eg gler meg til å lesa som er igjen!
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DeleteJeg ser at det er uendelig mange jeg ikke har lest fra denne lista:) Jeg kom til at jeg har lest 13 av dem. Likte veldig godt Madam Bovery av Flaubert. Og den hemmelige hagen er en av mine favoritter!
ReplyDeleteKjekt at du ville være med på gavedrysset mitt!
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