Drømt opp av Geir Isaxen, som riktignok egentlig oppfordrer oss alle til å lage egen liste. Vi får se om ikke jeg kan få somlet meg til det, men i mellomtiden kan jeg jo sammenligne min lesing med hans. Fortsatt det jeg har lest i fet skrift.

1. Sult – Knut Hamsun
2. Mysterier – Knut Hamsun
3. Kristin Lavransdatter – Sigrid Undset
4. Cruise – Odd Eidem
5. En folkefiende – Henrik Ibsen
6. Samlede essays – Henrik Groth
7. Under vulkanen – Malcolm Lowry
8. Portnoys besværlige liv – Philip Roth
9. Slaktehus 5 – Kurt Vonnegut jr.
10. Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for snø – Peter Høeg
11. Kong Alkohol – Jack London
12. Norge, mitt Norge – Jens Bjørneboe
13. De dødes tjern – André Bjerke
14. Under gullregnen – Marie Hamsun
15. August Strindberg – Olof Lagercrantz
16. En dåres forsvarstale – August Strindberg
17. En varig fest – Ernest Hemingway
18. Raskolnikov – Fjodor Dostojevski
19. Hundre års ensomhet – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
20. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
21. Den store Gatsby – Scott Fitzgerald
22. Haikerens guide til galaksen – Douglas Adams
23. Sjosja – Isaac Singer
24. Jeg, Bakunin – Bergljot Hobæk Haff
25. Garps Bok – John Irving
26. Den Perfekte Spion – John le Carré
27. Oda – Ketil Bjørnstad
28. Hvite niggere – Ingvar Ambjørnsen
29. Manhattan – Torgrim Eggen
30. Gå – Tomas Espedal
31. Yogien & kommissæren – Arthur Koestler
32. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
33. Dracula – Bram Stoker
34. Onkel Oswald – Roald Dahl
35. Rosens navn – Umberto Eco
36. Fra Kristiania-bohemen – Hans Jæger
37. Lillelord-trilogien – Johan Borgen
38. Møte ved milepælen – Sigurd Hoel
39. Uår – Knut Faldbakken
40. Den drukner ei som henges skal – Jon Michelet
41. Steppeulven – Hermann Hesse
42. Gamle mestere – Thomas Bernhard
43. Speil – Jan Kjærstad
44. Storsvindleren Krull – Thomas Mann
45. Epleblomster og ruiner – Marianne Ahrne
46. Stenbukkens vendekrets – Henry Miller
47. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
48. Uro – Finn Skårderud
49. Hvordan Marcel Proust kan forandre ditt liv – Alain de Botton
50. Fakkelen i øret – Elias Canetti
51. Donau – Claudio Magris
52. En historie om lesning – Alberto Manguel
53. Oblomov – Ivan Gontsjarov
54. Menn som hater kvinner – Stieg Larsson
55. Sjakalen – Fredrick Forsyth
56. Nålen – Ken Follett
57. De døde – Jan E Hansen
58. Den gamle mannen og havet – Ernest Hemingway
59. Månen over Porten – Per Petterson
60. Kristianiabohemen – Halvor Fosli
61. Mord på Orientekspressen – Agathe Christie
62. Peer Gynt – Henrik Ibsen
63. Tyven – Gõran Tunstrøm
64. Rosemarys baby – Ira Levin
65. 1984 – George Orwell
66. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
67. Utenfor sirklene – Colin Wilson
68. Ikaros – Axel Jensen
69. Salme ved reisens slutt – Erik Fosnes Hansen
70. Sin egen herre – Tore Rem
71. Prosessen – Franz Kafka
72. Fiskerens sko – Morris West
73. Offisersfabrikken – Hans Helmut Kirst
74. Dagdrivergjengen – John Steinbeck
75. Varulven – Aksel Sandemose
76. Kvalmen – Jean Paul Sartre
77. Den afrikanske farm – Karen Blixen
78. En intellektuell europeers bekjennelser – Jan Myrdal
79. Deg – Annemarta Borgen
80. Ærlighetens komedie – Niels Chr Geelmuyden
81. Veien til Rom – Kjell Arild Pollestad
82. Ragtime – E L Doctorow
83. Postkontoret – Charles Bukowski
84. No country for old men – Cormac McCarthy
85. Vær så snill, vær stille, vær så snill og andre noveller – Raymond Carver
86. Parfymen – Patrick Süskind
87. Firmaets mann – John Grisham
88. Jeeves, den uforlignelige – P G Wodehouse
89. Den talentfulle Mr Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
90. Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
91. De elendige – Victor Hugo
92. Aller nederst – Günter Wallraff
93. Latours katalog – Nikolaj Frobenius
94. Lyden av leselykke – Anne Fadiman
95. Gjøkeredet – Ken Kesey
96. Adjø Las Vegas – John O’Brien
97. Entusiastiske essays – Jan Erik Vold
98. Med kaldt blod – Truman Capote
99. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
100. Om kunsten å lese og skrive – Olof Lagercrantz

Because I’m a sucker for lists. Apparently, the BBC think most people have read only 6 books from this list. I think I can beat that. Bolding the ones I’ve read, as usual. Two oddities I noticed: You have Complete works of Shakespeare AND Hamlet, and you have The Chronicles of Narnia AND The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Huh? Read one get one free?

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 (well, a lot, anyway)
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 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
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 Emma-Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 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 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 Inferno – Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransom
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 Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo