Must-reads

Een paar jaar geleden is de BBC begonnen met een zoektocht naar de meeste geliefde boeken in Engeland. Daar is de volgende lijst uitgekomen, 100 boeken die je gelezen moet hebben.

•  Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
•  The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
•  Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
•  Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
•  To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 
•  The Bible
•  Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
•  Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 
•  His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
•  Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
•  Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
•  Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
•  Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
•  Complete Works of Shakespeare
•  Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
•  The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
•  Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
•  Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
•  The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
•  Middlemarch - George Eliot
•  Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
•  The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
•  War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
•  The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
•  Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
•  Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
•  Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
•  The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
•  Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
•  David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
•  Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
•  Emma -Jane Austen
•  Persuasion - Jane Austen
•  The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
•  The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
•  Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
•  Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
•   Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
•  Animal Farm - George Orwell
•  The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
•  One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
•  A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
•  The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
•  Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
•  Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
•  The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood 
•  Lord of the Flies - William Golding
•  Atonement - Ian McEwan
•  Life of Pi - Yann Martel
•  Dune - Frank Herbert
•  Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
•  Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
•  A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
•  The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
•  A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
•  Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
•  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
•  Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
•  Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 
•  Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
•  The Secret History - Donna Tartt
•  The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
•  Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
•  On The Road - Jack Kerouac
•  Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
•  Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
•  Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
•  Moby Dick - Herman Melville
•  Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
•  Dracula - Bram Stoker
•  The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
•  Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
•  Ulysses - James Joyce 
•  The Inferno - Dante
•  Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
•  Germinal - Emile Zola
•  Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
•  Possession - AS Byatt
•  A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
•  Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
•  The Color Purple - Alice Walker
•  The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
•  Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
•  A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
•  Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
•  The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
•  Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
•  The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
•  Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
•  The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
•  The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
•  Watership Down - Richard Adams
•  A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
•  A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
•  The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
•  Hamlet - William Shakespeare
•  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
•  Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

De doorgestreepte boeken zijn de boeken die ik gelezen heb. En zoals je ziet kom ik nog lang niet in de buurt van die 100. Het zijn vooral de moderne boeken die ik gelezen heb, niet de klassiekers. Ooit wil ik ze gelezen hebben maar voorlopig heb ik het te druk met mijn eigen lijstje afwerken. Hoeveel boeken van deze lijst heb jij gelezen?