Før det blir aldeles Myke Minutter her inne, får jeg skrive noe om bøker. Denne gangen hiver jeg meg over de tusen-og-én bøkene man etter sigende bør lese før man dør. Hvem i all verden det er som står bak denne listen aner jeg ikke (men den ser ut til å være basert på denne boken) — jeg fant den hos Stian.

Jeg har lest 269, så jeg gjemmer listen:

1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
2. Saturday – Ian McEwan
3. On Beauty – Zadie Smith
4. The Sea – John Banville
5. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
6. The Light of Day – Graham Swift
7. What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
8. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
9. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
10. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
11. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
12. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
13. Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
14. The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
15. Platform – Michael Houellebecq
16. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
17. The Body Artist – Don DeLillo
18. Fury – Salman Rushdie
19. Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
20. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
21. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
22. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
23. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
24. Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates
25. Pastoralia – George Saunders
26. Timbuktu – Paul Auster
27. Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
28. The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie
29. Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi
30. Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
31. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
32. Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
33. The Hours – Michael Cunningham
34. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
35. Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
36. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
37. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
38. Underworld – Don DeLillo
39. Silk – Alessandro Baricco
40. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
41. Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster
42. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
43. How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
44. The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
45. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
46. The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
47. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
48. Jazz – Toni Morrison
49. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
50. Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
51. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
52. Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
53. Stone Junction – Jim Dodge
54. The Music of Chance – Paul Auster
55. Possession – A.S. Byatt
56. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
57. Moon Palace – Paul Auster
58. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
59. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
60. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
61. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
62. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
63. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
64. The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
65. Beloved – Toni Morrison
66. Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
67. Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel
68. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
69. The Cider House Rules – John Irving
70. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
71. Contact – Carl Sagan
72. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
73. Perfume – Patrick Süskind
74. White Noise – Don DeLillo
75. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago
76. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
77. Neuromancer – William Gibson
78. Shame – Salman Rushdie
79. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
80. The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
81. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
82. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
83. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
84. Smiley’s People – John Le Carré
85. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
86. The World According to Garp – John Irving
87. Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
88. The Shining – Stephen King
89. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
90. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
91. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll
92. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
93. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
94. Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
95. Sula – Toni Morrison
96. The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
97. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
98. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
99. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
100. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
101. Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
102. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
103. The Godfather – Mario Puzo
104. Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
105. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
106. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
107. A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
108. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
109. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
110. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
111. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
112. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
113. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
114. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
115. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
116. Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
117. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
118. Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
119. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
120. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
121. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
122. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
123. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
124. Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan
125. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
126. Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
127. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
128. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
129. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
130. The Quiet American – Graham Greene
131. Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan
132. The Story of O – Pauline Réage
133. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
134. The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
135. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
136. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
137. Foundation – Isaac Asimov
138. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
139. The Rebel – Albert Camus
140. The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
141. The Third Man – Graham Greene
142. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
143. The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
144. Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
145. The Plague – Albert Camus
146. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
147. Animal Farm – George Orwell
148. Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
149. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
150. The Outsider – Albert Camus
151. Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf
152. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
153. The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
154. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
155. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
156. Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller
157. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
158. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
159. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
160. Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
161. To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
162. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
163. Independent People – Halldór Laxness
164. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy
165. Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht
166. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
167. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
168. Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
169. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
170. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
171. The Waves – Virginia Woolf
172. Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
173. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
174. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
175. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
176. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
177. Orlando – Virginia Woolf
178. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
179. Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
180. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
181. Amerika – Franz Kafka
182. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
183. The Castle – Franz Kafka
184. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
185. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
186. The Trial – Franz Kafka
187. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
188. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
189. Ulysses – James Joyce
190. Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
191. Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen
192. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
193. Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham
194. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
195. Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
196. Howards End – E.M. Forster
197. Martin Eden – Jack London
198. A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
199. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
200. Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
201. Dracula – Bram Stoker
202. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
203. Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf
204. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
205. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
206. Hunger – Knut Hamsun
207. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
208. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
209. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
210. The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
211. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
212. Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
213. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
214. The Red Room – August Strindberg
215. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
216. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
217. The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
218. Middlemarch – George Eliot
219. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
220. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
221. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
222. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
223. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
224. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
225. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
226. Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
227. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
228. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
229. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
230. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
231. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
232. Walden – Henry David Thoreau
233. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
234. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
235. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
236. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
237. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
238. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
239. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
240. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
241. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
242. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
243. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
244. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
245. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
246. Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
247. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
248. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
249. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
250. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
251. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
252. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
253. Persuasion – Jane Austen
254. Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
255. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
256. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
257. Justine – Marquis de Sade
258. Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
259. The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
260. Candide – Voltaire
261. Fanny Hill – John Cleland
262. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
263. Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
264. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
265. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
266. Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
267. The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
268. Metamorphoses – Ovid
269. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus

Dette sier sikkert veldig mye interessant om min personlighet, men jeg stusset egentlig litt over listen, kanskje spesielt valgene fra 2000-tallet.
På nummer 99 ligger forøvrig en bok jeg av uavklarte årsaker gjør mitt beste for å ikke begynne på. (Spør meg ikke hvorfor, jeg har aldri lest en linje mannen har skrevet, men jeg stritter altså i mot.)

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