Skyldi það vera rétt hjá BBC-fólki að flest fólk hafi aðeins lesið 6 bækur af þessum 100 sem taldar eru upp hér að neðan? Get reyndar upplýst þetta góða fólk (sem örugglega les bloggið mitt) um að þeir sem kommentuðu við þetta hjá Nönnu Rögnvaldar á Facebook (þaðan sem ég rændi þessu) höfðu lesið gott betur en það, mér taldist til að ég hefði lesið næstum 60 af þeim og sumar oftar en einu sinni, enda á ég mér ekkert líf.

Hér kemur þetta, ég setti x fyrir aftan þær sem ég hef  lesið, man þó ekki vel eftir þeim öllum, enda hef ég lesið af tryllingslegri ástríðu í rúm 40 ár.

Kannski leynast fleiri þarna sem ég hef lesið, ég veit ekki ensku heitin á þeim öllum ... nenni ekki að lesa mikið á ensku, helst Dean Koontz og Stephen King ... ég sverða (eins og Jenný Anna segir) Hvað með þig?

The BBC believes most people will
have only read 6 of the 100 books here.



1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen x

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien x

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte x

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling x

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee x

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte x

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell x

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman x

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott x (Yngismeyjar hét hún á íslensku, mamma átti hana)

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy x

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier x

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien x

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger x

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger x

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell x

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald x

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy x (held að ég hafi þó ekki klárað hana)

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams x

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh ?

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky x

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck x

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll x

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens x

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis x

34 Emma - Jane Austen x (minnir mig)

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis x

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini x

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden x

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne x

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell x

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown x

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez x

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins x

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery – x

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 x

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel (er í bunkanum á náttborðinu)

52 Dune - Frank Herbert x

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen x

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 x

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon x

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez x

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck x

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov x

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt x

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold x

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas x

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding x

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie (gafst upp á henni)

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville x

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens x

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett x

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce x

76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

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 x

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker x

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro x

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert x

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White x

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom x

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle x

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery x

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 x

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl x

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo x