Hittade följande lista på bloggen Bibliopepe som i sin tur hade hittat den via en vän på Facebook. Hur som helst, om man vill få en snabbkurs i litteraturhistoria är den här listan en lika bra början som något annat. Böcker i fetstil har jag läst, böcker i kursiv har jag påbörjat. BBC tror att gemene man/kvinna bara läst sex av nedanstående böcker. Hur många har du läst?

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R Tolkien

3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë

4. The Harry Potter Series - J.K Rowling

5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6. The Bible

7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

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'Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy

13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16. The Hobbit - J.R.R Tolkien

17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

18. Catcher in the Rye - J.D 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 Fitzgerlad

23. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

24. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

25. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

26. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

27. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

28. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

29. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

30. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

31. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

32. Chronicles of Narnia - C.S Lewis

33. Emma - Jane Austen

34. Persuasion - Jane Austen

35. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S Lewis

36. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

37. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

38. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

39. Winnie the Pooh - A.A Milne

40. Animal Farm - George Orwell

41. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

42. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

43. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

44. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

45. Anne of Green Gables - L.M Montgomery

46. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

47. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

48. Lord of the Flies - William Golding

49. Atonement - Ian McEwan

50. Life of Pi - Yann Martel

51. Dune - Frank Herbert

52. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

53. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

54. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

55. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

56. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

57. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

58. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

59. Love In The Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

60. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

61. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

62. The Secret History - Donna Tartt

63. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

64. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

65. On The Road - Jack Kerouac

66. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

67. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding

68. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

69. Moby Dick - Herman Melville

70. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

71. Dracula - Bram Stoker

72. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75. Ulysses - James Joyce

76. The Inferno - Dante Alighieri

77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78. Germinal - Emile Zola

79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80. Possession - A.S 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 - E.B 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 Facory - 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. The Curious Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson

99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo