From Zero to Well-Read in 100 Books

Given by Book Riot

100 Works 2,798,959 Books 54,746 Reviews 4.0
“Well-read”.... has a number of connotations: a familiarity with the monuments of Western literature, an at least passing interest in the high-points of world literature, a willingness to vis mere experience a breadth of genres, a special interest in the work of one’s immediate culture, a desire to share in the same reading experiences of many other readers, and an emphasis on the writing of the current day. The following 100 books (of fiction, poetry, and drama) is an attempt to satisfy those competing requirements. After going through several iterations of the list, one thing surprised me: there are not as many “classic” books that I associate with the moniker well-read, and many more current books than I would have thought. Conversely, to be conversant in the literature of the day turned out to be quite a bit more important than I would have thought. As for the number of 100: in addition to being a nice, round number, it is also a number that, at a one-book-every-two-week pace this hypothetical reader could accomplish in just about four years–the standard length of an undergraduate program. -Jeff from Bookriot http://bookriot.com/2013/06/13/from-zero-to-well-read-in-100-books/ vis mindre
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Alt falder fra hinanden (1958) af Chinua Achebe
Håndbog for vakse galakse-blaffere (1979) af Douglas Adams
Tjenerindens fortælling (1985) af Margaret Atwood
Stolthed og fordom (1813) af Jane Austen
Beowulf (10) af Beowulf poet
Fahrenheit 451 (1953) af Ray Bradbury
Stormfulde højder (1847) af Emily Brontë
Da Vinci mysteriet (2003) af Dan Brown
Hvis en vinternat en rejsende (1979) af Italo Calvino
Den sindrige ridder Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605) af Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Den utrolige historie om Kavalier & Clay (2000) af Michael Chabon
Canterbury Fortællinger (14) af Geoffrey Chaucer
Mordet i Orient-ekspressen (1934) af Agatha Christie
Vi venter på barbarerne (1980) af J. M. Coetzee
Dødsspillet (2008) af Suzanne Collins
Mørkets hjerte (1899) af Joseph Conrad
Den guddommelige komedie : Helvede (1314) af Dante Alighieri
Oscar Wao & hans korte og forunderlige liv (2007) af Junot Díaz
Store forventninger (1861) af Charles Dickens
Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson (1890) af Emily Dickinson
Crime and Punishment (1866) af Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) af Arthur Conan Doyle
Tæskeholdet banker på (2010) af Jennifer Egan
Usynlig mand (1952) af Ralph Ellison
Brølet og vreden (1929) af William Faulkner
Den store Gatsby (1925) af F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary (1857) af Gustave Flaubert
Banko for døden - James Bond : Casino Royale (1953) af Ian Fleming
Kvinden der forsvandt (2012) af Gillian Flynn
Indiske dage (1924) af E. M. Forster
The Five Books of Moses (1995) af Everett Fox
Korrektioner (2001) af Jonathan Franzen
Kærlighed i koleraens tid (1985) af Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ According to the Authorized Version of King James I. (80) af Eric Gill
Howl (1986) af Allen Ginsberg
Faust : en tragedie i 2 dele (1808) af Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
En flænge i himlen (2012) af John Green
Det flammende Bogstav (1850) af Nathaniel Hawthorne
Punkt 22 (1961) af Joseph Heller
Solen går sin gang (1926) af Ernest Hemingway
Klit (1965) af Frank Herbert
Homers Iliade (750 BCE) af Homer
Odysseen (750 BCE) af Homer
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) af Zora Neale Hurston
Fagre nye verden (1932) af Aldous Huxley
Fifty Shades Fanget (2011) af E L James
The Golden Bowl (1904) af Henry James
Ulysses (1922) af James Joyce
Vejene (1957) af Jack Kerouac
Slutspil : The Stand (1978) af Stephen King
Tilværelsens ulidelige lethed (1983) af Milan Kundera
Dræb ikke en sangfugl (1960) af Harper Lee
Den gyldne bog (1962) af Doris Lessing
Løven, heksen og garderobeskabet (1950) af C. S. Lewis
Når naturen kalder (1903) af Jack London
Pi's liv : roman (2001) af Yann Martel
Kampen om tronen (1996) af George R. R. Martin
Vejen : roman (2006) af Cormac McCarthy
Moby-Dick eller Hvalen (1851) af Herman Melville
En sælgers død (1948) af Arthur Miller
Skyatlas (2004) af David Mitchell
House Made of Dawn (1968) af N. Scott Momaday
Anne fra Grønnebakken (1908) af L. M. Montgomery
Watchmen (1987) af Alan Moore
Elskede : roman (1987) af Toni Morrison
Trækopfuglens krønike (1995) af Haruki Murakami
Lolita (1955) af Vladimir Nabokov
The Things They Carried (1990) af Tim O'Brien
Complete Stories (1971) af Flannery O'Connor
1984 (1949) af George Orwell
The Bell Jar (1963) af Sylvia Plath
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (1824) af Edgar Allan Poe
Vejen til Swann (1913) af Marcel Proust
Og verden skælvede (1957) af Ayn Rand
Intet nyt fra vestfronten (1928) af Erich Maria Remarque
American Pastoral (1997) af Philip Roth
Harry Potter og de Vises Sten (1997) af J. K. Rowling
Midnatsbørn (1981) af Salman Rushdie
Alt bliver oplyst : en roman (2001) af Jonathan Safran Foer
Den lille prins (1943) af Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Forbandede ungdom (1951) af J. D. Salinger
Hamlet (1603) af William Shakespeare
Romeo og Julie (1599) af William Shakespeare
Frankenstein (1818) af Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Ødipus (429 BCE) af Sophocles
Vredens druer (1939) af John Steinbeck
Niceville (2009) af Kathryn Stockett
Hobbitten eller Ud og hjem igen (1937) af J. R. R. Tolkien
Anna Karenina (1875) af Leo Tolstoy
Huckleberry Finn (1884) af Mark Twain
Hare hop (1960) af John Updike
Candide eller Optimismen (1759) af Voltaire
Slagtehal fem eller børnekorstoget (1969) af Kurt Vonnegut
Infinite Jest (1996) af David Foster Wallace
The Age of Innocence (1920) af Edith Wharton
Charlotte's Web (1952) af E. B. White
Leaves of Grass (1855) af Walt Whitman
Mrs. Dalloway : roman (1925) af Virginia Woolf
Dream of the Red Chamber (1791) af Cao Xueqin
Bogtyven (2005) af Markus Zusak

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