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Firaren eg trillar her er svak, men likevel ein firar. Eg tek med det noko hensyn til sjanger og målar boka opp mot tilsvarande bøker innen same "stil". Ei slik feel-good bok som dette vil - i mi meining - aldri kunne måle seg mot klassikarar, djupare romaner med sterkere plott. Og eg leser begrensa av "slike" bøker som dette. Men i blant er det godt å berre la seg draume vekk, lese og kose seg.

Denne overraska meg, positivt. For eg hadde ikkje særleg til forventningar etter å ha sett terningkast tre og lunkne kommentarar. Eg las denne boka rett etter å ha dedikert halvanna veka på Dickens "Vår felles venn" - nevner dette fordi det nok har litt å seie for korleis eg opplevde boka; eg forventa ingenting som kunne komme i nærleiken av Dickens fortellerkunst, og eg tørsta etter noko heilt anna, noko lett og ukomplisert, noko underhaldande eg berre kunne lese utan å "tenke" for mykje. Ei slags "pause-bok" etter Dickens, rett og slett. Og eg fekk akkurat det eg var ute etter.

I denne boka følger vi eit lite utval av karakterar - Tess som drar heim til heimbyen etter ein konflikt med ektemannen, Rachel som framleis sørger over ei dåtter ho mista for tjueåtte år sidan og som no også står i fare for å "miste" sitt einaste barneborn fordi sonen skal flytte til New York, og Felicity som er ei travel "perfekt" hustru med tre born og ein ektemann med ein hemmelegheit. Og det er denne hemmeligheita som utløyser ei kjede av hendingar som knyter desse karakterene og liva deirar saman.

Eg likar godt at synsvinkelen vekslar mellom dei ulike karakterane, og eg følte eg blei godt kjende med dei tre hovudaktørane i tillegg til den mindre karakterane. Likar også at språket flyter lett og formidlar historia på ein enkel måte - det blir aldri rotete eller uvoersikteleg. Likar også at det er ei undertone av alvor heile vegen utan at boka blir nitrist og mørk - humor finnst her; både ispråket/formidlinga og også i handlinga.

Ser at ein del "klagar" over språket i boka - då lurar eg på om det er den oversatte utgåva det er snakk om, for eg fann ikkje mykje å klage over då eg las denne på engelsk. Det er ikke noko utprega fenomenalt ved språkbruken i boka, men det er slettes ikkje ille, ikkje noko eg merka meg med, og det gjer eg ofte (mellom anna mislikar er sterkt "adjektiv-helvete" som ofte preger lettlesne "damebøker").

Eg likte altså denne boka godt! MEN - det har nok mykje å gjere med "mindsettet" eg hadde då eg las; at eg var på jakt etter nettopp ei slik bok, at eg ville lese noko enkelt og ukomplisert. Så - les denne når du er i humør til det. Ikkje les denne når du er ute etter fart, action, spenning, noko tankevekkande, noko djupt. Les denne for å draume deg vekk, for å kjenne på kjenslar, for å refelektere litt kring kjærleik.

Fortsatt i Gorkijparken, men jeg veksler nå med en annen krimbok. En fransk forfatter som heter Bernard Minier. Boka heter "Ikke slå av lyset". Det er for mange ting og oppgaver, så det blir vanskelig å konsentrere seg om noe litt tyngre. I påska skal jeg lese "Max, Mischa og Tetoffensiven" av Johan Harstad, som har stått på leselista mi lenge. Jeg skal også rydde ut ting og selge på Finn.no. Jeg ryddet bøkene i stabler i vinter, dvs ut av eskene, og da fylte jeg opp enda en kasse med bøker jeg ikke gidder eie. Sånn skal dagene, noen av dem, gå i påska. Kanskje med Dickens og "Great Expectations" på øret. Ønsker dere alle frisk luft, godt vær og gode bøker å lese i påska.

Spesielt liker jeg tonen i bøkene. De er skrevet på -50/-60 tallet og karakterene er høflige, omsorgsfulle, egoistiske, grådige, lykkelige og ulykkelige, med stil. De behandler hverandre på en måte som nesten er borte fra vår vanlige omgangsform og de snakker et språk uten vulgære detaljer. De myrder til og med forsiktig og med omtanke, kunne jeg nesten si. Jeg er selvfølgelig glad i bøker “av i dag”. Mye av det nye som gis ut er praktfullt, men Maria Lang og forfattere som Dickens, Christie og mange, mange fler har et språk og en tone i bøkene sine som er borte i dag. Heldigvis vil du vel si, og jeg og, for den slags skyld. Det er klart dagens forfattere ikke skal skrive som dem som levde for femti og hundre år siden. Da er det godt at vi har bøkene deres her, og kan krype ned i en god stol med en bok som gir bare glede.
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About The Book (from publishers)
Pitt is on a secret mission for Queen Victoria, which may be his last…

New York Times bestseller Anne Perry returns with the thirty-second novel in the Thomas Pitt mystery series, Murder on the Serpentine. Perfect for fans of C. J. Sansom and Sarah Perry.

‘Master storyteller Anne Perry moves closer to Dickens as she lifts the lace curtain from Victorian society to reveal its shocking secrets’ – Sharyn McCrumb

London, 1899: Head of Special Branch Commander Thomas Pitt is summoned to Buckingham Palace.
In the twilight of her years, Queen Victoria is all too aware that the Prince of Wales will soon inherit her empire and must be beyond reproach. She tells Pitt she tasked her close friend and confidante, John Halberd, with investigating the Prince’s friends, specifically Alan Kendrick, a wealthy playboy and betting man, but before he could report back, Halberd was found dead in a rowing boat on the Serpentine.

The death has been ruled an unfortunate accident and the investigation closed, but the Queen is not convinced that all is as it seems and tasks Pitt with finding the truth.

Forced to act alone in this most sensitive of investigations, Pitt finds himself embroiled in a plot that threatens not only the reputations of men, but also the safety and reputation of the Empire…

Nå lytter jeg til "Great Expectations" av Charles Dickens, som er god nok for meg. I går ble "Den gamle mannen og havet" av Ernest Hemingway ferdig, forfriskende lest av vestlendingen Anderz Eide. Men den beste i år? Det har vært mange gode så langt. Så det må jeg tenke litt på, og det er mange gode bøker på vent også. Det er George Sanders og Kazio Ishiguro, tror jeg. Og titlene var "Lincoln in the Bardo" og "The Buried Giant". Det var to av mange gode bøker. Hemingway ikke minst.

Dette året har eg lese rekordmykje - rett og slett fordi eg er sjukmeldt og har tid til overs. Lesing gjer meg ein herleg ro som eg ikkje finner like lett elles... Av dei snart 120 bøkene eg har lese i år er desse dei som har gjort størst inntrykk:
Kniv. Jo Nesbø
Søsterklokkene, Lars Mytting
Sommerlys og så kommer natten, Jon Kalman Stefansson
Den danske borgerkrig 2018-24, Kaspar Colling Nielsen
Fried Green Tomatoes at The Whistle Stop Café, Fannie Flagg
Vår felles venn, Dickens
Traveling Cat Chronicles, Hiro Arikawa
Keiseren av Portugalia, Selma Lagerlof
The Housekeeper and the Professor, Yoko Ogawa

For dei nyfikne - her er alt som er lese i 2019
1. Balansekunst, Rohiton Mistry
2. Catching Christmas, Terri Blackstock — (lydbok
3. Hitler – min nabo, Edgar Feuchtwanger
4. This Secret We´re Keeping, Rebecca Don
5. Lost, (Joseph O´Laughlin #2), Michael Robotham
6. Too close, Natalie Daniels
7. Bjørnstad, Fredrik Backman (Bjørnstad #1)
8. The Missing Pieces Of Sophie McCarthy, B. M. Carroll
9. once upon a river, Diane Setterfield (#sandnesleser2019)
10. Tell Me A Secret, Jane Fallon
11. Lille linerle, Miriam H. Bjerkli
12. My Map Of You, Isabella Broom
13. Ut å Stjæle hester, Pettersson (+️)
14. The Last Lie, Alex Lake
15. Shatter (Joseph O’Loughlin #3) Michael Robotham
16. Bessys bok, Jane Harris
17. Ingrid Winters makeløse mismot, Janne S. Drangsholt
18. Bleed for me (Joseph O’Loughlin #4) Michael Robotham
19. Pay It Forward, Catherine Ryan Hyde ()
20. Bare så du vet det, Jon Almaas

Februar
21. Four is An Odd Number
22. Apehuset, Sara Gruen
23. Vi mot dere, Fredrik Backman (Bjørnstad #2)
24. Now You See Her, Heidi Perks
25. The House Next Door, James Peterson
26. Keiseren av Portugalia, Selma Lagerlof
27. The Cows, Dawn O’Porter
28. Glem det (Patrick Melrose #1), Edward St. Aubyn
29. Ikke bra, (Patrick Melrose #2) , Edward St. Aubyn
30. The Night Olivia Fell, Christina McDonald
31. Litt håp, (Patrick Melrose #3) , Edward St. Aubyn
32. The Hunting Party, Lucy Foley
33. Morsmelk (Patrick Melrose #4) , Edward St. Aubyn
34. Til slutt (Patrick Melrose #5) , Edward St. Aubyn
35. The Outsider Stephen King
36. Traveling Cat Chronicles, Hiro Arikawa. (#sandnesleser2019)
37. Kraften, Naomi Alderman
38. In The Shadow Of Croft Towers, Abigail Wilson
✖️ The Feed, Nick Clark Wind (AVBRUTT)
39. Den røde adresseboken, Sofia Lundberg
40. The Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger
41. Alt å miste, Jane Lythell

MARS
42. Te med Mr. Dashti, Marjan Kamali
43. Emma In The Night, Wendy Walker
44. The Wreckage Michael Robotham (Joseph O’Loughlin #5)
45. The Memory Book, Rowan Coleman
46. What We Find, (sullivans crossing#1) Robyn Carr
47. Three Wishes, Liane Moriarty
48. Any Day Now (sullivans crossing#2), Robyn Carr
49. Den forrige jenta, J. P. Delaney
50. Say You’re Sorry, Michael Robotham (Joseph O’Loughlin #6)
51. The Family Gathering (Sullivans crossing#3) Robyn Carr
52. Unbearable Lightness – a story of loss and gain, Portia De Rossi (#Sandnes leser 2019.Et vanskelig tema)
53. Vår felles venn, Charles Dickens
54. The Best of Us, (Sullivans crossing#4) Robyn Carr
55. Virgin River, Robyn Carr (Virgin River #1)
56. Shelter Mountain, Robyn Carr (Virgin River #2)
57. Whispering Rock, Robyn Carr (Virgin River #3)
58. The Husband’s Secret, Liane Moriarty

APRIL
59. Stella Polaris, Myriam H. Bjørkli
60. onskapens kall (Cormoran Strike #3) , Robert Galbraith (J. K. Rowling)
61. A Virgin River Christmas, Robyn Carr (Virgin River #4)
62. Fried Green Tomatoes at The Whistle Stop Café, Fannie Flagg
63. Den tikkende kvinnen, Peter Swanson
64. Gåten, Jessie Burton
65. Second Chance Pass, Robyn Carr (Virgin River #5)
66. Temptation Ridge, Robyn Carr (Virgin River #6)
67. Watching You, Michael Robotham (Joseph O’Loughlin #7)
68. Tom for ord, stephanie butland
69. Paradise Valley Robyn Carr (Virgin River #7)
70. Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty
71. Snap, Belinda Bauer
72. Forbidden Falls, Robyn Carr (Virgin River #8)
73. Here And Gone, Haylen Beck
74. Det skjedde i Evergreen, Rebecca Rasmussen
75. Angel’s Peak, Robyn Carr (Virgin River #9)
✖ Live And Let Chai Bree Baker (seaside Café Mystery #1) (avbrutt)
76. Brobyggerne, Jan Guillou (det store århundret #1)
77. The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides

MAI
78. Moonlight River, Robyn Carr (Virgin River #10)
79. The Patron Saint Of Lost Souls Menna van Praag
80. Lærerinnens sang, Vigdis Hjorth
81. Lullaby, Leila Slimani
82. Søsterklokkene, Lars Mytting
83. Promise Canyon, Robyn Carr (Virgin River #11)
84. Wild Man Creek, Robyn Carr (Virgin River #12)
85. Innsirkling, Carl Frode Tiller (#1 innsirkling)
86. The Housekeeper and the Professor, Yoko Ogawa
87. Harves Moon
88. Innsirkling 2, Carl Frode Tiller (#2)
89. Bring me home for Christmas, Robyn Carr (Virgin River #14)
90. Innsirkling 3, Carl Frode Tiller
91. Close Your Eyes, Michael Robotham (Joseph O'Loughlin #8)
92. The Look Of Love, Mary Jane Clark
93. Dandy Jan Guillou (det store århundret #2)
94. The Life She Wants, Robyn Carr
95. Gratis og uforpliktande verdivurdering, Marit Eikemo
96. Deep In The Valley, Robyn Carr (#1grace valley trilogy)

JUNI
1. the seven deaths of evelyn hardcastle, stuart Turton
✖ The Pages Of Her Life, James L. Rubart
2. Utsikt til paradiset (#1 Elling-bøkene)
3. Over the Mountain,Robyn Carr (#2grace valley trilogy)
4. coffin road, Peter May
5. "Sommerlys og så kommer natten",Jon Kalman Stefansson
6. En Lang, Varm Sommer ,Beatriz Williams
7. Down By The River, Robyn Carr (#3 grace valley trilogy)
8. Kniv, Jo Nesbø
9. The summer that made us, Robyn Carr
10. The Passengers, John Marrs
11. The Woman Who Stole My Life, Marian Keyes
12. Hending mann søkes, Jons Hellsing
13. Den danske borgerkrig 2018-24, Kaspar Colling Nielsen
14. Redwood Bend,Robyn Carr (#16 virgin River)
15. Manhattan Beach,Jennifer Egan
16. Fuglane, Tarjei Vesaas
17. The Secret Cyclist
18. An anonymous girl
19. Listeinnslag

1. Book published in 2019: Emil André Erstad - "Hareides fall - trettiseks dager som endra norsk politikk"

2. Author you’ve never heard of: Jo Walton - "Amongst others"

3. A book you’ve read before: Philip Pullman - "The Subtle Knife"

4. Book with a strong female lead: Sarah J. Maas - "Queen of shadows"

1. A play

2. A book set in Southern USA: Jesmyn Ward - "Det som reddes kan"

3. A memoir on someone you admire

8. Set in the Victorian Era: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - "A story of four"

1. Character with career you wish you had

10. A plant on the cover: Lisa Aisato - "Livet - illustrert"

11. Published the year you graduated school: Jan Roar Leikvoll - «Fiolinane» (2010)

12. A graphic novel: Maja Lunde og Lisa Aisato - "Snøsøsteren"

1. Featuring music

14. An ugly cover: Terry Pratchett - "The light fantastic"

15. A teen as the main character: Madeleine L´engle - "A wrinkle in time"

16. The re-telling of a well-known story: Hans Olav Lahlum - "De fems tegn" (skriver i forordet at boka er inspirert av/bevisst ligner på "The sign of the four" av Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, men denne er satt i en mer moderne setting)

17. Set during a holiday: Charles Dickens - “A Christmas carol”

18. Book picked out by someone else: Dag Solstad - "Genanse og verdighet" (plukket ut av bibliotekaren som anbefalt + påpekt av to bokelskere som første Solstad-bok jeg burde lese)

1. Gothic Fiction novel

20. A book about time-travel: Diana Gabaldon - "Outlander"

21. A title starting with the letter “J”: Klaus Hagerup og Lisa Aisato - "Jenta som ville redde bøkene"

22. Fantasy novel: Jessica Townsend - "Wundersmith - the calling of Morrigan Crow"

1. True crime novel

2. A self-published book

25. The name of a color in the title: Sarah J. Maas - "Kingdom of ash"

26. A one word title: Neil Shusterman - "Scythe"

1. A book that makes you mad

28. A book that discusses mental health: Gail Honeyman - "Eleanor Oliphant har det helt fint"

29. A book published by HarperCollins: Tahareh Mafi - "Shatter me"

30. An author who uses initials: J. K. Rowling - "Harry Potter And the Half-Blood prince"

31. A book that everyone’s talking about: N. K. Jemisin - "The stone sky"

1. A western

33. A book about a cult: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - "A study in scarlet"

1. Nominated for (but didn’t win) the 2018 Goodreads choice awards

35. A sports related book: Kathy Reichs - "Flash and bones"

36. A humorous novel: Neil Gaiman og Terry Pratchett - "Good Omens"

1. Set in South America

38. An allegorical book: N. K. Jemisin - "The obelisk gate" (hele serien er allegorisk og handler om rasisme og diskriminering)

39. Military Related: fiction or non-fiction: Sarah J. Maas - "Tower of dawn"

40. A character that is an immigrant: Johannes Anyuru - "De kommer til å drukne i sine mødres tårer"

1. A book suggested by someone else in the challenge

2. A family member’s favourite book

43. A children’s book: Philip Pullman - "The book of Dust - La belle sauvage"

44. An author who uses a pseudonym: Lian Hearn - «Barn av otori»

45. A “beach read”: Kathy Reichs - "Spider bones"

1. The first book you see in a bookstore / library

47. Set in a country you’ve visited: J. K. Rowling - "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"

48. Set in a post-apocalyptic world: N. K. Jemisin - "The Obelisk Gate"

49. A speed read: Terry Pratchett - "The colour of magic"

50. A fairy tale: Kelly Barnhill - "The girl who drank the Moon"

1. A book about organized crime / the mob

52. An audiobook: Charles Dickens - “A Christmas carol” (har lest denne to ganger i år, mener derfor den kan gå to ganger på lista)

Fantasy

1. Classic fantasy: Robin Hobb - "Assasin´s Apprentice"
2. Magic school: J. K. Rowling - "Harry Potter And the Half-blood Prince"
3. Necromancers
4. PTSD: Tahereh Mafi - "Shatter me"
5. Dragons
6. Fairytale (retelling)
7. Grimdark: Jan Roar Leikvoll - «Fiolinane»
8. Ghosts: Charles Dickens - "A Christmas carol"
9. Uncommon fantasy creatures: Terry Pratchett - "The light fantastic" (example: druids and trolls rarely appear in books, the sentient Luggage, and so forth)
10. Shapeshifters: Sarah J. Maas - "Empire of storms"
11. Gods: Terry Pratchett - "The colour of magic"
12. Animal companions: Philip Pullman - "The Amber Spyglass"
13. Maternal heritage
14. Set in our world: J. K. Rowling - "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"
15. Witches: Kelly Barnhill - "The girl who drank the moon"
16. Magical Law Enforcement: Ben Aaronovitch - "Rivers of London"
17. Thief: Leigh Bardugo - "Six of crows"
18. Pirates
19. Portal Fantasy: Philip Pullman - "The Subtle Knife"
20. Warrior: Lian Hearn - "I lys av månen"

Sci-fi

1. On a different planet: Ursula le Guin - "Left hand of darkness"
2. Utopia: Ursula le Guin - "The dispossessed"
3. Space ship: Stanislaw Lem - "The star diaries"
4. Steampunk
5. Time Travel: Diana Gabaldon - "Outlander"
6. Artificial Intelligence pov
7. Proto Sci-fi
8. Hive
9. Alien
10. Virtual reality
11. Super powers: Jessica Townsend - "Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow"
12. Science
13. Replicate
14. Space colonization
15. Mecha
16. Space creatures/beasts
17. Teleportation: Madeleine L´engle - "A wrinkle in time"
18. Space western
19. The moon: N. K. Jemisin - "Stone sky"
20. Invasion

Generic
1. Satire: Terry Pratchett og Neil Gaiman - «Good Omens»
2. Under 500 pages: Dag Solstad - "Genanse og verdighet" (eller må det også være fantasy i denne kategorien?)
3. Over 800 pages: Sarah J. Maas - "Kingdom of Ash"
4. Novella: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - "A study in scarlet"
5. Finish a series: Lian Hearn - "Barn av Otori" "
6. Mental health: Gail Honeyman - "Eleanor Oliphant har det helt fint"
7. Disability
8. Published before 1991: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - "The Sign of the Four"
9. Set in Africa
10. Library: Sarah J. Maas - "Tower of Dawn"
11. By a woman of color: N. S. Jemisin - "The obelisk gate"
12. One word title: Neil Shusterman - "Scythe"

Disse er det størst sannsynlighet for at jeg blir å lese:

FØR 1800:
anonym – Njåls saga
Apuleis, Lucius – Det gyldne esel
Cleland – Fanny Hill
Defoe, Daniel – Robinson Crusoe
Diderot – Fatalisten Jacques
Fielding, Henry – Tom Jones
Fielding, Henry – Joseph Andrews
Goethe – Wilhelm Meisters læreår
Goethe – Unge Werthers lidelser
Grimmelshausen – den eventyrlige simplicissimus
Holberg – Nils Klims reise til den underjordiske verden
Rabelais – Gargantua og Pantagruel
Rousseau – Emile, eller om oppdragelsen
Rousseau – Den ensomme vandrers drømmerier
Sade, Marquis de – Justine, eller dydens ulykker
Sterne, Laurence – Tristram Shandy
Swift, Jonathan – Gullivers reiser
Voltaire – Candide

1800 – 1849:
Balzac – Eugenie Grandet
Cooper – Den siste mohikaner
Dumas – de tre musketerer
Dumas – Greven av Monte Cristo
Gogol – Nesen
Gogol – døde sjeler
Hardy, Thomas – Borgermesteren
Hugo – Ringeren i Notre-Dame
(LEST) Kleist, Heinrich von – Michael Kohlaas
Poe – Huset Ushers fall
Poe – Avgrunnen og pendelen
Scott – Rob Roy
Scott, Walter – Ivanhoe
Stowe – Onkel Toms hytte

1850 – 1899:
Dickens – Bleak House
(LEST) Dostojevskij – opptegnelser fra et kjellerdyp
Dostojevskij – De besatte
Dostojevskij – Idioten
Flaubert – Frederic Moreau: en ung manns historie
Haggard, H. Rider – Kong Salomos miner
Hardy, Thomas – Jude
Hugo, Victor – De elendige
Lagerlöf, Selma – Gösta Berlings saga (NLP 1909)
Melville – Moby Dick
Sienkiewicz, Henryk – Quo Vadis (NLP 1905)
Skram, Amalie – Hellemyrsfolket
Stevenson, Robert Louis – Skatten på sjørøverøya
(LEST) Stevenson, Robert Louis – Doktor Jekyll og herr Hyde
Strindberg, August – Det røde rommet
Tolstoj – Krig og fred
Tolstoj – Anna Karenina
Turgenjev – Fedre og sønner
Verne, Jules – En reise til jordens indre
Verne, Jules – Kaptein Grants barn
Verne, Jules – en verdensomseiling under havet
Verne, Jules – Den hemmelighetsfulle øya
Wells, H.G. – Tidsmaskinen: en oppfinnelse
(LEST) Wells, H.G. – Doktor Moreaus øy
Wells, H.G. – Klodenes kamp
Wilde, Oscar – Bildet av Dorian Gray
Zola, Émile - Germinal

1900 – 1924:
Bojer, Johan – Den siste viking
(LEST) Conrad, Joseph – Mørkets hjerte
Conrad, Joseph – Nostromo
Conrad, Joseph – Den hemmelige agenten
Duun, Olav – Juvikfolke
Galsworthy, John – Forsyte-sagaen (NLP 1932)
Forster, E.M. – Et rom med utsikt
Forster, E.M. – Howards End
Gorkij, Maxim – Moren
Hesse, Herman – Siddhartha (NLP 1946)
Joyce, James – Ulysses
Kipling, Rudyard – Kim (NLP 1907)
London, Jack – når villdyret våkner
Mann, Thomas – Buddenbrooks: en families forfall (NLP 1929)
Mann, Thomas – Døden i Venedig
Mann, Thomas – Trolldomsfjellet
(LEST) Zamjatin, Jevgenij – Vi

1925 – 1949:
Bataille, Georges – Historien om øyet
Bjerke, Andre – De dødes tjern
Buzzati, Dino – tartarenes ørken
Borges, Jorge Luis – Samlede fiksjoner
Broch, Hermann – Vergils død
Camus, Albert – Den fremmede (NLP 1957)
Camus, Albert – Pesten (NLP)
Capek, Karel – Salamanderkrigen
Carpentier, Alejo – Riket av denne verden
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand – Reisen til nattens ende
Faulkner – Larmen og vreden (NLP 1949)
Faulkner – Absalom, Absalom! (NLP 1949)
Gorkij – Artamonovs verk
Halldor Laxness – Sin egen herre (NLP 1955)
Hammett, Dashiell – Malteserfalken
Hedajat, Sadegh – Den blinde ugla
Hemingway, Ernest – Og solen går sin gang (NLP)
Hemingway, Ernest – Klokkene ringer for deg (NLP)
Hesse, Herman – Steppeulven (NLP 1946)
(LEST) Lovecraft, HP – Vanviddets fjell
Mann, Thomas – Josef og brødrene hans
Mann, Thomas – Doktor Faustus (NLP 1929)
Márai, Sandor – Glør
Moravia, Alberto – De likeglade
Orwell, George – Kamerat Napoleon/Animal Farm
Remarque, Erich Maria – Intet nytt fra vestfronten
Satre, Jean-Paul – Kvalmen (NLP 1964)
Steinbeck, John – Vredens druer (NLP 1962)
Zweig, Stefan – sjakknovelle

1950-1959:
Asimov, Isaac – Jeg, robot
Asimov, Isaac – Keiserrikets fall
Borgen, Johan – Lillelord
Burroughs, William – Junkie
Burroughs, William – Naken lunsj
Capote, Truman – Frokost på Tiffany
Golding, William – Fluenes herre (NLP 1983)
Grass, Günter – Blikktrommen (NLP 1999)
Highsmith, Patricia – Den talentfulle Mr. Ripley
Lagerkvist, Pär – Barabbas (NLP 1951)
Pasternak, Boris – Doktor Zhivago
Vesaas, Tarjei – Fuglane
Wyndham, John – Trifidenes opprør

1960-69:
Bjørneboe, Jens – Bestialitetens historie
Burgess, Anthony – Den mekaniske appelsin
Capote, Truman – Med kaldt blod
Clarke, Arthur C. – 2001: en romodyssé
Dick, Philip K. – Drømmer androider om elektriske sauer?
Fowles, John – Magikeren
Heller, Joseph – Catch 22
Kesey, Ken – Gjøkeredet
Le Carré, John – Spionen som kom inn fra kulden
Lee, Harper – Drep ikke en sangfugl
Lem, Stanislav – Solaris
Márguez, Gabriel Garcia – Hundre års ensomhet
Puzo, Mario – Gudfaren
Pynchon, Thomas – V.
Solzjenitsyn – En dag I Ivan Denisovitsjs liv (NLP 1970)
Vonnegut, Kurt – Slaktehus-5

1970-79:
King, Stephen – Ondskapens hotell
Paasilinna, Arto – Harens år
Rice, Anne – En vampyrs bekjennelser
Thompson, Hunter – Frykt og avsky i Las Vegas

1980-89:
Adams, Douglas – Dirk Gentlys...
Atxaga, Bernardo – Gjensyn med Obaba
Auster, Paul – New York-trilogien
Ballard, J.G. – Solens rike
Bernhard, Thomas – Wittgensteins nevø
Bernhard, Thomas – Utslettelse
DeLillo, Don – Hvit støy
Eco, Umberto – Rosens navn
Eco, Umberto – Foucaults pendel
Gibson, William – Nevromantiker
Morrison, Toni – Elskede (nobelprisvinner)
Pamuk, Orhan – Det hvite slottet (NLP 2006)
Pavic, Milorad – Kazarenes leksikon
Pessoa, Fernando – Uroens bok
Ransmayr, Christoph – Den siste verden
Rushdie, Salman – Sataniske vers
Sagan, Carl – Kontakt
Saramago, Jose – Klosterkrønike
Saramago, Jose – Beleiringen av Lisboa (NLP 1998)
Tunström, Göran – Juleoratoriet
Vargas Llosa, Mario – Dommedagskrigen

1990-99:
DeLillo, Don – underverden
Tartt, Donna – Den hemmelige historien
Houllebecq, Michel – utvidelse av kampsonen
Houllebecq, Michel – De grunnleggende bestanddeler
Høeg, Peter – Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for snø
Wiese, Jan – Kvinnen som kledte seg naken for sin elskede

2000-tallet:
Bolano, Roberto – 2666
Haddon, Mark – den merkelige hendelsen med hunden den natten
Kehlmann, Daniel – oppmåling av verden
Palahniuk, Chuck – Kvelning (Choke)

Rory fra Gilmore Girls er populærkulturens mest kjente lesehest sammen med Hermione fra Harry Potter. "The Rory Gilmore reading challenge" er en utfordring som går ut på å lese alle bøkene hun leser på skjermen (totalt 339).

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1. 1984 by George Orwell

2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

3. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

1. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

2. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

3. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

4. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

8. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

1. The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan

2. The Art of Fiction by Henry James

3. The Art of War by Sun Tzu

4. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

5. Atonement by Ian McEwan

6. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

7. The Awakening by Kate Chopin

8. Babe by Dick King-Smith

9. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi

10. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

11. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

12. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

21. Beloved by Toni Morrison

1. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney

2. The Bhagava Gita

3. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy

4. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel

5. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy

6. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

7. Brick Lane by Monica Ali

8. Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner

9. Candide by Voltaire

10. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

11. Carrie by Stephen King

12. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

34. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

1. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

2. The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman

3. Christine by Stephen King

38. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

1. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

2. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse

3. The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty

4. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

5. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell

6. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton

7. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker

8. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

9. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

10. Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac

11. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

12. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

13. The Crucible by Arthur Miller

14. Cujo by Stephen King

53. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

1. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

2. David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D

3. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

57. The Da Vinci -Code by Dan Brown

1. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

2. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

3. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

4. Deenie by Judy Blume

5. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson

6. The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx

7. The Divine Comedy by Dante

8. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

9. Don Quixote by Cervantes

10. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv

11. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

12. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

13. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook

14. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

15. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn

16. Eloise by Kay Thompson

17. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger

18. Emma by Jane Austen

19. Empire Falls by Richard Russo

20. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol

21. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

22. Ethics by Spinoza

23. Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves

24. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

25. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

26. Extravagance by Gary Krist

27. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

28. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore

29. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan

30. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser

31. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

89. The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien

1. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein

2. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

3. Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce

4. Fletch by Gregory McDonald

5. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

6. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

7. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

8. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

9. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger

10. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers

11. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

12. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

13. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg

14. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner

15. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

16. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

17. The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo

18. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

19. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky

20. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

21. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford

22. The Gospel According to Judy Bloom

23. The Graduate by Charles Webb

24. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

25. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

26. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

27. The Group by Mary McCarthy

28. Hamlet by William Shakespeare

118. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling

119. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling

1. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

2. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

3. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry

4. Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare

5. Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare

6. Henry V by William Shakespeare

7. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

8. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

9. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris

10. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton

11. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

12. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

13. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer

14. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss

15. How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland

16. Howl by Allen Ginsberg

17. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

18. The Iliad by Homer

19. I'm With the Band by Pamela des Barres

20. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

21. Inferno by Dante

22. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

23. Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy

24. It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton

25. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

26. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

27. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

28. The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain

29. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

30. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito

31. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander

32. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

152. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

1. Lady Chatterleys' Lover by D. H. Lawrence

2. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal

3. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

4. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield

5. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

6. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

7. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken

8. Life of Pi by Yann Martel

9. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

10. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway

11. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen

12. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

13. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton

14. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

15. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

168. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

1. The Love Story by Erich Segal

2. Macbeth by William Shakespeare

3. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

4. The Manticore by Robertson Davies

5. Marathon Man by William Goldman

6. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

7. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir

8. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman

9. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

10. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer

11. Mencken's Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken

12. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

13. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

14. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

15. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson

16. Moby Dick by Herman Melville

17. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin

18. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor

19. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman

20. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret

21. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars

22. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

23. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

24. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall

25. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It's Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh

26. My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken

27. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest

28. Myra Waldo's Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo

29. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

30. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

31. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

32. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

33. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin

34. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen

35. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

36. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay

37. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

38. Night by Elie Wiesel

39. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

40. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan

41. Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell

42. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski

43. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

44. Old School by Tobias Wolff

45. On the Road by Jack Kerouac

46. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

215. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

1. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan

2. Oracle Night by Paul Auster

3. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

4. Othello by Shakespeare

5. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

6. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan

7. Out of Africa by Isac Dineson

8. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

9. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

10. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan

11. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

12. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious

13. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

14. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington

15. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

16. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain

17. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby

18. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker

19. The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche

20. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill by Ron Suskind

236. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

1. Property by Valerie Martin

2. Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon

3. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

4. Quattrocento by James Mckean

5. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall

6. Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers

7. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

8. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

9. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

10. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

11. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin

12. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

13. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman

250. The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien

1. R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton

2. Rita Hayworth by Stephen King

3. Robert's Rules of Order by Henry Robert

4. Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton

5. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

6. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

7. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

8. Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

9. The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition

10. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi

11. Sanctuary by William Faulkner

12. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford

13. Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James

14. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum

15. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

16. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

17. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

268. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

1. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman

2. Selected Hotels of Europe

3. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell

4. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

5. A Separate Peace by John Knowles

6. Several Biographies of Winston Churchill

7. Sexus by Henry Miller

276. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

1. Shane by Jack Shaefer

2. The Shining by Stephen King

3. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

4. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton

5. Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut

6. Small Island by Andrea Levy

7. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway

8. Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers

9. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore

10. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht

11. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos

12. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker

13. Songbook by Nick Hornby

14. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare

15. Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

16. Sophie's Choice by William Styron

17. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

18. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

19. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

20. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

21. A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams

22. Stuart Little by E. B. White

23. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

24. Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

25. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett

26. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber

27. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

28. Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

29. Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry

30. Time and Again by Jack Finney

31. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

32. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

309. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

1. The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare

2. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

3. The Trial by Franz Kafka

4. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson

5. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett

6. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

7. Ulysses by James Joyce

8. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath

9. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

10. Unless by Carol Shields

11. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

12. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers

13. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

14. Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard

15. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

16. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

17. Walden by Henry David Thoreau

18. Walt Disney's Bambi by Felix Salten

19. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

20. We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker

21. What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles

22. What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell

23. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

24. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson

25. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee

26. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

27. The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum

28. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

29. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

30. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion