Eg er meget glad i klassikere. Eg har alltid ein klassiker i leser-nå-bunken, og ser på det som eit livsprosjekt å lese mange. Samstundes er det fleire eg har lyst til å lese om igjen for eg trur eg gjekk glipp av noko første gongen så det vil og bli nedskrevet her.
LESTE ROMANER
* Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra: Don Quixote (1605)
* Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe (1719)
* Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels (1726)
* Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve: The Beauty and the Beast (1740)
* John Cleland: Fanny Hill (1748)
* Voltaire: Candide, or Optimism (1759)
* Oliver Goldsmith: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)
* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)
* Maria Edgeworth: Castle Rackrent (1800)
* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Elective Affinities (1809)
* Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility (1811)
* Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice (1813)
* Jane Austen: Mansfield Park (1814)
* Jane Austen: Emma (1815)
* Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey (1817)
* Jane Austen: Persuasion (1817)
* Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Frankeinstein (1818)
* Victor Hugo: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831)
* Honoré de Balzac: Old Goriot (1835)
* Nikolai Gogol: The Nose (1836)
* Charles Dickens: The Pickwick Papers (1837)
* Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist (1838)
* Charles Dickens: Nicholas Nickleby (1839)
* Edgar Allan Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)
* Charles Dickens: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
* Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge (1841)
* Nikolai Gogol: Dead Souls (1842)
* Edgar Allan Poe: The Pit and the Pendulum (1842)
* Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol (1843)
* Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers (1844)
* Edgar Allan Poe: The Purloined Letter (1844)
* Alexandre Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo (1845-46)
* Anne Brontë: Agnes Grey (1847)
* Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre (1847)
* Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights (1847)
* Anne Brontë: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
* Charles Dickens: Dombey and Son (1848)
* Elizabeth Gaskell: Mary Barton (1848)
* Charlotte Brontë: Shirley (1849)
* Charles Dickens: David Copperfield (1850)
* Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter (1850)
* Henrik Ibsen: Kjæmpehøien (1850, skodespel)
* Nathaniel Hawthorne: House of the Seven Gables (1851)
* Charles Dickens: Bleak House (1853)
* Elizabeth Gaskell: Cranford (1853)
* Charles Dickens: Hard Times (1854)
* Elizabeth Gaskell: North and South (1854)
* Camilla Collett: Amtmannens døtre (1854-55)
* Anthony Trollope: The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire #1) (1855)
* Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit (1857)
* Henrik Ibsen: Fru Inger til Østråt (1857, skodespel)
* Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
* Charles Dickens: Great Expectations (1861)
* George Eliot: Silas Marner (1861)
* Victor Hugo: Les Misérables (1862)
* Fyodor Dostoevsky: Notes from the Underground (1864)
* Henrik Ibsen: Kongs-emnerne (1864)
* Charles Dickens: Our Mutual Friend (1865)
* Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment (1866)
* Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Gambler (1866)
* Elizabeth Gaskell: Wives and Daughters (1866)
* Henrik Ibsen: Brand (1866, skodespel)
* Henrik Ibsen: Peer Gynt (1867, skodespel)
* Jules Verne: Reisen til jordas indre (1867)
* Émile Zola: Thérèse Raquin (1867)
* Louisa May Alcott: Little Women (1868)
* Henrik Ibsen: De unges forbund (1869, skodespel)
* Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace (1869)
* Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)
* Jane Austen: Lady Susan (mogleg skrevet i 1794, publisert 1871)
* Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland (1871)
* George Eliot: Middlemarch (1871)
* Thomas Hardy: Under the Greenwood Tree (1872)
* Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days (1872)
* Arne Garborg: Smaa-stubber af Alf Buestreng (1873)
* Anna Sewell: Black Beauty (1877)
* Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina (1878)
* Fyodor Dostoevsky: Brothers Karamazov (1879)
* Henrik Ibsen: Et dukkehjem (1879, skodespel)
* Alexander L. Kielland: Garman & Worse (1880)
* Henrik Ibsen: Gjengangere (1881, skodespel)
* Henrik Ibsen: En folkefiende (1882, skodespel)
* Arne Garborg: Bondestudentar (1883)
* Alexander L. Kielland: Gift (Løvdahl #1) (1883)
* Henrik Ibsen: Vildanden (1884, skodespel)
* Amalie Skram: Constance Ring (1885)
* Thomas Hardy: The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)
* Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
* Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886)
* Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes #1) (1887)
* Amalie Skram: Sjur Gabriel (Hellemyrsfolket #1) (1887)
* Amalie Skram: To venner (Hellemyrsfolket #2) (1887)
* Henrik Ibsen: Fruen fra havet (1888, skodespel)
* Guy de Maupassant: Pierre og Jean (1888)
* Jerome K. Jerome: Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing About the Dog) (1889)
* Amalie Skram: S.G. Myre (1889)
* Leo Tolstoy: The Kreutzer Sonata (1889)
* Arthur Conan Doyle: The Sign of the Four (Sherlock Holmes #2) (1890)
* Knut Hamsun: Sult (1890)
* Henrik Ibsen: Hedda Gabler (1890, skodespel)
* Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
* Selma Lagerlöf: Gösta Berlings saga (1891)
* Arthur Conan Doyle: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes #3) (1892)
* Hulda Garborg: Et frit forhold (1892)
* Henrik Ibsen: Bygmester Solness (1892)
* Arthur Conan Doyle: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes #4) (1893)
* Knut Hamsun: Pan (1894)
* Amalie Skram: Professor Hieronimus (1895)
* H.G. Wells: The Time Machine (1895)
* Bram Stoker: Dracula (1897)
* Amalie Skram: Avkom (1898)
* Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes #5) (1901)
* Thomas Mann: Buddenbrooks (1901)
* Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness (1902)
* Jack London: The Call of the Wild (1903)
* Arthur Conan Doyle: The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes #6) (1904)
* Frances Hodgson Burnett: A Little Princess (1905)
* Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth (1905)
* Kenneth Grahame: The Wind in the Willows (1908)
* E.M. Forster: A Room with a View (1908)
* Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera (1909)
* L.M. Montgomery: Anne of Avonlea (1909)
* Stein Riverton: Jernvognen (1909)
* Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden (1910)
* Oskar Braaten: Ungen (1911, skodespel)
* Sigrid Undset: Jenny (1911)
* Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome (1911)
* Selma Lagerlöf: Keiseren av Portugalia (1914)
* Natsume Soseki: Kokoro (1914)
* John Buchan: The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915)
* James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
* Edith Wharton: Bunner Sisters (1916)
* Sigrid Undset: Kransen (Kristin Lavransdatter #1) (1920)
* Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence (1920)
* Sigrid Undset: Husfrue (Kristin Lavransdatter #2) (1921)
* John Galsworthy: The Forsyte Saga (1922)
* Katherine Mansfield: The Garden Party (1922)
* Sigrid Undset: Korset (Kristin Lavransdatter #3) (1922)
* F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (1925)
* Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway (1925)
* Ernest Hemingway: And the Sun Also Rises (1926)
* A.A. Milne: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)
* Cora Sandel: Alberte og Jakob (1926)
* Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse (1927)
* Nella Larsen: Passing (1929)
* Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
* Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon (1930)
* H.P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness (1931)
* Virginia Woolf: The Waves (1931)
* Stella Gibbons: Cold Comfort Farm (1932)
* Aldous Huxley: Brave New World (1932)
* Dorothy L. Sayers: The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Whimsey #9) (1934)
* Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Wind (1936)
* J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit (1937)
* Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca (1938)
* Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe #1) (1939)
* Jean Rhys: God morgon, midnatt (1939)
* Ernest Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
* Stefan Zweig: Chess Story (1942)
* Jorge Luis Borges: Ficciones (1944)
* George Orwell: Animal Farm (1945)
* Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited (1945)
* George Orwell: 1984 (1949)
* Nevil Shute: A Town Like Alice (1950)
* Friedrich Dürrenmatt: The Judge and His Hangman (1951)
* J.D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
* Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man (1952)
* Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
* Yasunari Kawabata: Thousand Cranes (1952)
* Flannery O'Connor: Wise Blood (1952)
* Väinö Linna: Unknown Soldier (1954)
* Pablo Neruda: Odes to Common Things (1954)
* Francoise Sagan: Bonjour Tristesse (1954)
* Boris Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago (1957)
* Tarjei Vesaas: Fuglane (1957)
* Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy #1) (1958)
* Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
* John le Carré: Call for the Dead (George Smiley #1) (1961)
* Joseph Heller: Catch-22 (1961)
* Gabriel Garcá Márquez:: No One Writes to the Colonel (1961)
* Muriel Spark: Frøken Jean Brodies beste alder (1961)
* Jorge Luis Borges: Labyrinths (1962)
* John le Carré: A Murder of Quality (George Smiley #2) (1962)
* John le Carré: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (George Smiley #3) (1963)
* Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar (1963)
* Ngugi wa Thiong'o: Weep Not, Child (1964)
* Ngugi wa Thiong'o: Elven som skiller (1965)
* Toni Morrison: De blåeste øyne (1970)
* Eudora Welty: The Optimist's Daughter (1972)
* Toni Morrison: Sula (1973)
LEST NONFICTION
* Charles Dickens: Pictures from Italy (1846)
* Marcel Proust og John Ruskin: Days of Reading (1905)
* Lytton Strachey: Queen Victoria (1921)
* Rainer Maria Rilke: Letters to a Young Poet (1929)
* Gertrude Stein: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933)
* Karen Blixen: Den afrikanske farm (1937)
VIL LESE OM IGJEN
* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)
* Victor Hugo: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831)
* Victor Hugo: Les Misérables (1862)
* Bram Stoker: Dracula (1897)
TO-BE-READ