Het is weer juli en dat wil zeggen dat ik mijn jaarlijkse versie van m'n top 100 gelezen romans post. Wie weet vind je er wel goed tips tussen voor vakantielectuur! Een straffe roman die die ijzersterke top vijf opblaast. Ook dit jaar gebeurt dat niet, maar Victor Hugo komt wel nieuw binnen in de top tien met zijn briljante epos. Paul Austers Mr Vertigo is de 'hoogste nieuwkomer'.
1. Jonathan Coe – What a Carve Up!
(1994)
2. Jonathan Coe – The House of Sleep
(1997)
3. Jonathan Safran Foer – Extremely
Loud & Incredibly Close (2005)
4. Jonathan Coe – The Closed Circle
(2004)
5. Jonathan Coe – The Rotters’ Club
(2001)
6. Mary Shelley – Frankenstein, or The
Modern Prometheus (1818)
7. Jonathan Coe – The Rain Before It
Falls (2007)
8. Paul Auster – Mr Vertigo (1994)
9. Paul Auster – Leviathan (1992)
10. Victor Hugo – Les Misérables (1862)
11. Bram Stoker – Dracula (1897)
12. Paul Auster – The Book Of Illusions
(2002)
13. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien – The Lord
of the Rings (1954, 1955)
14. Salman Rushdie – The Satanic Verses
(1988)
15. Emile Zola – La Bête humaine (1890)
16. Jonathan Coe – The Terrible Privacy
of Maxwell Sim (2010)
17. Paul Auster – Invisible (2009)
18. Jonathan Littell – Les Bienveillantes
(2006)
19. Michael Ondaatje – The English
Patient (1992)
20. Paul Auster – Moon Palace (1989)
21. Paul Auster – Man in the Dark (2008)
22. James Joyce – Ulysses (1922)
23. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien – The
Hobbit, or There and Back Again (1937)
24. George Orwell – 1984 (1949)
25. Arundhati Roy – The God of the Small
Things (1997)
26. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
(1925)
27. Thomas Pynchon – Gravity’s Rainbow
(1973)
28. Paul Auster – The Brooklyn Follies
(2005)
29. Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness
(1899)
30. William Golding – Lord of the Flies
(1954)
31. Ian McEwan – Atonement (2001)
32. Hubert
Lampo – De Komst van Joachim Stiller (1960)
33. Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
(1932)
34. Paul Auster – Sunset Park (2010)
35. Jack London – Martin Eden (1909)
36. Albert Camus – La Peste (1974)
37. Thomas Pynchon – Inherent Vice
(2009)
38. Edgar Allen Poe – The Narrative of
Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838)
39. Mario
Vargas Llosa – De Oorlog van het Einde van de Wereld (1981)
40. Ken Kesey – One Flew Over the
Cuckoo’s Nest (1962)
41. Robert Merle – La Mort est mon métier
(1952)
42. Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita (1955)
43. Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian
Gray (1890)
44. William Faulkner – The Sound and the
Fury (1929)
45. Edgar Lawrence Doctorow – Ragtime
(1975)
46. Albert Camus – L’Etranger (1942)
47. Paul Auster – The New York Trilogy
(1987)
48. Nick Cave – The Death of Bunny Munro
(2009)
49. John Maxwell Coetzee – Summertime (2009)
50. Johann Wolfgang Goethe – Het Lijden
van de Jonge Werther (1774)
51. Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
(1960)
52. Jonathan Coe – The Dwarves of Death
(1990)
53. George Orwell – Animal Farm (1945)
54. Jack Kerouac – On the Road (1957)
55. Jonathan Safran Foer – Everything Is
Illuminated (2002)
56. Anthony Burgess – A Clockwork Orange
(1962)
57. Christopher
John Sansom – Kloostermoord (2003)
58. Paul
Auster – Travels In the Scriptorium (2006)
59. Emile
Zola – Germinal (1885)
60. Johan
Daisne – De Trein der Traagheid (1950)
61. Joseph
Heller – Catch-22 (1961)
62. Michael Cunningham – A Home at the
End of the World (1990)
63. John Marsden – Tomorrow, When the
War Began (1993)
64. Virginia Woolf – Mrs Dalloway (1925)
65. John Steinbeck – Of Mice and Men
(1937)
66. John Banville – The Sea (2005)
67. Robert
Merle – Week-end à Zuydcoote (1949)
68. Jeroen
Olyslaegers – Wij (2009)
69. Philip
Roth – The Humbling (2009)
70. Aravind Adiga – The White Tiger
(2008)
71. Paul Auster – Winter Journal (2012)
72. Graham Greene – The Third Man (1949)
73. Herbert George Wells – The Time
Machine (1885)
74. Michael Crichton – The Lost World
(1995)
75. Paul Auster – Timbuktu (1999)
76. Mark Twain – Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn (1884)
77. Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet
Letter (1850)
78. Don DeLillo – White Noise (1985)
79. John Maxwell Coetzee – Waiting for
the Barbarians (1980)
80. Dimitrov Toergenjev – Vaders en
Zonen (1862)
81. Thomas Pynchon – V. (1963)
82. Michael Crichton – Jurassic Park
(1990)
83. John Maxwell Coetzee – Disgrace
(1999)
84. Mark Twain – The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer (1876)
85. Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse Five
(1969)
86. Herbert George Wells – The War of
the Worlds (1898)
87. Jerome David Salinger – The Catcher
in the Rye (1951)
88. Louis
Paul Boon – De Kapellekensbaan (1953)
89. Nicole Krauss – The History of Love
(2005)
90. John Banville – Eclipse (2000)
91. Amin Maalouf – Léon, l’Africain
(1986)
92. Franz Kafka – Het Proces (1925)
93. James Graham Ballard – The Crystal
World (1966)
94. Pete Hautman – Mr Was (1996)
95. Jonathan Coe – The Accidental Woman
(1987)
96. David Herbert Lawrence – Lady
Chatterley’s Lover (1928)
97. Mark Haddon – The Curious Incident
of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003)
98. William Seward Burroughs – Junkie
(1953)
99. Stendhal – Le rouge et le noir, Chronique
de 1830 (1830)
100.
Arthur
Conan Doyle – The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
