Vous aimez les listes (n'est-ce pas, Emjy?
) et vous aimez lire, alors j'ai pensé réunir dans ce topic des classements butinés ça et là sur le net. Je vous demanderai juste d'éviter ici les commentaires détaillés sur le contenu des livres concernés, nous avons des parties de forum dédiées pour cela.
Voici donc pour commencer la liste des 100 livres les plus populaires auprès du public britanniques, selon un sondage de la BBC effectué en 2003:
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
The BFG by Roald Dahl
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Clan of the Cave Bear by J.M. Auel
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Double Act by Jacqueline Wilson
Dune by Frank Herbert
Emma by Jane Austen
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Girls in Love by Jacqueline Wilson
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Holes by Louis Sachar
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
Katherine by Anya Seton
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
Magician by Raymond E. Feist
The Magus by John Fowles
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Mort by Terry Pratchett
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Noughts and Crosses (also known as Black & White) by Malorie Blackman
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret History by Donna Tart
The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
The Stand by Stephen King
The Story of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Twits by Roald Dahl
Ulysses by James Joyce
Vicky Angel by Jacqueline Wilson
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
que vous pouvez également retrouver
ici classés dans l'ordre de leur popularité. Bon nombre de nos chouchous sur cette liste qui est évidemment très anglo-saxonne étant donné le public consulté.
Plus large du point de vue géographique, plus ancienne, moins populaire et axées sur les "classiques", la bibliothèque idéale de Raymond Queneau:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pour_une_Biblioth%C3%A8que_Id%C3%A9aleUne liste du même style mais plus moderne:
http://www.abebooks.fr/docs/ReadingRoom/Specials/100_meilleurs_livres_de_la_litterature.shtmlDeux autres listes anglo-saxonnes dans le lien suivant:
http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html