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The entire list of the top 100 books of all time as determined by a vote by top writers from 54 countries in alphabetical order by author. Don Quixote was named number one, but no other designations were given. This list was compiled by The Guardian, and released by the Norwegian Book Clubs.


TitleAuthor
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
Fairy Tales and Stories Hans Christian Andersen
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Old Goriot Honore De Balzac
Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable Samuel Beckett
Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio
Collected Fictions Jorge Luis Borges
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
The Stranger Albert Camus
Poems of Paul Celan Paul Celan
Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand D. Celine
Don Quixote Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights Anonymous
Nostromo Joseph Conrad
The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri
Great Expectations Charles Dickens
Jacques the Fatalist and His Master Denis Diderot
Berlin Alexanderplatz Alfred Doblin
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Idiot Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Possessed Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Middlemarch George Eliot
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
Medea Euripides
Absalom, Absalom William Faulkner
The Sound And The Fury William Faulkner
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
A Sentimental Education Gustave Flaubert
Gypsy Ballads Federico Lorca Garcia
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Epic of Gilgamesh Anonymous
Faust Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Dead Souls Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
The Tin Drum Gunter Grass
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands Joao Guimaraes Rosa
Hunger Knut Hamsun
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
The Iliad Homer
The Odyssey Homer
A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen
The Book of Job Anonymous
Ulysses James Joyce
The Complete Stories Franz Kafka
The Trial Franz Kafka
The Castle Franz Kafka
The Recognition of Sakuntala Kalidasa
The Sound of the Mountain Yasunari Kawabata
Zorba the Greek Nikos Kazantzakis
Sons And Lovers D. H. Lawrence
Independent People Halldor Kiljan Laxness
Complete Poems of Giacomo Leopardi Giacomo Leopardi
The Golden Notebook Doris M. Lessing
Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories Lu Xun
Mahabharata Anonymous
Children of Gebelawi Naguib Mahfouz
Buddenbrooks Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann
Moby Dick Herman Melville
Essays Michel De Montaigne
History Elsa Morante
Beloved Toni Morrison
The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu
The Man Without Qualities Robert Musil
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
Njal's Saga Anonymous
1984 George Orwell
Metamorphoses Ovid
The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa
The Complete Tales Edgar Allan Poe
Remembrance of Things Past Marcel Proust
Gargantua and Pantagruel Francois Rabelais
Pedro Paramo Juan Rulfo
The Mathnawi E. H. Whinfield
Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
The Bostan of Saadi (The Orchard) Sheikh Muslihu-d-Din Sa'adi of Shiraz
A Season of Migration to the North Tayeb Salih
Blindness Jose Saramago
Hamlet William Shakespeare
King Lear William Shakespeare
Othello William Shakespeare
Oedipus the King Sophocles
The Red and the Black Stendhal
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne
Confessions of Zeno Italo Svevo
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories Leo Tolstoy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
Ramayana Devi Vanamali
The Aeneid Virgil
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman
Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf
To The Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
Memoirs of Hadrian Marguerite Yourcenar

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