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100 Works of World Literature

A general list put together of 100 works of world literature that I feel are essential reads for cultural understanding.
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Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Things Fall Apart
1
Chinua Achebe
Hart Crane: Complete Poems & Selected Letters (Hart Crane)
Hart Crane: Complete Poems & Selected Letters
2
Hart Crane
Rashomon and Other Stories (Ryūnosuke Akutagawa)
Rashomon and Other Stories
3
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
The Arabian Nights (Anonymous)
The Arabian Nights
4
Anonymous
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
5
Jane Austen
Pere Goriot (Honore De Balzac)
Pere Goriot
6
Honore De Balzac
Fictions (Jorge Luis Borges)
Fictions
7
Jorge Luis Borges
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights
8
Emily Bronte
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
9
Albert Camus
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
10
Miguel De Cervantes
Best Short Stories of Anton Chekov (Anton Chekov)
Best Short Stories of Anton Chekov
11
Anton Chekov
Nostromo
Nostromo
12
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
13
Charles Dickens
Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Brothers Karamazov
14
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
15
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
16
George Eliot
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying
17
William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
18
William Faulkner
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
19
Gustave Flaubert
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
Dead Souls
20
Nikolai Gogol
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
21
James Joyce
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
22
James Joyce
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
The Castle
23
Franz Kafka
The Collected Short Stories of Franz Kafka (Franz Kafka)
The Collected Short Stories of Franz Kafka
24
Franz Kafka
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
25
Franz Kafka
Snow Country (Yasunari Kawabata)
Snow Country
26
Yasunari Kawabata
Thousand Cranes (Yasunari Kawabata)
Thousand Cranes
27
Yasunari Kawabata
Sons and Lovers (D.H. Lawrence)
Sons and Lovers
28
D.H. Lawrence
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
The Magic Mountain
29
Thomas Mann
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
30
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
Blood Meridian
31
Cormac McCarthy
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
32
Herman Melville
The Sea of Fertility
The Sea of Fertility
33
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
34
Vladimir Nabokov
Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
Nineteen Eighty-Four
35
George Orwell
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe (Edgar Allen Poe)
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
36
Edgar Allen Poe
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
37
Marcel Proust
The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
The Crying of Lot 49
38
Thomas Pynchon
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Gravity's Rainbow
39
Thomas Pynchon
Mason & Dixon (Thomas Pynchon)
Mason & Dixon
40
Thomas Pynchon
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