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Bokkluben World Library's 100 Greatest Literary Works

"The editors of The Norwegian Book Clubs asked...100 authors to nominate ten books that, in their opinion, are the ten best and most central works in world literature: These are books that have had a decisive impact on the cultural history of the world and also left an individual mark on the authors own thinking and imagination...The 100 titles that gathered most votes take their place in the Library of World Literature."
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Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Things Fall Apart
1
Chinua Achebe
Fairy Tales Told for Children (Hans Christian Andersen)
Fairy Tales Told for Children
2
Hans Christian Andersen
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy
3
Dante Alighieri
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Anonymous)
The Epic of Gilgamesh
4
Anonymous
Book of Job
Book of Job
5
One Thousand and One Nights (Anonymous)
One Thousand and One Nights
6
Anonymous
Njal's Saga
Njal's Saga
7
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
8
Jane Austen
Pere Goriot (Honore De Balzac)
Pere Goriot
9
Honore De Balzac
Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable (Samuel Beckett)
Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable
10
Samuel Beckett
The Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio)
The Decameron
11
Giovanni Boccaccio
Ficciones (Jorge Luis Borges)
Ficciones
12
Jorge Luis Borges
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights
13
Emily Bronte
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
14
Albert Camus
Poems of Paul Celan
Poems of Paul Celan
15
Journey to the End of the Night (Louis-Ferdinand Céline)
Journey to the End of the Night
16
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
17
Miguel De Cervantes
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
18
Geoffrey Chaucer
Stories: Anton Chekhov (Anton Chekhov)
Stories: Anton Chekhov
19
Anton Chekhov
Nostromo (Joseph Conrad)
Nostromo
20
Joseph Conrad
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
21
Charles Dickens
Jacques the Fatalist (Denis Diderot)
Jacques the Fatalist
22
Denis Diderot
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Alfred Döblin)
Berlin Alexanderplatz
23
Alfred Döblin
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
24
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Idiot
25
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Possessed (Dostoyevsky)
The Possessed
26
Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
27
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
28
George Eliot
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
29
Ralph Ellison
Medea (Euripides)
Medea
30
Euripides
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom!
31
William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
32
William Faulkner
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
33
Gustave Flaubert
Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert)
Sentimental Education
34
Gustave Flaubert
Romancero Gitano (Frederico Garcia Lorca)
Romancero Gitano
35
Frederico Garcia Lorca
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
36
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Love in the Time of Cholera
37
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust
38
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
Dead Souls
39
Nikolai Gogol
The Tin Drum (Günter Grass)
The Tin Drum
40
Günter Grass
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