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Goodreads Best Books of All Time: The World Library List

100 Books chosen by 100 writers worldwide, compiled by The Norwegian Book Club, and then voted on by Goodreads users. In descending rank order.
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Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
1
Jane Austen
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
2
George Orwell
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
3
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet
4
William Shakespeare
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
5
Gabriel García Márquez
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
6
Leo Tolstoy
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
7
Albert Camus
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
8
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
9
Homer
Faust: First Part (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust: First Part
10
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The Arabian Nights (Anonymous)
The Arabian Nights
11
Anonymous
The Man Without Qualities (Robert Musil)
The Man Without Qualities
12
Robert Musil
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
13
Franz Kafka
Zorba the Greek (Nikos Kazantzakis)
Zorba the Greek
14
Nikos Kazantzakis
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
The Old Man and the Sea
15
Ernest Hemingway
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
16
Charles Dickens
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
17
Vladimir Nabokov
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
18
Miguel De Cervantes
Ficciones (Jorge Luis Borges)
Ficciones
19
Jorge Luis Borges
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
20
Leo Tolstoy
Swann's Way (Marcel Proust)
Swann's Way
21
Marcel Proust
Gargantua and Pantagruel (François Rabelais)
Gargantua and Pantagruel
22
François Rabelais
The Iliad (Homer)
The Iliad
23
Homer
The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition (Fernando Pessoa)
The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
24
Fernando Pessoa
Journey to the End of the Night (Louis-Ferdinand Céline)
Journey to the End of the Night
25
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
26
Gustave Flaubert
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy
27
Dante Alighieri
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby-Dick
28
Herman Melville
King Lear (William Shakespeare)
King Lear
29
William Shakespeare
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
30
Virginia Woolf
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez)
Love in the Time of Cholera
31
Gabriel García Márquez
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs. Dalloway
32
Virginia Woolf
The Complete Fairy Tales (Hans Christian Andersen)
The Complete Fairy Tales
33
Hans Christian Andersen
Othello (William Shakespeare)
Othello
34
William Shakespeare
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
35
Geoffrey Chaucer
Jacques the Fatalist (Denis Diderot)
Jacques the Fatalist
36
Denis Diderot
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels
37
Jonathan Swift
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
38
James Joyce
Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
Oedipus Rex
39
Sophocles
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
40
William Faulkner
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