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Most Important Works of Literature You Should Read

A list of the 100 most important works of international literature that every reader should have read or at least know. And you? How many of these have you read so far?
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The Bible (Anonymous)
The Bible
1
Anonymous
The Quran (Unknown)
The Quran
2
Unknown
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
3
Leo Tolstoy
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy
4
Dante Alighieri
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath
5
John Steinbeck
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
6
The Iliad (Homer)
The Iliad
7
Homer
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
8
Homer
The Aeneid (Virgil)
The Aeneid
9
Virgil
Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
Les Miserables
10
Victor Hugo
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
11
Robert Louis Stevenson
Memoirs of Hadrian (Marguerite Yourcenar)
Memoirs of Hadrian
12
Marguerite Yourcenar
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
13
Herman Melville
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
14
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
The Name of the Rose
15
Umberto Eco
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
16
Franz Kafka
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
17
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
18
Vladimir Nabokov
The Art of War (Sun Tzu)
The Art of War
19
Sun Tzu
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
20
George Orwell
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
21
Jane Austen
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
22
Joseph Heller
The Prophet (Kahlil Gibran)
The Prophet
23
Kahlil Gibran
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (Italo Calvino)
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
24
Italo Calvino
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
The Magic Mountain
25
Thomas Mann
The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas)
The Three Musketeers
26
Alexandre Dumas
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
27
Oscar Wilde
It (Stephen King)
It
28
Stephen King
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (The Brothers Grimm)
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
29
The Brothers Grimm
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
The Color Purple
30
Alice Walker
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas, 1844)
The Count of Monte Cristo
31
Alexandre Dumas, 1844
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
32
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami)
Norwegian Wood
33
Haruki Murakami
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
34
Leo Tolstoy
La Nausea
La Nausea
35
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
36
James Joyce
Goethe's Faust Parts 1 and 2 and the Urfaust
Goethe's Faust Parts 1 and 2 and the Urfaust
37
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road
38
Jack Kerouac
The Leopard (Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa)
The Leopard
39
Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
Oedipus Rex
40
Sophocles
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