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Top 100 Works in World Literature by Norweigen Book Clubs and Norweigen Nobel Institute - Page 3

The editors of the Norwegian Book Clubs, with the Norwegian Nobel Institute, polled a panel of 100 authors from 54 countries on what they considered the "best and most central works in world literature." Among the authors polled were Milan Kundera, Doris Lessing, Seamus Heaney, Salman Rushdie, Wole Soyinka, John Irving, Nadine Gordimer, and Carlos Fuentes. The list of 100 works appears alphabetically by author. Although the books were not ranked, the editors revealed that Don Quixote received 50% more votes than any other book.
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Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
81
Ralph Ellison
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
The Old Man and the Sea
82
Ernest Hemingway
The Unnamable (Samuel Beckett)
The Unnamable
83
Samuel Beckett
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
84
Vladimir Nabokov
Pedro Páramo (Juan Rulfo)
Pedro Páramo
85
Juan Rulfo
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (João Guimarães Rosa)
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
86
João Guimarães Rosa
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Things Fall Apart
87
Chinua Achebe
The Tin Drum (Günter Grass)
The Tin Drum
88
Günter Grass
Anton Chekhov's Short Stories (Ralph E. Matlaw)
Anton Chekhov's Short Stories
89
Ralph E. Matlaw
The Golden Notebook (Doris Lessing)
The Golden Notebook
90
Doris Lessing
Season of Migration to the North
Season of Migration to the North
91
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
92
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Sound of the Mountain Yasunari Kawabata
The Sound of the Mountain Yasunari Kawabata
93
Stories Kafka
Stories Kafka
94
History
History
95
Alternative View 1 of the Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Edgar Allan Poe)
Alternative View 1 of the Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
96
Edgar Allan Poe
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Midnight's Children
97
Salman Rushdie
The Book of Disquiet (Fernando Pessoa)
The Book of Disquiet
98
Fernando Pessoa
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved
99
Toni Morrison
Blindness (José Saramago)
Blindness
100
José Saramago
Poems
Poems
101
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