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Unipress' 50 Highlights in World Literature

This list is based on the book '50 værker - højdepunkter i verdenslitteraturen' (50 works - highlights in world litteratur) by Danish university publisher Århus Universitetsforlag. It lists some of the most infliential works in world literature in chronological order from Gilgamesh ca. 1200 BC to the Neapolitan novels from the 2010's.
In a few cases one book has been chosen of several mentioned in the book e.g. Forugh Farrokhzad that originally covered all her poems.
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Gilgamesh (Anonymus)
Gilgamesh
1
Anonymus
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
2
Homer
Sappho (Loeb Classical Library)
Sappho
3
Loeb Classical Library
Oresteia (Aeschylus)
Oresteia
4
Aeschylus
Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Metamorphoses
5
Ovid
The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu)
The Tale of Genji
6
Murasaki Shikibu
Njal's Saga
Njal's Saga
7
The Devine Comedy
The Devine Comedy
8
The Thousand and One Nights (Anonymous)
The Thousand and One Nights
9
Anonymous
Essays (Montaigne)
Essays
10
Montaigne
Othello (William Shakespeare)
Othello
11
William Shakespeare
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
12
Miguel De Cervantes
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost
13
John Milton
Memoirs of Leonara Christina (Leonora Christina Ulfeldt)
Memoirs of Leonara Christina
14
Leonora Christina Ulfeldt
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
15
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Laurence Sterne)
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
16
Laurence Sterne
Confessions (Saint Augustine)
Confessions
17
Saint Augustine
The Story of the Stone (Cao Xueqin)
The Story of the Stone
18
Cao Xueqin
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust
19
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The Marquise of O— (Heinrich Von Kleist)
The Marquise of O—
20
Heinrich Von Kleist
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
21
Mary Shelley
Fairy Tales (Hans Christian Anderson)
Fairy Tales
22
Hans Christian Anderson
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
23
Herman Melville
The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire)
The Flowers of Evil
24
Charles Baudelaire
Notes From Underground (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Notes From Underground
25
Fyodor Dostoevsky
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
26
Jules Verne
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
27
George Eliot
Niels Lyhne (Jens Peter Jacobsen)
Niels Lyhne
28
Jens Peter Jacobsen
A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle)
A Study in Scarlet
29
Arthur Conan Doyle
Miss Julie
Miss Julie
30
In Search of Lost Time, Volume 6: Finding Time Again (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time, Volume 6: Finding Time Again
31
Marcel Proust
Poems (1916) (Edith Södergran)
Poems (1916)
32
Edith Södergran
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
33
Franz Kafka
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs. Dalloway
34
Virginia Woolf
The Threepenny Opera (Bertolt Brecht)
The Threepenny Opera
35
Bertolt Brecht
The Book of Disquiet (Fernando Pessoa)
The Book of Disquiet
36
Fernando Pessoa
Fictions (Jorge Luis Borges)
Fictions
37
Jorge Luis Borges
Pippi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgren)
Pippi Longstocking
38
Astrid Lindgren
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Things Fall Apart
39
Chinua Achebe
The Passion According to G.H. (Clarice Lispector)
The Passion According to G.H.
40
Clarice Lispector
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