The 100 Best Books in the History of Literature

The editors of The Norwegian Book Clubs asked the 100 authors to nominate ten books that, in their opinion, are the ten best and most central works in world literature.
The list of author attending the election included John Irving, Salman Rushdie, John le Carré, Nadine Gordimer, Milan Kundera, Christa Wolf, Carlos Fuentes, V.S. Naipaul, Paul Auster, A.S. Byatt, Ben Okri, Orhan Pamuk, Fay Weldon, Wole Soyinka, Bei Dao, Nawal El Saadawi, Yvonne Vera, Astrid Lindgren, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Norman Mailer and others
Among the 100 most voted we can find Jorge Luis Borges' Collected Fictions, Federico García Lorca's Gypsy Ballads, Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
and Love in the Time of Cholera, João Guimarães Rosa's The Devil to Pay in the Backlands, Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet, Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo, José Saramago's Blindness and the most voted Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote.

Here's the full (unsorted) list:
Chinua Achebe

• Things Fall Apart

Hans Christian Andersen

• Fairy Tales and Stories

Jane Austen

• Pride and Prejudice

Honoré de Balzac

• Old Goriot

Samuel Beckett

• Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

Giovanni Boccaccio

• Decameron

Jorge Luis Borges

• Collected Fictions

Emily Brontë

• Wuthering Heights

Albert Camus

• The Stranger

Paul Celan

• Poems

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

• Journey to the End of the Night

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

• Don Quixote

Geoffrey Chaucer

• Canterbury Tales

Joseph Conrad

• Nostromo

Dante Alighieri

• The Divine Comedy 

Charles Dickens

• Great Expectations

Denis Diderot

• Jacques the Fatalist and His Master

Alfred Döblin

• Berlin Alexanderplatz

Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky

• Crime and Punishment

• The Idiot

• The Possessed

• The Brothers Karamazov

George Eliot

• Middlemarch

Ralph Ellison

• Invisible Man

Euripides

• Medea

William Faulkner

• Absalom, Absalom!

• The Sound and the Fury

Gustave Flaubert

• Madame Bovary

• A sentimental Education

Federico García Lorca

• Gypsy Ballads

Gabriel García Márquez

• One Hundred Years of Solitude

• Love in the Time of Cholera

• Gilgamesh

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Faust

Nikolaj Gogol

• Dead Souls 

Günter Grass

• The Tin Drum

João Guimarães Rosa

• The Devil to Pay in the Backlands

Knut Hamsun

• Hunger 

Ernest Hemingway

• The Old Man and the Sea

Homer

• The Iliad

• The Odyssey

Henrik Ibsen

• A Doll's House

• The Book of Job

James Joyce

• Ulysses

Franz Kafka

• The Complete Stories

• The Trial

• The Castle

Kalidasa

• The Recognition of Sakuntala

Yasunari Kawabata

• The Sound of the Mountain

Nikos Kazantzakis

• Zorba the Greek

D.H. Lawrence

• Sons and Lovers

Halldór K. Laxness

• Independent People

Giacomo Leopardi

• Complete Poems

Doris Lessing

• The Golden Notebook

Astrid Lindgren

• Pippi Longstocking

Lu Xun

• Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

• Mahabharata

Naguib Mahfouz

• Children of Gebelawi

Thomas Mann

• Buddenbrooks

• The Magic Mountain

Herman Melville

• Moby Dick

Michel de Montaigne

• Essays

Elsa Morante

• History

Toni Morrison

• Beloved

Shikibu Murasaki

• The Tale of Genji

Robert Musil

• The Man without Qualities

Vladimir Nabokov

• Lolita

• Njals saga

George Orwell

• 1984

Ovid

• Metamorphoses

Fernando Pessoa

• The Book of Disquiet

Edgar Allan Poe

• The Complete Tales

Marcel Proust

• Remembrance of Things Past

François Rabelais

• Gargantua and Pantagruel

Juan Rulfo

• Pedro Páramo

Jalal ad-din Rumi

• Mathnawi

Salman Rushdie

• Midnight's Children

Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi

• The Orchard

Tayeb Salih

• Season of Migration to the North

José Saramago

• Blindness

William Shakespeare

• Hamlet

• King Lear

• Othello

Sofokles

• Oedipus the King

Stendhal

• The Red and the Black

Laurence Sterne

• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

Italo Svevo

• Confessions of Zeno

Jonathan Swift

• Gulliver's Travels

Lev Tolstoj

• War and Peace

• Anna Karenina

• The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

Anton P. Chekhov

• Selected Stories

• Thousand and One Nights

Mark Twain

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Valmiki

• Ramayana

Vergil

• The Aeneid

Walt Whitman

• Leaves of Grass

Virginia Woolf

• Mrs. Dalloway
• To the Lighthouse

Marguerite Yourcenar

• Memoirs of Hadrian

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