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The Guardian's "100 Best Books of All Time"

Full list of the 100 best works of fiction, alphabetically by author, as determined from a vote by 100 noted writers from 54 countries as released by the Norwegian Book Clubs. Don Quixote was named as the top book in history but otherwise no ranking was provided.

You can see the 100 writers who voted here:
http://www.bokklubben.no/SamboWeb/side.do?dokId=547576

(found at: http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,711520,00.html)

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1. Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
  
2. Hans Christian Andersen: The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories (Anchor Folktale Library)
by Hans Christian Andersen
  
3. Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
4. Old Goriot (Penguin Classics)
by Honore de Balzac; Introduction-Marion Ayton Crawford
  
5. Three Novels by Samuel Beckett: Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable
by Samuel Beckett
  
6. The Decameron (Signet Classics)
by Giovanni Boccaccio
  
7. Borges: Collected Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
  
8. Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)
by Emily Bronte
  
9. The Stranger
by Albert Camus
  
10. Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan
by Paul Celan
  
11. Journey to the End of the Night
by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
  
12. Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  
13. Canterbury Tales (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Geoffrey Chaucer
  
14. Selected Stories (Signet Classics)
by Anton Chekhov
  
15. Nostromo (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Joseph Conrad
  
16. The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (Everyman's Library)
by Dante Alighieri
  
17. Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
18. Jacques the Fatalist (Oxford World's Classics)
by Denis Diderot
  
19. Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf
by Alfred Doblin
  
20. Crime and Punishment (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
21. The Idiot (Modern Library Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  
22. The Devils : The Possessed
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
23. The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  
24. Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)
by George Eliot
  
25. Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
  
26. Medea (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
by Euripides
  
27. Absalom, Absalom! (Vintage International)
by WILLIAM FAULKNER
  
28. The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
  
29. Madame Bovary (Bantam Classics)
by GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
  
30. Sentimental Education (Classics S.)
by Gustave Flaubert
  
31.
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 Gypsy Ballads of Garcia Lorca
by Federico Garcia Lorca
  
32. One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
33. Love in the Time of Cholera
by GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
  
34. The Epic of Gilgamesh
by Maureen Gallery Kovacs
  
35. Goethe's Faust
by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  
36. Dead Souls: A Novel
by Nikolai Gogol
  
37. The Tin Drum (Vintage International)
by Gunter Grass
  
38.
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 The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
by Joao Guimaraes Rosa
  
39. Hunger
by Knut Hamsun
  
40. The Old Man and The Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
  
41. The Iliad of Homer (Phoenix Books)
by Homer
  
42. The Odyssey (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Homer
  
43. A Doll's House
by Henrik, Ibsen
  
44.
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 The Book of Job  
45. Ulysses (Vintage International)
by James Joyce
  
46. The Complete Stories
by Franz Kafka
  
47. The Trial
by Franz Kafka
  
48. The Castle: A new translation based on the restored text
by Franz Kafka
  
49. The Recognition of Sakuntala: A Play in Seven Acts (Oxford World's Classics)
by Kalidasa
  
50. The Sound of the Mountain
by Yasunari Kawabata
  
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