The Library of World Literature

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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: These are books that have had a decisive impact on the cultural history of the world and also left an individual mark on the authors own thinking and imagination.

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  1. 1.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe
  2. 2.
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    Hans Andersen Complete Fairy Tales and Stories
    by Hans Christian Andersen
  3. 3.
    Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  4. 4.
    Le père Goriot
    by Honoré de Balzac
  5. 5.
    Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (Everyman's Library)
    by Samuel Beckett
  6. 6.
    The Decameron (Signet Classics)
    by Giovanni Boccaccio
  7. 7.
    Collected Fictions
    by Jorge Luis Borges
  8. 8.
    Wuthering Heights (Signet Classics)
    by Emily Brontë
  10. 10.
    Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan
    by Paul Celan
  12. 12.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel De Cervantes
  13. 13.
    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer
  14. 14.
    Conrad: Nostromo (Landmarks of World Literature)
    by Ian Watt
  15. 15.
  16. 16.
    Great Expectations
    by Charles Dickens
  17. 17.
    ?
  18. 18.
    Berlin Alexanderplatz
    by Alfred Doblin
  19. 19.
    Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  20. 20.
    The Idiot (Modern Library Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  21. 21.
    Besy.
    by Dostoevsky F.
  22. 22.
    The Brothers Karamazov
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  23. 23.
    Middlemarch (Signet Classics)
    by George Eliot
  24. 24.
    The Invisible Man (Signet Classics)
    by H.G. Wells
  25. 25.
    Medea - Literary Touchstone Classic
    by Euripides
  26. 26.
    Absalom, Absalom!
    by William Faulkner
  27. 27.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner
  28. 28.
    Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert
  29. 29.
    Sentimental Education (Penguin Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert
  30. 30.
    ?
    Gypsy Ballads (A Midland Book)
    by Federico Garcia Lorca
  31. 31.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  32. 32.
    Love in the Time of Cholera
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  34. 34.
    Faust (Bantam Classics) (Part I) (English and German Edition)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  35. 35.
    Dead Souls
    by Nikolai Gogol
  36. 36.
    Tin Drum
    by Gunter Grass
  38. 38.
    Hunger
    by Knut Hamsun
  39. 39.
    The Old Man and the Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway
  40. 40.
    The Iliad of Homer
    by Homer
  41. 41.
    The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation
    by Homer
  42. 42.
    A Doll's House
    by Henrik Ibsen
  43. 43.
    The Book of Job
    by Raymond P. Schiendlin
  44. 44.
    Ulysses
    by James Joyce
  45. 45.
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    Franz Kafka The Complete Stories
    by Franz Kafka
  46. 46.
    The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text
    by Franz Kafka
  47. 47.
    The Castle
    by Franz Kafka
  49. 49.
    The Sound of the Mountain
    by Yasunari Kawabata
  50. 50.
    Zorba the Greek (Faber Fiction Classics)
    by Nikos Kazantzakis

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Comments

matieto

Untitled — 38 weeks ago

The Invisible Man: it should be the 1952 novel by Ralph Ellison, not the 1897 one by H.G. Wells

May 15, 04:16PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

fish_beauty

Untitled — 1 year ago

Huckleberry Finn is on twice -

94

101

May 12, 01:45PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

frbrown

Untitled — 3 years ago

It should be Diary of a Madman and other stories by Lu Xun, not by Gogol

Oct 09, 12:46AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

tassini

Besy — 4 years ago

The Dostoevsky work “Besy” refers to “The Devils”. I had to look it up:)

Jul 18, 07:55AM | 0 comments | Reply to this



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