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. 51.
    Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence

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  2. 52.
    Independent People (Panther)
    by Halldor Laxness

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  3. 53.
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    Poems by Giacomo Leopardi

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  4. 55.
    Pippi Longstocking (PMC) (Puffin Modern Classics)
    by Astrid Lindgren

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  5. 56.
    Diary of a Madman and Other Stories (Thrift Edition)
    by Nikolai Gogol

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  6. 57.
    Mahabharata
    by William Buck

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  7. 58.
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    Children of Gebelawi (African writers series)
    by Najib Mahfuz

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  8. 60.
    The Magic Mountain
    by Thomas Mann

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  9. 61.
    Herman Melville's Moby Dick
    by Herman Melville

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  10. 62.
    Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics)
    by Michel de Montaigne

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  11. 63.
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    History (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Elsa Morante

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  12. 64.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

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  13. 65.
    The Tale of Genji: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Murasaki Shikibu

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  14. 67.
    Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  15. 69.
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  16. 70.
    Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics)
    by Ovid

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  17. 71.
    The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Classics)
    by Fernando Pessoa

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  18. 72.
    Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems
    by Edgar Allan Poe

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  19. 74.
    Gargantua and Pantagruel (Penguin Classics)
    by Francois Rabelais

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  20. 75.
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    Pedro Paramo (Letras Hispanicas)
    by Juan Rulfo Vizcaino

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  21. 76.
    The Mathnawi Jalaluddin Rumi, vol. VI (Books 5-6)
    by Reynold A. Nicholson

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  22. 77.
    Midnight's Children
    by Salman Rushdie

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  23. 78.
    Sadi's Bustan and Gulistan
    by Sadi

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  24. 79.
    Season of Migration to the North (Penguin Classics)
    by Tayeb Salih

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  25. 80.
    Blindness (Harvest Book)
    by Jose Saramago

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  26. 81.
    Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  27. 82.
    King Lear (Oxford School Shakespeare Series)
    by William Shakespeare

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  28. 83.
    Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  29. 84.
    Oedipus the King (Enriched Classics)
    by Sophocles

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  30. 85.
    The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics)
    by Stendhal

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  31. 87.
    Confessions of Zeno
    by Italo Svevo

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  32. 88.
    Gulliver's Travels (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Jonathan Swift

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  33. 89.
    War & Peace (Konemann Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  34. 90.
    Anna Karenina (Signet Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  35. 92.
    Chekhov: Selected Short Stories (Russian Texts)
    by Anton Pavlovitch Chekhov

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  37. 94.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

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  38. 95.
    The Ramayana: A Modern Retelling of the Great Indian Epic
    by Ramesh Menon

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  39. 96.
    The Aeneid: Virgil
    by Virgil

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  41. 98.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf

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  42. 99.
    To the Lighthouse
    by Virginia Woolf

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  43. 100.
    Memoirs of Hadrian
    by Marguerite Yourcenar

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