Lists of Bests: The Library of World Literature

Send to Printer The Library of World 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: 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.		Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
	2.	?	Hans Andersen Complete Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen
	3.		Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library Classics) by Jane Austen
	4.		Le père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
	5.		Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (Everyman's Library) by Samuel Beckett
	6.		The Decameron (Signet Classics) by Giovanni Boccaccio
	7.		Borges: Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
	8.		Wuthering Heights (Signet Classics) by Emily Bronte
	9.		Camus: The Stranger (Landmarks of World Literature (New)STUDY GUIDE by Patrick McCarthy
	10.		Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan by Paul Celan
	11.		Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Journey to the End of the Night (Landmarks of World Literature) by John Sturrock
	12.		Don Quixote (P.S.) by Miguel de Cervantes
	13.		The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer
	14.		Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
	15.		The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
	16.		Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
	17.	?	Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
	18.		Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin
	19.		Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
	20.		The Idiot (Modern Library Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
	21.		Besy. by Dostoevsky F.
	22.		The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
	23.		Middlemarch (Signet Classics) by George Eliot
	24.		The Invisible Man (Signet Classics) by H.G. Wells
	25.		Medea by Euripides
	26.		Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
	27.		The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
	28.		Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
	29.		Sentimental Education (Penguin Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
	30.	?	Gypsy Ballads of Garcia Lorca by Garcia Lorca
	31.		One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
	32.		Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
	33.		The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Verison with an Introduction (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous
	34.		Faust (Bantam Classics) by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
	35.		Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
	36.		The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
	37.	?	The Devil to Pay in the Backlands by Joao Guimaraes Rosa
	38.		Hunger by Knut Hamsun
	39.		The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
	40.		The Iliad of Homer (Phoenix Books) by Homer
	41.		The Odyssey by Homer
	42.		A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
	43.		The Book of Job by Raymond P. Schiendlin
	44.		Ulysses by James Joyce
	45.	?	Franz Kafka The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka
	46.		The Trial by Franz Kafka
	47.	?	The Castle by Franz Kafka
	48.		The Recognition of Sakuntala: A Play in Seven Acts (Oxford World's Classics) by Kalidasa
	49.		The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata
	50.		Zorba the Greek (Faber Fiction Classics) by Nikos Kazantzakis
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