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The 100 most meaningful books of all time

From http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Guides/GoodReads/100alltime.asp:

A 2002 survey of around 100 well-known authors from 54 countries voted for the "most meaningful book of all time" in a poll organised by editors at the Norwegian Book Clubs in Oslo. Voters included Doris Lessing, Salman Rushdie, Carlos Fuentes and Norman Mailer. Miguel de Cervantes’ tale gained 50% more votes than any other book, eclipsing works by Shakespeare, Homer and Tolstoy.

Ten authors got more than one book on to the list. After Cervantes, Fyodor Dostoevsky emerged as the most worthwhile read with four books listed. The only Shakespeare plays the authors agreed on were Hamlet, King Lear and Othello. The Bard was matched by Franz Kafka whose three angst-ridden tales of grotesque alienation on the list were The Trial, The Castle and the Complete Stories. Three works by Leo Tolstoy made it: War and Peace, Anna Karenina and The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories. William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf both scored twice, along with the Colombian Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Other than ‘Don Quixote’ in first place below, the remaining 99 titles are reproduced as published by De Norske Bokklubbene in alphabetical order and are not ranked.

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1. Don Quixote (P.S.)
by Miguel de Cervantes
 
2. Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
 
3. Hans Christian Andersen: The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories (Anchor Folktale Library)
by Hans Christian Andersen
 
4. Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
 
5. Balzac: Old Goriot (Landmarks of World Literature)
by David Bellos
 
6. Beckett Trilogy 'Molloy', 'Malone Dies', 'the Unnamable
by Samuel Beckett
 
7. The Decameron (Penguin Classics)
by Giovanni Boccaccio
 
8. Borges: Collected Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
 
9. Wuthering Heights (Classic Novels Series)
by Emily Bronte
 
10. Camus: The Stranger (Landmarks of World Literature (New))
by Patrick McCarthy
 
11.
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Poems of Paul Celan.
by Paul. CELAN
 
12. Journey to the End of the Night (New Directions Paperbook)
by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
 
13. The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
by Geoffrey Chaucer
 
14. Nostromo (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Joseph Conrad
 
15. The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
 
16. Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
 
17. Jacques the Fatalist (Oxford World's Classics)
by Denis Diderot
 
18. Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Story Of Franz Biberkopf (Continuum Impacts)
by Alfred Doblin
 
19. Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
 
20.
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The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1935 Random House (The Modern Library)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
 
21.
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THE POSESSED
by FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
 
22. The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
 
23. Middlemarch (Signet Classics)
by George Eliot
 
24. Invisible Man: A Novel
by Ralph Ellison
 
25. Medea
by Euripides
 
26. Absalom, Absalom!: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
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: Romancero Gitano (Hispanic Classics)
by Federico Garcia Lorca
 
31. One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
 
32.
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Love in the Time of Cholera (MTI) (Vintage International)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
 
33. The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Verison with an Introduction (Penguin Classics)
by Anonymous
 
34. Faust: Part One (Oxford World's Classic)
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
35. Dead Souls (Everyman's Library)
by Nikolai Gogol
 
36. The Tin Drum
by Gunter Grass
 
37.
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The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
by Joao Guimaraes Rosa
 
38. Hunger  
39. Old Man And The Sea (Scribner Classics)
by Ernest Hemingway
 
40. The Iliad (Collector's Library)  
41. The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
by Homer
 
42. A Doll's House
by Henrik, Ibsen
 
43. The Book of Job and Ecclesiastes, or The Preacher
by Anonymous
 
44. James Joyce's Ulysses
by Stuart Gilbert
 
45.
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Franz Kafka The Complete Stories
by Franz Kafka
 
46. The Trial
by Franz Kafka
 
47. Castle, The : A new translation based on the restored text
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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