International Writers poll: The World's 100 Greatest Books

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As chosen by international writers; list by Norwegian Book Clubs. The #1 was Don Quixote. No other order given.

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  1. 1.
    Things Fall Apart: A Novel
    by Chinua Achebe

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  2. 3.
    Pride And Prejudice
    by Jane Austen

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  3. 4.
    Le père Goriot
    by Honoré de Balzac

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  4. 5.
    Beckett Trilogy 'Molloy', 'Malone Dies', 'the Unnamable
    by Samuel Beckett

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  5. 6.
    The Decameron (Penguin Classics)
    by Giovanni Boccaccio

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  6. 7.
    Borges: Collected Fictions
    by Jorge Luis Borges

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  7. 8.
    Wuthering Heights
    by Emily Bronte

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  8. 9.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus (Tr. Matthew Ward)

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  9. 11.
    Journey to the End of the Night
    by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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  10. 12.
    Don Quixote (P.S.)
    by Miguel de Cervantes

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  11. 13.
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    The Canterbury Tales
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

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  12. 14.
    Anton Chekhov: Selected stories
    by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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  13. 16.
    The Divine Comedy
    by Dante Alighieri

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  14. 17.
    Great Expectations (Enriched Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  15. 18.
    Jacques the Fatalist (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Denis Diderot

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  16. 19.
    Berlin Alexanderplatz
    by Alfred Döblin

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  17. 20.
    Crime and Punishment
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  18. 21.
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  19. 22.
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    The Possessed
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  20. 23.
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    The Brothers Karamazov
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  21. 24.
    Middlemarch
    by George Eliot

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  22. 25.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

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  23. 26.
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    Medea
    by Euripides

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  24. 27.
    Absalom, Absalom!: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

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  25. 28.
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    The Sound and the Fury
    by William Faulkner

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  26. 29.
    Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

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  27. 30.
    A Sentimental Education (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

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  28. 31.
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    The Gypsy Ballads of Garcia Lorca
    by Garcia Lorca

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  29. 32.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel García Márquez

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  30. 33.
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    Love in the Time of Cholera
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  31. 34.
    The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Epics)
    by Anonymous

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  32. 35.
    Faust
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  33. 36.
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    Dead Souls
    by Nikolai Vasilivich Gogol

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  34. 37.
    The Tin Drum
    by Gunter Grass

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  35. 38.
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    The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
    by Joao Guimaraes Rosa

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  36. 39.
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    Hunger
    by Knut Hamsun

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  37. 40.
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    The Old Man and the Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  38. 41.
    The Iliad of Homer (Phoenix Books)
    by Homer

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  39. 42.
    The Odyssey
    by Homer

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  40. 43.
    A Doll's House
    by henrik ibsen

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  41. 44.
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    The Book of Job

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  42. 45.
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    Ulysses By James Joyce
    by James Joyce

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  43. 46.
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    Kafka : The Complete Stories & Parables
    by Franz Kafka

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  44. 47.
    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka

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  45. 48.
    The Castle
    by Franz Kafka

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  46. 50.
    The Sound of the Mountain
    by Yasunari Kawabata

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