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

  2. 3.
    Pride And Prejudice
    by Jane Austen

  3. 4.
    Le père Goriot
    by Honoré de Balzac

  4. 5.
    Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
    by Samuel Beckett

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

  6. 7.
    Collected Fictions
    by Jorge Luis Borges

  7. 8.
    Wuthering Heights
    by Emily Bronte

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

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

  10. 12.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel De Cervantes

  11. 13.
    ?
    The Canterbury Tales
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

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

  13. 15.
    Nostromo (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

  14. 16.

  15. 17.
    Great Expectations (Enriched Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  16. 18.
    Jacques the Fatalist (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Denis Diderot

  17. 19.
    Berlin Alexanderplatz
    by Alfred Döblin

  18. 20.
    Crime and Punishment
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  19. 21.
    ?

  20. 22.
    ?
    The Possessed
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  21. 23.
    ?
    The Brothers Karamazov
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  22. 24.
    Middlemarch
    by George Eliot

  23. 25.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

  24. 26.
    ?
    Medea
    by Euripides

  25. 27.
    Absalom, Absalom! (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

  26. 28.
    ?
    The Sound and the Fury
    by William Faulkner

  27. 29.
    Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

  28. 30.
    A Sentimental Education (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

  29. 31.
    ?
    The Gypsy Ballads of Garcia Lorca
    by Garcia Lorca

  30. 32.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel García Márquez

  31. 33.
    ?
    Love in the Time of Cholera
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  32. 34.
    The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Epics)
    by Anonymous

  33. 35.
    Faust
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  34. 36.
    ?
    Dead Souls
    by Nikolai Vasilivich Gogol

  35. 37.
    The Tin Drum
    by Gunter Grass

  36. 39.
    ?
    Hunger
    by Knut Hamsun

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

  38. 41.
    The Iliad of Homer
    by Homer

  39. 42.
    The Odyssey
    by Homer

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

  41. 44.
    ?
    The Book of Job

  42. 45.
    Ulysses
    by James Joyce

  43. 46.
    ?
    Kafka: The Complete Stories and Parables
    by Franz Kafka

  44. 47.
    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka

  45. 48.
    The Castle
    by Franz Kafka

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

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