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. 51.
    Zorba the Greek
    by Nikos Kazantzakis

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  2. 52.
    Sons and Lovers
    by D.H. Lawrence

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  3. 53.
    Independent People
    by Halldor Laxness

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  4. 54.
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    I Canti (Complete Poems)
    by Giacomo Leopardi

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  5. 55.
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    The Golden Notebook: A Novel
    by Doris Lessing

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  6. 56.
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    Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
    by Astrid Lindgren

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  7. 57.
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    Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
    by Nikolai Gogol

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  8. 58.
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    Mahabharata

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  9. 59.
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    Children of Gebelawi (African writers series)
    by Najib Mahfuz

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  10. 60.
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    Buddenbrooks
    by Thomas Mann

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  11. 61.
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    Mann, Thomas-The Magic Mountain

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  12. 62.
    Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
    by Herman Melville

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  13. 63.
    Montaigne: Essays
    by Michel de Montaigne

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  14. 64.
    History: A Novel
    by Elsa Morante

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  15. 65.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

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  16. 67.
    Man Without Qualities, The
    by ROBERT MUSIL

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  17. 68.
    Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabakov

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  18. 69.
    Njal's Saga (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous

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  19. 70.
    1984
    by George Orwell

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  20. 71.
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    The Metamorphoses
    by Ovid

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  21. 72.
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    The Book of Disquiet
    by Fernando Pessoa

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  22. 73.
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    Complete Tales of Edgar Allen Poe
    by Edgar Allen Poe

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  23. 74.
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    Remembrance of Things Past (7 volumes)
    by Marcel Proust

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  24. 75.
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    Works of Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel
    by Francois Rabelais

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  25. 76.
    Pedro Páramo
    by Juan Rulfo

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  26. 78.
    Midnight's Children
    by Salman Rushdie

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  27. 79.
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    The Orchard
    by Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi

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  28. 80.
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    Seasons of Migration to the North
    by Tayeb Salih

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  29. 81.
    Blindness
    by Jose Saramago

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  30. 82.
    Hamlet
    by William Shakespeare

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  31. 83.
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    The Tragedy of King Lear
    by William Shakespeare

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  32. 84.
    Othello
    by William Shakespeare

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  33. 85.
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    Oedipus the King
    by Sophocles

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  34. 86.
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    The Red and the Black
    by Stendhal

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  35. 87.
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    Tristram Shandy
    by Laurence Sterne

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  36. 88.
    Confessions of Zeno
    by Italo Svevo

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  37. 89.
    Gulliver's Travels
    by Jonathan Swift

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  38. 90.
    War and Peace
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  39. 91.
    Anna Karenina
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  40. 92.
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    The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  41. 93.
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    The Thousand and One Nights (complete collection)
    by Anonymous

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  42. 94.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    by Mark Twain

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  43. 95.
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    the ramayana
    by Valmiki

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  44. 96.
    The Aeneid of Virgil
    by Virgil

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  45. 97.
    Leaves of Grass
    by Walt Whitman

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  46. 98.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf

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  47. 99.
    To the Lighthouse
    by Virginia Woolf

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  48. 100.
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    Memoirs of Hadrian
    by Marguerite Yourcenar

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