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International Writers poll: The World's 100 Greatest Books

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

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1. Things Fall Apart: A Novel
by Chinua Achebe
  
2. Hans Christian Andersen: The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories (Anchor Folktale Library)
by Hans Christian Andersen
  
3. Pride And Prejudice
by Jane Austen
  
4. Le père Goriot
by Honoré de Balzac
  
5. Beckett Trilogy 'Molloy', 'Malone Dies', 'the Unnamable
by Samuel Beckett
  
6. The Decameron (Penguin Classics)
by Giovanni Boccaccio
  
7. Borges: Collected Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
  
8.
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 Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte
  
9.
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 The Stranger
by Albert Camus (Tr. Matthew Ward)
  
10. Poems of Paul Celan: A Bilingual German/English Edition, Revised Edition
by Paul Celan
  
11. Journey to the End of the Night
by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
  
12. Don Quixote (P.S.)
by Miguel de Cervantes
  
13.
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 The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
  
14.
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 Anton Chekhov: Selected stories
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  
15. Nostromo (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper)
by Joseph Conrad
  
16. The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
  
17. Great Expectations (Enriched Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
18. Jacques the Fatalist (Oxford World's Classics)
by Denis Diderot
  
19. Berlin Alexanderplatz
by Alfred Döblin
  
20. Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
21.
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 The idiot: A novel in two books (Selected works / Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
22.
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 The Possessed
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  
23.
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 The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  
24. Middlemarch
by George Eliot
  
25. Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
  
26.
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 Medea
by Euripides
  
27. Absalom, Absalom!: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
by William Faulkner
  
28.
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 The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
  
29. Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert
  
30. A Sentimental Education (Oxford World's Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert
  
31.
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 The Gypsy Ballads of Garcia Lorca
by Garcia Lorca
  
32.
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 One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez
  
33.
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 Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
34. The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Epics)
by Anonymous
  
35.
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 Faust
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  
36.
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 Dead Souls
by Nikolai Vasilivich Gogol
  
37.
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 The Tin Drum
by Gunter Grass
  
38.
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 The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
by Joao Guimaraes Rosa
  
39.
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 Hunger
by Knut Hamsun
  
40.
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 The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
  
41. The Iliad of Homer (Phoenix Books)
by Homer
  
42.
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 The Odyssey
by Homer
  
43.
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 A Doll's House
by henrik ibsen
  
44.
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 The Book of Job  
45.
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 Ulysses By James Joyce
by James Joyce
  
46.
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 Kafka : The Complete Stories & Parables
by Franz Kafka
  
47. The Trial
by Franz Kafka
  
48.
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 The Castle
by Franz Kafka
  
49. The Recognition of Sakuntala: A Play in Seven Acts (Oxford World's Classics)
by Kalidasa
  
50. The Sound of the Mountain
by Yasunari Kawabata
  
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Created by joaomiguel on Jan 27, 2008.