XX Century Library - top 100 (+10) books by Norwegian Book Clubs

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As chosen by 100 Norwegian literary experts in 1991.

In 2007 they added the top 10 books of the 1990’s, which are at the end.

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  1. 1.
    The House of the Spirits: A Novel
    by Isabel Allende

  2. 3.
    The Second Sex
    by Simone De Beauvoir

  3. 5.
    The Diary of a Country Priest: A Novel
    by Georges Bernanos

  4. 6.
    Seven Gothic Tales
    by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)

  5. 7.
    Out of Africa (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Karen Blixen

  6. 8.
    Labyrinths (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Jorge Luis Borges

  7. 9.
    Mother Courage and Her Children (Methuen Drama)
    by Bertolt Brecht

  8. 10.
    The Master and Margarita
    by Mikhail Bulgakov

  9. 11.
    ?
    Samlede dikt
    by Olaf Bull

  10. 12.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus

  11. 13.
    The Plague
    by Albert Camus

  12. 14.
    War with the Newts (European Classics)
    by Karel Capek

  13. 15.
    Journey to the End of the Night
    by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

  14. 16.
    The Big Sleep
    by Raymond Chandler

  15. 17.
    Alphabet
    by Inger Christensen

  16. 18.
    Lord Jim
    by Joseph Conrad

  17. 19.
    ?
    Moderato Cantabile
    by Marguerite Duras

  18. 20.
    The Alexandria Quartet
    by Lawrence Durrell

  19. 21.
    ?
    The Trough of the Wave
    by Olav Duun

  20. 22.
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    Medmenneske ; Ettermæle (Noregs boklag drama)
    by Olav Duun

  21. 23.
    ?
    Floodtide of Fate
    by Olav Duun

  22. 25.

  23. 26.
    The Waste Land
    by T. S. Eliot

  24. 27.
    ?
    Natten's Brod An-Magritt
    by Johan Falkberget

  25. 28.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner

  26. 29.
    ?
    Fyr og flamme: Av handling
    by Kjartan Fløgstad

  27. 30.
    The Interpretation of Dreams
    by Sigmund Freud

  28. 31.
    A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
    by Sigmund Freud

  29. 32.
    Chronicle of a Death Foretold
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  30. 33.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  31. 34.
    My Childhood (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
    by Maxim Gorky

  32. 35.
    The Tin Drum (Vintage International)
    by Gunter Grass

  33. 36.
    The Heart of the Matter
    by Graham Greene

  34. 37.
    The Power and the Glory (Penguin Classics)
    by Graham Greene

  35. 38.
    Wayfarers
    by Knut Hamsun

  36. 39.
    Growth of the Soil
    by Knut Hamsun

  37. 40.
    The Liar
    by Martin A. Hansen

  38. 41.
    Selected Poems
    by Olav H. Hauge

  39. 42.
    The Lost Musicians (Dedalus Europe)
    by William Heinesen

  40. 43.
    The Old Man and the Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway

  41. 44.
    A Farewell to Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

  42. 45.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

  43. 46.
    The Short Stories (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

  44. 47.
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway

  45. 48.
    The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel
    by Hermann Hesse

  46. 49.
    Steppenwolf: A Novel
    by Hermann Hesse

  47. 50.
    Rhinoceros
    by Eugene Ionesco

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