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

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.

(found at: http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85rhundrets_Bibliotek)

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1. The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
  
2. Pelle the Conqueror (Complete Edition: Boyhood. Apprenticeship. The Great Struggle. Daybreak)
by Martin Andersen Nexo
  
3. The Second Sex
by Simone De Beauvoir
  
4. Waiting for Godot: A Bilingual Edition: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
by Samuel Beckett
  
5. The Diary of a Country Priest: A Novel
by Georges Bernanos
  
6. Seven Gothic Tales
by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
  
7. Out of Africa (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Karen Blixen
  
8. Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings (New Directions Paperbook)
by Jorge Luis Borges
  
9. Mother Courage and Her Children (Methuen Drama)
by Bertolt Brecht
  
10.
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 The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
  
11.
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 Samlede dikt
by Olaf Bull
  
12. The Stranger
by Albert Camus
  
13. The Plague
by Albert Camus
  
14. War with the Newts (European Classics)
by Karel Capek
  
15. Journey to the End of the Night (New Directions Paperbook)
by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
  
16. The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
  
17. Alphabet
by Inger Christensen
  
18. Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad
  
19.
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 Moderato Cantabile
by Marguerite Duras
  
20. The Alexandria Quartet
by Lawrence Durrell
  
21.
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 The People of Juvik Volume I: The Trough of the Wave
by Olav Duun
  
22.
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 Medmenneske ; Ettermæle (Noregs boklag drama)
by Olav Duun
  
23.
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 Floodtide of Fate
by Olav Duun
  
24. The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Umberto Eco
  
25. Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Penguin Classics)
by Albert Einstein
  
26. The Waste Land
by T. S. Eliot
  
27.
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 Natten's Brod An-Magritt
by Johan Falkberget
  
28. The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
  
29.
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 Fyr og flamme: Av handling
by Kjartan Fløgstad
  
30. The Interpretation of Dreams
by Sigmund Freud
  
31. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
by Sigmund Freud
  
32. Chronicle of a Death Foretold
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
33. One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
34. My Childhood (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Maxim Gorky
  
35. The Tin Drum (Vintage International)
by Gunter Grass
  
36. The Heart of the Matter
by Graham Greene
  
37. The Power and the Glory (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Graham Greene
  
38. Wayfarers
by Knut Hamsun
  
39. Growth of the Soil
by Knut Hamsun
  
40. The Liar
by Martin A. Hansen
  
41. Selected Poems
by Olav H. Hauge
  
42. The Lost Musicians (Dedalus Europe)
by William Heinesen
  
43. The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
  
44. A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
  
45. For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
by Ernest Hemingway
  
46. The Short Stories (Scribner Classics)
by Ernest Hemingway
  
47. The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
  
48. The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel
by Hermann Hesse
  
49. Steppenwolf: A Novel
by Hermann Hesse
  
50. Rhinoceros and Other Plays
by Eugene Ionesco
  
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