The World Library: The 100 best books of all time as compiled by Boken magazine

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This list was compiled by votes from Swedish experts and was actually published around 1985, but a photocopy of it has been lying around in my office ever since. Thought I’d share it, since its significance for upper secondary school students in Sweden was massive at the time.

The Swedish magazine "Boken" (The Book) has been around for some 20 years claiming to be the biggest Nordic literary magazine. The fact that the magazine is defunct just one year after its editor in chief passed away in 2008 says something about the literary awareness in Sweden …

I tried to squeeze in as many English translations I could, though the list is heavily biased towards Swedish literature.

http://www.tidningen-boken.com

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  1. 1.
    Watership Down: A Novel
    by Richard Adams

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    Drottningens juvelsmycke
    by Carl Jonas Love Almqvist

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  3. 3.
    The House of the Spirits
    by Isabel Allende

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  4. 4.
    The Flowers of Evil (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Charles Baudelaire

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  5. 5.
    The Bible

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  6. 6.
    Kallocain
    by Karin Boye

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  7. 7.
    Death of Virgil
    by Hermann Broch

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    The Long Ships.: A Saga of the Viking Age
    by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson

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  9. 9.
    Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Emily Bronte

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  10. 10.
    The Master and Margarita
    by Mikhail Bulgakov

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  11. 11.
    The Baron in the Trees
    by Italo Calvino

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  12. 12.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus (Tr. Matthew Ward)

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  13. 13.
    The Lost Steps
    by Alejo Carpentier

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  14. 14.
    Alice in Wonderland
    by Lewis Carroll

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    Don Quijote
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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  16. 17.
    Heart of Darkness
    by Joseph, Conrad

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    Samuels bok
    by Sven Delblanc

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  20. 21.
    David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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    The brothers Karamasov: Selections (The Great books. Third year)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  22. 23.
    The Idiot (Modern Library Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  23. 24.
    Crime and Punishment
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  24. 25.
    An American Tragedy
    by Theodore Dreiser

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    Hunden
    by Kerstin Ekman

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  26. 27.
    Second-Class Citizen
    by Buchi Emecheta

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    LIGHT IN AUGUST
    by William Faulkner

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  28. 29.
    Madame Bovary
    by Gustave Flaubert

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    Stad-serien
    by Per Anders Fogelström

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    Simons Family: A Novel of Mothers and Sons
    by Marianne Fredriksson

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    The Women's Room
    by Marilyn French

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  32. 33.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel García Márquez

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  33. 34.
    The Counterfeiters: A Novel
    by Andre Gide

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  34. 35.
    Faust I & II (Goethe : The Collected Works, Vol 2)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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    Childhood
    by Maxim Gorky

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  36. 37.
    The Wind in the Willows (Signet Classics)
    by Kenneth Grahame

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  37. 40.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

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  38. 41.
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  39. 42.
    The Old Man and the Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway

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    Steppenwolf
    by Herman Hesse

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  41. 44.
    The Odyssey
    by Homer

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  42. 45.
    The World According to Garp
    by John Irving

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    Efter floden
    by P C Jersild

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    Hans nådes tid
    by Eyvind Johnson

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    Ulysses By James Joyce
    by James Joyce

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  46. 49.
    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka

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  47. 50.
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    America by Franz Kafka

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