Lists of Bests: The Library of World Literature http://www.listsofbests.com/list/37965 The editors of The Norwegian Book Clubs asked the 100 authors to nominate ten books that, in their opinion, are the ten best and most central works in world literature: These are books that have had a decisive impact on the cultural history of the world and also left an individual mark on the authors own thinking and imagination. Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:39:28 GMT en-us 0 50 101 50 0 Things Fall Apart http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2730218 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2730218"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141023384.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chinua Achebe</div> Hans Andersen Complete Fairy Tales and Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2806556 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hans Christian Andersen</div> Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19145 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19145"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679783261.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056465050_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Le père Goriot http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1977826 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1977826"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0543894177.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Honoré de Balzac</div> Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (Everyman's Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1046538 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1046538"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375400702.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Beckett</div> The Decameron (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13969 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13969"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451528662.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Giovanni Boccaccio</div> Borges: Collected Fictions http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3029 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3029"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140286802.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jorge Luis Borges</div> Wuthering Heights (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43232 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43232"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451529251.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emily Bronte</div> Camus: The Stranger (Landmarks of World Literature (New)STUDY GUIDE http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970595 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970595"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521539773.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patrick McCarthy</div> Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65078 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65078"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393322246.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Celan</div> Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Journey to the End of the Night (Landmarks of World Literature) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/215355 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/215355"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521378540.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Sturrock</div> Don Quixote (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1359 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1359"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060934344.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miguel de Cervantes</div> The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3149 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3149"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140424385.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Geoffrey Chaucer</div> Nostromo http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71323 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71323"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521313651.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> The Divine Comedy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13699 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13699"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451208633.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dante Alighieri</div> Great Expectations http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2069402 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2069402"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/158726398X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Jacques the Fatalist and His Master http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1640312 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Berlin Alexanderplatz http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/73391 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/73391"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/3423002956.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alfred Doblin</div> Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962607 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962607"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/074348763X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1085453646_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoyevsky</div> The Idiot (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65081 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65081"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679642420.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoevsky</div> Besy. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2827811 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2827811"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01Jtcn-m0WL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dostoevsky F.</div> The Brothers Karamazov http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8646 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8646"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374528373.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoevsky</div> Middlemarch (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/315000 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/315000"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451529170.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Eliot</div> The Invisible Man (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13965 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13965"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451528522.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by H.G. Wells</div> Medea http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1995388 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1995388"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1580493467.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euripides</div> Absalom, Absalom! http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2018948 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2018948"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375508724.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> The Sound and the Fury http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18742 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18742"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679732241.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/988252 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/988252"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192840398.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gustave Flaubert</div> Sentimental Education (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/126606 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/126606"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140447970.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gustave Flaubert</div> Gypsy Ballads of Garcia Lorca http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1640399 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Garcia Lorca</div> One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/453406 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/453406"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060883286.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> Love in the Time of Cholera http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2733244 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2733244"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141023473.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Verison with an Introduction (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3244 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3244"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014044100X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> Faust (Bantam Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15603 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15603"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553213482.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V42372268_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe</div> Dead Souls http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/179716 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/179716"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140448071.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nikolai Gogol</div> The Tin Drum http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2480234 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2480234"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099483505.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gunter Grass</div> The Devil to Pay in the Backlands http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65087 <div id="position">37</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joao Guimaraes Rosa</div> Hunger http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970032 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970032"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486431681.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Knut Hamsun</div> The Old Man and the Sea http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64500 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64500"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099908409.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> The Iliad of Homer (Phoenix Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4994 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4994"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226469409.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div> The Odyssey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8611 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8611"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374525749.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div> A Doll's House http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2510607 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2510607"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1406914835.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44284720_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henrik Ibsen</div> The Book of Job http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1395810 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1395810"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0393319008.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1113636610_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Raymond P. Schiendlin</div> Ulysses http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970318 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970318"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1404336877.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> Franz Kafka The Complete Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2409264 <div id="position">45</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Franz Kafka</div> The Trial http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24686 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24686"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805209999.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Franz Kafka</div> The Castle http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/823672 <div id="position">47</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Franz Kafka</div> The Recognition of Sakuntala: A Play in Seven Acts (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65089 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65089"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/019283911X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kalidasa</div> The Sound of the Mountain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65090 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65090"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679762647.01-A1FHV3WBFRTHQ1._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Yasunari Kawabata</div> Zorba the Greek (Faber Fiction Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/991456 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/991456"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0571203132.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nikos Kazantzakis</div>