Lists of Bests: The 100 most meaningful books of all time http://www.listsofbests.com/list/40574 From http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Guides/GoodReads/100alltime.asp: A 2002 survey of around 100 well-known authors from 54 countries voted for the "most meaningful book of all time" in a poll organised by editors at the Norwegian Book Clubs in Oslo. Voters included Doris Lessing, Salman Rushdie, Carlos Fuentes and Norman Mailer. Miguel de Cervantes' tale gained 50% more votes than any other book, eclipsing works by Shakespeare, Homer and Tolstoy. Ten authors got more than one book on to the list. After Cervantes, Fyodor Dostoevsky emerged as the most worthwhile read with four books listed. The only Shakespeare plays the authors agreed on were Hamlet, King Lear and Othello. The Bard was matched by Franz Kafka whose three angst-ridden tales of grotesque alienation on the list were The Trial, The Castle and the Complete Stories. Three works by Leo Tolstoy made it: War and Peace, Anna Karenina and The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories. William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf both scored twice, along with the Colombian Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Other than 'Don Quixote' in first place below, the remaining 99 titles are reproduced as published by De Norske Bokklubbene in alphabetical order and are not ranked. Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:50:58 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 Don Quixote (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1359 <div id="position">1</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> Things Fall Apart http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2730218 <div id="position">2</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 Christian Andersen: The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories (Anchor Folktale Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1432891 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1432891"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385189516.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44871215_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hans Christian Andersen</div> Pride and Prejudice http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56343 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56343"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143036238.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Balzac: Old Goriot (Landmarks of World Literature) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1335490 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1335490"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521327997.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Bellos</div> Beckett Trilogy 'Molloy', 'Malone Dies', 'the Unnamable http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/511183 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/511183"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0714541079.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel Beckett</div> The Decameron (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60694 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60694"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449302.01._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">8</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 (Classic Novels Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1042684 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1042684"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0764111485.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056484062_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emily Bronte</div> Camus: The Stranger (Landmarks of World Literature (New)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1160033 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1160033"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0521832101.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1069202150_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patrick McCarthy</div> Poems of Paul Celan. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2948307 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul. CELAN</div> Journey to the End of the Night (New Directions Paperbook) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/107802 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/107802"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0811216543.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louis-Ferdinand Celine</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 (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1057925 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1057925"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486424529.01._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 (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3514 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3514"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439564.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V34858991_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Jacques the Fatalist (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4324 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4324"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192838741.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Denis Diderot</div> Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Story Of Franz Biberkopf (Continuum Impacts) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/214392 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/214392"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0826477895.01._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, Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1935 Random House (The Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2930737 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoyevsky</div> THE POSESSED http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2336410 <div id="position">21</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY</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> Invisible Man: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962378 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962378"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375507914.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44539344_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Ellison</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!: The Corrected Text (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18572 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18572"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679600728.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464843_.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: Romancero Gitano (Hispanic Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1640398 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1640398"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0856684910.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1083862198_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Federico 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 (MTI) (Vintage International) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766324 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></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: Part One (Oxford World's Classic) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4303 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4303"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192835955.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</div> Dead Souls (Everyman's Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/48657 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/48657"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400043190.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nikolai Gogol</div> The Tin Drum http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/964298 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/964298"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375420576.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1113651330_.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/3451569 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3451569"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/013YuRIROUL.jpg" /></a></div> Old Man And The Sea (Scribner Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19353 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19353"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684830493.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056465507_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> The Iliad (Collector's Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2338032 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2338032"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1904633382.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43282293_.jpg" /></a></div> The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/834000 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/834000"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039954.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div> A Doll's House http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2330537 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2330537"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1599869497.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V40764279_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henrik, Ibsen</div> The Book of Job and Ecclesiastes, or The Preacher http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3486462 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3486462"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01HZEVNARAL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> James Joyce's Ulysses http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11147 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11147"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394700139.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stuart Gilbert</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/24692 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" 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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>