Lists of Bests: The World Library: The 100 best books of all time as compiled by Boken magazine http://www.listsofbests.com/list/64076 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 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:22:36 GMT en-us 0 50 102 50 0 Watership Down: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/133340 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/133340"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743277708.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Adams</div> Drottningens juvelsmycke http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5314357 <div id="position">2</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carl Jonas Love Almqvist</div> The House of the Spirits http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/152563 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/152563"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553383809.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isabel Allende</div> The Flowers of Evil (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3732730 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3732730"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01FSIoNUtmL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Baudelaire</div> The Bible http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/68804 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by </div> Kallocain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46779 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46779"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0299038947.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056428946_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karin Boye</div> Death of Virgil http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/236966 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/236966"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679755489.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hermann Broch</div> The Long Ships.: A Saga of the Viking Age http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4986620 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson</div> Wuthering Heights http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1899322 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emily Bronte</div> The Master and Margarita http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2020187 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mikhail Bulgakov</div> The Baron in the Trees http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4083 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4083"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156106809.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Italo Calvino</div> The Stranger http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2171088 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus (Tr. Matthew Ward)</div> The Lost Steps http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25780 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25780"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0816638071.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056496509_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alejo Carpentier</div> Alice in Wonderland http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5401439 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5401439"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513irV6DFsL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lewis Carroll</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">15</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 Quijote http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5294918 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra</div> Heart of Darkness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2429781 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2429781"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1599869500.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph, Conrad</div> The Divine Comedy (Borders Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2522886 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Samuels bok http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792268 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sven Delblanc</div> Dickens, Charles-The Pickwick Papers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3539412 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> David Copperfield (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3227 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3227"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140439447.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V42219544_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> The brothers Karamasov: Selections (The Great books. Third year) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/741313 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoyevsky</div> The Idiot By Fyodor Dostoyevski http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5568213 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Crime and Punishment http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2450129 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoyevsky</div> An American Tragedy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619580 <div id="position">25</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Theodore Dreiser</div> Hunden http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4312056 <div id="position">26</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kerstin Ekman</div> Second-Class Citizen http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/631777 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/631777"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0807610666.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056493992_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Buchi Emecheta</div> LIGHT IN AUGUST http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619722 <div id="position">28</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> Madame Bovary http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/672772 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gustave Flaubert</div> Stad-serien http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2772216 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Per Anders Fogelström</div> Simons Family: A Novel of Mothers and Sons http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6088349 <div id="position">31</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marianne Fredriksson</div> The Women's Room http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4108091 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marilyn French</div> One Hundred Years of Solitude http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/493231 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel García Márquez</div> The Counterfeiters: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11177 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11177"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394718429.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Andre Gide</div> Faust I & II (Goethe : The Collected Works, Vol 2) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/287153 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/287153"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/069103656X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45091743_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</div> Childhood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4563834 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maxim Gorky</div> The Wind in the Willows (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/495808 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/495808"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451530144.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V66859713_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kenneth Grahame</div> Brighton Rock: (Penguin Classic Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/61309 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/61309"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437972.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1083834066_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Graham Greene</div> The Good Soldier Svejk: and His Fortunes in the World War (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/742956 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/742956"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449914.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jaroslav Hasek</div> Catch-22 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53327 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53327"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099477319.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div> The Sun Also Rises http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1233441 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1233441"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743297334.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> The Old Man and the Sea http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1145441 <div id="position">42</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> Steppenwolf http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/48717 <div id="position">43</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herman Hesse</div> The Odyssey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2962 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2962"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140268863.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056420501_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div> The World According to Garp http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1145451 <div id="position">45</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Irving</div> Efter floden http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2772962 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by P C Jersild</div> Hans nådes tid http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2772920 <div id="position">47</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eyvind Johnson</div> Ulysses By James Joyce http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3902227 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> The Trial http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24692 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24692"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805210407.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122576327_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Franz Kafka</div> America by Franz Kafka http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5568211 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div>