- Ulysses by James Joyce
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (MOST VOTES)
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
- Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- The Odyssey by Homer
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
- The Iliad by Homer
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- The Trial by Franz Kafka
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
- One Thousand and One Nights
- The Aeneid by Virgil
- Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
- Oedipus the King by Sophocles
- The Red and the Black by Stendhal
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
- Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
- Essays by Michel de Montaigne
- The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
- Collected Fiction by Jorge Luis Borges
- The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
- The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka
- Journey to the End of The Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
- Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Anderson
- Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
- The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
- The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
- Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
- Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
- Mahabharata by Vyasa
- Metamorphoses by Ovid
- Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
- The Castle by Franz Kafka
- Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
- Medea by Euripides
- The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
- The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
- Epic of Gilgamesh by Unknown
- Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
- King Lear by William Shakespeare
- Hunger by Knut Hamsun
- A Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
- Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
- Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett
- Molloy by Samuel Beckett
- Blindness by Jose Saramago
- Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo
- Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
- The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
- Complete Poems of Giacomo Leopardi by Giacomo Leopardi
- Independent People by Halldor Laxness
- Othello by William Shakespeare
- Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
- Ramayana by Valmiki
- The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
- Diary of a Madman and Other Stories by Xun Lu
- Gypsy Ballads by Federico Garcia Lorca
- History by Elsa Morante
- Jacques the Fatalist and His Master by Denis Diderot
- Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
- Poems by Paul Celan
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
- The Devil to Pay in the Backlands by Joao Guimaraes Rosa
- Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
- Bostan by Saadi
- Children of Gebelawi by Naguib Mahfouz
- Masnavi by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Njal's Saga by Iceland
- Season of Migration to the North by Al-Tayyib Salih
- The Book of Job by Israel
- The Recognition of Sakuntala by Kalidasa
- The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata
The editors of the Norwegian Book Clubs, with the Norwegian Nobel Institute, polled a panel of 100 authors from 54 countries on what they considered the “best and most central works in world literature.” Among the authors polled were Milan Kundera, Doris Lessing, Seamus Heaney, Salman Rushdie, Wole Soyinka, John Irving, Nadine Gordimer, and Carlos Fuentes. The list of 100 works appears alphabetically by author. Although the books were not ranked, the editors revealed that Don Quixote received 50% more votes than any other book.
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