Die ZEIT-Bibliothek der 100 Bücher war eine pädagogisch ambitionierte Artikelserie der Feuilleton-Redaktion der Wochenzeitung Die Zeit. Begonnen 1978, wurde in den folgenden zwei Jahren Woche für Woche eine Rezension zu einem Werk der Weltliteratur veröffentlicht.

1. Ulysses by James Joyce
2. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
3. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
4. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
5. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
6. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
7. Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
9. The Odyssey by Homer
10. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
11. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
12. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
13. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
14. The Iliad by Homer
15. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
16. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
17. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
18. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
19. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
20. The Stranger by Albert Camus
21. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
22. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
23. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
24. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
25. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
26. The Trial by Franz Kafka
27. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
28. Middlemarch by George Eliot
29. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
30. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
31. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
32. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
33. Candide by Voltaire
34. One Thousand and One Nights by India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt
35. The Aeneid by Virgil
36. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
37. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
38. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
39. Oedipus the King by Sophocles
40. The Red and the Black by Stendhal
41. Animal Farm by George Orwell
42. Confessions by Augustine
43. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
44. Paradise Lost by John Milton
45. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
46. The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
47. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
48. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
49. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
50. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
51. First Folio by William Shakespeare
52. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
53. The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
54. The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
55. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
56. Antigone by Sophocles
57. Essays by Michel de Montaigne
58. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
59. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
60. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
61. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
62. Emma by Jane Austen
63. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
64. The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka
65. Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
66. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
67. Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats by W. B. Yeats
68. Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
69. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
70. Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
71. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
72. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
73. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
74. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
75. Mahabharata by Vyasa
76. Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
77. Oresteia by Aeschylus
78. Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway
79. The Castle by Franz Kafka
80. The Histories of Herodotus by Herodotus
81. Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
82. Herzog by Saul Bellow
83. Medea by Euripides
84. Pensées by Blaise Pascal
85. The Ambassadors by Henry James
86. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
87. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
88. Epic of Gilgamesh by Unknown
89. Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
90. Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
91. The Complete Works of Plato by Plato
92. The Plague by Albert Camus
93. The Quran by Various Authors
94. Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
95. Analects by Confucius
96. De Rerum Natura by Lucretius
97. Electra by Sophocles
98. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
99. Lysistrata by Aristophanes
100. Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
101. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
102. The Bacchae by Euripides
103. The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake by William Blake
104. The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
105. The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
106. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
107. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
108. The Poems of Robert Frost by Robert Frost
109. Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo
110. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
111. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
112. Pragmatism by William James
113. The Art of War by Sun Zi
114. The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
115. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
116. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
117. The Waves by Virginia Woolf
118. The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
119. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
120. Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
121. Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
122. Corpus Aristotelicum by Aristotle
123. Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
124. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
125. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
126. The Birds by Aristophanes
127. The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
128. The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
129. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
130. The Prelude by William Wordsworth
131. Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
132. Trojan Women by Euripides
133. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
134. Autobiographies by W. B. Yeats
135. Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
136. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
137. Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot by T.S. Eliot
138. Discourse on Method by Rene Descartes
139. Hippolytus by Euripides
140. Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
141. Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en
142. Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill
143. Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
144. Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill
145. On the Genealogy of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche
146. Poems of W. H. Auden by W. H. Auden
147. Ramayana by Valmiki
148. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward FitzGerald
149. The Clouds by Aristophanes
150. The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne by John Donne
151. The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
152. The Makioka Sisters by Tanizaki Jun’ichirō
153. The Principles of Psychology by William James
154. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
155. Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality by Sigmund Freud
156. Endgame by Samuel Beckett
157. Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac
158. Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel
159. Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett
160. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
161. Selected Stories of Lu Hsun by Xun Lu
162. The Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Coleridge
163. The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton by John Milton
164. The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
165. The Misanthrope by Molière
166. The Poems of Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
167. The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
168. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
169. The Warden by Anthony Trollope
170. Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
171. Two Treatises of Government by John Locke
172. Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
173. Alcestis by Euripedes
174. An Autobiography of Anthony Trollope by Anthony Trollope
175. Basic Documents in American History by Richard Brandon Morris
176. Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata
177. Burmese Days by George Orwell
178. Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
179. Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
180. Democratic Vistas by Walt Whitman
181. Dreamtigers by Jorge Luis Borges
182. First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
183. Kokoro by Sōseki Natsume
184. Meghadūta by Kālidāsa
185. Mencius by Mencius
186. Platform Sutra by Huineng
187. Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian
188. Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Guanzhong Luo
189. Selected Plays of George Bernard Shaw by George Bernard Shaw
190. Selected Plays of Henrick Ibsen by Henrik Ibsen
191. Shahnameh by Ferdowsi
192. The Collected Plays of W.B. Yeats by William Butler Yeats
193. The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot by T. S. Eliot
194. The English Teacher by R. K. Narayan
195. The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
196. The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill
197. The Meaning of Truth by William James
198. The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Matsuo Bashō
199. The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon
200. The Plum in the Golden Vase by Anonymous
201. The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill
202. Vendor Of Sweeets by R. K. Narayan, R.K.

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