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.
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- 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
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- The Trial by Franz Kafka
- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Candide by Voltaire
- One Thousand and One Nights by India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt
- The Aeneid by Virgil
- The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
- Oedipus the King by Sophocles
- The Red and the Black by Stendhal
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Confessions by Augustine
- On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
- Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
- Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- First Folio by William Shakespeare
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- Antigone by Sophocles
- Essays by Michel de Montaigne
- Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
- The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
- Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
- Emma by Jane Austen
- Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
- The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka
- Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
- The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
- Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats by W. B. Yeats
- Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
- Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
- Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
- The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
- Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
- Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
- Mahabharata by Vyasa
- Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
- Oresteia by Aeschylus
- Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway
- The Castle by Franz Kafka
- The Histories of Herodotus by Herodotus
- Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
- Herzog by Saul Bellow
- Medea by Euripides
- Pensées by Blaise Pascal
- The Ambassadors by Henry James
- The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
- Epic of Gilgamesh by Unknown
- Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
- Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
- The Complete Works of Plato by Plato
- The Plague by Albert Camus
- The Quran by Various Authors
- Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Analects by Confucius
- De Rerum Natura by Lucretius
- Electra by Sophocles
- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
- Lysistrata by Aristophanes
- Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
- Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
- The Bacchae by Euripides
- The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake by William Blake
- The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
- The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
- The Poems of Robert Frost by Robert Frost
- Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
- Pragmatism by William James
- The Art of War by Sun Zi
- The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
- The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The Waves by Virginia Woolf
- The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
- Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
- Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
- Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
- Corpus Aristotelicum by Aristotle
- Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
- Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
- Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
- The Birds by Aristophanes
- The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
- The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
- The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
- The Prelude by William Wordsworth
- Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
- Trojan Women by Euripides
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
- Autobiographies by W. B. Yeats
- Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
- Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot by T.S. Eliot
- Discourse on Method by Rene Descartes
- Hippolytus by Euripides
- Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
- Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en
- Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill
- Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill
- On the Genealogy of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Poems of W. H. Auden by W. H. Auden
- Ramayana by Valmiki
- Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward FitzGerald
- The Clouds by Aristophanes
- The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne by John Donne
- The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
- The Makioka Sisters by Tanizaki Jun’ichirō
- The Principles of Psychology by William James
- The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
- Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality by Sigmund Freud
- Endgame by Samuel Beckett
- Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac
- Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel
- Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett
- Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
- Selected Stories of Lu Hsun by Xun Lu
- The Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Coleridge
- The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton by John Milton
- The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
- The Misanthrope by Molière
- The Poems of Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
- The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
- The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
- The Warden by Anthony Trollope
- Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Two Treatises of Government by John Locke
- Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
- Alcestis by Euripedes
- An Autobiography of Anthony Trollope by Anthony Trollope
- Basic Documents in American History by Richard Brandon Morris
- Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata
- Burmese Days by George Orwell
- Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
- Democratic Vistas by Walt Whitman
- Dreamtigers by Jorge Luis Borges
- First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Kokoro by Sōseki Natsume
- Meghadūta by Kālidāsa
- Mencius by Mencius
- Platform Sutra by Huineng
- Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Guanzhong Luo
- Selected Plays of George Bernard Shaw by George Bernard Shaw
- Selected Plays of Henrick Ibsen by Henrik Ibsen
- Shahnameh by Ferdowsi
- The Collected Plays of W.B. Yeats by William Butler Yeats
- The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot by T. S. Eliot
- The English Teacher by R. K. Narayan
- The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
- The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill
- The Meaning of Truth by William James
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Matsuo Bashō
- The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon
- The Plum in the Golden Vase by Anonymous
- The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill
- Vendor Of Sweeets by R. K. Narayan, R.K.
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