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100 BEST BOOKS OF ALL TIME


List of the 100 Best Books of All Time 


TitleAuthorYearCountryLanguage
Things Fall ApartChinua Achebe1958NigeriaEnglish
Fairy talesHans Christian Andersen1835–37DenmarkDanish
The Divine ComedyDante Alighieri1308–1321ItalyItalian
Epic of GilgameshUnknown18th – 17th century BCESumer and Akkadian EmpireAkkadian
Book of JobUnknown6th – 4th century BCEAchaemenid EmpireHebrew
One Thousand and One NightsUnknown700–1500India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt/TajikistanPersian
Njál's SagaUnknown13th centuryIcelandOld Norse
Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen1813United KingdomEnglish
Le Père GoriotHonoré de Balzac1835FranceFrench
MolloyMalone DiesThe Unnamable, a trilogySamuel Beckett1951–53Republic of IrelandFrench, English
The DecameronGiovanni Boccaccio1349–53ItalyItalian
FiccionesJorge Luis Borges1944–86ArgentinaSpanish
Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë1847United KingdomEnglish
The StrangerAlbert Camus1942AlgeriaFrench EmpireFrench
PoemsPaul Celan1952RomaniaFranceGerman
Journey to the End of the NightLouis-Ferdinand Céline1932FranceFrench
Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes1605 (part 1), 1615 (part 2)SpainSpanish
The Canterbury TalesGeoffrey Chaucer14th centuryEnglandEnglish
StoriesAnton Chekhov1886RussiaRussian
NostromoJoseph Conrad1904United KingdomEnglish
Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens1861United KingdomEnglish
Jacques the FatalistDenis Diderot1796FranceFrench
Berlin AlexanderplatzAlfred Döblin1929GermanyGerman
Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky1866RussiaRussian
The IdiotFyodor Dostoevsky1869RussiaRussian
The PossessedFyodor Dostoevsky1872RussiaRussian
The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoevsky1880RussiaRussian
MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot1871United KingdomEnglish
Invisible ManRalph Ellison1952United StatesEnglish
MedeaEuripides431 BCEGreeceGreek
Absalom, Absalom!William Faulkner1936United StatesEnglish
The Sound and the FuryWilliam Faulkner1929United StatesEnglish
Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert1857FranceFrench
Sentimental EducationGustave Flaubert1869FranceFrench
Gypsy BalladsFederico García Lorca1928SpainSpanish
One Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel García Márquez1967ColombiaSpanish
Love in the Time of CholeraGabriel García Márquez1985ColombiaSpanish
FaustJohann Wolfgang von Goethe1832Saxe-WeimarGerman
Dead SoulsNikolai Gogol1842RussiaRussian
The Tin DrumGünter Grass1959GermanyGerman
The Devil to Pay in the BacklandsJoão Guimarães Rosa1956BrazilPortuguese
HungerKnut Hamsun1890NorwayNorwegian
The Old Man and the SeaErnest Hemingway1952United StatesEnglish
IliadHomer760–710 BCEGreeceGreek
OdysseyHomer8th century BCEGreeceGreek
A Doll's HouseHenrik Ibsen1879NorwayNorwegian
UlyssesJames Joyce1922Irish Free StateEnglish
StoriesFranz Kafka1924CzechoslovakiaGerman
The TrialFranz Kafka1925CzechoslovakiaGerman
The CastleFranz Kafka1926CzechoslovakiaGerman
ShakuntalaKālidāsa1st century BCE – 4th century CEIndiaSanskrit
The Sound of the MountainYasunari Kawabata1954JapanJapanese
Zorba the GreekNikos Kazantzakis1946GreeceGreek
Sons and LoversD. H. Lawrence1913United KingdomEnglish
Independent PeopleHalldór Laxness1934–35IcelandIcelandic
PoemsGiacomo Leopardi1818ItalyItalian
The Golden NotebookDoris Lessing1962United KingdomEnglish
Pippi LongstockingAstrid Lindgren1945SwedenSwedish
A Madman's DiaryLu Xun1918ChinaChinese
Children of GebelawiNaguib Mahfouz1959EgyptArabic
BuddenbrooksThomas Mann1901GermanyGerman
The Magic MountainThomas Mann1924GermanyGerman
Moby-DickHerman Melville1851United StatesEnglish
EssaysMichel de Montaigne1595FranceFrench
HistoryElsa Morante1974ItalyItalian
BelovedToni Morrison1987United StatesEnglish
The Tale of GenjiMurasaki Shikibu11th centuryJapanJapanese
The Man Without QualitiesRobert Musil1930–32AustriaGerman
LolitaVladimir Nabokov1955Russia/United StatesEnglish
Nineteen Eighty-FourGeorge Orwell1949United KingdomEnglish
MetamorphosesOvid1st century CERoman EmpireClassical Latin
The Book of DisquietFernando Pessoa1928PortugalPortuguese
TalesEdgar Allan Poe19th centuryUnited StatesEnglish
In Search of Lost TimeMarcel Proust1913–27FranceFrench
Gargantua and PantagruelFrançois Rabelais1532–34FranceFrench
Pedro PáramoJuan Rulfo1955MexicoSpanish
MasnaviRumi1258–73Sultanate of RumPersian
Midnight's ChildrenSalman Rushdie1981United Kingdom, IndiaEnglish
BostanSaadi1257PersiaPersian EmpirePersian
Season of Migration to the NorthTayeb Salih1966SudanArabic
BlindnessJosé Saramago1995PortugalPortuguese
HamletWilliam Shakespeare1603EnglandEnglish
King LearWilliam Shakespeare1608EnglandEnglish
OthelloWilliam Shakespeare1609EnglandEnglish
Oedipus the KingSophocles430 BCEGreeceGreek
The Red and the BlackStendhal1830FranceFrench
Tristram ShandyLaurence Sterne1760EnglandEnglish
Confessions of ZenoItalo Svevo1923ItalyItalian
Gulliver's TravelsJonathan Swift1726IrelandEnglish
War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy1865–1869RussiaRussian
Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy1877RussiaRussian
The Death of Ivan IlyichLeo Tolstoy1886RussiaRussian
Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain1884United StatesEnglish
RamayanaValmiki5th century BCE - 4th century BCEIndiaSanskrit
AeneidVirgil29–19 BCERoman EmpireClassical Latin
MahabharataVyasa9th century BCE – 5th century BCEIndiaSanskrit
Leaves of GrassWalt Whitman1855United StatesEnglish
Mrs DallowayVirginia Woolf1925United KingdomEnglish
To the LighthouseVirginia Woolf1927United KingdomEnglish
Memoirs of HadrianMarguerite Yourcenar1951FranceFrench



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