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100 Best Books of All Time: The World Library List

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"100 Best Books of All Time: The World Library List
Per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokklubb....
List of 100 best books of all time, as voted on by 100 writers in 54 different countries. List reflects works from multiple countries, cultures and time periods. Compiled in 2002 by Norwegian Book Clubs. "
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Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
1
Jane Austen
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
2
George Orwell
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
3
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet
4
William Shakespeare
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights
5
Emily Brontë
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
6
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
7
Leo Tolstoy
The Man Without Qualities (Robert Musil)
The Man Without Qualities
8
Robert Musil
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
9
Homer
Faust: First Part (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust: First Part
10
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The Arabian Nights' Entertainments
The Arabian Nights' Entertainments
11
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
12
Mark Twain
Zorba the Greek
Zorba the Greek
13
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
14
Albert Camus
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
15
Franz Kafka
Ficciones (Jorge Luis Borges)
Ficciones
16
Jorge Luis Borges
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
17
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
18
Vladimir Nabokov
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
19
Miguel De Cervantes
Swann's Way (Marcel Proust)
Swann's Way
20
Marcel Proust
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
21
Charles Dickens
Gargantua and Pantagruel (François Rabelais)
Gargantua and Pantagruel
22
François Rabelais
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
The Old Man and the Sea
23
Ernest Hemingway
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
24
Leo Tolstoy
Journey to the End of the Night (Louis-Ferdinand Céline)
Journey to the End of the Night
25
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
The Book of Disquiet (Fernando Pessoa)
The Book of Disquiet
26
Fernando Pessoa
The Iliad (Homer)
The Iliad
27
Homer
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
28
Gustave Flaubert
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
29
Herman Melville
King Lear (William Shakespeare)
King Lear
30
William Shakespeare
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy
31
Dante Alighieri
Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales (Hans Christian Anderson)
Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales
32
Hans Christian Anderson
Jacques the Fatalist (Denis Diderot)
Jacques the Fatalist
33
Denis Diderot
Othello (William Shakespeare)
Othello
34
William Shakespeare
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
35
Virginia Woolf
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez)
Love in the Time of Cholera
36
Gabriel García Márquez
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
37
Geoffrey Chaucer
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs. Dalloway
38
Virginia Woolf
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
39
James Joyce
Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
Oedipus Rex
40
Sophocles
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