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Top 100 Books of All Time (The Guardian)

Take a look at a list of the top 100 books of all time, nominated by writers from around the world, from Things Fall Apart to Mrs Dalloway, and from Pride and Prejudice to Don Quixote.
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1984 (George Orwell)
1984
George Orwell
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A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen)
A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen
3
Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert)
Sentimental Education
Gustave Flaubert
4
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner
5
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
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The Aeneid (Virgil)
The Aeneid
Virgil
7
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
8
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved
Toni Morrison
9
Berlin Alexander-Platz
Berlin Alexander-Platz
10
Blindness (José Saramago)
Blindness
José Saramago
11
The Book of Disquiet (Fernando Pessoa)
The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa
12
The Book of Job (Stephen Mitchell)
The Book of Job
Stephen Mitchell
13
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
14
Buddenbrooks
Buddenbrooks
15
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
16
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
The Castle
Franz Kafka
17
Children of Gebelawi
Children of Gebelawi
18
Collected Fictions
Collected Fictions
19
Poems of Giacomo Leopardi
Poems of Giacomo Leopardi
20
The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories
21
The Complete Poems (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Complete Poems
Edgar Allan Poe
22
Confessions of Zeno
Confessions of Zeno
23
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
24
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol
25
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Leo Tolstoy)
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy
26
The Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio)
The Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio
27
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
28
Diary of a Madman
Diary of a Madman
29
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
30
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
Miguel De Cervantes
31
Essays
Essays
32
Fairy Tales and Stories (Andersen)
Fairy Tales and Stories
Andersen
33
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
34
Gargantua and Pantagruel (François Rabelais)
Gargantua and Pantagruel
François Rabelais
35
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Anonymous)
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Anonymous
36
The Golden Notebook (Doris Lessing)
The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing
37
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
38
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
39
Gypsy Ballads
Gypsy Ballads
40
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
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