The 100 Greatest Books in History

1. Absalom, Absalom, William Faulkner
2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
3. The Aeneid, Virgil
4. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
5. Beloved, Toni Morrison
6. Berlin Alexanderplatz, Alfred Doblin
7. Blindness, Jose Saramago
8. The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa
9. The Book of Job, Anon
10. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor M Dostoyevsky
    
    
11. Buddenbrook, Thomas Mann
12. Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
13. The Castle, Franz Kafka
14. Children of Gebelawi, Naguib Mahfouz
15. Collected Fictions, Jorge Luis Borges
16. Complete Poems, Giacomo Leopardi
17. The Complete Stories, Franz Kafka
18. The Complete Tales, Edgar Allan Poe
19. Confessions of Zeno, Italo Svevo
20. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor M Dostoyevsky
    
    
21. Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol (see our review of Dead Souls here)
22. The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories, Leo Tolstoy
23. Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio
24. The Devil to Pay in the Backlands, Joao Guimaraes Rosa
25. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories, Lu Xun
26. The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri
27. A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen
28. Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
29. Essays, Michel de Montaigne
30. Fairy Tales and Stories, Hans Christian Andersen
    
    
31. Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
32. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Francois Rabelais
33. Gilgamesh, Anon
34. The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
35. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
36. Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
37. Gypsy Ballads, Federico Garcia Lorca
38. Hamlet, William Shakespeare
39. History, Elsa Morante
40. Hunger, Knut Hamsun (see review).
    
    
41. The Idiot, Fyodor M Dostoyevsky
42. The Iliad, Homer
43. Independent People, Halldor K Laxness
44. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
45. Jacques the Fatalist and His Master, Denis Diderot
46. Journey to the End of the Night, Louis-Ferdinand Celine
47. King Lear, William Shakespeare
48. Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
49. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne
50. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
    
    
51. Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
52. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
53. The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann
54. Mahabharata, Anon
55. The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil
56. Mathnawi, Jalal ad-din Rumi
57. Medea, Euripides
58. Memoirs of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar
59. Metamorphoses, Ovid
60. Middlemarch, George Eliot
    
    
61. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
62. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
63. Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
64. 1984, George Orwell (see review)
65. Njaals Saga, Anon
66. Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
67. The Odyssey, Homer
68. Oedipus the King, Sophocles
69. Old Goriot, Honore de Balzac
70. The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
    
    
71. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (see review)
72. The Orchard, Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi
73. Othello, William Shakespeare
74. Pedro Paramo, Juan Rulfo
75. Pippi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren
76. Poems, Paul Celan
77. The Possessed, Fyodor M Dostoyevsky
78. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
79. Ramayana, Valmiki
80. The Recognition of Sakuntala, Kalidasa
    
    
81. The Red and the Black, Stendhal
82. Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust
83. Season of Migration to the North, Tayeb Salih
84. Selected Stories, Anton P Chekhov
85. Sentimental Education, Gustave Flaubert
86. Sons and Lovers, DH Lawrence
87. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
88. The Sound of the Mountain, Yasunari Kawabata
89. The Stranger, Albert Camus
90. The Tale of Genji, Shikibu Murasaki
    
    
91. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
92. Thousand and One Nights, Anon
93. The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass
94. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
95. The Trial, Franz Kafka (see review here)
96. Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, Samuel Beckett
97. Ulysses, James Joyce
98. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
99. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte (see review)
100. Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis