The 100 Best Books of All Time


This list endeavours to reflect world literature, with books from all countries, cultures, and time periods.

Title Author Year Country
Things Fall Apart Achebe, ChinuaChinua Achebe 1958 Nigeria
Fairy tales Andersen, Hans ChristianHans Christian Andersen 1835–1837 Denmark
Epic of Gilgamesh Anonymous 18th or 17th century BC Iraq
Book of Job Anonymous ? Israel
Mahabharata Vyasa 4th century BC – 4th century AD India
Njal's Saga Anonymous 13th century Iceland
One Thousand and One Nights Anonymous 9th century Arabia, Persia, India
Pride and Prejudice Austen, JaneJane Austen 1813 UK
Le Père Goriot de Balzac, HonoréHonoré de Balzac 1835 France
Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, a trilogy Beckett, SamuelSamuel Beckett 1951–1953 Ireland
The Decameron Boccaccio, GiovanniGiovanni Boccaccio 1349–1353 Italy
Ficciones Borges, Jorge LuisJorge Luis Borges 1944 Argentina
Wuthering Heights Brontë, EmilyEmily Brontë 1847 UK
The Stranger Camus, AlbertAlbert Camus 1942 Algeria, France
Poems Celan, PaulPaul Celan 1952 Romania, France
Journey to the End of the Night Céline, Louis-FerdinandLouis-Ferdinand Céline 1932 France
Don Quixote Cervantes, Miguel deMiguel de Cervantes 1605–1615 Spain
The Canterbury Tales Chaucer, GeoffreyGeoffrey Chaucer 14th century UK
Stories Chekhov, AntonAnton Chekhov 1886 Russia
Nostromo Conrad, JosephJoseph Conrad 1904 UK
Divine Comedy Alighieri, DanteDante Alighieri 1307–1321 Italy
Great Expectations Dickens, CharlesCharles Dickens 1861 UK
Jacques the Fatalist Diderot, DenisDenis Diderot 1796 France
Berlin Alexanderplatz Döblin, AlfredAlfred Döblin 1929 Germany
Crime and Punishment Dostoyevsky, FyodorFyodor Dostoyevsky 1866 Russia
The Idiot Dostoyevsky, FyodorFyodor Dostoyevsky 1869 Russia
The Possessed Dostoyevsky, FyodorFyodor Dostoyevsky 1872 Russia
The Brothers Karamazov Dostoyevsky, FyodorFyodor Dostoyevsky 1880 Russia
Middlemarch Eliot, GeorgeGeorge Eliot 1871 UK
Invisible Man Ellison, RalphRalph Ellison 1952 USA
Medea Euripides 431 BC Greece
Absalom, Absalom! Faulkner, WilliamWilliam Faulkner 1936 USA
The Sound and the Fury Faulkner, WilliamWilliam Faulkner 1929 USA
Madame Bovary Flaubert, GustaveGustave Flaubert 1857 France
Sentimental Education Flaubert, GustaveGustave Flaubert 1869 France
Gypsy Ballads Lorca, Federico GarcíaFederico García Lorca 1928 Spain
One Hundred Years of Solitude Márquez, Gabriel GarcíaGabriel García Márquez 1967 Colombia
Love in the Time of Cholera Márquez, Gabriel GarcíaGabriel García Márquez 1985 Colombia
Goethe's Faust Goethe, Johann Wolfgang vonJohann Wolfgang von Goethe 1808 Germany
Dead Souls Gogol, NikolaiNikolai Gogol 1842 Russia
The Tin Drum Grass, GünterGünter Grass 1959 Germany
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands Guimarães Rosa, JoãoJoão Guimarães Rosa 1956 Brazil
Hunger Hamsun, KnutKnut Hamsun 1890 Norway
The Old Man and the Sea Hemingway, ErnestErnest Hemingway 1952 USA
Iliad Homer 850 – 750 BC Greece
Odyssey Homer 8th century BC Greece
A Doll's House Ibsen, HenrikHenrik Ibsen 1879 Norway
Ulysses Joyce, JamesJames Joyce 1922 Ireland
Stories Kafka, FranzFranz Kafka before 1924 Czech Republic
The Trial Kafka, FranzFranz Kafka 1925 Czech Republic
The Castle Kafka, FranzFranz Kafka 1926 Czech Republic
Shakuntala Kālidāsa 1st century BC – 4th century AD India
The Sound of the Mountain Kawabata, YasunariYasunari Kawabata 1954 Japan
Zorba the Greek Kazantzakis, NikosNikos Kazantzakis 1946 Greece
Sons and Lovers Lawrence, D. H.D. H. Lawrence 1913 UK
Independent People Laxness, HalldórHalldór Laxness 1934–1935 Iceland
Poems Leopardi, GiacomoGiacomo Leopardi 1818 Italy
The Golden Notebook Lessing, DorisDoris Lessing 1962 UK
Pippi Longstocking Lindgren, AstridAstrid Lindgren 1945 Sweden
A Madman's Diary Xun, LuLu Xun 1918 China
Children of Gebelawi Mahfouz, NaguibNaguib Mahfouz 1959 Egypt
Buddenbrooks Mann, ThomasThomas Mann 1901 Germany
The Magic Mountain Mann, ThomasThomas Mann 1924 Germany
Moby-Dick Melville, HermanHerman Melville 1851 USA
Essays Montaigne, Michel deMichel de Montaigne 1595 France
History Morante, ElsaElsa Morante 1974 Italy
Beloved Morrison, ToniToni Morrison 1987 USA
The Tale of Genji Shikibu, MurasakiMurasaki Shikibu 11th century Japan
The Man Without Qualities Musil, RobertRobert Musil 1930–1932 Austria
Lolita Nabokov, VladimirVladimir Nabokov 1955 Russia, USA
Nineteen Eighty-Four Orwell, GeorgeGeorge Orwell 1949 UK
Metamorphoses Ovid 1st century AD Italy
The Book of Disquiet Pessoa, FernandoFernando Pessoa 1982 Portugal
Tales Poe, Edgar AllanEdgar Allan Poe 19th century USA
Remembrance of Things Past Proust, MarcelMarcel Proust 1913–1927 France
The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel Rabelais, FrançoisFrançois Rabelais 1532–1534 France
Pedro Páramo Rulfo, JuanJuan Rulfo 1955 Mexico
Masnavi Rumi 13th century Persia
Midnight's Children Rushdie, SalmanSalman Rushdie 1981 India, UK
Bostan Saadi 1257 Persia
Season of Migration to the North Salih, TayebTayeb Salih 1971 Sudan
Blindness Saramago, JoséJosé Saramago 1995 Portugal
Hamlet Shakespeare, WilliamWilliam Shakespeare 1603 UK
King Lear Shakespeare, WilliamWilliam Shakespeare 1608 UK
Othello Shakespeare, WilliamWilliam Shakespeare 1622 UK
Oedipus the King Sophocles 430 BC Greece
The Red and the Black Stendhal 1830 France
Tristram Shandy Sterne, LaurenceLaurence Sterne 1760 Ireland, UK
Confessions of Zeno Svevo, ItaloItalo Svevo 1923 Italy
Gulliver's Travels Swift, JonathanJonathan Swift 1726 Ireland, UK
War and Peace Tolstoy, LeoLeo Tolstoy 1865–1869 Russia
Anna Karenina Tolstoy, LeoLeo Tolstoy 1877 Russia
The Death of Ivan Ilyich Tolstoy, LeoLeo Tolstoy 1886 Russia
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain, MarkMark Twain 1884 USA
Ramayana Valmiki 3rd century BC – 3rd century AD India
Aeneid Virgil 29 – 19 BC Italy
Leaves of Grass Whitman, WaltWalt Whitman 1855 USA
Mrs Dalloway Woolf, VirginiaVirginia Woolf 1925 UK
To the Lighthouse Woolf, VirginiaVirginia Woolf 1927 UK
Memoirs of Hadrian Yourcenar, MargueriteMarguerite Yourcenar 1951 France

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