The top 100 books of all time

( List prepared by Norwegian Book Clubs )

1984, Author: George Orwell, England - Year: 1903 to 1950)

A Doll's House, Author: Henrik Ibsen, Norway (1828 to 1906)

A Sentimental Education, Author: Gustave Flaubert, France - Year: 1821 to 1880)

Absalom, Absalom!, Author: William Faulkner, United States - Year: 1897 to 1962)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Author: Mark Twain, United States - Year: 1835 to 1910)

The Aeneid, Author: Virgil, Italy - Year: 70 to 19 BC)

Anna Karenina, Author: Leo Tolstoy, Russia - Year: 1828 to 1910)

Beloved, Author: Toni Morrison, United States - Year: b. 1931)

Berlin Alexanderplatz, Author: Alfred Doblin, Germany - Year: 1878 to 1957)

Blindness, Author: Jose Saramago, Portugal - Year: b. 1922)

The Book of Disquiet, Author: Fernando Pessoa, Portugal - Year: 1888 to 1935)

The Book of Job, Israel. (600 to 400 BC)

The Brothers Karamazov, Author: Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia - Year: 1821 to 1881)

Buddenbrooks, Author: Thomas Mann, Germany - Year: 1875 to 1955)

Canterbury Tales, Author: Geoffrey Chaucer, England - Year: 1340 to 1400)

The Castle, Author: Franz Kafka, Bohemia - Year: 1883 to 1924)

Children of Gebelawi, Author: Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt - Year: b. 1911)

Collected Fictions, Author: Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina - Year: 1899 to 1986)

Complete Poems, Author: Giacomo Leopardi, Italy - Year: 1798 to 1837)

The Complete Stories, Author: Franz Kafka, Bohemia - Year: 1883 to 1924)

The Complete Tales, Author: Edgar Allan Poe, United States - Year: 1809 to 1849)

Confessions of Zeno, Author: Italo Svevo, Italy - Year: 1861 to 1928)

Crime and Punishment, Author: Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia - Year: 1821 to 1881)

Dead Souls, Author: Nikolai Gogol, Russia - Year: 1809 to 1852)

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories, Author: Leo Tolstoy, Russia - Year: 1828 to 1910)

Decameron, Author: Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy - Year: 1313 to 1375)

The Devil to Pay in the Backlands, Author: Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Brazil - Year: 1880 to 1967)

Diary of a Madman and Other Stories, Author: Lu Xun, China - Year: 1881 to 1936)

The Divine Comedy, Author: Dante Alighieri, Italy - Year: 1265 to 1321)

Don Quijote de la Mancha, Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain - Year: 1547 to 1616)

Essays, Author: Michel de Montaigne, France - Year: 1533 to 1592)

Fairy Tales and Stories, Author: Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark - Year: 1805 to 1875)

Faust, Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany - Year: 1749 to 1832)

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Author: Francois Rabelais, France - Year: 1495 to 1553)

Gilgamesh Mesopotamia - Year: c 1800 BC)

The Golden Notebook, Author: Doris Lessing, England - Year: b.1919)

Great Expectations, Author: Charles Dickens, England - Year: 1812 to 1870)

Gulliver's Travels, Author: Jonathan Swift, Ireland - Year: 1667 to 1745)

Gypsy Ballads, Author: Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain - Year: 1898 to 1936)

Hamlet, Author: William Shakespeare, England - Year: 1564 to 1616)

History, Author: Elsa Morante, Italy - Year: 1918 to 1985)

Hunger, Author: Knut Hamsun, Norway - Year: 1859 to 1952)

The Idiot, Author: Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia - Year: 1821 to 1881)

The Iliad, Author: Homer, Greece - Year: c 700 BC)

Independent People, Author: Halldor K Laxness, Iceland - Year: 1902 to 1998)

Invisible Man, Author: Ralph Ellison, United States - Year: 1914 to 1994)

Jacques the Fatalist and His Master, Author: Denis Diderot, France - Year: 1713 to 1784)

Journey to the End of the Night, Author: Louis to Ferdinand Celine, France - Year: 1894 to 1961)

King Lear, Author: William Shakespeare, England - Year: 1564 to 1616)

Leaves of Grass, Author: Walt Whitman, United States - Year: 1819 to 1892)

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Author: Laurence Sterne, Ireland - Year: 1713 to 1768)

Lolita, Author: Vladimir Nabokov, Russia/United States - Year: 1899 to 1977)

Love in the Time of Cholera, Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia - Year: b. 1928)

Madame Bovary, Author: Gustave Flaubert, France - Year: 1821 to 1880)

The Magic Mountain, Author: Thomas Mann, Germany - Year: 1875 to 1955)

Mahabharata, India - Year: c 500 BC)

The Man Without Qualities, Author: Robert Musil, Austria - Year: 1880 to 1942)

The Mathnawi, Author: Jalal ad to din Rumi, Afghanistan - Year: 1207 to 1273)

Medea, Author: Euripides, Greece - Year: c 480 to 406 BC)

Memoirs of Hadrian, Author: Marguerite Yourcenar, France - Year: 1903 to 1987)

Metamorphoses, Author: Ovid, Italy - Year: c 43 BC)

Middlemarch, Author: George Eliot, England - Year: 1819 to 1880)

Midnight's Children, Author: Salman Rushdie, India/Britain - Year: b. 1947)

Moby to Dick, Author: Herman Melville, United States - Year: 1819 to 1891)

Mrs. Dalloway, Author: Virginia Woolf, England - Year: 1882 to 1941)

Njaals Saga, Iceland - Year: c 1300)

Nostromo, Author: Joseph Conrad, England,(1857 to 1924)

The Odyssey, Author: Homer, Greece - Year: c 700 BC)

Oedipus the King Sophocles, Greece - Year: 496 to 406 BC)

Old Goriot, Author: Honore de Balzac, France - Year: 1799 to 1850)

The Old Man and the Sea, Author: Ernest Hemingway, United States - Year: 1899 to 1961)

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia - Year: b. 1928)

The Orchard, Author: Sheikh Musharrif ud to din Sadi, Iran - Year: c 1200 to 1292)

Othello, Author: William Shakespeare, England - Year: 1564 to 1616)

Pedro Paramo, Author: Juan Rulfo Juan Rulfo, Mexico - Year: 1918 to 1986)

Pippi Longstocking, Author: Astrid Lindgren, Sweden - Year: 1907 to 2002)

Poems, Author: Paul Celan, Romania/France - Year: 1920 to 1970)

The Possessed, Author: Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia - Year: 1821 to 1881)

Pride and Prejudice, Author: Jane Austen, England - Year: 1775 to 1817)

The Ramayana, Author: Valmiki, India - Year: c 300 BC)

The Recognition of Sakuntala, Author: Kalidasa, India - Year: c. 400)

The Red and the Black, Author: Stendhal, France - Year: 1783 to 1842)

Remembrance of Things Past, Author: Marcel Proust, France - Year: 1871 to 1922)

Season of Migration to the North, Author: Tayeb Salih, Sudan - Year: b. 1929)

Selected Stories, Author: Anton P Chekhov, Russia - Year: 1860 to 1904)

Sons and Lovers, Author: DH Lawrence, England - Year: 1885 to 1930)

The Sound and the Fury, Author: William Faulkner, United States - Year: 1897 to 1962)

The Sound of the Mountain, Author: Yasunari Kawabata, Japan - Year: 1899 to 1972)

The Stranger, Author: Albert Camus, France - Year: 1913 to 1960)

The Tale of Genji, Author: Shikibu Murasaki, Japan - Year: c 1000)

Things Fall Apart, Author: Chinua Achebe, Nigeria - Year: b. 1930)

Thousand and One Nights, India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt - Year: 700 to 1500)

The Tin Drum, Author: Gunter Grass, Germany - Year: b.1927)

To the Lighthouse, Author: Virginia Woolf, England - Year: 1882 to 1941)

The Trial, Author: Franz Kafka, Bohemia - Year: 1883 to 1924)

Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, Author: Samuel Beckett, Ireland - Year: 1906 to 1989)

Ulysses, Author: James Joyce, Ireland - Year: 1882 to 1941)

War and Peace, Author: Leo Tolstoy, Russia - Year: 1828 to 1910)

Wuthering Heights, Author: Emily Brontë, England - Year: 1818 to 1848)

Zorba the Greek, Author: Nikos Kazantzakis, Greece - Year: 1883 to 1957)