Norwegian Book Clubs 100 Best Works of Fiction
Best works of fiction of all time, determined by the votes of one hundred noted writers from fifty-four countries. Released by the Norwegian Book Clubs. Don Quixote was named as the best novel of all time but otherwise there is no ranking.
Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
Hans Christian Andersen - Fairy Tales and Stories
Jane Austen, England - Pride and Prejudice
Honore de Balzac - Old Goriot
Samuel Beckett - Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
Giovanni Boccaccio - Decameron
Jorge Luis Borges - Collected Fictions
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
Albert Camus - The Stranger
Paul Celan - Poems.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine - Journey to the End of the Night
Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote
Geoffrey Chaucer - Canterbury Tales
Joseph Conrad - Nostromo
Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy
Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
Denis Diderot - Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
Alfred Doblin - Berlin Alexanderplatz
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment/ The Idiot/ The Possessed/ The Brothers Karamazov
George Eliot - Invisible Man
Euripides - Medea
William Faulkner - Absalom, Absalom/ The Sound and the Fury
Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary/ A Sentimental Education
Federico Garcia Lorca - Gypsy Ballads
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude/ Love in the Time of Cholera
Gilgamesh
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust
Nikolai Gogol - Dead Souls
Gunther Grass - The Tin Drum
Joao Guimaraes Rosa - The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
Knut Hamsun - Hunger
Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
Homer - The Iliad/ The Odyssey
Henrik Ibsen - A Doll's House
The Book of Job
James Joyce - Ulysses
Franz Kafka - The Complete Stories/ The Trial/ The Castle Bohemia
Kalidasa - The Recognition of Sakuntala
Yasunari Kawabata - The Sound of the Mountain
Nikos Kazantzakis - Zorba the Greek
D.H. Lawrence - Sons and Lovers
Halldor K. Laxness - Independent People
Giacomo Leopardi - Complete Poems
Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook
Astrid Lindgren - Pippi Longstocking
Lu Xun - Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
Mahabharata
Naguib Mahfouz - Children of Gebelawi
Thomas Mann - Buddenbrook/ The Magic Mountain
Herman Melville - Moby Dick
Michel de Montaigne - Essays
Elsa Morante - History
Toni Morrison - Beloved
Shikibu Murasaki - The Tale of Genji
Robert Musil - The Man Without Qualities
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
Njaals Saga
George Orwell - 1984
Ovid - Metamorphoses
Fernando Pessoa - The Book of Disquiet
Edgar Allan Poe - The Complete Tales
Marcel Proust - Remembrance of Things Past
Francois Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel
Juan Rulfo - Pedro Paramo
Jalal al-Din Rumi - Mathnawi
Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children
Sheikh Musharrif al-Din Sadi - The Orchard
Tayeb Salih - Season of Migration to the North
Jose Saramago - Blindness
William Shakespeare - Hamlet/ King Lear/ Othello
Sophocles - Oedipus the King
Stendhal - The Red and the Black
Laurence Sterne - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
Italo Svevo - Confessions of Zeno
Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels
Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace/ Anna Karenina/ The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
Hans Christian Andersen - Fairy Tales and Stories
Jane Austen, England - Pride and Prejudice
Honore de Balzac - Old Goriot
Samuel Beckett - Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
Giovanni Boccaccio - Decameron
Jorge Luis Borges - Collected Fictions
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
Albert Camus - The Stranger
Paul Celan - Poems.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine - Journey to the End of the Night
Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote
Geoffrey Chaucer - Canterbury Tales
Joseph Conrad - Nostromo
Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy
Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
Denis Diderot - Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
Alfred Doblin - Berlin Alexanderplatz
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment/ The Idiot/ The Possessed/ The Brothers Karamazov
George Eliot - Invisible Man
Euripides - Medea
William Faulkner - Absalom, Absalom/ The Sound and the Fury
Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary/ A Sentimental Education
Federico Garcia Lorca - Gypsy Ballads
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude/ Love in the Time of Cholera
Gilgamesh
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust
Nikolai Gogol - Dead Souls
Gunther Grass - The Tin Drum
Joao Guimaraes Rosa - The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
Knut Hamsun - Hunger
Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
Homer - The Iliad/ The Odyssey
Henrik Ibsen - A Doll's House
The Book of Job
James Joyce - Ulysses
Franz Kafka - The Complete Stories/ The Trial/ The Castle Bohemia
Kalidasa - The Recognition of Sakuntala
Yasunari Kawabata - The Sound of the Mountain
Nikos Kazantzakis - Zorba the Greek
D.H. Lawrence - Sons and Lovers
Halldor K. Laxness - Independent People
Giacomo Leopardi - Complete Poems
Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook
Astrid Lindgren - Pippi Longstocking
Lu Xun - Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
Mahabharata
Naguib Mahfouz - Children of Gebelawi
Thomas Mann - Buddenbrook/ The Magic Mountain
Herman Melville - Moby Dick
Michel de Montaigne - Essays
Elsa Morante - History
Toni Morrison - Beloved
Shikibu Murasaki - The Tale of Genji
Robert Musil - The Man Without Qualities
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
Njaals Saga
George Orwell - 1984
Ovid - Metamorphoses
Fernando Pessoa - The Book of Disquiet
Edgar Allan Poe - The Complete Tales
Marcel Proust - Remembrance of Things Past
Francois Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel
Juan Rulfo - Pedro Paramo
Jalal al-Din Rumi - Mathnawi
Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children
Sheikh Musharrif al-Din Sadi - The Orchard
Tayeb Salih - Season of Migration to the North
Jose Saramago - Blindness
William Shakespeare - Hamlet/ King Lear/ Othello
Sophocles - Oedipus the King
Stendhal - The Red and the Black
Laurence Sterne - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
Italo Svevo - Confessions of Zeno
Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels
Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace/ Anna Karenina/ The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories