Sheet2List of the 100 Best Books of All TimeTitleAuthorYearCountryLanguageEpic of GilgameshAnonymous18th 17th century BCESumerandAkkadian EmpireAkkadianOne Thousand and One NightsAnonymous7001500India/Iran/Iraq/EgyptArabicChildren of GebelawiNaguib Mahfouz1959EgyptArabicSeason of Migration to the NorthTayeb Salih1966SudanArabicA Madman's DiaryLu Xun1918ChinaChineseMedeaEuripides431 BCEAthensClassical GreekIliadHomer850750 BCEPossiblySmyrnaClassical GreekOdysseyHomer8th century BCEPossiblySmyrnaClassical GreekOedipus the KingSophocles430 BCEAthensClassical GreekMetamorphosesOvid1st century CERoman EmpireClassical LatinAeneidVirgil2919 BCERoman EmpireClassical LatinFairy talesHans Christian Andersen183537DenmarkDanishThings Fall ApartChinua Achebe1958NigeriaEnglishPride and PrejudiceJane Austen1813United KingdomEnglishWuthering HeightsEmily Bront1847United KingdomEnglishThe Canterbury TalesGeoffrey Chaucer14th centuryEnglandEnglishNostromoJoseph Conrad1904United KingdomEnglishGreat ExpectationsCharles Dickens1861United KingdomEnglishMiddlemarchGeorge Eliot1871United KingdomEnglishInvisible ManRalph Ellison1952United StatesEnglishAbsalom, Absalom!William Faulkner1936United StatesEnglishThe Sound and the FuryWilliam Faulkner1929United StatesEnglishThe Old Man and the SeaErnest Hemingway1952United StatesEnglishUlyssesJames Joyce1922Irish Free StateEnglishSons and LoversD. H. Lawrence1913United KingdomEnglishThe Golden NotebookDoris Lessing1962United KingdomEnglishMoby-DickHerman Melville1851United StatesEnglishBelovedToni Morrison1987United StatesEnglishLolitaVladimir Nabokov1955Russia/United StatesEnglishNineteen Eighty-FourGeorge Orwell1949United KingdomEnglishTalesEdgar Allan Poe19th centuryUnited StatesEnglishMidnight's ChildrenSalman Rushdie1981United Kingdom, IndiaEnglishHamletWilliam Shakespeare1603EnglandEnglishKing LearWilliam Shakespeare1608EnglandEnglishOthelloWilliam Shakespeare1609EnglandEnglishTristram ShandyLaurence Sterne1760EnglandEnglishGulliver's TravelsJonathan Swift1726IrelandEnglishAdventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain1884United StatesEnglishLeaves of GrassWalt Whitman1855United StatesEnglishMrs DallowayVirginia Woolf1925United KingdomEnglishTo the LighthouseVirginia Woolf1927United KingdomEnglishLe Pre GoriotHonor de Balzac1835FranceFrenchThe StrangerAlbert Camus1942Algeria,French EmpireFrenchJourney to the End of the NightLouis-Ferdinand Cline1932FranceFrenchJacques the FatalistDenis Diderot1796FranceFrenchMadame BovaryGustave Flaubert1857FranceFrenchSentimental EducationGustave Flaubert1869FranceFrenchEssaysMichel de Montaigne1595FranceFrenchIn Search of Lost TimeMarcel Proust191327FranceFrenchThe Life of Gargantua and of PantagruelFranois Rabelais153234FranceFrenchThe Red and the BlackStendhal1830FranceFrenchMemoirs of HadrianMarguerite Yourcenar1951FranceFrenchMolloy,Malone Dies,The Unnamable, a trilogySamuel Beckett195153Republic of IrelandFrench, EnglishPoemsPaul Celan1952Romania,FranceGermanBerlin AlexanderplatzAlfred Dblin1929GermanyGermanFaustJohann Wolfgang von Goethe1832Saxe-WeimarGermanThe Tin DrumGnter Grass1959GermanyGermanStoriesFranz Kafka1924AustriaGermanThe TrialFranz Kafka1925AustriaGermanThe CastleFranz Kafka1926AustriaGermanBuddenbrooksThomas Mann1901GermanyGermanThe Magic MountainThomas Mann1924GermanyGermanThe Man Without QualitiesRobert Musil193032AustriaGermanZorba the GreekNikos Kazantzakis1946GreeceGreekBook of JobAnonymous6th 4th century BCEAchaemenid EmpireHebrewIndependent PeopleHalldr Laxness193435IcelandIcelandicThe Divine ComedyDante Alighieri12651321FlorenceItalianThe DecameronGiovanni Boccaccio134953RavennaItalianPoemsGiacomo Leopardi1818ItalyItalianHistoryElsa Morante1974ItalyItalianConfessions of ZenoItalo Svevo1923ItalyItalianThe Sound of the MountainYasunari Kawabata1954JapanJapaneseThe Tale of GenjiMurasaki Shikibu11th centuryJapanJapaneseHungerKnut Hamsun1890NorwayNorwegianA Doll's HouseHenrik Ibsen1879NorwayNorwegianNjl's SagaAnonymous13th centuryIcelandOld NorseMasnaviRumi125873Persia,Mongol EmpirePersianBostanSaadi1257Persia,Mongol EmpirePersianThe Devil to Pay in the BacklandsJoo Guimares Rosa1956BrazilPortugueseThe Book of DisquietFernando Pessoa1928PortugalPortugueseBlindnessJos Saramago1995PortugalPortugueseStoriesAnton Chekhov1886RussiaRussianCrime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky1866RussiaRussianThe IdiotFyodor Dostoevsky1869RussiaRussianThe PossessedFyodor Dostoevsky1872RussiaRussianThe Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoevsky1880RussiaRussianDead SoulsNikolai Gogol1842RussiaRussianWar and PeaceLeo Tolstoy18651869RussiaRussianAnna KareninaLeo Tolstoy1877RussiaRussianThe Death of Ivan IlyichLeo Tolstoy1886RussiaRussianShakuntalaKlidsa1st century BCE 4th century CEIndiaSanskritRamayanaValmiki3rd century BCE 3rd century CEIndiaSanskritMahabharataVyasa4th century BCE 4th century CEIndiaSanskritFiccionesJorge Luis Borges194486ArgentinaSpanishDon QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes1605 (part 1), 1615 (part 2)SpainSpanishGypsy BalladsFederico Garca Lorca1928SpainSpanishOne Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel Garca Mrquez1967ColombiaSpanishLove in the Time of CholeraGabriel Garca Mrquez1985ColombiaSpanishPedro PramoJuan Rulfo1955MexicoSpanishPippi LongstockingAstrid Lindgren1945SwedenSwedish