The Library of World Literature Top 100 International Books
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart; Nigeria (b. 1930)
Hans Christian Andersen, Fairy Tales and Stories; Denmark (1805-1875)
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice; England (1775-1817)
Honoré de Balzac, Old Goriot; France (1799-1850)
Samuel Beckett, Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable; Ireland (1906-1989)
Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron; Italy (1313-1375)
Gorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions; Argentina (1899-1986)
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights; England (1818-1848)
Albert Camus, The Stranger; France (1913-1960)
Paul Celan, Gedichte; Romania/France (1920-1970)
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night; France (1894-1961)
* Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote; Spain (1547-1616)
**Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; England (1340-1400) (Chanticleer’s favorite)
Joseph Conrad, Nostromo; Italy (1857-1924)
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy; Italy (1265-1321)
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations; England (1812-1870)
Denis Diderot, Jacques the Fatalist and His Master; France (1713-1784)
Alfred Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz; Germany (1878-1957)
Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed, The Brothers Karamazov; Russian (1821-1881)
George Eliot, Middlemarch; England (1819-1880)
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man; USA (1914-1994)
Euripides, Medea; Greece (ca. 480-406 BC)
William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom, The Sound and the Fury; USA (1897-1962)
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, A Sentimental Education; France (1821-1880)
Federico García Lorca, Gypsy Ballads; Spain (1898-1936)
Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera; Colombia (b. 1928)
Gilgamesh; Mesopotamia (ca. 1800 BC)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust; Germany(1749-1832)
Nikolaj Gogol, Dead Souls; Russia (1809-1852)
Günter Grass, The Tin Drum; Germany (b. 1927)
João Guimarães Rosa, The Devil to Pay in the Backlands; Brasil (1880-1967)
Knut Hamsun, Hunger; Norway (1859-1952)
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea; USA (1899-1961)
Homer, The Iliad, The Odyssey; Greece (ca. 700 BC)
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House; Norway (1828-1906)
The Book of Job; Israel (600-400 BC)
James Joyce, Ulysses; Ireland (1882-1941)
Franz Kafka, The Complete Stories, The Trial, The Castle; Bohemia (1883-1924)
Kalidasa, The Recognition of Sakuntala; India (ca. 400)
Yasunari Kawabata, The Sound of the Mountain; Japan (1899-1972)
Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek; Greece (1883-1957)
D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers; England (1885-1930)
Halldór K. Laxness, Independent People; Iceland (1902-1998)
Giacomo Leopardi, Complete Poems; Italy (1798-1837)
Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook; England (b. 1919)
Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking; Sweden (1907-2002)
Lu Xun, Diary of a Madman and Other Stories; China (1881-1936)
Mahabharata; India (ca. 500 BC)
Naguib Mahfouz, Children of Gebelawi; Egypt (b. 1911)
Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain; Germany (1875-1955)
Herman Melville, Moby Dick; USA (1819-1891)
Michel de Montaigne, Essays; France (1533-1592)
Elsa Morante, History; Italy (1918-1985)
Toni Morrison, Beloved; USA (b. 1931)
Shikibu Murasaki, The Tale of Genji; Japan
Robert Musil, The Man without Qualities; Austria (1880-1942)
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita; Russia/USA (1899-1977)
Njals saga, Iceland (ca. 1300)
George Orwell, 1984; England (1903-1950)
Ovid, Metamorfoses; Italy (43 BC-17 e.Kr.)
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet; Portugal (1888-1935)
Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Tales; USA (1809-1849)
Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past; France (1871-1922)
François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel; France (1495-1553)
Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo; Mexico (1918-1986)
Jalal ad-din Rumi, Mathnawi; Iran (1207-1273)
Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children; India/England (b. 1947)
Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi, The Orchard; Iran (ca. 1200-1292)
Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North; Sudan (b. 1929)
José Saramago, Blindness; Portugal (b. 1922)
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello; England (1564-1616)
Sofokles, Oedipus the King; Greece (496-406 BC)
Stendhal, The Red and the Black; France (1783-1842)
Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy; Ireland (1713-1768)
Italo Svevo, Confessions of Zeno; Italy (1861-1928)
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels; Ireland (1667-1745)
Lev Tolstoj, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories; Russia (1828-1910)
Anton P. Tsjekhov, Selected Stories; Russia (1828-1910)
Thousand and One Nights; India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt (700-1500)
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; USA (1835-1910)
Valmiki, Ramayana; India (ca. 300 BC)
Vergil, The Aeneid; Italy (70-19 BC)
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass; USA (1819-1892)
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse; England (1882-1941)
Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian; France (1903-1987)
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