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90

6.8

1. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe

14

8.1

2. Hans Christian Andersen: The Complete Fairy ... - Erik Christian Haugaard,Hans Christian Andersen,Virginia Haviland

330

8.2

3. Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) - Jane Austen

12

6.7

4. Old Goriot (Pocket Penguin Classics) - Honore Balzac

8

7

5. Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett

13

7

6. The Decameron (Signet Classics) - Giovanni Boccaccio

17

8.8

7. Collected Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges

91

8.2

8. Wuthering Heights (Bantam Classics) - Emily Brontë

344

8.2

9. The Stranger - Albert Camus

5

10

10. The Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan - Paul Celan

25

8.3

11. Journey to the End of the Night - L Celine

21

8

12. Don Quixote (Wordsworth Classics) - Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

17

7.2

13. The Canterbury Tales (Bantam Classics) - Geoffrey Chaucer

18

8.4

14. Stories of Anton Chekhov - Anton Chekhov

3

0

15. Nostromo (Harpercollinsaudiobooks) - Joseph Conrad

15

8

16. The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Para... - Dante Alighieri

12

7.2

17. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

3

6

18. Jacques the Fatalist and His Master - D Diderot

11

7

19. Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Bi... - Alfred Doblin

114

8.6

20. Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classics) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

43

8.3

21. The Idiot - David Magarshack,F.M. Dostoyevsky

6

10

22. The Possessed (Signet classics) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

117

8.5

23. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

5

7

24. Middlemarch (Signet Classics) - George Eliot

17

8.8

25. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison

11

8.4

26. Medea - Euripides

36

8.6

27. Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner

109

7.9

28. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner

13

6.4

29. Madame Bovary - Gustavo Flaubert

7

6

30. Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert

4

10

31. Gypsy Ballads: (Romancero Gitano) (Hispanic ... - Federico Garcia Lorca

30

7.1

32. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

11

10

33. Love in the Time of Cholera (Read Red) - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

26

7.6

34. Epic of Gilgamesh - Anonymous

22

6.5

35. Goethe's Faust - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

11

8.4

36. Dead Souls (Dover Thrift Editions) - Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

20

7.2

37. The Tin Drum - Günter Grass

2

0

38. The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (""The Dev... - Joao Guimaraes Rosa

31

7.9

39. Hunger - Knut Hamsun

291

7.2

40. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

119

8

41. The Iliad (Penguin Classics) - Homer

204

7.9

42. The Odyssey - Homer

13

8.4

43. Four Major Plays: (Doll's House; Ghosts; Hed... - Henrik Ibsen

7

7.7

44. The BOOK OF JOB - Stephen Mitchell

12

8.5

45. Ulysses (Oxford World's Classics) - James Joyce

16

9.3

46. Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories - Franz Kafka

79

7.9

47. The Trial (Penguin Modern Classics) - Franz Kafka

67

8

48. The Castle (Penguin Modern Classics) - Franz Kafka

4

4

49. The Recognition of 'Sakuntala: A Play in Sev... - Kalidasa

7

6

50. The Sound of the Mountain - Yasunari Kawabata

Full list of the 100 best works of fiction, alphabetically by author, as determined from a vote by 100 noted writers from 54 countries as released by the Norwegian Book Clubs. Don Quixote was named as the top book in history but otherwise no ranking was provided.

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