Bokklubben World Library




Bokklubben World Library (Norwegian: Verdensbiblioteket) is a series of classical books, mostly novels, published by the Norwegian Book Club since 2002. It is based on a list of the hundred best books, as proposed by one hundred writers from fifty-four different countries, compiled and organized in 2002 by the Book Club. This list endeavors to reflect world literature, with books from all countries, cultures, and time periods.


Each writer had to select his or her own list of ten books. The books selected by this process and listed here are not ranked or categorized in any way; the organizers have stated that "they are all on an equal footing," with the exception of Don Quixote which was given the distinction "best literary work ever written."[1]


Fyodor Dostoevsky is the author with the most books on the list, with four. William Shakespeare, Franz Kafka, and Leo Tolstoy each have three.




Contents






  • 1 Breakdown by language, gender


  • 2 List of books


  • 3 List of authors surveyed


  • 4 See also


  • 5 References


  • 6 External links





Breakdown by language, gender


Eleven of the books included on the list are written by women, eighty-five are written by men and four have unknown authors. This breakdown is similar to other lists, such as Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century, which was voted for by 17,000 people from the general public and contains twelve books by women.


Twenty-six of the one hundred voting writers had English as their first language,[2] which may be a factor in the list having so many (29) books written in English. Again, this phenomenon was visible in Le Monde's list, with 49 French books.



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Title
Author
Year
Country
Language

Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe

1958

Nigeria
English

Fairy tales

Hans Christian Andersen

1835–37
Denmark
Danish

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri

1308–21

Italy
Italian

Epic of Gilgamesh
Unknown

18th – 17th century BCE

Sumer and Akkadian Empire

Akkadian

Book of Job
Unknown

7th – 4th century BCE

Achaemenid Empire

Hebrew

One Thousand and One Nights
Unknown

700–1500

Iran/India/Iraq/Egypt/Tajikistan

Arabic

Njál's Saga
Unknown

13th century

Iceland

Old Norse

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

1813
United Kingdom
English

Le Père Goriot

Honoré de Balzac

1835

France
French

Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, a trilogy

Samuel Beckett

1951–53

Republic of Ireland
French, English

The Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio

1349–53

Italy
Italian

Ficciones

Jorge Luis Borges

1944–86

Argentina
Spanish

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

1847
United Kingdom
English

The Stranger

Albert Camus

1942

Algeria, French Empire
French
Poems

Paul Celan

1952

Romania, USSR, France
German

Journey to the End of the Night

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

1932

France
French

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes

1605 (part 1), 1615 (part 2)

Spain
Spanish

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

1380s–1400

England
English

Stories

Anton Chekhov

1886

Russia
Russian

Nostromo

Joseph Conrad

1904
United Kingdom
English

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

1861
United Kingdom
English

Jacques the Fatalist

Denis Diderot

1796

France
French

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Alfred Döblin

1929

Germany
German

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

1866

Russia
Russian

The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoevsky

1869

Russia
Russian

The Possessed

Fyodor Dostoevsky

1872

Russia
Russian

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

1880

Russia
Russian

Middlemarch

George Eliot

1871
United Kingdom
English

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

1952
United States
English

Medea

Euripides

431 BCE

Greece

Greek

Absalom, Absalom!

William Faulkner

1936
United States
English

The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner

1929
United States
English

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

1857

France
French

Sentimental Education

Gustave Flaubert

1869

France
French

Gypsy Ballads

Federico García Lorca

1928

Spain
Spanish

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez

1967

Colombia
Spanish

Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel García Márquez

1985

Colombia
Spanish

Faust

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1832

Saxe-Weimar
German

Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol

1842

Russia
Russian

The Tin Drum

Günter Grass

1959
Germany
German

The Devil to Pay in the Backlands

João Guimarães Rosa

1956

Brazil
Portuguese

Hunger

Knut Hamsun

1890
Norway
Norwegian

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

1952
United States
English

Iliad

Homer

760–710 BCE

Greece

Greek

Odyssey

Homer

8th century BCE

Greece

Greek

A Doll's House

Henrik Ibsen

1879
Norway
Norwegian

Ulysses

James Joyce

1922

Irish Free State
English

Stories

Franz Kafka

1924

Czechoslovakia
German

The Trial

Franz Kafka

1925

Czechoslovakia
German

The Castle

Franz Kafka

1926

Czechoslovakia
German

Shakuntala

Kālidāsa

1st century BCE – 4th century CE

India

Sanskrit

The Sound of the Mountain

Yasunari Kawabata

1954
Japan
Japanese

Zorba the Greek

Nikos Kazantzakis

1946
Greece

Greek

Sons and Lovers

D. H. Lawrence

1913
United Kingdom
English

Independent People

Halldór Laxness

1934–35

Iceland

Icelandic
Poems

Giacomo Leopardi

1818
Italy
Italian

The Golden Notebook

Doris Lessing

1962
United Kingdom
English

Pippi Longstocking

Astrid Lindgren

1945
Sweden
Swedish

A Madman's Diary

Lu Xun

1918

China
Chinese

Children of Gebelawi

Naguib Mahfouz

1959

Egypt

Arabic

Buddenbrooks

Thomas Mann

1901

Germany
German

The Magic Mountain

Thomas Mann

1924

Germany
German

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville

1851
United States
English

Essays

Michel de Montaigne

1595

France
French

History

Elsa Morante

1974
Italy
Italian

Beloved

Toni Morrison

1987
United States
English

The Tale of Genji

Murasaki Shikibu

1000–12

Japan
Japanese

The Man Without Qualities

Robert Musil

1930–32

Austria
German

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

1955
Russia/United States
English

Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell

1949
United Kingdom
English

Metamorphoses

Ovid

1st century CE

Roman Empire

Classical Latin

The Book of Disquiet

Fernando Pessoa

1928
Portugal
Portuguese

Tales

Edgar Allan Poe

1832–49
United States
English

In Search of Lost Time

Marcel Proust

1913–27

France
French

Gargantua and Pantagruel

François Rabelais

1532–34

France
French

Pedro Páramo

Juan Rulfo

1955
Mexico
Spanish

Masnavi

Rumi

1258–73

Sultanate of Rum (Persia)

Persian

Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie

1981
United Kingdom, India
English

Bostan

Saadi

1257

Persia

Persian

Season of Migration to the North

Tayeb Salih

1966

Sudan

Arabic

Blindness

José Saramago

1995
Portugal
Portuguese

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

1603

England
English

King Lear

William Shakespeare

1608

England
English

Othello

William Shakespeare

1609

England
English

Oedipus the King

Sophocles

430 BCE

Greece

Greek

The Red and the Black

Stendhal

1830

France
French

Tristram Shandy

Laurence Sterne

1760

England
English

Confessions of Zeno

Italo Svevo

1923

Italy
Italian

Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift

1726

Ireland
English

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

1865–69

Russia
Russian

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

1877

Russia
Russian

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Leo Tolstoy

1886

Russia
Russian

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

1884
United States
English

Ramayana

Valmiki

5th – 4th century BCE

India

Sanskrit

Aeneid

Virgil

29–19 BCE

Roman Empire

Classical Latin

Mahabharata

Vyasa

9th – 5th century BCE

India

Sanskrit

Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman

1855
United States
English

Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf

1925
United Kingdom
English

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

1927
United Kingdom
English

Memoirs of Hadrian

Marguerite Yourcenar

1951

France/Belgium
French


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Name
Country

Chinghiz Aitmatov

Kyrgyzstan

Ahmet Altan

Turkey

Aharon Appelfeld

Israel

Paul Auster
United States

Félix de Azúa
Spain

Julian Barnes
United Kingdom

Simin Behbahani

Iran

Robert Bly
United States

André Brink
South Africa

Suzanne Brøgger
Denmark

A. S. Byatt
United Kingdom

Peter Carey
Australia

Martha Cerda
Mexico

Jung Chang
China/United Kingdom

Maryse Condé

France

Mia Couto

Mozambique

Jim Crace
United Kingdom

Edwidge Danticat

Haiti

Bei Dao
China

Assia Djebar

Algeria

Mahmoud Dowlatabadi

Iran

Jean Echenoz
France

Kerstin Ekman
Sweden

Nathan Englander
United States

Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Germany

Emilio Estévez

Cuba

Nuruddin Farah

Somalia

Kjartan Fløgstad
Norway

Jon Fosse
Norway

Janet Frame
New Zealand

Marilyn French
United States

Carlos Fuentes
Mexico

Izzat Ghazzawi

Palestine

Amitav Ghosh
India

Pere Gimferrer
Spain

Nadine Gordimer
South Africa

David Grossman

Israel

Einar Már Guðmundsson

Iceland

Seamus Heaney
Ireland

Christoph Hein
Germany

Aleksandar Hemon

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Alice Hoffman
United States

Chenjerai Hove

Zimbabwe

Sonallah Ibrahim

Egypt

John Irving
United States

P. C. Jersild
Sweden

Yasar Kemal

Turkey

Jan Kjærstad
Norway

Milan Kundera
Czech Republic/France

Leena Lander
Finland

John le Carré
United Kingdom

Siegfried Lenz
Germany

Doris Lessing
United Kingdom

Astrid Lindgren
Sweden

Viivi Luik

Estonia

Amin Maalouf

Lebanon/France

Claudio Magris
Italy

Norman Mailer
United States

Tomás Eloy Martínez

Argentina

Frank McCourt
Ireland/United States

Gita Mehta
India

Ana Miranda

Brazil

Rohinton Mistry
India/Canada

Abdel Rahman Munif

Saudi-Arabia

Herta Müller

Romania

V. S. Naipaul

Trinidad/United Kingdom

Cees Nooteboom
Netherlands

Ben Okri

Nigeria/United Kingdom

Orhan Pamuk

Turkey

Sara Paretsky
United States

Jayne Anne Phillips
United States

Valentin Rasputin
Russia

João Ubaldo Ribeiro

Brazil

Alain Robbe-Grillet
France

Salman Rushdie
India/United Kingdom

Nawal El Saadawi

Egypt

Hanan al-Shaykh

Lebanon

Nihad Sirees

Syria

Göran Sonnevi
Sweden

Susan Sontag
United States

Wole Soyinka

Nigeria

Gerold Späth
Switzerland

Graham Swift
United Kingdom

Antonio Tabucchi
Italy

Fouad al-Tikerly

Iraq

D. M. Thomas
United Kingdom

Adam Thorpe
United Kingdom

Kirsten Thorup
Denmark

Aleksandr Tkachenko
Russia

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Indonesia

Olga Tokarczuk
Poland

Michel Tournier
France

Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Belgium

Mehmed Uzun

Turkey

Nils-Aslak Valkeapää

Sápmi

Vassilis Vassilikos
Greece

Yvonne Vera

Zimbabwe

Fay Weldon
United Kingdom

Christa Wolf
Germany

A. B. Yehoshua

Israel

Spôjmaï Zariâb

Afghanistan


See also





  • Classic book


  • Larry McCaffery's list of the 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction


  • Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century

  • Lists of 100 best books

  • List of books banned by governments


  • Marcel Reich-Ranicki's anthology of exemplary German literature Der Kanon

  • Modern Library 100 Best Novels

  • Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction


  • Världsbiblioteket, a Swedish "100 best books" list from 1991

  • Western canon

  • World literature




References





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  2. ^ See table in article. 22 come from Ireland, UK, US, and Trinidad and Tobago; 4 come from India but are all from the minority of Indians with English as their primary language.




External links




  • Norwegian Book Club's World Library, Official site (in Norwegian)


  • The Guardian The top 100 books of all time


  • Le Figaro Les 100 meilleurs livres de tous les temps (in French)

  • The list's page at Greater Books, with bibliographic information for each work




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