The 100 greatest novels of all time

Answer the 100 greatest novels of all time chosen by the Norwegian Book Club in 2002.

Reference of Wikipedia page : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_100_Best_Books_of_All_Time

10* a trilogy, so you answer one of it.

Except for the general term which is not a specific title.

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#	Author(Year)	Book Title	Language
1	Chinua Achebe(1958)	Things Fall Apart	English
2	Hans Christian Andersen(1835-37)	Fairy Tales	Danish
3	Dante Alighieri(1265–1321)	Divina Commedia	Italian
4	Anonymous(18th–17th century BCE)	Epic of Gilgamesh	Akkadian
5	Anonymous(6th – 4th century BCE)	Book of Job	Hebrew
6	Anonymous(700–1500)	One Thousand and One Nights	Arabic
7	Anonymous(13th century)	Njál's Saga	Old Norse
8	Jane Austen(1813)	Pride and Prejudice	English
9	Honoré de Balzac(1835)	Le Père Goriot	French
10*	Samuel Beckett(1951–53)	Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (a trilogy)	French, English
11	Giovanni Boccaccio(1349–53)	The Decameron	Italian
12	Jorge Luis Borges(1944–86)	Ficciones	Spanish
13	Emily Brontë(1847)	Wuthering Heights	English
14	Albert Camus(1942)	The Stranger	French
15	Paul Celan(1952)	Poems	German
16	Louis-Ferdinand Céline(1932)	Journey to the End of the Night	French
17	Miguel de Cervantes(1605, 1615)	Don Quixote	Spanish
18	Geoffrey Chaucer(14th century)	The Canterbury Tales	English
19	Anton Chekhov(1886)	Stories	Russian
20	Joseph Conrad(1904)	Nostromo	English
21	Charles Dickens(1861)	Great Expectations	English
22	Denis Diderot(1796)	Jacques the Fatalist	French
23	Alfred Döblin(1929)	Berlin Alexanderplatz	German
24	Fyodor Dostoevsky(1866)	Crime and Punishment	Russian
25	Fyodor Dostoevsky(1869)	The Idiot	Russian
26	Fyodor Dostoevsky(1872)	The Possessed	Russian
27	Fyodor Dostoevsky(1880)	The Brothers Karamazov	Russian
28	George Eliot(1781)	Middlemarch	English
29	Ralph Ellison(1952)	Invisible Man	English
30	Euripides(431 BCE)	Medea	Classical Greek
31	William Faulkner(1936)	Absalom, Absalom!	English
32	William Faulkner(1929)	The Sound and the Fury	English
33	Gustave Flaubert(1857)	Madame Bovary	French
34	Gustave Flaubert(1869)	Sentimental Education	French

#	Author(Year)	Book Title	Language
35	Federico García Lorca(1928)	Gypsy Ballads	Spanish
36	Gabriel García Márquez(1967)	One Hundred Years of Solitude	Spanish
37	Gabriel García Márquez(1985)	Love in the Time of Cholera	Spanish
38	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe(1832)	Faust	German
39	Nikolai Gogol(1842)	Dead Souls	Russian
40	Günter Grass(1959)	The Tin Drum	German
41	João Guimarães Rosa(1956)	The Devil to Pay in the Backlands	Portuguese
42	Knut Hamsun(1890)	Hunger	Norwegian
43	Ernest Hemingway(1952)	The Old Man and the Sea	English
44	Homer(850–750 BCE)	Iliad	Classical Greek
45	Homer(8th century BCE)	Odyssey	Classical Greek
46	Henrik Ibsen(1879)	A Doll's House	Norwegian
47	James Joyce(1922)	Ulysses	English
48	Franz Kafka(1924)	Stories	German
49	Franz Kafka(1925)	The Trial	German
50	Franz Kafka(1926)	The Castle	German
51	Kālidāsa(1st century BCE – 4th century CE)	Shakuntala	Sanskrit
52	Yasunari Kawabata(1954)	The Sound of the Mountain	Japanese
53	Nikos Kazantzakis(1946)	Zorba the Greek	Greek
54	D. H. Lawrence(1913)	Sons and Lovers	English
55	Halldór Laxness(1934–35)	Independent People	Icelandic
56	Giacomo Leopardi(1818)	Poems	Italian
57	Doris Lessing(1962)	The Golden Notebook	English
58	Astrid Lindgren(1945)	Pippi Longstocking	Swedish
59	Lu Xun(1918)	A Madman's Diary	Chinese
60	Naguib Mahfouz(1959)	Children of Gebelawi	Arabic
61	Thomas Mann(1901)	Buddenbrooks	German
62	Thomas Mann(1924)	The Magic Mountain	German
63	Herman Melville(1851)	Moby-Dick	English
64	Michel de Montaigne(1595)	Essays	French
65	Elsa Morante(1974)	History	Italian
66	Toni Morrison(1987)	Beloved	English
67	Murasaki Shikibu(11th century)	The Tale of Genji	Japanese

#	Author(Year)	Book Title	Language
68	Robert Musil(1930–32)	The Man Without Qualities	German
69	Vladimir Nabokov(1955)	Lolita	English
70	George Orwell(1949)	Nineteen Eighty-Four	English
71	Ovid(1st century CE)	Metamorphoses	Classical Latin
72	Fernando Pessoa(1928)	The Book of Disquiet	Portuguese
73	Edgar Allan Poe(19th century)	Tales	English
74	Marcel Proust(1913–27)	In Search of Lost Time	French
75	François Rabelais(1532–34)	The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel	French
76	Juan Rulfo(1955)	Pedro Páramo	Spanish
77	Rumi(1258–73)	Masnavi	Persian
78	Salman Rushdie(1981)	Midnight's Children	English
79	Saadi(1257)	Bostan	Persian
80	Tayeb Salih(1966)	Season of Migration to the North	Arabic
81	José Saramago(1995)	Blindness	Portuguese
82	William Shakespeare(1603)	Hamlet	English
83	William Shakespeare(1608)	King Lear	English
84	William Shakespeare(1609)	Othello	English
85	Sophocles(430 BCE)	Oedipus the King	Classical Greek
86	Stendhal(1830)	The Red and the Black	French
87	Laurence Sterne(1760)	Tristram Shandy	English
88	Italo Svevo(1923)	Confessions of Zeno	Italian
89	Jonathan Swift(1726)	Gulliver's Travels	English
90	Leo Tolstoy(1865–69)	War and Peace	Russian
91	Leo Tolstoy(1877)	Anna Karenina	Russian
92	Leo Tolstoy(1886)	The Death of Ivan Ilyich	Russian
93	Mark Twain(1884)	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	English
94	Valmiki(3rd century BCE – 3rd century CE)	Ramayana	Sanskrit
95	Virgil(29–19 BCE)	Aeneid	Classical Latin
96	Vyasa(4th century BCE – 4th century CE)	Mahabharata	Sanskrit
97	Walt Whitman(1855)	Leaves of Grass	English
98	Virginia Woolf(1925)	Mrs Dalloway	English
99	Virginia Woolf(1927)	To the Lighthouse	English
100	Marguerite Yourcenar(1951)	Memoirs of Hadrian	French

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9 Comments

Level 81

May 22, 2013

Weird list, for a lot of different reasons. And could stand to be a bit more forgiving on the type-ins... but I'm sure this took a long time to put together so kudos for the effort.

Level 32

May 22, 2013

Thank you!

If you can point out, I will add other type-ins suitably.

Level 67

May 25, 2013

Fascinating, quirky quiz (Pippi Longstockings!!!!!) A few alternatives: "1001 Nights," "Brothers Karamazov" without the "The" (at least that's what I think I typed) and likewise for Musil (at least that's what I think I typed).

Level 32

Jun 1, 2013

>Baltimorean

Thanks! I Added type-ins.

Level 33

May 25, 2013

Great quiz! Wish I'd seen the Norwegian Book Club bit cos it definitely would've helped. Well done them for ranking Achebe's book 1st. It's fantastic. Not sure why they're so obsessed with Faulkner though and seem to have ignored people like Greene. And don't worry too much about the type ins... the more you add... the more people complain about wanting additional type ins.

Level 32

Jun 1, 2013

Thanks!

Level 81

Jun 6, 2013

I was actually going to criticize Things Fall Apart being #1, but then I realized that the list is in alphabetical order.

Level 81

Jun 6, 2013

I'm also not sure that two books counts as an obsession (Dostoyevsky is listed four times), but maybe it seems that way to someone with an obsession for tearing down people from a certain country when a person from that country gets recognized twice on the same list...

Level 32

Jun 7, 2013

Wikipedia page explains this list.

>>The World Library is a list of the 100 best books, as proposed by one hundred writers from fifty-four different countries, compiled and organized in 2002 by the Norwegian Book Club. This list endeavours to reflect world literature, with books from all countries, cultures, and time periods. Eleven of the books included on the list are written by women, eighty-five are written by men and four have an unknown author.

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." The following list organizes the works alphabetically by author.[1]

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Because of this select process, it is biased I guess...