1. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe (1958; Nigeria)
2. Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri (1307-1321; Italy)
3. Fairy tales - Hans Christian Andersen (1835-1837; Denmark)
4. Epic of Gilgamesh - Anonymous (18th or 17th century BC; Iraq)
5. Book of Job - Anonymous (?; Israel)
6. Njal's Saga - Anonymous (13th century; Iceland)
7. One Thousand and One Nights - Anonymous (9th century; Arabia, Persia, India)
8. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (1813; UK)
9. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable [a trilogy] - Samuel Beckett (1951-1953; Ireland)
10. The Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio (1349-1353; Italy)
11. Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borger (1944; Argentina)
12. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (1847; UK)
13. The Stranger - Albert Camus (1942; Algeria, France)
14. Poems - Paul Celan (1952; Romania, France)
15. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes (1605-1615)
16. The Canterbury Tales - Geoffry Chaucer (14th century; UK)
17. Stories - Anton Chekhov (1886; Russia)
18. Nostromo - Joseph Conrad (1904; UK)
19. Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1932; France)
20. Le Pere Goriot - Honore de Balzac (1835; France)
21. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (1861; UK)
22. Jacques the Fatalist - Denis Diderot (1796; France)
23. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1866; Russia)
24. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1869; Russia)
25. The Possessed - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1872; Russia)
26. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1880; Russia)
27. Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Doblin (1829; Germany)
28. Middlemarch - George Eliot (1871; UK)
29. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison (1952; USA)
30. Medea - Euripides (431 BC; Greece)
31. Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner (1936; USA)
32. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner (1929; USA)
33. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (1857; France)
34. Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert (1869; France)
35. Goethe's Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1808; Germany)
36. Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol (1842; Russia)
37. The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass (1959; Germany)
38. The Devil to Pay in the Backlands - Joao Gumaraes Rosa (1956; Brazil)
39. Hunger - Knut Hamsun (1890; Norway)
40. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway (1952; USA)
41. Iliad - Homer (850-750 BC; Greece)
42. Odyssey - Homer (8th century BC; Greece)
43. A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen (1879; Norway)
44. Ulysses - James Joyce (1922; Ireland)
45. Stories - Franz Kafka (before 1924; Czech Republic)
46. The Trial - Franz Kafka (1925; Czech Republic)
47. The Castle - Franz Kafka (1926; Czech Republic)
48. The Sound of the Mountain - Yasunari Kawabata (1954; Japan)
49. Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazanntzakis (1946; Greece)
50. Sakuntala - Kalidasa (1st century BC-4th century AD; India)
51. Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence (1913; UK)
52. Independent People - Halldor Laxness (1934-1935; Iceland)
53. Poems - Giacomo Leopardi (1818; Italy)
54. The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing (1962; UK)
55. Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren (1945; Sweden)
56. Gypsy Ballads - Federico Garcia Lorca (1928; Spain)
57. Children of Gebelaawi - Naguib Mahfouz (1959; Egypt)
58; Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann (1901; Germany)
59. The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann (1924; Germany)
60. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville (1851; USA)
61. Essays - Michel de Montaigne (1595; France)
62. History - Elsa Morante (1974; Italy)
63. Beloved - Toni Morrison (1987; USA)
64. The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil (1930-1932; Austria)
65. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1967; Colombia)
66. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1985; Colombia)
67. Lolita - Vladmir Nabokov (1955; Russia, USA)
68. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell (1949; UK)
69. Metamorphoses - Ovid (1st century AD; Italy)
70. The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa (1982; Portugal)
71. Tales - Edgar Allan Poe (19th century; USA)
72. Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust (1913-1927; France)
73. The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel - Francois Rabelais (1532-1534; France)
74. Pedro Paramo - Juan Rulfo (1955; Mexico)
75. Masnavi - Rumi (13th century; Persia)
76. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie (1981; India, UK)
77. Bostan - Saadi (1257; Persia)
78. Season of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih (1971; Sudan)
79. Blindness - Jose Saramago (1995; Portugal)
80. Hamlet - William Shakespeare (1603; UK)
81. King Lear - William Shakespeare (1608; UK)
82. Othello - William Shakespeare (1622; UK)
83. The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu (11th century; Japan)
84. Oedipus the King - Sophocles (430 BC; Greece)
85. The Red and the Black - Stendhal (1830; France)
86. Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne (1760; Ireland, UK)
87. Confessions of Zeno - Italo Svevo (1923; Italy)
88. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift (1726; Ireland, UK)
89. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (1865-1869; Russia)
90. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (1877; Russia)
91. The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy (1886; Russia)
92. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (1884; USA)
93. Ramayana - Valmiki (3rd century BC-3rd century AD; India)
94. Aeneid - Virgil (29-19 BC; Italy)
95. Mahabharata - Vyasa (4th century BC-4th century AD; India)
96. Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman (1855; USA)
97. Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf (1925; UK)
98. To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf (1927; UK)
99. Diary of a Madman - Lu Xun (1918; China)
100. Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar (1951; France)
