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The 100 Best Books of All Time by Norwegian Book Club (World Library)

Based on tag: world library

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53,487 members

477 reviews

4

8 Members: aulsmith, roby72, thecoroner, lewbs, nisgolsand, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears

2

by Henrik Ibsen

5,421 members

91 reviews

½ 3.6

9 Members: aulsmith, roby72, lewbs, Dilara86, nisgolsand, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by George Orwell

82,454 members

1,276 reviews

4.2

11 Members: smcwl, roby72, lewbs, hvg, nisgolsand, Luisali, ahef1963, NinieB, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

4

by Gustave Flaubert

26,356 members

390 reviews

½ 3.7

10 Members: smcwl, roby72, thecoroner, lewbs, Dilara86, alex68, Luisali, ahef1963, NinieB, FlorianKarpfinger

5

by William Shakespeare

33,044 members

308 reviews

4.2

9 Members: aulsmith, roby72, thecoroner, nisgolsand, Luisali, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

6

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

52,343 members

708 reviews

3.9

10 Members: smcwl, roby72, thecoroner, Dilara86, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

7

19,995 members

238 reviews

4

10 Members: roby72, thecoroner, lewbs, hvg, nisgolsand, alex68, Luisali, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

8

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,132 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

10 Members: roby72, nisgolsand, alex68, cej1027, Luisali, ahef1963, NinieB, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

9

Pride and Prejudice

81,214 members

1,372 reviews

½ 4.4

9 Members: roby72, Dilara86, nisgolsand, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

10

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

22,102 members

169 reviews

½ 3.7

9 Members: smcwl, roby72, thecoroner, nisgolsand, alex68, Luisali, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, ManWithAnAgenda

11

40,253 members

387 reviews

4

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, lewbs, nisgolsand, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears

12

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

30,882 members

508 reviews

3.8

9 Members: roby72, lewbs, nisgolsand, cej1027, Luisali, ahef1963, NinieB, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears

13

by Albert Camus

35,680 members

510 reviews

3.9

9 Members: smcwl, roby72, lewbs, alex68, Luisali, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

14

Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

5,707 members

109 reviews

4.2

8 Members: aulsmith, roby72, thecoroner, lewbs, alex68, Luisali, FlorianKarpfinger, Vitor76123

15

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

17,698 members

271 reviews

3.9

8 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Luisali, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

16

The Magic Mountain

9,660 members

176 reviews

4.2

8 Members: roby72, thecoroner, lewbs, nisgolsand, alex68, Luisali, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears

17

24,226 members

379 reviews

4

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Luisali, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears

18

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44,631 members

698 reviews

4.2

8 Members: roby72, thecoroner, nisgolsand, alex68, Luisali, ahef1963, NinieB, FlorianKarpfinger

19

by Giovanni Boccaccio

10,065 members

120 reviews

4

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, nisgolsand, alex68, runde, Luisali, FlorianKarpfinger

20

Pippi Longstocking

by Astrid Lindgren

10,592 members

161 reviews

4

8 Members: smcwl, roby72, hvg, cej1027, Luisali, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

21

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

30,677 members

453 reviews

4.1

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, lewbs, nisgolsand, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger, ManWithAnAgenda

22

Anna Karenina [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.]

by León Tolstói

230 members

2 reviews

½ 4.4

8 Members: roby72, thecoroner, nisgolsand, alex68, runde, NinieB, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears

23

Memoirs of Hadrian

by Marguerite Yourcenar

5,496 members

125 reviews

4.1

7 Members: aulsmith, roby72, thecoroner, nisgolsand, alex68, Luisali, ManWithAnAgenda

24

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

20,813 members

435 reviews

3.8

7 Members: roby72, hvg, Dilara86, cej1027, Luisali, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

25

by Virginia Woolf

20,795 members

332 reviews

3.9

8 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Luisali, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

26

by George Eliot

17,832 members

331 reviews

4.2

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, necrodeathmortem, FlorianKarpfinger, ManWithAnAgenda

27

6,639 members

72 reviews

½ 3.7

7 Members: smcwl, aulsmith, roby72, nisgolsand, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, ManWithAnAgenda

28

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

12,104 members

75 reviews

½ 4.4

8 Members: smcwl, roby72, thecoroner, nisgolsand, alex68, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, ManWithAnAgenda

29

In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

3,920 members

46 reviews

½ 4.5

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, Dilara86, nisgolsand, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger

30

by León Tolstói

29,054 members

460 reviews

½ 4.3

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, lewbs, nisgolsand, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger, ManWithAnAgenda

31

The Epic of Gilgamesh

by Gilgamesh Poet

9,938 members

120 reviews

3.8

7 Members: aulsmith, roby72, hvg, nisgolsand, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda

32

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

29,683 members

332 reviews

½ 4.4

7 Members: smcwl, roby72, thecoroner, lewbs, nisgolsand, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger

33

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

38,715 members

440 reviews

3.9

8 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

34

by Jorge Luis Borges

7,648 members

114 reviews

½ 4.4

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, lewbs, nisgolsand, alex68, Luisali, FlorianKarpfinger

35

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

5,479 members

40 reviews

3.9

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, nisgolsand, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda

36

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

3,631 members

34 reviews

4

6 Members: roby72, nisgolsand, cej1027, ahef1963, NinieB, FlorianKarpfinger

37

by Toni Morrison

23,016 members

409 reviews

3.9

7 Members: roby72, Dilara86, alex68, ahef1963, NinieB, FlorianKarpfinger, ManWithAnAgenda

38

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

13,975 members

245 reviews

4

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Luisali, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears

39

Crime and Punishment [Norton Critical Edition, 3rd ed.]

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

1,167 members

4 reviews

½ 4.4

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, nisgolsand, alex68, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger

40

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

7,707 members

113 reviews

3.9

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Luisali, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

41

by Vladimir Nabokov

31,848 members

565 reviews

4.1

7 Members: roby72, thecoroner, hvg, nisgolsand, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger, ManWithAnAgenda,cej1027

42

The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights

by Richard Burton

1,802 members

23 reviews

3.9

5 Members: smcwl, roby72, nisgolsand, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger

43

by Günter Grass

7,623 members

93 reviews

4

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, Dilara86, alex68, Luisali, FlorianKarpfinger

44

The Man Without Qualities

by Robert Musil

621 members

12 reviews

4.2

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, Luisali, FlorianKarpfinger

45

The Red and the Black

9,554 members

136 reviews

3.8

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, lewbs, alex68, Luisali, NinieB

46

The Devil to Pay in the Backlands

by João Guimarães Rosa

984 members

11 reviews

½ 4.5

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, lewbs, alex68, necrodeathmortem

47

23,068 members

199 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, lewbs, alex68

48

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

7,924 members

73 reviews

4.2

6 Members: roby72, thecoroner, lewbs, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger, ManWithAnAgenda

49

by Herman Melville

35,666 members

545 reviews

3.8

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, nisgolsand, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger

50

by Dante Alighieri

7,285 members

50 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, nisgolsand, FlorianKarpfinger

51

by William Shakespeare

15,155 members

147 reviews

4.1

5 Members: roby72, nisgolsand, ahef1963, NinieB, FlorianKarpfinger

52

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

10,369 members

85 reviews

4.1

5 Members: aulsmith, roby72, nisgolsand, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

53

Andersen's Fairy Tales

by Hans Christian Andersen

2,196 members

24 reviews

4.2

4 Members: smcwl, roby72, nisgolsand, ahef1963

54

Mahābhārata {retold by William Buck}

500 members

3 reviews

3.8

4 Members: aulsmith, roby72, nisgolsand, ahef1963

55

by Anton Chekhov

1,557 members

13 reviews

½ 4.4

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, necrodeathmortem, FlorianKarpfinger

56

by José Saramago

13,106 members

391 reviews

4.1

5 Members: roby72, lewbs, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, ManWithAnAgenda

57

by William Shakespeare

17,061 members

132 reviews

4

5 Members: roby72, alex68, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger, ManWithAnAgenda

58

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

17,368 members

226 reviews

4

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger

59

Poems of Paul Celan

519 members

6 reviews

4.2

4 Members: roby72, nisgolsand, necrodeathmortem, FlorianKarpfinger

60

Zeno's Conscience

3,604 members

49 reviews

3.8

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, lewbs, alex68

61

by Joseph Conrad

4,790 members

58 reviews

3.8

5 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger

62

Journey to the End of the Night

by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

6,043 members

83 reviews

4.2

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger

63

Medea [in Translation]

2,933 members

50 reviews

3.8

4 Members: roby72, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears

64

Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

9,555 members

100 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: smcwl, roby72, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger

65

Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays

by Michel de Montaigne

4,847 members

48 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: roby72, lewbs, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

66

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

27,932 members

413 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, Luisali, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger

67

The Tale of Genji

by Shikibu Murasaki

5,545 members

53 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

68

Absalom, Absalom!

by William Faulkner

7,714 members

107 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger

69

by Nikolai Vassilievitx Gogol

9,298 members

122 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger

70

8,293 members

93 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, lewbs, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger

71

4,536 members

124 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger

72

The Sound of the Mountain

by Yasunari Kawabata

1,248 members

20 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears

73

Berlin Alexanderplatz

by Alfred Döblin

2,728 members

40 reviews

3.8

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger

74

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

16,304 members

163 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger

75

Metamorphoses [in translation]

13,259 members

101 reviews

4.1

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

76

The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing

5,414 members

93 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger

77

Zorba the Greek

by Nikos Kazantzakis

3,531 members

72 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, alex68, Luisali, FlorianKarpfinger

78

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

by León Tolstói

2,534 members

22 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger

79

Sentimental Education

by Gustave Flaubert

4,259 members

57 reviews

3.8

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger

80

Independent People

by Halldór Laxness

2,933 members

105 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, alex68, necrodeathmortem

81

3,357 members

74 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, alex68, necrodeathmortem

82

Fountain and Tomb

by Naguib Mahfouz

955 members

21 reviews

3.9

2 Members: roby72, Dilara86

83

The Complete Stories

5,787 members

27 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: roby72, Luisali, FlorianKarpfinger

84

by Ralph Ellison

16,267 members

212 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, NinieB, FlorianKarpfinger

85

Gargantua and Pantagruel

by François Rabelais

5,084 members

48 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

86

by Honoré de Balzac

5,997 members

109 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

87

by Elsa Morante

1,390 members

29 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

88

Jacques the Fatalist

by Denis Diderot

1,838 members

28 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

89

Season of Migration to the North

1,687 members

48 reviews

3.8

2 Members: roby72, Dilara86

90

Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

by Samuel Beckett

3,055 members

28 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger

91

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

21,918 members

188 reviews

4.1

2 Members: lewbs, ManWithAnAgenda

92

97 members

2 reviews

2

2 Members: roby72, nisgolsand

93

The Book of Disquiet

by Fernando Pessoa

5,121 members

74 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: roby72, alex68

94

by Giacomo Leopardi

902 members

12 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: roby72

95

The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language

by Eugene H. Peterson

2,386 members

16 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: nisgolsand

96

The Ramayana: As Told by Aubrey Menen

by Aubrey Menen

174 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: roby72

97

by Federico García Lorca

528 members

12 reviews

4.1

Member: roby72

98

2,401 members

22 reviews

3.9

Member: roby72

99

by Maulana Jalalu-'D-Din Muhammad I Rumi

201 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: roby72

100

The Recognition of Sakuntala: A Play in Seven Acts

437 members

7 reviews

3.8

Member: roby72

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