| Title
|
Author
|
Year
|
Country
|
Language
|
| Things Fall Apart
|
Achebe, ChinuaChinua Achebe
|
&0000000000001958.0000001958
|
Nigeria
|
English
|
| Fairy tales
|
Andersen, Hans ChristianHans Christian Andersen
|
&0000000000001835.0000001835–37
|
Denmark
|
Danish
|
| The Divine Comedy
|
Alighieri, DanteDante Alighieri
|
&0000000000001265.0000001308–1321
|
Italy
|
Italian
|
| Epic of Gilgamesh
|
Unknown
|
&-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-8-1-1.100000018th – 17th century BCE
|
Sumer and Akkadian Empire
|
Akkadian
|
| Book of Job
|
Unknown
|
&-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-8-1-1.10000007th – 4th century BCE
|
Achaemenid Empire
|
Hebrew
|
| One Thousand and One Nights
|
Unknown
|
&0000000000000700.000000700–1500
|
India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt/Tajikistan
|
Arabic
|
| Njál's Saga
|
Unknown
|
&0000000000001200.00000013th century
|
Iceland
|
Old Norse
|
| Pride and Prejudice
|
Austen, JaneJane Austen
|
&0000000000001813.0000001813
|
United Kingdom
|
English
|
| Le Père Goriot
|
de Balzac, HonoréHonoré de Balzac
|
&0000000000001835.0000001835
|
France
|
French
|
| Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, a trilogy
|
Beckett, SamuelSamuel Beckett
|
&0000000000001951.0000001951–53
|
Republic of Ireland
|
French, English
|
| The Decameron
|
Boccaccio, GiovanniGiovanni Boccaccio
|
&0000000000001349.0000001349–53
|
Italy
|
Italian
|
| Ficciones
|
Borges, Jorge LuisJorge Luis Borges
|
&0000000000001944.0000001944–86
|
Argentina
|
Spanish
|
| Wuthering Heights
|
Brontë, EmilyEmily Brontë
|
&0000000000001847.0000001847
|
United Kingdom
|
English
|
| The Stranger
|
Camus, AlbertAlbert Camus
|
&0000000000001942.0000001942
|
Algeria, French Empire
|
French
|
| Poems
|
Celan, PaulPaul Celan
|
&0000000000001952.0000001952
|
Romania, France
|
German
|
| Journey to the End of the Night
|
Céline, Louis-FerdinandLouis-Ferdinand Céline
|
&0000000000001932.0000001932
|
France
|
French
|
| Don Quixote
|
Cervantes, Miguel deMiguel de Cervantes
|
&0000000000001605.0000001605 (part 1), 1615 (part 2)
|
Spain
|
Spanish
|
| The Canterbury Tales
|
Chaucer, GeoffreyGeoffrey Chaucer
|
&0000000000001300.00000014th century
|
England
|
English
|
| Stories
|
Chekhov, AntonAnton Chekhov
|
&0000000000001886.0000001886
|
Russia
|
Russian
|
| Nostromo
|
Conrad, JosephJoseph Conrad
|
&0000000000001904.0000001904
|
United Kingdom
|
English
|
| Great Expectations
|
Dickens, CharlesCharles Dickens
|
&0000000000001861.0000001861
|
United Kingdom
|
English
|
| Jacques the Fatalist
|
Diderot, DenisDenis Diderot
|
&0000000000001796.0000001796
|
France
|
French
|
| Berlin Alexanderplatz
|
Döblin, AlfredAlfred Döblin
|
&0000000000001929.0000001929
|
Germany
|
German
|
| Crime and Punishment
|
Dostoevsky, FyodorFyodor Dostoevsky
|
&0000000000001866.0000001866
|
Russia
|
Russian
|
| The Idiot
|
Dostoevsky, FyodorFyodor Dostoevsky
|
&0000000000001869.0000001869
|
Russia
|
Russian
|
| The Possessed
|
Dostoevsky, FyodorFyodor Dostoevsky
|
&0000000000001872.0000001872
|
Russia
|
Russian
|
| The Brothers Karamazov
|
Dostoevsky, FyodorFyodor Dostoevsky
|
&0000000000001880.0000001880
|
Russia
|
Russian
|
| Middlemarch
|
Eliot, GeorgeGeorge Eliot
|
&0000000000001871.0000001871
|
United Kingdom
|
English
|
| Invisible Man
|
Ellison, RalphRalph Ellison
|
&0000000000001952.0000001952
|
United States
|
English
|
| Medea
|
Euripides
|
&-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-5-4-2.1000000431 BCE
|
Greece
|
Greek
|
| Absalom, Absalom!
|
Faulkner, WilliamWilliam Faulkner
|
&0000000000001936.0000001936
|
United States
|
English
|
| The Sound and the Fury
|
Faulkner, WilliamWilliam Faulkner
|
&0000000000001929.0000001929
|
United States
|
English
|
| Madame Bovary
|
Flaubert, GustaveGustave Flaubert
|
&0000000000001857.0000001857
|
France
|
French
|
| Sentimental Education
|
Flaubert, GustaveGustave Flaubert
|
&0000000000001869.0000001869
|
France
|
French
|
| Gypsy Ballads
|
Lorca, Federico GarcíaFederico García Lorca
|
&0000000000001928.0000001928
|
Spain
|
Spanish
|
| One Hundred Years of Solitude
|
Márquez, Gabriel GarcíaGabriel García Márquez
|
&0000000000001967.0000001967
|
Colombia
|
Spanish
|
| Love in the Time of Cholera
|
Márquez, Gabriel GarcíaGabriel García Márquez
|
&0000000000001985.0000001985
|
Colombia
|
Spanish
|
| Faust
|
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang vonJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
|
&0000000000001832.0000001832
|
Saxe-Weimar
|
German
|
| Dead Souls
|
Gogol, NikolaiNikolai Gogol
|
&0000000000001842.0000001842
|
Russia
|
Russian
|
| The Tin Drum
|
Grass, GünterGünter Grass
|
&0000000000001959.0000001959
|
Germany
|
German
|
| The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
|
Guimarães Rosa, JoãoJoão Guimarães Rosa
|
&0000000000001956.0000001956
|
Brazil
|
Portuguese
|
| Hunger
|
Hamsun, KnutKnut Hamsun
|
&0000000000001890.0000001890
|
Norway
|
Norwegian
|
| The Old Man and the Sea
|
Hemingway, ErnestErnest Hemingway
|
&0000000000001952.0000001952
|
United States
|
English
|
| Iliad
|
Homer
|
&-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-8-7-1.1000000760–710 BCE
|
Greece
|
Greek
|
| Odyssey
|
Homer
|
&-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-8-1-1.10000008th century BCE
|
Greece
|
Greek
|
| A Doll's House
|
Ibsen, HenrikHenrik Ibsen
|
&0000000000001879.0000001879
|
Norway
|
Norwegian
|
| Ulysses
|
Joyce, JamesJames Joyce
|
&0000000000001922.0000001922
|
Irish Free State
|
English
|
| Stories
|
Kafka, FranzFranz Kafka
|
&0000000000001924.0000001924
|
Czechoslovakia
|
German
|
| The Trial
|
Kafka, FranzFranz Kafka
|
&0000000000001925.0000001925
|
Czechoslovakia
|
German
|
| The Castle
|
Kafka, FranzFranz Kafka
|
&0000000000001926.0000001926
|
Czechoslovakia
|
German
|
| Shakuntala
|
Kālidāsa
|
&-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2.10000001st century BCE – 4th century CE
|
India
|
Sanskrit
|
| The Sound of the Mountain
|
Kawabata, YasunariYasunari Kawabata
|
&0000000000001954.0000001954
|
Japan
|
Japanese
|
| Zorba the Greek
|
Kazantzakis, NikosNikos Kazantzakis
|
&0000000000001946.0000001946
|
Greece
|
Greek
|
| Sons and Lovers
|
Lawrence, D. H.D. H. Lawrence
|
&0000000000001913.0000001913
|
United Kingdom
|
English
|
| Independent People
|
Laxness, HalldórHalldór Laxness
|
&0000000000001934.0000001934–35
|
Iceland
|
Icelandic
|
| Poems
|
Leopardi, GiacomoGiacomo Leopardi
|
&0000000000001818.0000001818
|
Italy
|
Italian
|
| The Golden Notebook
|
Lessing, DorisDoris Lessing
|
&0000000000001962.0000001962
|
United Kingdom
|
English
|
| Pippi Longstocking
|
Lindgren, AstridAstrid Lindgren
|
&0000000000001945.0000001945
|
Sweden
|
Swedish
|
| A Madman's Diary
|
Xun, LuLu Xun
|
&0000000000001918.0000001918
|
China
|
Chinese
|
| Children of Gebelawi
|
Mahfouz, NaguibNaguib Mahfouz
|
&0000000000001959.0000001959
|
Egypt
|
Arabic
|
| Buddenbrooks
|
Mann, ThomasThomas Mann
|
&0000000000001901.0000001901
|
Germany
|
German
|
| The Magic Mountain
|
Mann, ThomasThomas Mann
|
&0000000000001924.0000001924
|
Germany
|
German
|
| Moby-Dick
|
Melville, HermanHerman Melville
|
&0000000000001851.0000001851
|
United States
|
English
|
| Essays
|
Montaigne, Michel deMichel de Montaigne
|
&0000000000001595.0000001595
|
France
|
French
|
| History
|
Morante, ElsaElsa Morante
|
&0000000000001974.0000001974
|
Italy
|
Italian
|
| Beloved
|
Morrison, ToniToni Morrison
|
&0000000000001987.0000001987
|
United States
|
English
|
| The Tale of Genji
|
Murasaki Shikibu
|
&0000000000001000.0000001000–1012
|
Japan
|
Japanese
|
| The Man Without Qualities
|
Musil, RobertRobert Musil
|
&0000000000001930.0000001930–32
|
Austria
|
German
|
| Lolita
|
Nabokov, VladimirVladimir Nabokov
|
&0000000000001955.0000001955
|
Russia/United States
|
English
|
| Nineteen Eighty-Four
|
Orwell, GeorgeGeorge Orwell
|
&0000000000001949.0000001949
|
United Kingdom
|
English
|
| Metamorphoses
|
Ovid
|
&0000000000000001.0000001st century CE
|
Roman Empire
|
Classical Latin
|
| The Book of Disquiet
|
Pessoa, FernandoFernando Pessoa
|
&0000000000001928.0000001928
|
Portugal
|
Portuguese
|
| Tales
|
Poe, Edgar AllanEdgar Allan Poe
|
&0000000000001800.00000019th century
|
United States
|
English
|
| In Search of Lost Time
|
Proust, MarcelMarcel Proust
|
&0000000000001913.0000001913–27
|
France
|
French
|
| Gargantua and Pantagruel
|
Rabelais, FrançoisFrançois Rabelais
|
&0000000000001532.0000001532–34
|
France
|
French
|
| Pedro Páramo
|
Rulfo, JuanJuan Rulfo
|
&0000000000001955.0000001955
|
Mexico
|
Spanish
|
| Masnavi
|
Rumi
|
&0000000000001258.0000001258–73
|
Sultanate of Rum
|
Persian
|
| Midnight's Children
|
Rushdie, SalmanSalman Rushdie
|
&0000000000001981.0000001981
|
United Kingdom, India
|
English
|
| Bostan
|
Saadi
|
&0000000000001257.0000001257
|
Persia, Persian Empire
|
Persian
|
| Season of Migration to the North
|
Salih, TayebTayeb Salih
|
&0000000000001966.0000001966
|
Sudan
|
Arabic
|
| Blindness
|
Saramago, JoséJosé Saramago
|
&0000000000001995.0000001995
|
Portugal
|
Portuguese
|
| Hamlet
|
Shakespeare, WilliamWilliam Shakespeare
|
&0000000000001603.0000001603
|
England
|
English
|
| King Lear
|
Shakespeare, WilliamWilliam Shakespeare
|
&0000000000001608.0000001608
|
England
|
English
|
| Othello
|
Shakespeare, WilliamWilliam Shakespeare
|
&0000000000001609.0000001609
|
England
|
English
|
| Oedipus the King
|
Sophocles
|
&-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-5-4-1.1000000430 BCE
|
Greece
|
Greek
|
| The Red and the Black
|
Stendhal
|
&0000000000001830.0000001830
|
France
|
French
|
| Tristram Shandy
|
Sterne, LaurenceLaurence Sterne
|
&0000000000001760.0000001760
|
England
|
English
|
| Confessions of Zeno
|
Svevo, ItaloItalo Svevo
|
&0000000000001923.0000001923
|
Italy
|
Italian
|
| Gulliver's Travels
|
Swift, JonathanJonathan Swift
|
&0000000000001726.0000001726
|
Ireland
|
English
|
| War and Peace
|
Tolstoy, LeoLeo Tolstoy
|
&0000000000001865.0000001865–1869
|
Russia
|
Russian
|
| Anna Karenina
|
Tolstoy, LeoLeo Tolstoy
|
&0000000000001877.0000001877
|
Russia
|
Russian
|
| The Death of Ivan Ilyich
|
Tolstoy, LeoLeo Tolstoy
|
&0000000000001886.0000001886
|
Russia
|
Russian
|
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
|
Twain, MarkMark Twain
|
&0000000000001884.0000001884
|
United States
|
English
|
| Ramayana
|
Valmiki
|
&-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-6-1-1.10000005th century BCE - 4th century BCE
|
India
|
Sanskrit
|
| Aeneid
|
Virgil
|
&-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-30.100000029–19 BCE
|
Roman Empire
|
Classical Latin
|
| Mahabharata
|
Vyasa
|
&-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-10-1-1.10000009th century BCE – 5th century BCE
|
India
|
Sanskrit
|
| Leaves of Grass
|
Whitman, WaltWalt Whitman
|
&0000000000001855.0000001855
|
United States
|
English
|
| Mrs Dalloway
|
Woolf, VirginiaVirginia Woolf
|
&0000000000001925.0000001925
|
United Kingdom
|
English
|
| To the Lighthouse
|
Woolf, VirginiaVirginia Woolf
|
&0000000000001927.0000001927
|
United Kingdom
|
English
|
| Memoirs of Hadrian
|
Yourcenar, MargueriteMarguerite Yourcenar
|
&0000000000001951.0000001951
|
France/Belgium
|
French
|
