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

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Rank Title Author Added

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50,826 members

444 reviews

4

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

2

by Henrik Ibsen

827 members

19 reviews

½ 3.6

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

3

by George Orwell

79,112 members

1,245 reviews

4.2

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

4

by Gustave Flaubert

25,497 members

379 reviews

½ 3.7

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

5

by William Shakespeare

31,528 members

287 reviews

4.2

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

6

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

49,772 members

671 reviews

3.9

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

7

19,353 members

233 reviews

4

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

8

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

1,037 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

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

9

Pride and Prejudice

77,672 members

1,337 reviews

½ 4.4

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

10

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

21,249 members

164 reviews

½ 3.7

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

11

38,135 members

373 reviews

4

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

12

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

29,649 members

491 reviews

3.8

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

13

by Albert Camus

34,360 members

491 reviews

3.9

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

14

5,522 members

104 reviews

4.2

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

15

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

16,982 members

257 reviews

3.9

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

16

The Magic Mountain

9,283 members

165 reviews

4.2

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

17

23,340 members

334 reviews

4

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

18

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

43,231 members

682 reviews

4.2

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

19

by Giovanni Boccaccio

9,706 members

120 reviews

4

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

20

Pippi Longstocking

by Astrid Lindgren

10,048 members

158 reviews

4

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

21

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

29,519 members

428 reviews

4.1

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

22

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

225 members

2 reviews

½ 4.4

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

23

Memoirs of Hadrian

by Marguerite Yourcenar

5,268 members

122 reviews

4.1

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

24

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

19,950 members

423 reviews

3.8

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

25

by Virginia Woolf

19,881 members

325 reviews

3.9

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

26

by George Eliot

17,121 members

324 reviews

4.2

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

27

6,369 members

68 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

11,577 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

3,929 members

43 reviews

½ 4.5

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

30

27,705 members

428 reviews

½ 4.3

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

31

The Epic of Gilgamesh

9,570 members

118 reviews

3.8

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

32

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28,433 members

315 reviews

½ 4.4

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

33

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

37,033 members

420 reviews

3.9

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

34

by Jorge Luis Borges

7,296 members

108 reviews

½ 4.4

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

35

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

4,872 members

37 reviews

3.9

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

36

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

3,445 members

33 reviews

4

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

37

by Toni Morrison

22,052 members

399 reviews

3.9

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

38

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

13,567 members

241 reviews

4

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

39

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

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1,133 members

3 reviews

½ 4.4

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

40

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin Classics)

by Laurence Sterne

7,533 members

112 reviews

3.9

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

41

by Vladimir Nabokov

30,969 members

548 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

1,731 members

23 reviews

3.9

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

43

by Günter Grass

7,410 members

91 reviews

4

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

44

The Man Without Qualities

by Robert Musil

587 members

10 reviews

4.2

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

45

The Red and the Black

9,242 members

130 reviews

3.9

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

46

The Devil to Pay in the Backlands

by João Guimarães Rosa

918 members

11 reviews

½ 4.5

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

47

22,058 members

194 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, lewbs, alex68

48

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

7,512 members

71 reviews

4.2

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

49

by Herman Melville

34,107 members

520 reviews

3.8

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

50

by Dante Alighieri

7,032 members

50 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, nisgolsand, FlorianKarpfinger

51

by William Shakespeare

14,480 members

143 reviews

4.1

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

52

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

9,863 members

80 reviews

4.1

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

53

Andersen's Fairy Tales

by Hans Christian Andersen

2,123 members

22 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: smcwl, roby72, nisgolsand, ahef1963

54

Mahābhārata {retold by William Buck}

by William Buck

478 members

3 reviews

3.9

4 Members: aulsmith, roby72, nisgolsand, ahef1963

55

by Anton Chekhov

1,495 members

12 reviews

½ 4.3

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

56

by José Saramago

12,645 members

379 reviews

4.1

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

57

by William Shakespeare

16,359 members

128 reviews

4

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

58

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

16,778 members

221 reviews

4

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

59

Poems of Paul Celan

503 members

5 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: roby72, nisgolsand, necrodeathmortem, FlorianKarpfinger

60

Zeno's Conscience

3,462 members

45 reviews

3.8

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, lewbs, alex68

61

by Joseph Conrad

4,612 members

56 reviews

3.8

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

62

Journey to the End of the Night

by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

5,853 members

80 reviews

4.2

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger

63

Medea [in Translation]

2,811 members

46 reviews

3.8

4 Members: roby72, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears

64

Sons And Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

9,299 members

95 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: smcwl, roby72, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger

65

Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays

by Michel de Montaigne

4,639 members

47 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: roby72, lewbs, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

66

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

27,152 members

405 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, Luisali, ahef1963, FlorianKarpfinger

67

The Tale of Genji

by Shikibu Murasaki

5,318 members

52 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

68

Absalom, Absalom!

by William Faulkner

7,450 members

107 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger

69

by Nikolai Gogol

8,916 members

114 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger

70

8,243 members

87 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, lewbs, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger

71

4,647 members

119 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger

72

The Sound of the Mountain

by Yasunari Kawabata

1,183 members

17 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger, mspixieears

73

Berlin Alexanderplatz

by Alfred Döblin

2,624 members

38 reviews

3.8

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger

74

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

15,615 members

157 reviews

4.1

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger

75

Metamorphoses [in translation]

12,667 members

98 reviews

4.1

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

76

The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing

5,263 members

90 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger

77

Zorba the Greek

by Nikos Kazantzakis

3,366 members

69 reviews

3.9

4 Members: roby72, alex68, Luisali, FlorianKarpfinger

78

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

2,384 members

20 reviews

4

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger

79

Sentimental Education

by Gustave Flaubert

4,089 members

57 reviews

3.8

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger

80

Independent People

by Halldór Laxness

2,784 members

97 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, alex68, necrodeathmortem

81

3,071 members

72 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, alex68, necrodeathmortem

82

Fountain and Tomb

by Naguib Mahfouz

931 members

21 reviews

3.9

2 Members: roby72, Dilara86

83

The Complete Stories

5,593 members

26 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: roby72, Luisali, FlorianKarpfinger

84

by Ralph Ellison

15,743 members

203 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, NinieB, FlorianKarpfinger

85

Gargantua and Pantagruel

by François Rabelais

4,901 members

49 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

86

by Honoré de Balzac

5,758 members

103 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

87

by Elsa Morante

1,334 members

27 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

88

Jacques the Fatalist

by Denis Diderot

1,773 members

26 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

89

Season of Migration to the North

1,590 members

46 reviews

3.8

2 Members: roby72, Dilara86

90

Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

by Samuel Beckett

2,935 members

26 reviews

4.2

3 Members: roby72, alex68, FlorianKarpfinger

91

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri

20,841 members

181 reviews

4.1

2 Members: lewbs, ManWithAnAgenda

92

95 members

2 reviews

2

2 Members: roby72, nisgolsand

93

The Book of Disquiet

by Fernando Pessoa

4,850 members

73 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: roby72, alex68

94

by Giacomo Leopardi

893 members

12 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: roby72

95

The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language

by Eugene H. Peterson

2,276 members

16 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: nisgolsand

96

The Ramayana: As Told by Aubrey Menen

by Aubrey Menen

173 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: roby72

97

by Federico García Lorca

505 members

9 reviews

4.1

Member: roby72

98

2,315 members

20 reviews

3.9

Member: roby72

99

by Maulana Jalalu-'D-Din Muhammad I Rumi

192 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: roby72

100

The Recognition of Sakuntala: A Play in Seven Acts

420 members

7 reviews

3.8

Member: roby72

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