The 100 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][edit]List of the 100 Best Books of All Time
| Title | Author | Year | Country |
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| Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe | 1958 | Nigeria |
| Fairy tales | Hans Christian Andersen | 1835–1837 | Denmark |
| Epic of Gilgamesh | Anonymous | 18th or 17th century BC | Iraq |
| Book of Job | Anonymous | ? | Israel |
| Mahabharata | Vyasa | 4th century BC – 4th century AD | India |
| Njal's Saga | Anonymous | 13th century | Iceland |
| One Thousand and One Nights | Anonymous | 9th century | Arabia, Persia, India |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | 1813 | UK |
| Le Père Goriot | Honoré de Balzac | 1835 | France |
| Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, a trilogy | Samuel Beckett | 1951–1953 | Ireland |
| The Decameron | Giovanni Boccaccio | 1349–1353 | Italy |
| Ficciones | Jorge Luis Borges | 1944 | Argentina |
Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | 1847 | UK |
| The Stranger | Albert Camus | 1942 | Algeria, France |
| Poems | Paul Celan | 1952 | Romania, France |
| Journey to the End of the Night | Louis-Ferdinand Céline | 1932 | France |
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes | 1605–1615 | Spain |
| The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer | 14th century | UK |
| Stories | Anton Chekhov | 1886 | Russia |
| Nostromo | Joseph Conrad | 1904 | UK |
| Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri | 1307–1321 | Italy |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | 1861 | UK |
| Jacques the Fatalist | Denis Diderot | 1796 | France |
| Berlin Alexanderplatz | Alfred Döblin | 1929 | Germany |
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 1866 | Russia |
| The Idiot | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 1869 | Russia |
| The Possessed | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 1872 | Russia |
| The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 1880 | Russia |
| Middlemarch | George Eliot | 1871 | UK |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison | 1952 | USA |
| Medea | Euripides | 431 BC | Greece |
| Absalom, Absalom! | William Faulkner | 1936 | USA |
| The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner | 1929 | USA |
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | 1857 | France |
| Sentimental Education | Gustave Flaubert | 1869 | France |
| Gypsy Ballads | Federico García Lorca | 1928 | Spain |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | 1967 | Colombia |
| Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel García Márquez | 1985 | Colombia |
| Goethe's Faust | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 1808 | Germany |
| Dead Souls | Nikolai Gogol | 1842 | Russia |
| The Tin Drum | Günter Grass | 1959 | Germany |
| The Devil to Pay in the Backlands | João Guimarães Rosa | 1956 | Brazil |
| Hunger | Knut Hamsun | 1890 | Norway |
The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway | 1952 | USA |
| Iliad | Homer | 850 – 750 BC | Greece |
| Odyssey | Homer | 8th century BC | Greece |
| A Doll's House | Henrik Ibsen | 1879 | Norway |
| Ulysses | James Joyce | 1922 | Ireland |
| Stories | Franz Kafka | before 1924 | Czech Republic |
| The Trial | Franz Kafka | 1925 | Czech Republic |
| The Castle | Franz Kafka | 1926 | Czech Republic |
| Shakuntala | Kālidāsa | 1st century BC – 4th century AD | India |
| The Sound of the Mountain | Yasunari Kawabata | 1954 | Japan |
| Zorba the Greek | Nikos Kazantzakis | 1946 | Greece |
| Sons and Lovers | D. H. Lawrence | 1913 | UK |
| Independent People | Halldór Laxness | 1934–1935 | Iceland |
| Poems | Giacomo Leopardi | 1818 | Italy |
| The Golden Notebook | Doris Lessing | 1962 | UK |
| Pippi Longstocking | Astrid Lindgren | 1945 | Sweden |
| A Madman's Diary | Lu Xun | 1918 | China |
| Children of Gebelawi | Naguib Mahfouz | 1959 | Egypt |
| Buddenbrooks | Thomas Mann | 1901 | Germany |
| The Magic Mountain | Thomas Mann | 1924 | Germany |
| Moby-Dick | Herman Melville | 1851 | USA |
| Essays | Michel de Montaigne | 1595 | France |
| History | Elsa Morante | 1974 | Italy |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison | 1987 | USA |
| The Tale of Genji | Murasaki Shikibu | 11th century | Japan |
| The Man Without Qualities | Robert Musil | 1930–1932 | Austria |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | 1955 | Russia, USA |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell | 1949 | UK |
| Metamorphoses | Ovid | 1st century AD | Italy |
| The Book of Disquiet | Fernando Pessoa | 1982 | Portugal |
| Tales | Edgar Allan Poe | 19th century | USA |
| Remembrance of Things Past | Marcel Proust | 1913–1927 | France |
| The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel | François Rabelais | 1532–1534 | France |
| Pedro Páramo | Juan Rulfo | 1955 | Mexico |
| Masnavi | Rumi | 13th century | Persia |
| Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie | 1981 | India, UK |
| Bostan | Saadi | 1257 | Persia |
| Season of Migration to the North | Tayeb Salih | 1971 | Sudan |
| Blindness | José Saramago | 1995 | Portugal |
Hamlet | William Shakespeare | 1603 | UK |
| King Lear | William Shakespeare | 1608 | UK |
| Othello | William Shakespeare | 1622 | UK |
| Oedipus the King | Sophocles | 430 BC | Greece |
| The Red and the Black | Stendhal | 1830 | France |
| Tristram Shandy | Laurence Sterne | 1760 | Ireland, UK |
| Confessions of Zeno | Italo Svevo | 1923 | Italy |
| Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift | 1726 | Ireland, UK |
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | 1865–1869 | Russia |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | 1877 | Russia |
| The Death of Ivan Ilyich | Leo Tolstoy | 1886 | Russia |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | 1884 | USA |
| Ramayana | Valmiki | 3rd century BC – 3rd century AD | India |
| Aeneid | Virgil | 29 – 19 BC | Italy |
| Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman | 1855 | USA |
| Mrs Dalloway | Virginia Woolf | 1925 | UK |
| To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf | 1927 | UK |
| Memoirs of Hadrian | Marguerite Yourcenar | 1951 | France
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