Norwegian Book Clubs' top 100 books of all time

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Based on a poll by the Norwegian Book Clubs (Bokklubben) of 100 prominent authors, who each nominated their list of the ten best and most central works of world literature. The list is not ranked, vis mere except for Don Quixote, which received 50% more votes than any other book. Official list in English; List in Norwegian vis mindre
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Alt falder fra hinanden (1958) af Chinua Achebe
Dantes guddommelige komedie (1308) af Dante Alighieri
The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales (1835) af Hans Christian Andersen
The Arabian Nights (9) af Anonymous
Njals saga 1 - 2 (1350) af Anonymous
Stolthed og fordom (1813) af Jane Austen
Far Goriot (1835) af Honoré de Balzac
Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (1951) af Samuel Beckett
Dekameron (1469) af Giovanni Boccaccio
Dekameron. Bind 1 (1351) af Giovanni Boccaccio
Fiktioner (1944) af Jorge Luis Borges
Stormfulde højder (1847) af Emily Brontë
Den fremmede (1942) af Albert Camus
Poems of Paul Celan (1980) af Paul Celan
Canterbury Fortællinger (14) af Geoffrey Chaucer
Selected Stories of Anton Chekov (1960) af Anton Chekhov
Rejse til nattens ende : roman (1983) af Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Nostromo (Nostromo) (1904) af Joseph Conrad
Berlin Alexanderplatz : Franz Biberkopfs historie (1929) af Alfred Döblin
The Book of Job (1998) af Louis De Bernières
Store forventninger (1861) af Charles Dickens
Fatalisten Jacques og hans herre (1796) af Denis Diderot
De besatte (1871) af Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Brødrene Karamasov (1880) af Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment (1866) af Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Idioten (1867) af Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Middlemarch (1871) af George Eliot
Usynlig mand (1952) af Ralph Ellison
Medea (431 BCE) af Euripides
Absalom, Absalom! (1936) af William Faulkner
Brølet og vreden (1929) af William Faulkner
Følelsernes opdragelse (1869) af Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary (1857) af Gustave Flaubert
Sigøjnerballader (1928) af Federico García Lorca
Hundrede års ensomhed (1967) af Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Kærlighed i koleraens tid (1985) af Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gilgamesh (1700 BCE) af Gilgamesh Poet
Faust : en tragedie i 2 dele (1808) af Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Døde Sjæle (1884) af Nikolai Gogol
Bliktrommen (1959) af Günter Grass
Sult (1890) af Knut Hamsun
Den gamle mand og havet (1950) af Ernest Hemingway
Homers Iliade (750 BCE) af Homer
Odysseen (750 BCE) af Homer
Et Dukkehjem (1879) af Henrik Ibsen
Ulysses (1922) af James Joyce
The Complete Stories (1971) af Franz Kafka
Processen (1925) af Franz Kafka
Slottet (1925) af Franz Kafka
The Recognition of Sakuntala: A Play in Seven Acts (1977) af Kalidasa
The Sound of the Mountain (1954) af Yasunari Kawabata
Spil for mig Zorbas (1943) af Nikos Kazantzakis
Sønner og elskere (1913) af D. H. Lawrence
Frie mænd (1946) af Halldór Laxness
Canti (1845) af Giacomo Leopardi
Den gyldne bog (1962) af Doris Lessing
Pippi Langstrømpe (1945) af Astrid Lindgren
Fountain and Tomb (1959) af Naguib Mahfouz
Buddenbrooks : en families forfald (1924) af Thomas Mann
Troldfjeldet (1924) af Thomas Mann
Moby-Dick eller Hvalen (1851) af Herman Melville
Essais 1-3 (1580) af Michel de Montaigne
Historien (1974) af Elsa Morante
Elskede : roman (1987) af Toni Morrison
The Tale of Genji (2015) af Shikibu Murasaki
Manden uden egenskaber (1930) af Robert Musil
Lolita (1955) af Vladimir Nabokov
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (1972) af R. K. Narayan
1984 (1949) af George Orwell
Ovids metamorfoser (8) af Ovid
Rastløshedens bog af Bernardo Soares (1982) af Fernando Pessoa
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (1824) af Edgar Allan Poe
Poe: Poetry and Tales (1984) af Edgar Allan Poe
På sporet af den tabte tid (1913) af Marcel Proust
Gargantua og Pantagruel, 1-5 (1532) af François Rabelais
Djævelen på vejen (1956) af João Guimarães Rosa
Pedro Páramo (1955) af Juan Rulfo
The Masnavi (1971) af Maulana Jalalu-'D-Din Muhammad I Rumi
Midnatsbørn (1981) af Salman Rushdie
The Bustan (1257) af Sadi
Season of Migration to the North (1966) af Tayeb Salih
En fortælling om blindhed (1995) af José Saramago
Hamlet (1603) af William Shakespeare
King Lear (1608) af William Shakespeare
Othello (1604) af William Shakespeare
Ødipus (429 BCE) af Sophocles
Rødt og sort (1830) af Stendhal
Tristram Shandys levned og meninger (1759) af Laurence Sterne
Zenos bekendelser (1930) af Italo Svevo
Gullivers rejser (1727) af Jonathan Swift
Anna Karenina (1875) af Leo Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilych & Hadyi Murad (1884) af Leo Tolstoy
Ivan Iljitjs død : roman (1852) af Leo Tolstoy
Krig og fred (1868) af Leo Tolstoy
Huckleberry Finn (1884) af Mark Twain
Vergils Aeneide (29 BCE) af Virgil
Mahābhārata (C. Rajagopalachari ed.) (1979) af Vyasa
Leaves of Grass (1855) af Walt Whitman
Mrs. Dalloway : roman (1925) af Virginia Woolf
Til fyret : roman (1927) af Virginia Woolf
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories (1918) af Lu Xun

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