Title Author Year Country
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 Moses ? 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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