The Guardian's Top 100 Books of All Time
| D | K | Author, Country, Book Title |
| Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, (b. 1930), Things Fall Apart | ||
| Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, (1805-1875), Fairy Tales and Stories | ||
| JaneAusten, England, (1775-1817), Pride and Prejudice | ||
| Honore de Balzac, France, (1799-1850), Old Goriot | ||
| Samuel Beckett, Ireland, (1906-1989), Trilogy:Molloy,Malone Dies, The Unnamable | ||
| Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy, (1313-1375), Decameron | ||
| Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina, (1899-1986), Collected Fictions | ||
| Emily Bronte, England, (1818-1848), Wuthering Heights | ||
| Albert Camus, France, (1913-1960), The Stranger | ||
| Paul Celan, Romania/France, (1920-1970), Poems | ||
| Louis-Ferdinand Celine, France, (1894-1961), Journey to the End of the Night | ||
| Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain, (1547-1616), Don Quixote | ||
| Geoffrey Chaucer, England, (1340-1400), Canterbury Tales | ||
| Anton Checkov, Russia, (1860-1904), Selected Stories | ||
| Joseph Conrad, England,(1857-1924), Nostromo | ||
| Dante Alighieri, Italy, (1265-1321), The Divine Comedy | ||
| Charles Dickens, England, (1812-1870), Great Expectations | ||
| Denis Diderot, France, (1713-1784), Jacques the Fatalist and His Master | ||
| Alfred Doblin, Germany, (1878-1957), Berlin Alexanderplatz | ||
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881),Crime and Punishment;The Idiot;The Possessed; The Brothers Karamazov | ||
| George Eliot, England, (1819-1880), Middlemarch | ||
| Ralph Ellison, United States, (1914-1994), Invisible Man | ||
| Euripides, Greece, (c 480-406 BC), Medea | ||
| William Faulkner, United States, (1897-1962),Absalom, Absalom; The Sound and the Fury | ||
| Gustave Flaubert, France, (1821-1880),Madame Bovary; A Sentimental Education | ||
| Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain, (1898-1936), Gypsy Ballads | ||
| Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Colombia, (b. 1928),One Hundred Years of Solitude; Love in the Time of Cholera | ||
| Gilgamesh, Mesopotamia (c 1800 BC). | ||
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany, (1749-1832), Faust | ||
| Nikolai Gogol, Russia, (1809-1852), Dead Souls | ||
| Gunter Grass, Germany, (b.1927), The Tin Drum | ||
| Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Brazil, (1880-1967), The Devil to Pay in the Backlands | ||
| Knut Hamsun, Norway, (1859-1952), Hunger | ||
| Ernest Hemingway, United States, (1899-1961), The Old Man and the Sea | ||
| Homer, Greece, (c 700 BC), The Iliad and The Odyssey | ||
| Henrik Ibsen, Norway (1828-1906), A Doll's House | ||
| James Joyce, Ireland, (1882-1941), Ulysses | ||
| Franz Kafka, Bohemia, (1883-1924),The Complete Stories;The Trial; The Castle Bohemia | ||
| Kalidasa, India, (c. 400), The Recognition of Sakuntala | ||
| Yasunari Kawabata, Japan, (1899-1972), The Sound of the Mountain | ||
| Nikos Kazantzakis, Greece, (1883-1957), Zorba the Greek | ||
| DH Lawrence, England, (1885-1930), Sons and Lovers | ||
| Halldor K Laxness, Iceland, (1902-1998), Independent People | ||
| Giacomo Leopardi, Italy, (1798-1837), Complete Poems | ||
| Doris Lessing, England, (b.1919), The Golden Notebook | ||
| Astrid Lindgren, Sweden, (1907-2002), Pippi Longstocking | ||
| Lu Xun, China, (1881-1936), Diary of a Madman and Other Stories | ||
| Mahabharata, India, (c 500 BC) | ||
| Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt, (b. 1911), Children of Gebelawi | ||
| Thomas Mann, Germany, (1875-1955),Buddenbrook; The Magic Mountain | ||
| Herman Melville, United States, (1819-1891), Moby Dick | ||
| Michel de Montaigne, France, (1533-1592), Essays. | ||
| Elsa Morante, Italy, (1918-1985), History | ||
| Toni Morrison, United States, (b. 1931), Beloved | ||
| Shikibu Murasaki, Japan, (N/A), The Tale of Genji Genji | ||
| Robert Musil, Austria, (1880-1942), The Man Without Qualities | ||
| Vladimir Nabokov, Russia/United States, (1899-1977), Lolita | ||
| Njaals Saga, Iceland, (c 1300). | ||
| George Orwell, England, (1903-1950), 1984 | ||
| Fernando Pessoa, Portugal, (1888-1935), The Book of Disquiet | ||
| Ovid, Italy, (c 43 BC), Metamorphoses | ||
| Edgar Allan Poe, United States, (1809-1849), The Complete Tales | ||
| Marcel Proust, France, (1871-1922), Remembrance of Things Past | ||
| Francois Rabelais, France, (1495-1553), Gargantua and Pantagruel | ||
| Juan Rulfo, Mexico, (1918-1986), Pedro Paramo | ||
| Jalal ad-din Rumi, Afghanistan, (1207-1273), Mathnawi | ||
| Salman Rushdie, India/Britain, (b. 1947), Midnight's Children | ||
| Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi, Iran, (c 1200-1292), The Orchard | ||
| Tayeb Salih, Sudan, (b. 1929), Season of Migration to the North | ||
| Jose Saramago, Portugal, (b. 1922), Blindness | ||
| William Shakespeare, England, (1564-1616), Hamlet; King Lear; Othello | ||
| Sophocles, Greece, (496-406 BC), Oedipus the King | ||
| Stendhal, France, (1783-1842), The Red and the Black | ||
| Laurence Sterne, Ireland, (1713-1768), The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy | ||
| Italo Svevo, Italy, (1861-1928), Confessions of Zeno | ||
| Jonathan Swift, Ireland, (1667-1745), Gulliver's Travels | ||
| Leo Tolstoy, Russia, (1828-1910), War and Peace; Anna Karenina; The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories | ||
| Thousand and One Nights, India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt, (700-1500). | ||
| Mark Twain, United States, (1835-1910), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | ||
| Valmiki, India, (c 300 BC), Ramayana | ||
| Virgil, Italy, (70-19 BC), The Aeneid | ||
| Walt Whitman, United States, (1819-1892), Leaves of Grass | ||
| Virginia Woolf, England, (1882-1941),Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse | ||
| Marguerite Yourcenar, France, (1903-1987), Memoirs of Hadrian | ||
| The Book of Job, Israel. (600-400 BC). |
The Modern Library Association Top 100 Novels (subtracted from the above)
| THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce | ||
| BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley | ||
| CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller | ||
| DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler | ||
| THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck | ||
| UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry | ||
| THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler | ||
| I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves | ||
| AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser | ||
| THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers | ||
| SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| NATIVE SON by Richard Wright | ||
| HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow | ||
| APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O'Hara | ||
| U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos | ||
| WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson | ||
| A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster | ||
| THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James | ||
| THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James | ||
| TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell | ||
| THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford | ||
| ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell | ||
| THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James | ||
| SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser | ||
| A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh | ||
| AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner | ||
| ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren | ||
| THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder | ||
| HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster | ||
| GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin | ||
| THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene | ||
| LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding | ||
| DELIVERANCE by James Dickey | ||
| A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell | ||
| POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley | ||
| THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway | ||
| THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad | ||
| THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence | ||
| WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence | ||
| TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller | ||
| THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer | ||
| PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth | ||
| PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner | ||
| ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac | ||
| THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett | ||
| PARADE'S END by Ford Madox Ford | ||
| THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton | ||
| ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm | ||
| THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy | ||
| DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather | ||
| FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones | ||
| THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever | ||
| THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger | ||
| A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess | ||
| HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad | ||
| OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis | ||
| THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton | ||
| THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell | ||
| A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes | ||
| A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul | ||
| THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West | ||
| A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway | ||
| SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh | ||
| THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark | ||
| FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce | ||
| KIM by Rudyard Kipling | ||
| A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster | ||
| BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh | ||
| THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow | ||
| ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner | ||
| A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul | ||
| THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen | ||
| LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad | ||
| RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow | ||
| THE OLD WIVES' TALE by Arnold Bennett | ||
| THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London | ||
| LOVING by Henry Green | ||
| TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell | ||
| IRONWEED by William Kennedy | ||
| THE MAGUS by John Fowles | ||
| WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys | ||
| UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch | ||
| SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron | ||
| THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles | ||
| THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain | ||
| THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy | ||
| THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington |