| 100 BOOKS TO READ BEFORE YOU DIE | |
| 1 | 1984 by George Orwell, England, (1903-1950) |
| 2 | A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, Norway (1828-1906) |
| 3 | A Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert, France, (1821-1880) |
| 4 | Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner, United States, (1897-1962) |
| 5 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, United States, (1835-1910) |
| 6 | The Aeneid by Virgil, Italy, (70-19 BC) |
| 7 | Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Russia, (1828-1910) |
| 8 | Beloved by Toni Morrison, United States, (b. 1931) |
| 9 | Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin, Germany, (1878-1957) |
| 10 | Blindness by Jose Saramago, Portugal, (1922-2010) |
| 11 | The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, Portugal, (1888-1935) |
| 12 | The Book of Job, Israel. (600-400 BC) |
| 13 | The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881) |
| 14 | Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann, Germany, (1875-1955) |
| 15 | Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, England, (1340-1400) |
| 16 | The Castle by Franz Kafka, Bohemia, (1883-1924) |
| 17 | Children of Gebelawi by Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt, (b. 1911) |
| 18 | Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina, (1899-1986) |
| 19 | Complete Poems by Giacomo Leopardi, Italy, (1798-1837) |
| 20 | The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka, Bohemia, (1883-1924) |
| 21 | The Complete Tales by Edgar Allan Poe, United States, (1809-1849) |
| 22 | Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo, Italy, (1861-1928) |
| 23 | Crime and Punishment by Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881) |
| 24 | Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, Russia, (1809-1852) |
| 25 | The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy, Russia, (1828-1910) |
| 26 | Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy, (1313-1375) |
| 27 | The Devil to Pay in the Backlands by Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Brazil, (1880-1967) |
| 28 | Diary of a Madman and Other Stories by Lu Xun, China, (1881-1936) |
| 29 | The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, Italy, (1265-1321) |
| 30 | Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain, (1547-1616) |
| 31 | Essays by Michel de Montaigne, France, (1533-1592) |
| 32 | Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, (1805-1875) |
| 33 | Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany, (1749-1832) |
| 34 | Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais, France, (1495-1553) |
| 35 | Gilgamesh Mesopotamia, (c 1800 BC) |
| 36 | The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, England, (b.1919) |
| 37 | Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, England, (1812-1870) |
| 38 | Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, Ireland, (1667-1745) |
| 39 | Gypsy Ballads by Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain, (1898-1936) |
| 40 | Hamlet by William Shakespeare, England, (1564-1616) |
| 41 | History by Elsa Morante, Italy, (1918-1985) |
| 42 | Hunger by Knut Hamsun, Norway, (1859-1952) |
| 43 | The Idiot by Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881) |
| 44 | The Iliad by Homer, Greece, (c 700 BC) |
| 45 | Independent People by Halldor K Laxness, Iceland, (1902-1998) |
| 46 | Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, United States, (1914-1994) |
| 47 | Jacques the Fatalist and His Master by Denis Diderot, France, (1713-1784) |
| 48 | Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, France, (1894-1961) |
| 49 | King Lear by William Shakespeare, England, (1564-1616) |
| 50 | Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, United States, (1819-1892) |
| 51 | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne, Ireland, (1713-1768) |
| 52 | Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Russia/United States, (1899-1977) |
| 53 | Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia, (b. 1928) |
| 54 | Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, France, (1821-1880) |
| 55 | The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, Germany, (1875-1955) |
| 56 | Mahabharata, India, (c 500 BC) |
| 57 | The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil, Austria, (1880-1942) |
| 58 | The Mathnawi by Jalal ad-din Rumi, Afghanistan, (1207-1273) |
| 59 | Medea by Euripides, Greece, (c 480-406 BC) |
| 60 | Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar, France, (1903-1987) |
| 61 | Metamorphoses by Ovid, Italy, (c 43 BC) |
| 62 | Middlemarch by George Eliot, England, (1819-1880) |
| 63 | Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie, India/Britain, (b. 1947) |
| 64 | Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, United States, (1819-1891) |
| 65 | Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, England, (1882-1941) |
| 66 | Njaals Saga, Iceland, (c 1300) |
| 67 | Nostromo by Joseph Conrad, England,(1857-1924) |
| 68 | The Odyssey by Homer, Greece, (c 700 BC) |
| 69 | Oedipus the King Sophocles, Greece, (496-406 BC) |
| 70 | Old Goriot by Honore de Balzac, France, (1799-1850) |
| 71 | The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, United States, (1899-1961) |
| 72 | One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia, (b. 1928) |
| 73 | The Orchard by Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi, Iran, (c 1200-1292) |
| 74 | Othello by William Shakespeare, England, (1564-1616) |
| 75 | Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo Juan Rulfo, Mexico, (1918-1986) |
| 76 | Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren, Sweden, (1907-2002) |
| 77 | Poems by Paul Celan, Romania/France, (1920-1970) |
| 78 | The Possessed by Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881) |
| 79 | Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, England, (1775-1817) |
| 80 | The Ramayana by Valmiki, India, (c 300 BC) |
| 81 | The Recognition of Sakuntala by Kalidasa, India, (c. 400) |
| 82 | The Red and the Black by Stendhal, France, (1783-1842) |
| 83 | Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust, France, (1871-1922) |
| 84 | Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih, Sudan, (b. 1929) |
| 85 | Selected Stories by Anton P Chekhov, Russia, (1860-1904) |
| 86 | Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence, England, (1885-1930) |
| 87 | The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, United States, (1897-1962) |
| 88 | The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata, Japan, (1899-1972) |
| 89 | The Stranger by Albert Camus, France, (1913-1960) |
| 90 | The Tale of Genji by Shikibu Murasaki, Japan, (c 1000) |
| 91 | Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, (b. 1930) |
| 92 | Thousand and One Nights, India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt, (700-1500) |
| 93 | The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass, Germany, (b.1927) |
| 94 | To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, England, (1882-1941) |
| 95 | The Trial by Franz Kafka, Bohemia, (1883-1924) |
| 96 | Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett, Ireland, (1906-1989) |
| 97 | Ulysses by James Joyce, Ireland, (1882-1941) |
| 98 | War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Russia, (1828-1910) |
| 99 | Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, England, (1818-1848) |
| 100 | Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis, Greece, (1883-1957) |