Bokklubben World Library is a series of classical books, mostly novels, published by the Norwegian Book Clubs since 2002. It is based on a list of the hundred best books, as proposed by one hundred writers from fifty-four countries, compiled and organized in 2002 by the Book Club. This list endeavors to reflect world literature, with books from all countries, cultures, and time periods.
Position
Details
Rating
Readers Count
Controls
#1
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
3.65
342 reads
#2
The Little Mermaid and Other Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen
4
2 reads
#3
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
Allen Mandelbaum (Translator)
4.04
25 reads
#4
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Anonymous
N.K. Sandars (Translator)
3.43
85 reads
#5
The Book Of Job
Stephen Mitchell
5
3 reads
#6
One Thousand and One Nights
حنان الشيخ
3.88
10 reads
#7
Njal's saga
Unknown
Leifur Eiricksson
4
4 reads
#8
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
4.18
1,511 reads
#9
Old Goriot
Honoré de Balzac
Ellen Marriage (Translator)
3.69
31 reads
#10
Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
Samuel Beckett
4
2 reads
#11
The Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio
3.55
25 reads
#12
Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges
John Sturrock (Translator)
Anthony Kerringan (Translator)
4.23
107 reads
#13
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
3.66
793 reads
#14
The Stranger
Albert Camus
Matthew Ward (Translator)
3.92
1,147 reads
#15
Poems of Paul Celan
Paul Celan
Michael Hamburger (Translator)
3
6 reads
#16
Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Ralph Manheim (Translator)
4.24
30 reads
#17
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
Edith Grossman
4.13
13 reads
#18
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
Gerald J. Davis (Translator)
3.2
16 reads
#19
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
Richard Pevear (Translator)
Anton Chekhov
Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
4.2
30 reads
#20
Nostromo
Joseph Conrad
3.25
5 reads
#21
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
3.56
478 reads
#22
Jacques the fatalist and his master
Denis Diderot
David Coward (Translator)
3.67
4 reads
#23
Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf