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.
Details
Rating
Readers Count
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
3.65
342 reads
The Little Mermaid and Other Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen
4
2 reads
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
Allen Mandelbaum (Translator)
4.04
25 reads
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Anonymous
N.K. Sandars (Translator)
3.43
85 reads
The Book Of Job
Stephen Mitchell
5
3 reads
One Thousand and One Nights
حنان الشيخ
3.88
10 reads
Njal's saga
Unknown
Leifur Eiricksson
4
4 reads
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
4.18
1,514 reads
Old Goriot
Honoré de Balzac
Ellen Marriage (Translator)
3.69
31 reads
Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
Samuel Beckett
4
2 reads
The Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio
3.55
25 reads
Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges
John Sturrock (Translator)
Anthony Kerringan (Translator)
4.23
107 reads
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
3.66
793 reads
The Stranger
Albert Camus
Matthew Ward (Translator)
3.92
1,150 reads
Poems of Paul Celan
Paul Celan
Michael Hamburger (Translator)
3
6 reads
Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Ralph Manheim (Translator)
4.24
30 reads
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
Edith Grossman
4.13
13 reads
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
Gerald J. Davis (Translator)
3.2
16 reads
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
Richard Pevear (Translator)
Anton Chekhov
Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
4.2
30 reads
Nostromo
Joseph Conrad
3.25
5 reads
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
3.56
478 reads
Jacques the fatalist and his master
Denis Diderot
David Coward (Translator)
3.67
4 reads
Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf