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
#1
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
3.65
#2
The Little Mermaid and Other Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen
4
#3
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
Allen Mandelbaum (Translator)
4.04
#4
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Anonymous
N.K. Sandars (Translator)
3.43
#5
The Book Of Job
Stephen Mitchell
5
#6
One Thousand and One Nights
حنان الشيخ
3.88
#7
Njal's saga
Unknown
Leifur Eiricksson
4
#8
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
4.18
#9
Old Goriot
Honoré de Balzac
Ellen Marriage (Translator)
3.69
#10
Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
Samuel Beckett
4
#11
The Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio
3.55
#12
Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges
John Sturrock (Translator)
Anthony Kerringan (Translator)
4.23
#13
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
3.66
#14
The Stranger
Albert Camus
Matthew Ward (Translator)
3.92
#15
Poems of Paul Celan
Paul Celan
Michael Hamburger (Translator)
3
#16
Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Ralph Manheim (Translator)
4.24
#17
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
Edith Grossman
4.13
#18
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
Gerald J. Davis (Translator)
3.2
#19
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
Richard Pevear (Translator)
Anton Chekhov
Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
4.2
#20
Nostromo
Joseph Conrad
3.25
#21
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
3.56
#22
Jacques the fatalist and his master
Denis Diderot
David Coward (Translator)
3.67
#23
Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf