The 100 Most Influential Works (138 books)

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Taken from a poll by the Norwegian Book Clubs editors and the Norwegian Nobel Institute to outstanding authors from 54 different countries. The question asked them to list what they considered the “best and most central works in world literature.”

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1	The Odyssey by Homer 3.84 avg rating — 1,213,940 ratings score: 2,168, and 23 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	1984 by George Orwell 4.20 avg rating — 5,582,372 ratings score: 2,065, and 23 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Hamlet by William Shakespeare 4.03 avg rating — 1,068,266 ratings score: 1,927, and 21 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 4.29 avg rating — 1,110,347 ratings score: 1,788, and 19 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 4.30 avg rating — 4,887,729 ratings score: 1,684, and 18 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 3.90 avg rating — 2,211,065 ratings score: 1,562, and 17 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	The Arabian Nights by Anonymous 4.02 avg rating — 82,379 ratings score: 1,445, and 16 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Faust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 3.83 avg rating — 87,009 ratings score: 1,435, and 16 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 3.71 avg rating — 380,638 ratings score: 1,433, and 16 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 3.53 avg rating — 239,513 ratings score: 1,387, and 15 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	The Trial by Franz Kafka 3.94 avg rating — 405,567 ratings score: 1,382, and 16 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	The Stranger by Albert Camus 4.03 avg rating — 1,447,477 ratings score: 1,380, and 16 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2) by Mark Twain 3.83 avg rating — 1,344,861 ratings score: 1,317, and 16 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 3.91 avg rating — 309,552 ratings score: 1,285, and 14 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil 4.19 avg rating — 7,504 ratings score: 1,216, and 13 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso by Dante Alighieri 4.09 avg rating — 175,256 ratings score: 1,184, and 13 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 4.17 avg rating — 370,513 ratings score: 1,164, and 14 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift 3.59 avg rating — 301,413 ratings score: 1,057, and 13 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Animal Farm by George Orwell 4.02 avg rating — 4,651,819 ratings score: 1,050, and 11 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	The Iliad by Homer 3.93 avg rating — 519,242 ratings score: 1,020, and 11 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 3.80 avg rating — 882,485 ratings score: 1,008, and 12 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis 4.02 avg rating — 59,674 ratings score: 998, and 12 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 4.12 avg rating — 1,122,245 ratings score: 985, and 12 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot 3.79 avg rating — 9,853 ratings score: 911, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 3.81 avg rating — 1,336,156 ratings score: 897, and 11 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1) by Sophocles 3.73 avg rating — 240,098 ratings score: 890, and 11 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 4.39 avg rating — 397,585 ratings score: 886, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges 4.56 avg rating — 25,908 ratings score: 870, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Othello by William Shakespeare 3.89 avg rating — 441,541 ratings score: 869, and 11 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais 3.65 avg rating — 16,366 ratings score: 837, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 3.81 avg rating — 218,894 ratings score: 833, and 11 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen 4.29 avg rating — 108,726 ratings score: 832, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	King Lear by William Shakespeare 3.91 avg rating — 240,093 ratings score: 829, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Medea by Euripides 3.96 avg rating — 88,862 ratings score: 807, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky 4.21 avg rating — 223,010 ratings score: 764, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Metamorphoses by Ovid 4.10 avg rating — 79,308 ratings score: 756, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	The Aeneid by Virgil 3.88 avg rating — 145,455 ratings score: 742, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 4.11 avg rating — 117,529 ratings score: 741, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 4.11 avg rating — 945,699 ratings score: 728, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen 3.77 avg rating — 166,797 ratings score: 698, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 3.87 avg rating — 959,177 ratings score: 698, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Hunger by Knut Hamsun 4.03 avg rating — 66,361 ratings score: 695, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Tales of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe 4.19 avg rating — 9,887 ratings score: 695, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	The Qur'an by Anonymous 4.38 avg rating — 73,216 ratings score: 693, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 3.77 avg rating — 363,536 ratings score: 692, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville 3.57 avg rating — 623,069 ratings score: 690, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence 3.64 avg rating — 56,169 ratings score: 677, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett 4.28 avg rating — 9,521 ratings score: 649, and 8 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu 3.72 avg rating — 14,985 ratings score: 641, and 8 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust 4.28 avg rating — 3,925 ratings score: 633, and 8 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline 4.18 avg rating — 48,668 ratings score: 627, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa 4.39 avg rating — 38,619 ratings score: 622, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1) by Astrid Lindgren 4.15 avg rating — 210,582 ratings score: 618, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) by Chinua Achebe 3.75 avg rating — 418,152 ratings score: 617, and 8 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	Middlemarch by George Eliot 4.04 avg rating — 181,891 ratings score: 613, and 8 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	Candide by Voltaire 3.76 avg rating — 305,065 ratings score: 607, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann 4.13 avg rating — 63,357 ratings score: 600, and 8 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #2) by Anne Rice 4.11 avg rating — 218,894 ratings score: 595, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio 3.88 avg rating — 44,028 ratings score: 594, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 4.26 avg rating — 6,978,088 ratings score: 583, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov 4.37 avg rating — 32,188 ratings score: 577, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	The Mathnawi: The Spiritual Couplets of Maulana Jalalu-D-Din Mahammad I Rumi by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi (Translator) 4.45 avg rating — 4,170 ratings score: 573, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih 3.72 avg rating — 34,239 ratings score: 570, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 3.92 avg rating — 204,003 ratings score: 559, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
65	Ulysses by James Joyce 3.76 avg rating — 139,417 ratings score: 555, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka 4.33 avg rating — 28,671 ratings score: 542, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
67	Blindness by José Saramago 4.18 avg rating — 346,160 ratings score: 504, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
68	The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy 4.12 avg rating — 17,540 ratings score: 497, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
69	The Orchard: The Bostan Of Saadi Of Shiraz by Saadi 4.36 avg rating — 2,090 ratings score: 478, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
70	Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac 3.85 avg rating — 68,045 ratings score: 469, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
71	Mahabharata by Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa (Original Author) 4.32 avg rating — 12,266 ratings score: 465, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
72	The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous 3.76 avg rating — 120,965 ratings score: 461, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
73	Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner 3.99 avg rating — 48,510 ratings score: 457, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
74	The Book of Job (Bible, #18) by Anonymous 4.22 avg rating — 4,871 ratings score: 454, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
75	Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 4.16 avg rating — 2,359,300 ratings score: 452, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
76	أولاد حارتنا by Naguib Mahfouz 4.08 avg rating — 31,912 ratings score: 446, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
77	Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie 3.97 avg rating — 134,306 ratings score: 442, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
78	The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 3.86 avg rating — 198,065 ratings score: 428, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
79	The Tin Drum by Günter Grass 3.95 avg rating — 47,069 ratings score: 427, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
80	Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin 3.84 avg rating — 11,455 ratings score: 417, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
81	Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann 4.20 avg rating — 36,606 ratings score: 416, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
82	The Red and the Black by Stendhal 3.86 avg rating — 85,268 ratings score: 405, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
83	The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1) by Pearl S. Buck 4.01 avg rating — 262,328 ratings score: 386, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
84	Ramayana by Vālmīki 4.08 avg rating — 12,643 ratings score: 385, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
85	Beloved by Toni Morrison 3.98 avg rating — 499,335 ratings score: 382, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
86	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne 3.72 avg rating — 23,115 ratings score: 375, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
87	Little Women (Little Women, #1) by Louisa May Alcott 4.17 avg rating — 2,494,027 ratings score: 374, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
88	A Passage to India by E.M. Forster 3.68 avg rating — 86,636 ratings score: 369, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
89	All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque 4.12 avg rating — 527,949 ratings score: 366, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
90	Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez 3.94 avg rating — 552,551 ratings score: 363, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
91	The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne 4.23 avg rating — 22,336 ratings score: 352, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
92	Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 3.98 avg rating — 98,029 ratings score: 335, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
93	Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky 4.31 avg rating — 64,712 ratings score: 332, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
94	The Castle by Franz Kafka 3.91 avg rating — 77,356 ratings score: 281, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
95	Romancero gitano by Federico García Lorca 4.24 avg rating — 15,388 ratings score: 278, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
95	The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing 3.77 avg rating — 24,960 ratings score: 278, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
97	Independent People by Halldór Laxness 4.12 avg rating — 15,219 ratings score: 261, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
98	The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata 3.84 avg rating — 9,752 ratings score: 257, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
99	Jo confesso by Jaume Cabré 4.45 avg rating — 11,399 ratings score: 255, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
100	Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 3.91 avg rating — 1,940,071 ratings score: 253, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars