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 — 1,213,649 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 — 5,581,017 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 — 1,068,051 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 — 1,109,927 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 — 4,886,752 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 — 2,210,068 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 — 82,369 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 — 86,997 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 — 380,548 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 — 239,500 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 — 405,438 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 — 1,446,920 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 — 1,344,760 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 — 309,481 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 — 7,501 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 — 175,233 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 — 370,435 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 — 301,387 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 — 4,650,639 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 — 517,683 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 — 882,373 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 — 59,664 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 — 1,122,017 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 — 9,851 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 — 1,335,855 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 — 240,060 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 — 397,426 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 — 25,906 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 — 441,494 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 — 16,365 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 — 218,847 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 — 108,723 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 — 240,049 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 — 88,844 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 — 222,933 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 — 79,298 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 — 145,428 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 — 117,515 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 — 945,520 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 — 166,767 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 — 959,022 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 — 66,348 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 — 9,885 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 — 73,205 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 — 363,445 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 — 622,967 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 — 56,168 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 — 14,983 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 — 48,659 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 — 38,608 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 — 210,565 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 — 418,090 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 — 181,846 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 — 305,028 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 — 63,332 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 — 218,872 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 — 44,020 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 — 6,976,958 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 — 32,183 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 — 34,230 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 — 203,977 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 — 139,398 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 — 28,668 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 — 346,059 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 — 17,538 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 — 2,089 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 — 68,035 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 — 120,944 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 — 48,504 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 — 2,358,819 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 — 31,904 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 — 134,279 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 — 198,046 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 — 47,064 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 — 11,452 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 — 36,589 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 — 85,249 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 — 262,310 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 — 12,640 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 — 499,210 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 — 23,112 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 — 2,493,628 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 — 86,626 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 — 527,816 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 — 552,475 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 — 22,338 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 — 98,015 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 — 64,690 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 — 77,335 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 — 15,387 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 — 24,956 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 — 15,213 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 — 9,750 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 — 11,394 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 — 1,939,543 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