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The Stranger by Albert CamusCandide by VoltaireThe Plague by Albert CamusLes Fleurs du Mal by Charles BaudelairePère Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
Best French Literature
870 books — 1,549 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyDead Souls by Nikolai GogolThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Greatest Eastern European Classics
440 books — 249 voters

Марія by Улас СамчукКобзар by Taras ShevchenkoSelected Poetry/Вибрані поезії by Taras ShevchenkoХіба ревуть воли, як ясла повні? by Panas MyrnyЛісова пісня by Lesia Ukrainka
Ukrainian Literature
517 books — 122 voters
Whitehorn's Windmill by Kazys BorutaŽemė maitintoja by Petras CvirkaTankový prapor by Josef ŠkvoreckýNikola the Outlaw by Ivan OlbrachtGaps by Bohumil Hrabal
Best Novels from Eastern Europe
198 books — 83 voters

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeSwann’s Way by Marcel ProustThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradNana by Émile Zola
Belle Époque
382 books — 150 voters
Chess Story by Stefan ZweigDead Souls by Nikolai GogolThe Inferno of Dante Alighieri by Dante AlighieriLife and Fate by Vasily GrossmanPeasants and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
New York Review Books - Classics
534 books — 890 voters

Ferdydurke by Witold GombrowiczBieguni by Olga TokarczukPrimeval and Other Times by Olga Tokarczuk
Contemporary Writers from Poland
70 books — 29 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Plague by Albert Camus
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,747 books — 1,618 voters

Gargantua and Pantagruel by François RabelaisOgniem i mieczem by Henryk SienkiewiczThe Histories by HerodotusMiss Julie by August StrindbergThe Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
Best Foreign Language (non English) Book
1,078 books — 622 voters
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespearePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Idiot by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Best Authors Ever
438 books — 231 voters

Animal Farm by George OrwellOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
World's Greatest Novellas
712 books — 1,438 voters
Mr. Cogito by Zbigniew HerbertSonety krymskie by Adam MickiewiczWiersze dla dzieci by Julian TuwimPan Tadeusz by Adam MickiewiczBallady i romanse by Adam Mickiewicz
Best European Poetry
28 books — 11 voters

The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaBuddenbrooks by Thomas MannFaust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Magic Mountain by Thomas MannThe Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
1,028 books — 951 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Most Difficult Novels
585 books — 2,042 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Complete Works by William Shakespeare
Best British and Irish Literature
1,182 books — 1,110 voters
War and Peace by Leo TolstoyUlysses by James JoyceAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoySense and Sensibility by Jane AustenGreat Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
747 books — 1,812 voters

Dziady by Adam MickiewiczPrincess Ivona; by Witold GombrowiczSzewcy by Stanisław Ignacy WitkiewiczTango by Sławomir MrożekKordian. Część pierwsza trylogii. Spisek koronacyjny by Juliusz Słowacki
Best Polish, Ukrainian and Russian Plays
35 books — 14 voters
Macbeth by William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareKing Lear by William ShakespearePygmalion by George Bernard ShawMuch Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Best British and Irish Plays
134 books — 73 voters

Death on the Nile by Agatha ChristieMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Best Middle East Fiction
431 books — 474 voters
The Dwarf by Pär LagerkvistRöda Rummet by August StrindbergBarabbas by Pär LagerkvistSingoalla by Viktor RydbergThe Stronger by August Strindberg
Swedish classics
63 books — 26 voters

Ferdydurke by Witold GombrowiczLalka by Bolesław PrusThe Street of Crocodiles by Bruno SchulzThe Wedding by Stanisław WyspiańskiPan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz
Best Polish Books
574 books — 551 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakOblomov by Ivan GoncharovThe Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol
Best Russian Literature
510 books — 2,272 voters

Doctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakThe Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova by Anna AkhmatovaRed Cavalry by Isaac BabelSelected Poems by Marina TsvetaevaHeart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
Best Russian (Soviet 1917-1991) Literature
199 books — 268 voters
Das lyrische Stenogrammheft by Mascha KalékoDie Legende vom heiligen Trinker by Joseph RothDeutschland. Ein Wintermärchen by Heinrich HeineWoyzeck by Georg BüchnerTherese. Chronik eines Frauenlebens by Arthur Schnitzler
Best German Authors
605 books — 702 voters

Старопланински легенди by Йордан ЙовковТютюн by Dimitar DimovДен на гнева by Geo MilevИзбрано by Христо СмирненскиРазкази. Гераците by Elin Pelin
Best Bulgarian Literature / Най-добра българска литература
168 books — 47 voters
Monachomachia i Antymonachomachia by Ignacy KrasickiSelected Poems by Cyprian Kamil NorwidNa skalnym Podhalu by Kazimierz Przerwa-TetmajerPopioły by Stefan ŻeromskiPoezje by Leopold Staff
Best Polish Literature
104 books — 103 voters

Death and the Dervish by Meša SelimovićThe Dwarf by Pär LagerkvistPrimeval and Other Times by Olga TokarczukThe Street of Crocodiles by Bruno SchulzThe Issa Valley by Czesław Miłosz
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,304 books — 118,848 voters
Death and the Dervish by Meša SelimovićA Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Danilo KišHiljadu i jedna smrt by Miroslav KrležaBaba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka UgrešićDnevnik o Čarnojeviću by Miloš Crnjanski
Best South Slavic Literature
363 books — 303 voters

Under the Glacier by Halldór LaxnessInvasion! by Jonas Hassen KhemiriRöda Rummet by August StrindbergThe Dwarf by Pär LagerkvistIndependent People by Halldór Laxness
Best Scandinavian and Nordic Literature
1,209 books — 1,243 voters
Dnevnik o Čarnojeviću by Miloš CrnjanskiBaba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka UgrešićDeath and the Dervish by Meša SelimovićThe Street of Crocodiles by Bruno SchulzFerdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz
Crash Course in Slavic Literature
443 books — 231 voters