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Bokklubben World Library

Bokklubben World Library is an unranked selection published in 2002 — one of the 14 sources behind the book canon, weighted as major international poll. 63 of its 100 entries appear in the aggregated canon.

·A Doll's House — Henrik Ibsen (1879)
·Absalom, Absalom! — William Faulkner (1936)Canon #70
·Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain (1884)
·Aeneid — Virgil
·Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy (1877)Canon #15
·Beloved — Toni Morrison (1987)Canon #29
·Berlin Alexanderplatz — Alfred Döblin (1929)Canon #84
·Blindness — José Saramago (1995)
·Book of Job — Unknown
·Bostan — Saadi
·Buddenbrooks — Thomas Mann (1901)Canon #68
·Children of Gebelawi — Naguib Mahfouz (1959)
·Complete Poems — Giacomo Leopardi (1818)
·Confessions of Zeno — Italo Svevo (1923)
·Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)Canon #3
·Dead Souls — Nikolai Gogol (1842)Canon #46
·Demons — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1872)
·Diary of a Madman and Other Stories — Lu Xun (1918)
·Divine Comedy — Dante AlighieriCanon #104
·Don Quixote — Miguel de CervantesCanon #2
·Epic of Gilgamesh — Unknown
·Essays — Michel de Montaigne
·Fairy Tales — Hans Christian Andersen (1835)
·Faust — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1832)
·Ficciones — Jorge Luis Borges (1944)Canon #139
·Gargantua and Pantagruel — François RabelaisCanon #146
·Great Expectations — Charles Dickens (1861)Canon #17
·Gulliver's Travels — Jonathan SwiftCanon #111
·Gypsy Ballads — Federico García Lorca (1928)
·Hamlet — William ShakespeareCanon #69
·History — Elsa Morante (1974)
·Hunger — Knut Hamsun (1890)Canon #53
·Iliad — HomerCanon #101
·In Search of Lost Time — Marcel Proust (1913)Canon #50
·Independent People — Halldór Laxness (1934)
·Invisible Man — Ralph Ellison (1952)Canon #20
·Jacques the Fatalist — Denis DiderotCanon #185
·Journey to the End of the Night — Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1932)Canon #40
·King Lear — William Shakespeare
·Le Père Goriot — Honoré de Balzac (1835)Canon #32
·Leaves of Grass — Walt Whitman (1855)
·Lolita — Vladimir Nabokov (1955)Canon #24
·Love in the Time of Cholera — Gabriel García Márquez (1985)Canon #110
·Madame Bovary — Gustave Flaubert (1857)Canon #6
·Mahabharata — Vyasa
·Masnavi — Rumi
·Medea — EuripidesCanon #137
·Memoirs of Hadrian — Marguerite Yourcenar (1951)Canon #184
·Metamorphoses — OvidCanon #169
·Middlemarch — George Eliot (1871)Canon #11
·Midnight's Children — Salman Rushdie (1981)Canon #206
·Moby-Dick — Herman Melville (1851)Canon #8
·Mrs Dalloway — Virginia Woolf (1925)Canon #18
·Nineteen Eighty-Four — George Orwell (1949)Canon #13
·Njál's Saga — Unknown, possibly Sæmundr fróði
·Nostromo — Joseph Conrad (1904)Canon #43
·Odyssey — HomerCanon #93
·Oedipus the King — SophoclesCanon #178
·One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel García Márquez (1967)Canon #4
·One Thousand and One Nights — Various
·Othello — William Shakespeare
·Pedro Páramo — Juan Rulfo (1955)
·Pippi Longstocking — Astrid Lindgren (1945)Canon #168
·Poems — Paul Celan (1952)
·Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen (1813)Canon #5
·Ramayana — Valmiki
·Season of Migration to the North — Tayeb Salih (1966)
·Sentimental Education — Gustave Flaubert (1869)Canon #88
·Shakuntala — Kālidāsa
·Sons and Lovers — D. H. Lawrence (1913)Canon #51
·Stories — Anton Chekhov (1886)
·Stories — Franz Kafka (1924)
·Tales — Edgar Allan Poe (1832)
·The Book of Disquiet — Fernando Pessoa (1928)Canon #180
·The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880)Canon #87
·The Canterbury Tales — Geoffrey ChaucerCanon #205
·The Castle — Franz Kafka (1926)Canon #76
·The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories — Leo Tolstoy (1886)
·The Decameron — Giovanni BoccaccioCanon #163
·The Devil to Pay in the Backlands — João Guimarães Rosa (1956)
·The Golden Notebook — Doris Lessing (1962)Canon #41
·The Idiot — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1869)Canon #65
·The Magic Mountain — Thomas Mann (1924)Canon #26
·The Man Without Qualities — Robert Musil (1930)Canon #61
·The Old Man and the Sea — Ernest Hemingway (1952)Canon #83
·The Red and the Black — Stendhal (1830)Canon #28
·The Sound and the Fury — William Faulkner (1929)Canon #25
·The Sound of the Mountain — Yasunari Kawabata (1954)
·The Stranger — Albert Camus (1942)Canon #67
·The Tale of Genji — Murasaki ShikibuCanon #22
·The Tin Drum — Günter Grass (1959)Canon #45
·The Trial — Franz Kafka (1925)Canon #9
·The Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable — Samuel Beckett (1951)
·Things Fall Apart — Chinua Achebe (1958)Canon #16
·To the Lighthouse — Virginia Woolf (1927)Canon #23
·Tristram Shandy — Laurence SterneCanon #64
·Ulysses — James Joyce (1922)Canon #1
·War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy (1865)Canon #12
·Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë (1847)Canon #7
·Zorba the Greek — Nikos Kazantzakis (1946)Canon #134

List compiled and published by its original authors; positions shown as published. Canon ranks link to each entry's full evidence page.