Bokklubben World Library
Norwegian Book Clubs, 2002. A critics list. See the original list
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Berlin Alexanderplatz
Alfred Döblin, 1929
On 1 of the 11 lists it was eligible for
Children of Gebelawi
Naguib Mahfouz, 1959
On 1 of the 11 lists it was eligible for
Gargantua and Pantagruel
François Rabelais, 1534
On 1 of the 10 lists it was eligible for
Independent People
Halldór Laxness, 1934
On 1 of the 11 lists it was eligible for
Jacques the Fatalist
Denis Diderot, 1796
On 1 of the 10 lists it was eligible for
Pippi Longstocking
Astrid Lindgren, 1945
On 1 of the 11 lists it was eligible for
Season of Migration to the North
Tayeb Salih, 1966
On 1 of the 11 lists it was eligible for
The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa, 1928
On 1 of the 11 lists it was eligible for
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
João Guimarães Rosa, 1956
On 1 of the 11 lists it was eligible for
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Laurence Sterne, 1759
On 7 of the 13 lists it was eligible for
The Sound of the Mountain
Yasunari Kawabata, 1954
On 1 of the 11 lists it was eligible for
The Trilogy: Molloy
Samuel Beckett, 1951
On 1 of the 11 lists it was eligible for
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| List | Books in common |
|---|---|
| The 100 best novels of all time (The Guardian, 2026) | 32 |
| Readers' top 100 novels (The Guardian, 2026) | 30 |
| 100 novels everyone should read (The Telegraph, 2009) | 27 |
| The 100 greatest novels of all time (The Observer, 2003) | 20 |
| 100 books of the century (Le Monde, 1999) | 12 |