Read The100 Most Meaningful Books of All Time

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   According to the website, only #1 (Don Quixote) is listed by votes, the rest are alphabetically. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Old Goriot by Honore de Balzac Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte The Stranger by Albert Camus Poems by Paul Celan Journey To the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Nostromo by Joseph Conrad The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Jacques the Fatalist and His Master by Denis Diderot Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Middlemarch by George Eliot Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Medea by Euripides Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert A Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert Gypsy Ballads by Federico Garcia Lorca One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Epic of Gilgamesh Faust Johann by Wolfgang von Goethe Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol The Tin Drum by Günter Grass The Devil to Pay in the Backlands by Joao Guimaraes Rosa

Hunger by Knut Hamsun The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway The Iliad by Homer The Odyssey by Homer A Doll¶s House by Henrik Ibsen The Book of Job by Anon Ulysses by James Joyce The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka The Trial by Franz Kafka The Castle by Franz Kafka The Recognition of Sakuntala by Kalidasa The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis Sons and Lovers by D H Lawrence Independent People by Halldor K Laxness Complete Poems by Giacomo Leopardi The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren Diary of a Madman and Other Stories by Lu Xun Mahabharata by Anon Children of Gebelawi by Naguib Mahfouz Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann Moby Dick by Herman Melville Essays by Michel de Montaigne History by Elsa Morante Beloved by Toni Morrison The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Njal¶s Saga 1984 by George Orwell Metamorphoses by Ovid The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa The Complete Tales by Edgar Allan Poe Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo The Mathnawi by Jalalu¶l-Din Rumi Midnight¶s Children by Salman Rushdie The Bostan of Saadi (The Orchard) by Sheikh Saadi of Shiraz A Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih Blindness by Jose Saramago Hamlet by William Shakespeare King Lear by William Shakespeare Othello by William Shakespeare

Oedipus the King by Sophocles The Red and the Black by Stendhal The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo Gulliver¶s Travels by Jonathan Swift War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy Selected Stories by Anton Chekhov Thousand and One Nights The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Ramayana by Valmiki The Aeneid by Virgil Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar