Books I've Read of the Guardian's Top 100 Books of All Time

Submitted by yvgeny on Wed, 10/19/2005 - 03:44
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  1. Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, (b. 1930), Things Fall Apart
  2. Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, (1805-1875), Fairy Tales and Stories
  3. Jane Austen, England, (1775-1817), Pride and Prejudice
  4. Honore de Balzac, France, (1799-1850), Old Goriot
  5. Samuel Beckett, Ireland, (1906-1989), Trilogy: Molloy,
  6. Malone Dies,
  7. The Unnamable
  8. Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy, (1313-1375), Decameron
  9. Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina, (1899-1986), Collected Fictions
  10. Emily Bronte, England, (1818-1848), Wuthering Heights
  11. Albert Camus, France, (1913-1960), The Stranger
  12. Paul Celan, Romania/France, (1920-1970), Poems.
  13. Louis-Ferdinand Celine, France, (1894-1961), Journey to the End of the Night
  14. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain, (1547-1616), Don Quixote
  15. Geoffrey Chaucer, England, (1340-1400), Canterbury Tales
  16. Joseph Conrad, England,(1857-1924), Nostromo
  17. Dante Alighieri, Italy, (1265-1321), The Divine Comedy
  18. Charles Dickens, England, (1812-1870), Great Expectations
  19. Denis Diderot, France, (1713-1784), Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
  20. Alfred Doblin, Germany, (1878-1957), Berlin Alexanderplatz
  21. Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881), Crime and Punishment;
  22. The Idiot;
  23. The Possessed;
  24. The Brothers Karamazov
  25. George Eliot, England, (1819-1880), Middlemarch
  26. Ralph Ellison, United States, (1914-1994), Invisible Man
  27. Euripides, Greece, (c 480-406 BC), Medea
  28. William Faulkner, United States, (1897-1962), Absalom, Absalom;
  29. The Sound and the Fury
  30. Gustave Flaubert, France, (1821-1880), Madame Bovary;
  31. A Sentimental Education
  32. Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain, (1898-1936), Gypsy Ballads
  33. Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Colombia, (b. 1928), One Hundred Years of Solitude;
  34. Love in the Time of Cholera
  35. Gilgamesh, Mesopotamia (c 1800 BC).
  36. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany, (1749-1832), Faust
  37. Nikolai Gogol, Russia, (1809-1852), Dead Souls
  38. Gunter Grass, Germany, (b.1927), The Tin Drum
  39. Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Brazil, (1880-1967), The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
  40. Knut Hamsun, Norway, (1859-1952), Hunger.
  41. Ernest Hemingway, United States, (1899-1961), The Old Man and the Sea
  42. Homer, Greece, (c 700 BC), The Iliad
  43. The Odyssey
  44. Henrik Ibsen, Norway (1828-1906), A Doll's House
  45. The Book of Job, Israel. (600-400 BC).
  46. James Joyce, Ireland, (1882-1941), Ulysses
  47. Franz Kafka, Bohemia, (1883-1924), The Complete Stories;
  48. The Trial;
  49. The Castle Bohemia
  50. Kalidasa, India, (c. 400), The Recognition of Sakuntala
  51. Yasunari Kawabata, Japan, (1899-1972), The Sound of the Mountain
  52. Nikos Kazantzakis, Greece, (1883-1957), Zorba the Greek
  53. DH Lawrence, England, (1885-1930), Sons and Lovers
  54. Halldor K Laxness, Iceland, (1902-1998), Independent People
  55. Giacomo Leopardi, Italy, (1798-1837), Complete Poems
  56. Doris Lessing, England, (b.1919), The Golden Notebook
  57. Astrid Lindgren, Sweden, (1907-2002), Pippi Longstocking
  58. Lu Xun, China, (1881-1936), Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
  59. Mahabharata, India, (c 500 BC). Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt, (b. 1911), Children of Gebelawi
  60. Thomas Mann, Germany, (1875-1955), Buddenbrook;
  61. The Magic Mountain
  62. Herman Melville, United States, (1819-1891), Moby Dick
  63. Michel de Montaigne, France, (1533-1592), Essays. _Elsa Morante, Italy, (1918-1985), History
  64. Toni Morrison, United States, (b. 1931), Beloved
  65. Shikibu Murasaki, Japan, (N/A), The Tale of Genji
  66. Robert Musil, Austria, (1880-1942), The Man Without Qualities
  67. Vladimir Nabokov, Russia/United States, (1899-1977), Lolita
  68. Njaals Saga, Iceland, (c 1300).
  69. George Orwell, England, (1903-1950), 1984
  70. Ovid, Italy, (c 43 BC), Metamorphoses
  71. Fernando Pessoa, Portugal, (1888-1935), The Book of Disquiet
  72. Edgar Allan Poe, United States, (1809-1849), The Complete Tales
  73. Marcel Proust, France, (1871-1922), Remembrance of Things Past
  74. Francois Rabelais, France, (1495-1553), Gargantua and Pantagruel
  75. Juan Rulfo, Mexico, (1918-1986), Pedro Paramo
  76. Jalal ad-din Rumi, Afghanistan, (1207-1273), Mathnawi
  77. Salman Rushdie, India/Britain, (b. 1947), Midnight's Children
  78. Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi, Iran, (c 1200-1292), The Orchard
  79. Tayeb Salih, Sudan, (b. 1929), Season of Migration to the North
  80. Jose Saramago, Portugal, (b. 1922), Blindness
  81. William Shakespeare, England, (1564-1616), Hamlet;
  82. King Lear;
  83. Othello
  84. Sophocles, Greece, (496-406 BC), Oedipus the King
  85. Stendhal, France, (1783-1842), The Red and the Black
  86. Laurence Sterne, Ireland, (1713-1768), The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
  87. Italo Svevo, Italy, (1861-1928), Confessions of Zeno
  88. Jonathan Swift, Ireland, (1667-1745), Gulliver's Travels
  89. Leo Tolstoy, Russia, (1828-1910), War and Peace;
  90. Anna Karenina;
  91. The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
  92. Anton P Chekhov, Russia, (1860-1904), Selected Stories
  93. Thousand and One Nights, India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt, (700-1500).
  94. Mark Twain, United States, (1835-1910), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  95. Valmiki, India, (c 300 BC), Ramayana
  96. Virgil, Italy, (70-19 BC), The Aeneid
  97. Walt Whitman, United States, (1819-1892), Leaves of Grass
  98. Virginia Woolf, England, (1882-1941), Mrs. Dalloway;
  99. To the Lighthouse
  100. Marguerite Yourcenar, France, (1903-1987), Memoirs of Hadrian
misscurly10/21/2005

Nothing at all from Canada?

yvgeny10/22/2005

Maybe the Canadian authors are too recent for the Guardian's list, I don't know. I think at least Alice Munro or Margaret Atwood should be on the list.