100 Most Meaningful Books (of all time)

Submitted by marslike on Sun, 08/09/2009 - 15:41
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  1. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
  2. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
  3. Fairy Tales and Stories - Hans Christian Andersen
  4. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
  5. Old Goriot - Honore de Balzac
  6. Trilogy: Molloy, Malone dies, The Unnamable - Samuel Beckett
  7. Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio
  8. Collected Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges
  9. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
  10. The Stranger - Albert Camus
  11. Poems - Paul Celan
  12. Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine
  13. Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
  14. Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
  15. The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
  16. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
  17. Jacques the Fatalist and His Master - Denis Diderot
  18. Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Doblin
  19. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  20. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  21. The Possessed - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  22. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  23. Middlemarch - George Eliot
  24. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
  25. Medea - Euripides
  26. Absalom, Absalom - William Faulkner
  27. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
  28. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
  29. A Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
  30. Gypsy Ballads - Federico Garcia Lorca
  31. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  32. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  33. The Epic of Gilgamesh
  34. Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  35. Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
  36. The Tin Drum - Günter Grass
  37. The Devil to Pay in the Backlands - Joao Guimaraes Rosa
  38. Hunger - Knut Hamsun
  39. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
  40. The Iliad - Homer
  41. The Odyssey - Homer
  42. A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
  43. The Book of Job - Anon
  44. Ulysses - James Joyce
  45. The Complete Stories - Franz Kafka
  46. The Trial - Franz Kafka
  47. The Castle - Franz Kafka
  48. The Recognition of Sakuntala - Kalidasa
  49. The Sound of the Mountain - Yasunari Kawabata
  50. Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis
  51. Sons and Lovers - D H Lawrence
  52. Independent People - Halldor K Laxness
  53. Complete Poems - Giacomo Leopardi
  54. The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
  55. Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren
  56. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories - Lu Xun
  57. Mahabharata
  58. Children of Gebelawi - Naguib Mahfouz
  59. Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann
  60. The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
  61. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
  62. Essays - Michel de Montaigne
  63. History - Elsa Morante
  64. Beloved - Toni Morrison
  65. The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu
  66. The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
  67. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
  68. Njal's saga
  69. 1984 - George Orwell
  70. Metamorphoses - Ovid
  71. The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa
  72. The Complete Tales - Edgar Allan Poe
  73. Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
  74. Gargantua and Pantagruel - Francois Rabelais
  75. Pedro Paramo - Juan Rulfo
  76. The Mathnawi - Jalalu'l-Din Rumi
  77. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
  78. The Bostan of Saadi (The Orchard) - Sheikh Saadi of Shiraz
  79. A Season of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih
  80. Blindness - Jose Saramago
  81. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
  82. King Lear - William Shakespeare
  83. Othello - William Shakespeare
  84. Oedipus the King - Sophocles
  85. The Red and the Black - Stendhal
  86. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne
  87. Confessions of Zeno- Italo Svevo
  88. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
  89. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
  90. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
  91. The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories - Leo Tolstoy
  92. Selected Stories - Anton Chekhov
  93. Thousand and One Nights
  94. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
  95. Ramayana Valmiki
  96. The Aeneid - Virgil
  97. Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
  98. Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
  99. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
  100. Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
Author Comments: 

Apparently Russians are the most meaningful writers in the world.

Taken from here:
http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Literature/Best/2002/100Meaningful/