MUCH Better!

Now THIS is more like it! A list, gathered by the Norwegian Book Clubs, of the top 100 books nominated by 100 writers from 54 countries. This time, I'll just bold the one's I've read.

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

Dammit, that was even more HTML I had to type out. Thank God for "copy" and "paste."