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The Bokklubben 100
Norwegian Book Club × Norwegian Nobel Institute · 2002 — chosen by 100 writers from 54 countries
The list will not change for you. It will not shorten when you’re busy or grow when you’re proud. That is the whole point — thirty-one of one hundred means the same thing in every mouth. Reading the list is free. So is looking.
01Things Fall ApartChinua Achebe02Fairy Tales and StoriesHans Christian Andersen03The Divine ComedyDante Alighieri04The Epic of GilgameshAnonymous05The Book of JobAnonymous06One Thousand and One NightsAnonymous07Njál's SagaAnonymous08Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen09Le Père GoriotHonoré de Balzac10Molloy · Malone Dies · The UnnamableSamuel Beckett
…and 90 more. Public, unbought, unmoved since 2002.