Sunday, 23 August 2015

 Famous books
Title Author Year

Things fall apart Chinua Achebe 1958

Fairy tales Hans christian Anderson 1835–37

The divine comedy Dante Alighieri 1308–1321

Epic of Gilgamesh Unknown 18th – 17th century BCE

Book of Job Unknown 6th – 4th century BCE

One thousand and one nights Unknown 700–1500

Njal 's saga Unknown 13th century

Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 1813

Le pere gorriatHonore De Balzac 1835

Molloy, Malone dies, the Unnameable: trilogy Samuel Beckett 1951–53

The decameron Giovanni Boccaccio 1349–53

Ficciones Jorge Luis Borges 1944–86

Wuthering heights Emily Bronte 1847

The Stranger Albert Camus 1942

Poems Paul Celan 1952

Journey to the end of the night Louis-Ferdinand Celine 1932

Don Quixote Miguel De Cervantes 1605 (part 1), 1615 (part 2)

The Canterbury tales Geoffrey Chaucer 14th century

Stories Anton Chekhov 1886

Nostromo Joseph Conrad 1904

Great Expectations Charles Dickens 1861

Jacques the Fatalist Denis Diderot 1796

Berlin Alexanderplatz Alfred Doblin 1929

Crime And Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866

The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky 1869

The Possessed Fyodor Dostoevsky 1872

The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky 1880

Middle march George Elliot 1871

Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 1952

Medea Euripides 431 BCE

Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner 1936

The Sound And The Fury William Faulkner 1929

Madam Bovary Gustave Flaubert 1857

Sentimental education Gustave Flaubert 1869

Gypsy Ballads Frederico Garcia Lorca 1928

One Hundred Years Of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1967

Love In The Time Of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1985

Faust Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1832

Dead Souls Nikolai Gogol 1842

The Tin Drum Gunter Grass 1959

The Devil To Pay in the Backlands Joao Guimaraes Rosa 1956

Hunger Knut Hamson 1890

The Old Man and The Sea Ernest Hemingway 1952

Iliad Homer 760–710 BCE

Odyssey Homer 8th century BCE

A Doll' s House Henrik Ibsen 1879

Ulysses James Joyce 1922

Stories Franz Kafka 1924

The Trail Franz Kafka 1925

The Castle Franz Kafka 1926

Shakuntala Kalidasa 1st century BCE – 4th century CE

The Sound of The Mountain Yasunari Kawabata 1954

Zorba the Greek Nikos Kazantzakis 1946

Sons and Lovers D. H. Lawrence 1913

Independent People Halldor Laxness 1934–35

Poems Giacomo Leopardi 1818

The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing 1962

Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren 1945

A Madman' s Dairy Lu Xun 1918

Children of Gebalawi Naguib Mahfouz 1959

Budden Brooks Thomas Mann 1901

The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann 1924

Moby-Dick Herman Melville 1851

Essays Michele De Montaigne 1595

History Elsa Morante 1974

Beloved Toni Morrison 1987

The tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu 11th century

The man without Qualities Robert Musil 1930–32

Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 1955

Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell 1949

Metamorphoses Ovid 1st century CE

The book of  Disquiet Fernando Pessoa 1928

Tales Edgar Allan Poe 19th century

In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust 1913–27

Gargantua and Pantagruel Francois Rabelais 1532–34

Pedro Paramo Juan Rulfo 1955

Masnavi Rumi 1258–73

Midnight' s Children Salman Rushdie 1981

Boston Saadi 1257

Season of migration to the North Tayeb Salih 1966

Blindness Jose Saramago 1995

Hamlet William Shakespeare 1603

King Lear William Shakespeare 1608

Othello William Shakespeare 1609

Oedipus the King Sophocles 430 BCE

The Red and the Black Stendhal 1830

Tristram Shandy Laurence Stern 1760

Confessions of Zeno Italo Svevo 1923

Gulliver 's Travels Jonathan Swift 1726

War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1865–1869

Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1877

The Death of Ivan Ilyich Leo Tolstoy 1886

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1884

Ramayana Valmiki 5th century BCE - 4th century BCE

Aeneid Virgil 29–19 BCE

Mahabharata Vyasa 9th century BCE – 5th century BCE

Leaves of grass Walt Whitman 1855

Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf 1925

To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf 1927

Memoirs of Hadrian Marguerite Yourcenar 1951

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