| Things fall apart |
Chinua Achebe |
1958 |
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| Fairy tales |
Hans christian Anderson |
1835–37 |
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| The divine comedy |
Dante Alighieri |
1308–1321 |
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| Epic of Gilgamesh |
Unknown |
18th – 17th century BCE |
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| Book of Job |
Unknown |
6th – 4th century BCE |
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| One thousand and one nights |
Unknown |
700–1500 |
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| Njal 's saga |
Unknown |
13th century |
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| Pride and Prejudice |
Jane Austen |
1813 |
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| Le pere gorriat | Honore De Balzac |
1835 |
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| Molloy, Malone dies, the Unnameable: trilogy |
Samuel Beckett |
1951–53 |
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| The decameron |
Giovanni Boccaccio |
1349–53 |
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| Ficciones |
Jorge Luis Borges |
1944–86 |
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| Wuthering heights |
Emily Bronte |
1847 |
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| The Stranger |
Albert Camus |
1942 |
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| Poems |
Paul Celan |
1952 |
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| Journey to the end of the night |
Louis-Ferdinand Celine |
1932 |
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| Don Quixote |
Miguel De Cervantes |
1605 (part 1), 1615 (part 2) |
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| The Canterbury tales |
Geoffrey Chaucer |
14th century |
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| Stories |
Anton Chekhov |
1886 |
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| Nostromo |
Joseph Conrad |
1904 |
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| Great Expectations |
Charles Dickens |
1861 |
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| Jacques the Fatalist |
Denis Diderot |
1796 |
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| Berlin Alexanderplatz |
Alfred Doblin |
1929 |
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| Crime And Punishment |
Fyodor Dostoevsky |
1866 |
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| The Idiot |
Fyodor Dostoevsky |
1869 |
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| The Possessed |
Fyodor Dostoevsky |
1872 |
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| The Brothers Karamazov |
Fyodor Dostoevsky |
1880 |
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| Middle march |
George Elliot |
1871 |
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| Invisible Man |
Ralph Ellison |
1952 |
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| Medea |
Euripides |
431 BCE |
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| Absalom, Absalom! |
William Faulkner |
1936 |
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| The Sound And The Fury |
William Faulkner |
1929 |
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| Madam Bovary |
Gustave Flaubert |
1857 |
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| Sentimental education |
Gustave Flaubert |
1869 |
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| Gypsy Ballads |
Frederico Garcia Lorca |
1928 |
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| One Hundred Years Of Solitude |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
1967 |
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| Love In The Time Of Cholera |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
1985 |
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| Faust |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
1832 |
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| Dead Souls |
Nikolai Gogol |
1842 |
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| The Tin Drum |
Gunter Grass |
1959 |
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| The Devil To Pay in the Backlands |
Joao Guimaraes Rosa |
1956 |
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| Hunger |
Knut Hamson |
1890 |
|
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| The Old Man and The Sea |
Ernest Hemingway |
1952 |
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| Iliad |
Homer |
760–710 BCE |
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| Odyssey |
Homer |
8th century BCE |
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| A Doll' s House |
Henrik Ibsen |
1879 |
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| Ulysses |
James Joyce |
1922 |
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| Stories |
Franz Kafka |
1924 |
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| The Trail |
Franz Kafka |
1925 |
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| The Castle |
Franz Kafka |
1926 |
|
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| Shakuntala |
Kalidasa |
1st century BCE – 4th century CE |
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| The Sound of The Mountain |
Yasunari Kawabata |
1954 |
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| Zorba the Greek |
Nikos Kazantzakis |
1946 |
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| Sons and Lovers |
D. H. Lawrence |
1913 |
|
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| Independent People |
Halldor Laxness |
1934–35 |
|
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| Poems |
Giacomo Leopardi |
1818 |
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| The Golden Notebook |
Doris Lessing |
1962 |
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| Pippi Longstocking |
Astrid Lindgren |
1945 |
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| A Madman' s Dairy |
Lu Xun |
1918 |
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| Children of Gebalawi |
Naguib Mahfouz |
1959 |
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| Budden Brooks |
Thomas Mann |
1901 |
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| The Magic Mountain |
Thomas Mann |
1924 |
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| Moby-Dick |
Herman Melville |
1851 |
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| Essays |
Michele De Montaigne |
1595 |
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| History |
Elsa Morante |
1974 |
|
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| Beloved |
Toni Morrison |
1987 |
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| The tale of Genji |
Murasaki Shikibu |
11th century |
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| The man without Qualities |
Robert Musil |
1930–32 |
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| Lolita |
Vladimir Nabokov |
1955 |
|
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| Nineteen Eighty-Four |
George Orwell |
1949 |
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| Metamorphoses |
Ovid |
1st century CE |
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| The book of Disquiet |
Fernando Pessoa |
1928 |
|
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| Tales |
Edgar Allan Poe |
19th century |
|
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| In Search of Lost Time |
Marcel Proust |
1913–27 |
|
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| Gargantua and Pantagruel |
Francois Rabelais |
1532–34 |
|
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| Pedro Paramo |
Juan Rulfo |
1955 |
|
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| Masnavi |
Rumi |
1258–73 |
|
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| Midnight' s Children |
Salman Rushdie |
1981 |
|
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| Boston |
Saadi |
1257 |
|
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| Season of migration to the North |
Tayeb Salih |
1966 |
|
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| Blindness |
Jose Saramago |
1995 |
|
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| Hamlet |
William Shakespeare |
1603 |
|
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| King Lear |
William Shakespeare |
1608 |
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| Othello |
William Shakespeare |
1609 |
|
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| Oedipus the King |
Sophocles |
430 BCE |
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| The Red and the Black |
Stendhal |
1830 |
|
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| Tristram Shandy |
Laurence Stern |
1760 |
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| Confessions of Zeno |
Italo Svevo |
1923 |
|
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| Gulliver 's Travels |
Jonathan Swift |
1726 |
|
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| War and Peace |
Leo Tolstoy |
1865–1869 |
|
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| Anna Karenina |
Leo Tolstoy |
1877 |
|
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| The Death of Ivan Ilyich |
Leo Tolstoy |
1886 |
|
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| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
Mark Twain |
1884 |
|
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| Ramayana |
Valmiki |
5th century BCE - 4th century BCE |
|
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| Aeneid |
Virgil |
29–19 BCE |
|
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| Mahabharata |
Vyasa |
9th century BCE – 5th century BCE |
|
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| Leaves of grass |
Walt Whitman |
1855 |
|
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| Mrs. Dalloway |
Virginia Woolf |
1925 |
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| To the Lighthouse |
Virginia Woolf |
1927 |
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| Memoirs of Hadrian |
Marguerite Yourcenar |
1951 |
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