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A 2002 survey of around 100 well-known authors from 54 countries voted for the "
most meaningful book of all time" in a poll organised by editors at the Norwegia
n Book Clubs in Oslo. Voters included Doris Lessing, Salman Rushdie, Carlos Fuen
tes and Norman Mailer. Miguel de Cervantes tale gained 50% more votes than any ot
her book, eclipsing works by Shakespeare, Homer and Tolstoy.
Ten authors got more than one book on to the list. After Cervantes, Fyodor Dosto
evsky emerged as the most worthwhile read with four books listed. The only Shake
speare plays the authors agreed on were Hamlet, King Lear and Othello. The Bard
was matched by Franz Kafka whose three angst-ridden tales of grotesque alienatio
n on the list were The Trial, The Castle and the Complete Stories. Three works b
y Leo Tolstoy made it: War and Peace, Anna Karenina and The Death of Ivan Ilyich
and Other Stories. William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf both scored twice, along
with the Colombian Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Other than Don Quixote in first place below, the remaining 99 titles are reprodu
ced as published by De Norske Bokklubbene in alphabetical order and are not rank
ed.
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes
Things fall apart Chinua Achebe
Fairy tales and stories Hans Christian Andersen
Pride and prejudice Jane Austen
Old Goriot Honore de Balzac
Trilogy: Molloy, Malone dies, The Unnamable Samuel Beckett
Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio
Collected fictions Jorge Luis Borges
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
The Outsider (The Stranger) Albert Camus
Poems Paul Celan
Journey to the end of the night Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer
Nostromo Joseph Conrad
The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri
Great expectations Charles Dickens
Jacques the fatalist and his master Denis Diderot
Berlin Alexanderplatz Alfred Doblin
Crime and punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Idiot Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Possessed Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Middlemarch George Eliot
Invisible man Ralph Ellison
Medea Euripides
Absalom, Absalom William Faulkner
The Sound and the fury William Faulkner
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
A Sentimental education Gustave Flaubert
Gypsy Ballads Federico Garcia Lorca
One hundred years of solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in the time of cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dead souls Nikolai Gogol
The Tin Drum Gnter Grass
The Devil to pay in the backlands Joao Guimaraes Rosa
Hunger Knut Hamsun
The Old man and the sea Ernest Hemingway