1. 1984 by George Orwell, England, (1903-1950)

2. A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, Norway (1828-1906)

3. A Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert, France, (1821-1880)

4. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner, United States, (1897-1962)

5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, United States, (1835-1910)

6. The Aeneid by Virgil, Italy, (70-19 BC)

7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Russia, (1828-1910)

8. Beloved by Toni Morrison, United States, (b. 1931)

9. Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin, Germany, (1878-1957)

10. Blindness by Jose Saramago, Portugal, (b. 1922)

11. The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, Portugal, (1888-1935)

12. The Book of Job, Israel. (600-400 BC)

13. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881)

14. Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann, Germany, (1875-1955)

15. Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, England, (1340-1400)

16. The Castle by Franz Kafka, Bohemia, (1883-1924)

17. Children of Gebelawi by Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt, (b. 1911)

18. Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina, (1899-1986)

19. Complete Poems by Giacomo Leopardi, Italy, (1798-1837)

20. The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka, Bohemia, (1883-1924)

21. The Complete Tales by Edgar Allan Poe, United States, (1809-1849)

22. Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo, Italy, (1861-1928)

23. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881)

24. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, Russia, (1809-1852)

25. The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy, Russia, (1828-1910)

26. Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy, (1313-1375)

27. The Devil to Pay in the Backlands by Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Brazil, (1880-1967)

28. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories by Lu Xun, China, (1881-1936)

29. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, Italy, (1265-1321)

30. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain, (1547-1616)

31. Essays by Michel de Montaigne, France, (1533-1592)

32. Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, (1805-1875)

33. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany, (1749-1832)

34. Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais, France, (1495-1553)

35. Gilgamesh Mesopotamia, (c 1800 BC)

36. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, England, (b.1919)

37. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, England, (1812-1870)

38. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, Ireland, (1667-1745)

39. Gypsy Ballads by Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain, (1898-1936)

40. Hamlet by William Shakespeare, England, (1564-1616)

41. History by Elsa Morante, Italy, (1918-1985)

42. Hunger by Knut Hamsun, Norway, (1859-1952)

43. The Idiot by Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881)

44. The Iliad by Homer, Greece, (c 700 BC)

45. Independent People by Halldor K Laxness, Iceland, (1902-1998)

46. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, United States, (1914-1994)

47. Jacques the Fatalist and His Master by Denis Diderot, France, (1713-1784)

48. Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, France, (1894-1961)

49. King Lear by William Shakespeare, England, (1564-1616)

50. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, United States, (1819-1892)

51. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne, Ireland, (1713-1768)

52. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Russia/United States, (1899-1977)

53. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia, (b. 1928)

54. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, France, (1821-1880)

55. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, Germany, (1875-1955)

56. Mahabharata, India, (c 500 BC)

57. The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil, Austria, (1880-1942)

58. The Mathnawi by Jalal ad-din Rumi, Afghanistan, (1207-1273)

59. Medea by Euripides, Greece, (c 480-406 BC)

60. Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar, France, (1903-1987)

61. Metamorphoses by Ovid, Italy, (c 43 BC)

62. Middlemarch by George Eliot, England, (1819-1880)

63. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, India/Britain, (b. 1947)

64. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, United States, (1819-1891)

65. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, England, (1882-1941)

66. Njaals Saga, Iceland, (c 1300)

67. Nostromo by Joseph Conrad, England,(1857-1924)

68. The Odyssey by Homer, Greece, (c 700 BC)

69. Oedipus the King Sophocles, Greece, (496-406 BC)

70. Old Goriot by Honore de Balzac, France, (1799-1850)

71. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, United States, (1899-1961)

72. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia, (b. 1928)

73. The Orchard by Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi, Iran, (c 1200-1292)

74. Othello by William Shakespeare, England, (1564-1616)

75. Juan Rulfo by Pedro Paramo Juan Rulfo, Mexico, (1918-1986)

76. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren, Sweden, (1907-2002)

77. Poems by Paul Celan, Romania/France, (1920-1970)

78. The Possessed by Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881)

79. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, England, (1775-1817)

80. The Ramayana by Valmiki, India, (c 300 BC)

81. The Recognition of Sakuntala by Kalidasa, India, (c. 400)

82. The Red and the Black by Stendhal, France, (1783-1842)

83. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust, France, (1871-1922)

84. Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih, Sudan, (b. 1929)

85. Selected Stories by Anton P Chekhov, Russia, (1860-1904)

86. Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence, England, (1885-1930)

87. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, United States, (1897-1962)

88. The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata, Japan, (1899-1972)

89. The Stranger by Albert Camus, France, (1913-1960)

90. The Tale of Genji by Shikibu Murasaki, Japan, (c 1000)

91. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, (b. 1930)

92. Thousand and One Nights, India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt, (700-1500)

93. The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass, Germany, (b.1927)

94. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, England, (1882-1941)

95. The Trial by Franz Kafka, Bohemia, (1883-1924)

96. Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett, Ireland, (1906-1989)

97. Ulysses by James Joyce, Ireland, (1882-1941)

98. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Russia, (1828-1910)

99. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, England, (1818-1848)

100. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis, Greece, (1883-1957)

1 Străinul Albert Camus 19422 În căutarea timpului pierdut Marcel Proust 1913–19273 Procesul Franz Kafka 19254 Micul Prinț Antoine de Saint-Exupéry19435 Condiția umană André Malraux 19336 Călătorie la capătul nopții Louis-Ferdinand Céline

19327 Fructele mâniei John Steinbeck 19398 Pentru cine bat clopotele Ernest Hemingway 19409 Cărarea pierdută Alain-Fournier 191310 Spuma zilelor Boris Vian194711 Al doilea sex Simone de Beauvoir 194912 Așteptându-l pe Godot Samuel Beckett 195213 Ființa și neantul Jean-Paul Sartre [] 194314 Numele trandafirului Umberto Eco 198015 Arhipelagul Gulag Aleksandr Soljenițîn 197316 Paroles fr Jacques Prévert 194617 Alcooluri Guillaume Apollinaire 191318 Le lotus bleu fr Hergé 193619 Jurnalul unei tinere fete Anne Frank 194720 Tristes Tropiques fr Claude Lévi-Strauss 195521 Brava lume nouă Aldous Huxley 193222 1984 O mie nouă sute optzeci și patru George Orwell

194923 Astérix le Gaulois fr René Goscinny și Albert Uderzo

195924 Cântăreața cheală Eugen Ionesco 195225 Trei eseuri despre teoria sexualității Sigmund Freud

190526 Piatra filosofală Marguerite Yourcenar 196827 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 195528 Ulise James Joyce 1922

29 Deșertul Tătarilor Dino Buzzati 194030 Falsificatorii de bani André Gide 192531 Le Hussard sur le toit fr Jean Giono 195132 Belle du Seigneur fr Albert Cohen 196833 Un veac de singurătate Gabriel García Márquez 196734 Zgomotul și furia William Faulkner 192935 Thérèse Desqueyroux François Mauriac 192736 Zazie în metrou Raymond Queneau 195937 Verwirrung der Gefühle de Stefan Zweig 192738 Pe aripile vântului Margaret Mitchell 193639 Lady Chatterley's Lover en D. H. Lawrence192840 Muntele vrăjit Thomas Mann 192441 Bonjour tristesse fr Françoise Sagan 195442 Le Silence de la mer fr Vercors 194243 La Vie mode d'emploi fr Georges Perec 197844 Câinele din Baskerville Arthur Conan Doyle 1901–190245 Sub soarele lui Satan Georges Bernanos 192646 Marele Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 192547 Gluma Milan Kundera 196748 Disprețul Alberto Moravia 195449 Uciderea lui Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie 192650 Nadja André Breton 192851 Aurélien Louis Aragon 194452 Pantoful de Satin Paul Claudel 192953 Șase personaje în cautarea unui autor Luigi Pirandello

192154 Ascensiunea lui Arturo Ui poate fi oprită Bertolt Brecht

195955 Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique fr Michel Tournier 196756 Războiul lumilor H. G. Wells 189857 Se questo è un uomo it Primo Levi 194758 Stăpânul inelelor J. R. R. Tolkien 1954–1955

59 Les Vrilles de la vigne fr Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette 190860 Capitala Durerii Paul Éluard 192661 Martin Eden Jack London 190962 La ballade de la mer salée fr Hugo Pratt 196763 Gradul zero al scriiturii Roland Barthes195364 Onoarea pierdută a Katerinei Blum Heinrich Böll 197465 Țărmul Sirtelor Julien Gracq 195166 Cuvintele și Lucrurile, o arheologie a științelor umane Michel Foucault 196667 On the Road en Jack Kerouac 195768 Minunata călătorie a lui Nils Holgersson Selma Lagerlöf

1906–190769 O cameră separată Virginia Woolf 192970 Cronici marțiene Ray Bradbury 195071 Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein fr Marguerite Duras

196472 Procesul-verbal J. M. G. Le Clézio 196373 Tropismes fr Nathalie Sarraute 193974 Jurnal Jules Renard 192575 Lord Jim en Joseph Conrad 190076 Écrits fr Jacques Lacan 196677 Teatrul și dublul săuAntonin Artaud 193878 Manhattan Transfer John Dos Passos 192579 Ficțiuni Jorge Luis Borges 194480 Moravagine fr Blaise Cendrars 192681 Generalul armatei moarte Ismail Kadare 196382 Sophie's Choice en William Styron 197983 Romancero gitano Federico García Lorca 192884 Pietr-le-Letton fr Georges Simenon 193185 Maica Domnului a florilor Jean Genet 194486 Omul fără însușiri Robert Musil 1930–193287 Fureur et mystère fr René Char 194888 De veghe în lanul de secară J. D. Salinger 1951

89 No Orchids For Miss Blandish en James Hadley Chase1939

90 Blake și Mortimer Edgar P. Jacobs195091 Însemnările lui Malte Laurids Brigge Rainer Maria Rilke191092 Renunțarea Michel Butor 195793 Originile totalitarismului Hannah Arendt195194 Maestrul și Margareta Mihail Bulgakov 196795 Trilogia: Sexus, Plexus, Nexus Henry Miller 1949–196096 Somnul de veciRaymond Chandler 193997 Repere pe mare Saint-John Perse 195798 Gaston André Franquin195799 Sub vulcan Malcolm Lowry 1947100 Copiii din miez de noapteSalman Rushdie