Bokklubben World Library

Bokklubben World Library is a series of classical books, mostly novels, published by the Norwegian Book Clubs since 2002. It is based on a list of the hundred best books, as proposed by one hundred writers from fifty-four countries, compiled and organized in 2002 by the Book Club. This list endeavors to reflect world literature, with books from all countries, cultures, and time periods.

#1

Things Fall Apart

#1 of 3 in The African Trilogy

1958 • 842 Readers • 185 pages 3.6

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#2

The Little Mermaid and Other Fairy Tales

1837 • 11 Readers • 240 pages 4

#3

The Divine Comedy

#1 of 3 in La Divina Commedia

1320 • 92 Readers • 780 pages 4.2

#4

The Epic of Gilgamesh

-2100 • 283 Readers • 120 pages 3.5

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#5

The Book Of Job

#18 of 66 in Bible

-600 • 14 Readers • 180 pages 3.8

#6

One Thousand and One Nights

2011 • 40 Readers • 320 pages 4

#7

Njal's saga

7 Íslendingasögur/Sagas of Icelanders

1280 • 31 Readers • 384 pages 4

#8

Pride and Prejudice

6 Cozy Classics

1811 • 3,353 Readers • 342 pages 4.2

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#9

Old Goriot

#23 of 51 in La Comédie Humaine

1835 • 116 Readers • 237 pages 3.7

#10

Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

#1 of 3 in The Trilogy

1958 • 6 Readers • 417 pages 4

#11

The Decameron

1349 • 158 Readers • 418 pages 3.6

#12

Ficciones

1944 • 402 Readers • 192 pages 4.2

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#13

Wuthering Heights

Continuum Contemporaries

1847 • 2,112 Readers • 376 pages 3.6

#14

The Stranger

1942 • 2,633 Readers • 134 pages 3.9

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#15

Poems of Paul Celan

1970 • 26 Readers 3

#16

Journey to the End of the Night

#1 of 2 in Ferdinand Bardamu

1932 • 203 Readers • 468 pages 4.1

#17

Don Quixote

1605 • 78 Readers • 996 pages 3.9

#18

The Canterbury Tales

1400 • 39 Readers • 672 pages 3.4

#19

Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov

1903 • 119 Readers • 496 pages 4.2

#20

Conrad: Nostromo

4 Landmarks of World Literature

1900 • 59 Readers • 124 pages 3.2

#21

Great Expectations

3 Graffex

1860 • 1,141 Readers • 548 pages 3.5

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#24

Crime and Punishment

1857 • 2,496 Readers • 602 pages 4.3

#25

The Idiot

1867 • 838 Readers • 692 pages 4.1

#26

Demons

195 • 366 Readers • 768 pages 4.2

#27

The Brothers Karamazov

1878 • 1,563 Readers • 908 pages 4.4

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#28

Middlemarch

#2 of 2 in Middlemarch (2 volumes)

1831 • 655 Readers • 840 pages 4.2

#29

Invisible Man

1952 • 674 Readers • 610 pages 3.8

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#30

Medea

2006 • 11 Readers • 129 pages 4.3

#31

Absalom, Absalom!

1936 • 246 Readers • 305 pages 4

#32

The Sound and the Fury

1929 • 549 Readers • 274 pages 3.8

#33

Madame Bovary

19 • 731 Readers • 256 pages 3.6

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#34

Sentimental Education

1869 • 93 Readers • 548 pages 3.9

#35

Gypsy Ballads

1928 • 3 Readers • 161 pages

#36

One Hundred Years of Solitude

1967 • 2,277 Readers • 396 pages 4.1

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#37

Love in the Time of Cholera

1985 • 861 Readers • 348 pages 3.8

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#38

Faust

#1 of 2 in Goethes Faust

19 • 436 Readers • 526 pages 3.8

#39

Dead Souls

1842 • 306 Readers • 520 pages 3.7

#40

The Tin Drum

#1 of 3 in Die Danziger Trilogie

1959 • 159 Readers • 592 pages 4.1

#41

The Devil to Pay in the Backlands

1963 • 10 Readers • 522 pages

#42

Hunger

1890 • 219 Readers • 150 pages 4

#43

The Old Man and the Sea

1952 • 1,906 Readers • 127 pages 3.7

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#44

The Iliad

2023 • 22 Readers • 848 pages 4.5

#45

The Odyssey

-800 • 1,979 Readers • 541 pages 3.8

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#46

A Doll's House

1879 • 217 Readers • 86 pages 3.7

#47

Ulysses

1920 • 820 Readers • 939 pages 3.8

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#48

The Complete Stories

1915 • 202 Readers • 516 pages 3.9

#49

The Trial

1925 • 1,145 Readers • 255 pages 3.9

#50

The Castle

1922 • 376 Readers • 328 pages 3.8