Världsbiblioteket
Världsbiblioteket (The World Library) was a Swedish list of the 100 best books in the world, created in 1991 by the Swedish literary magazine Tidningen Boken. The list was compiled through votes from members of the Svenska Akademien, Swedish Crime Writers' Academy, librarian, authors and others. About 30 of the books were Swedish. It is an unranked list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Världsbiblioteket
- 1
Ulysses
James Joyce · 1920 · 39 lists
- 2
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez · 1967 · 33 lists
- 3
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger · 1951 · 32 lists
- 4
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck · 1939 · 32 lists
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Catch-22
Joseph Heller · 1961 · 29 lists
- 6
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad · 1899 · 29 lists
- 7
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust · 1913 · 29 lists
- 8
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy · 1869 · 29 lists
- 9
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë · 1847 · 29 lists
- 10
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · 1615 · 27 lists
- 11
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll · 1865 · 26 lists
- 12
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert · 1856 · 26 lists
- 13
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain · 1885 · 25 lists
- 14
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri · 1321 · 25 lists
- 15
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy · 1876 · 24 lists
- 16
The Stranger
Albert Camus · 1942 · 23 lists
- 17
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866 · 22 lists
- 18
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880 · 22 lists
- 19
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway · 1926 · 22 lists
- 20
The Odyssey
Homer · -800 · 21 lists
- 21
The Trial
Franz Kafka · 1925 · 21 lists
- 22
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens · 1850 · 19 lists
- 23
The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann · 1924 · 18 lists
- 24
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov · 1967 · 18 lists
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The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway · 1952 · 15 lists
- 27
The Red and the Black
Stendhal · 1830 · 14 lists
- 28
Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Céline · 1932 · 12 lists
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The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame · 1908 · 12 lists
- 30
The World According to Garp
John Irving · 1979 · 12 lists
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque · 1929 · 11 lists
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Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann · 1909 · 11 lists
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An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser · 1900 · 9 lists
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Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808 · 9 lists
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Light in August
William Faulkner · 1931 · 9 lists
- 37
Watership Down
Richard Adams · 1972 · 9 lists
- 38
First Folio
William Shakespeare · 1953 · 8 lists
- 39
Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse · 1927 · 8 lists
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Oedipus Rex
Sophocles · 2006 · 7 lists
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The Charterhouse of Parma
Stendhal · 1962 · 7 lists
- 42
The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens · 1994 · 7 lists
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Winnie-the-Pooh
Christina Milner · 1926 · 7 lists
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Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak · 1958 · 6 lists
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The Flowers of Evil
Charles Baudelaire · 2012 · 6 lists
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The Good Soldier Švejk
Jaroslav Hašek · 1921 · 6 lists
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The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende · 1982 · 6 lists
- 48
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1869 · 6 lists
- 49
The Thorn Birds
Colleen McCullough · 1977 · 6 lists
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Brighton Rock
Graham Greene · 1938 · 5 lists
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Death of Virgil
Hermann Broch · 2012 · 5 lists
- 52
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne · 1870 · 5 lists
- 53
Pippi Longstocking
Astrid Lindgren · 2011 · 4 lists
- 54
The Counterfeiters
André Gide · 1985 · 4 lists
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The Razor’s Edge
W. Somerset Maugham · 1944 · 4 lists
- 56
Collected Poems
Marianne Moore · 1963 · 3 lists
- 57
The Lost Steps
Alejo Carpentier · 1953 · 3 lists
- 58
The Women's Room
Marilyn French · 1977 · 3 lists
- 59
Amerika
Franz Kafka · 1927 · 2 lists
- 60
Barabbas
Par Lagerkvist · 1893 · 2 lists
- 61
History
Elsa Morante · 1494 · 2 lists
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Kristin Lavransdatter
Sigrid Undset · 1920 · 2 lists
- 63
Simon and the Oaks
Marianne Fredriksson · 2000 · 2 lists
- 64
The Christmas Oratorio
Goran Tunstrom · 1909 · 2 lists
- 65
The House with the Blind Glass Windows
Herbjørg Wassmo · 1987 · 2 lists
- 66
The Red Room
August Strindberg · 1896 · 2 lists
- 67
The Unknown Soldier
Vaino Linna · 2004 · 2 lists
- 68
Thérèse Raquin
Émile Zola · 1900 · 2 lists
- 69
After the Flood
P.C. Jersild · 2019 · 1 list
- 70
Aniara
Harry Martinson · 1956 · 1 list
- 71
Barefoot
Zaharia Stancu · 1948 · 1 list
- 72
Bathsheba
Torgny Lindgren · 1995 · 1 list
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Doctor Glas
Hjalmar Soderberg · 1905 · 1 list
- 74
Dog
Kerstin Ekman · 2003 · 1 list
- 75
Flowering Nettle
Harry Martinson · 1976 · 1 list
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Hemsöborna
August Strindberg · 1887 · 1 list
- 77
Kallocain
Karin Boye · 1940 · 1 list
- 78
Mannen utan väg
Erik Lindegren · 1991 · 1 list
- 79
Mio, My Son
Astrid Lindgren · 1954 · 1 list
- 80
My Childhood
Maxim Gorky · 1913 · 1 list
- 81
Samuels bok
Sven Delblanc · 1982 · 1 list
- 82
Second-class Citizen
Buchi Emecheta · 1974 · 1 list
- 83
Stockholm series
Per Anders Fogelström · 2013 · 1 list
- 84
The Alberta Trilogy
Cora Sandel · 1 list
- 85
The Baron in the Trees
Italo Calvino · 1957 · 1 list
- 86
The bells of Bicêtre
Georges Simenon · 1963 · 1 list
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The Czar's Madman
Jaan Kross · 1978 · 1 list
- 89
The Days of His Grace
Eyvind Johnson · 1960 · 1 list
- 90
The Dwarf
Par Lagerkvist · 1944 · 1 list
- 91
The Emigrants
Vilhelm Moberg · 1949 · 1 list
- 92
The Emperor of Portugallia
Selma Lagerlöf · 1914 · 1 list
- 93
The Lady with the Dog
Anton Chekhov · 1899 · 1 list
- 94
The Long Ships
Frans G. Bengtsson · 1941 · 1 list
- 95
The Queens Tiara
Carl Jonas Love Almquist · 1974 · 1 list
- 96
The Road to Klockrike
Harry Martinson · 1 list
- 97
The Serious Game
Hjalmar Soderberg · 1912 · 1 list
- 98
The Werewolf
Aksel Sandemose · 1983 · 1 list
- 99
The Wind on the Moon
Eric Linklater · 1944 · 1 list
- 100
They Burn the Thistles
Yaşar Kemal · 1969 · 1 list
