Världsbiblioteket (The World Library) is 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 are Swedish.
List TitleAuthorYearCountryBibleVariousAncient Near East, Roman EmpireWatership DownRichard Adams1972United KingdomThe House of the SpiritsIsabel Allende1982ChileThe Queen's TiaraCarl Jonas Love Almqvist1834SwedenLes Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil)Charles Baudelaire1857FranceThe Long ShipsFrans G. Bengtsson1941–1945SwedenKallocainKarin Boye1940SwedenThe Death of VirgilHermann Broch1945AustriaUnited StatesWuthering HeightsEmily Brontë1847United KingdomThe Master and MargaritaMikhail Bulgakov1967Soviet UnionThe Baron in the TreesItalo Calvino1957ItalyThe Stranger (The Outsider) Albert Camus1942FranceThe Lost StepsAlejo Carpentier1953CubaAlice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll1865United KingdomJourney to the End of the NightLouis-Ferdinand Céline1932FranceDon Quixote Miguel de Cervantes1605–1615SpainStory: "The Lady with the Dog"Anton Chekhov1899RussiaHeart of DarknessJoseph Conrad1902United KingdomThe Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri1321Republic of FlorenceSamuels bokSven Delblanc1981CanadaSwedenThe Pickwick PapersCharles Dickens1837United KingdomDavid Copperfield1850Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoyevsky1866RussiaThe Idiot1869The Brothers Karamazov 1880An American TragedyTheodore Dreiser1925United StatesHundenKerstin Ekman1986SwedenSecond-Class CitizenBuchi Emecheta1974NigeriaUnited KingdomLight in AugustWilliam Faulkner1932United StatesPoemsNils FerlinSwedenMadame Bovary Gustave Flaubert1857France StadPer Anders Fogelström1960–1968SwedenSimon and the OaksMarianne Fredriksson1985SwedenThe Women's RoomMarilyn French1977United StatesOne Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez1967ColombiaThe CounterfeitersAndré Gide1925FranceGoethe's FaustJohann Wolfgang von Goethe1808Saxe-WeimarMy ChildhoodMaxim Gorky1913–1914RussiaThe Wind in the WillowsKenneth Grahame1908United KingdomBrighton RockGraham Greene1938United KingdomThe Good Soldier ŠvejkJaroslav Hašek1923CzechoslovakiaCatch-22Joseph Heller1961United StatesThe Sun Also RisesErnest Hemingway1926United StatesThe Old Man and the Sea 1952SteppenwolfHermann Hesse1927GermanySwitzerlandOdysseyHomer8th century BCSmyrnaThe World According to GarpJohn Irving1978United StatesAfter the FloodP.C. Jersild1982SwedenThe Days of his GraceEyvind Johnson1960SwedenUlysses James Joyce1922IrelandThe TrialFranz Kafka1925CzechoslovakiaAmerika1927They Burn the ThistlesYaşar Kemal1969TurkeyThe Czar's MadmanJaan Kross1978Soviet Union (Estonia)The DwarfPär Lagerkvist1944SwedenBarabbas1950The Emperor of PortugalliaSelma Lagerlöf1914SwedenThe Man Without a WayErik Lindegren1942SwedenPippi LongstockingAstrid Lindgren1945SwedenMio, My Son1954BatsebaTorgny Lindgren1984SwedenThe Wind on the MoonEric Linklater1944United KingdomThe Unknown SoldierVäinö Linna1954FinlandBuddenbrooks Thomas Mann1901German EmpireThe Magic Mountain1924GermanyFlowering NettlesHarry Martinson1935SwedenThe Road1948Aniara1956The Razor's EdgeW. Somerset Maugham1944United KingdomThe Thorn BirdsColleen McCullough1977AustraliaWinnie-the-PoohA. A. Milne1926United KingdomTetralogy: The EmigrantsVilhelm Moberg1949–1959SwedenHistoryElsa Morante1974ItalyThe Book-dealer Who Ceased BathingFritiof Nilsson Piraten1937SwedenDoctor ZhivagoBoris Pasternak1957Soviet UnionRemembrance of Things Past Marcel Proust1913–1927FranceAll Quiet on the Western FrontErich Maria Remarque1929GermanyThe Catcher in the RyeJ. D. Salinger1951United StatesAlberta TrilogyCora Sandel1926–1939NorwayThe WerewolfAksel Sandemose1958DenmarkNorwayCollected worksWilliam Shakespeare1623, 1634EnglandLes Anneaux de BicêtreGeorges Simenon1963BelgiumDoctor GlasHjalmar Söderberg1906SwedenThe Serious Game1912Oedipus the KingSophoclesClassical AthensBarefoot (Desculț)Zaharia Stancu1948RomaniaThe Grapes of WrathJohn Steinbeck1939United StatesThe Red and the BlackStendhal1830FranceThe Charterhouse of Parma1839The Red RoomAugust Strindberg1879SwedenThe People of Hemsö1887War and Peace Leo Tolstoy1865–1869RussiaAnna Karenina 1877The Christmas OratorioGöran Tunström1983SwedenAdventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain1884United StatesKristin LavransdatterSigrid Undset1920–1922NorwayTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the SeasJules Verne1869FranceCandideVoltaire1759Kingdom of FranceThe House with the Blind Glass PorchHerbjørg Wassmo1981NorwayThérèse RaquinÉmile Zola1867France
See also Bokklubben World Library, a Norwegian list Modern Library 100 Best Novels Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century
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