Århundrets bibliotek

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"Books of the century", Norway, 1991, chosen by a selection of 50 (?) writers, critics etc. Another 10 from 1990-2000 added in 2007. http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Århundrets_Bibliotek
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The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka
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The House of the Spirits (1982) by Isabel Allende
Pelle the Conqueror (1906) by Martin Andersen Nexø
War with the Newts (1936) by Karel Čapek
The Second Sex (1953) by Simone de Beauvoir
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts (1953) by Samuel Beckett
The Diary of a Country Priest (1936) by Georges Bernanos
Labyrinths (1962) by Jorge Luis Borges
Mother Courage and Her Children (1939) by Bertolt Brecht
The Master and Margarita (1966) by Mikhail Bulgakov
Possession (1990) by A.S. Byatt
The Plague (1947) by Albert Camus
The Stranger (1942) by Albert Camus
The Big Sleep (1939) by Raymond Chandler
Alphabet (1981) by Inger Christensen
Journey to the End of the Night (1983) by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Disgrace (1999) by J. M. Coetzee
Lord Jim (1900) by Joseph Conrad
Underworld (1997) by Don DeLillo
Out of Africa (1937) by Isak Dinesen
Seven Gothic Tales (1934) by Isak Dinesen
Moderato cantabile (1958) by Marguerite Duras
The Alexandria Quartet (1957) by Lawrence Durrell
Floodtide of Fate (1938) by Olav Duun
Medmenneske (1973) by Olav Duun
The People of Juvik (1918) by Olav Duun
The Name of the Rose (1980) by Umberto Eco
Relativity: The Special and General Theory (1916) by Albert Einstein
Blackwater (1993) by Kerstin Ekman
The Waste Land and Other Poems (1922) by T. S. Eliot
The Royal Physician's Visit (1999) by Per Olov Enquist
Nattens brød (1998) by Johan Falkberget
The Sound and the Fury (1929) by William Faulkner
Fyr og flamme : av handling (1980) by Kjartan Fløgstad
The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) by Sigmund Freud
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1917) by Sigmund Freud
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
My Childhood (1913) by Maxim Gorky
The Tin Drum (1959) by Günter Grass
The Heart of the Matter (1948) by Graham Greene
The Power and the Glory (1940) by Graham Greene
Shame (1996) by Bergljot Hobæk Haff
Growth of the Soil (1921) by Knut Hamsun
The Wanderer (1909) by Knut Hamsun
The Liar (1950) by Martin A. Hansen
Dikt i samling (1972) by Olav H. Hauge
The Lost Musicians (1950) by William Heinesen
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (1938) by Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms (1929) by Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea (1950) by Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises (1926) by Ernest Hemingway
The Glass Bead Game (1943) by Hermann Hesse
Steppenwolf (1927) by Hermann Hesse
Rhinoceros (1959) by Eugène Ionesco
Alle mine dikt (1990) by Rolf Jacobsen
Moominland Midwinter (1958) by Tove Jansson
The Fall of the King (1901) by Johannes V. Jensen
Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce
The Castle (1925) by Franz Kafka
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1983) by Milan Kundera
The Dwarf (1944) by Pär Lagerkvist
Sons and Lovers (1913) by D. H. Lawrence
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916) by Vladimir Ilʹič Lenin
The Golden Notebook (1962) by Doris Lessing
The Brothers Lionheart (1973) by Astrid Lindgren
Mio, My Son (1955) by Astrid Lindgren
Pippi Longstocking (1945) by Astrid Lindgren
The Unknown Soldier (1954) by Väinö Linna
Breaking Free (1933) by Ivar Lo-Johansson
Man's Fate (1933) by André Malraux
Doctor Faustus (1947) by Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain (1924) by Thomas Mann
Aniara (1956) by Harry Martinson
Sexus (1949) by Henry Miller
Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) by A. A. Milne
History (1974) by Elsa Morante
Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison
The Man Without Qualities (1930) by Robert Musil
Lasso Round the Moon (1954) by Agnar Mykle
Canto General (1950) by Pablo Neruda
Long Day's Journey into Night (1956) by Eugene O'Neill
1984 (1949) by George Orwell
The Black Book (1990) by Orhan Pamuk
Doctor Zhivago (1957) by Boris Pasternak
Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) by Luigi Pirandello
In Search of Lost Time (1913) by Marcel Proust
The God of Small Things (1997) by Arundhati Roy
Midnight's Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses (1988) by Salman Rushdie
A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks (1933) by Aksel Sandemose
Nausea (1959) by Jean-Paul Sartre
Collected Poems (1940) by Edith Södergran
Shyness and Dignity (1994) by Dag Solstad
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (1973) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck
A Dream Play (1901) by August Strindberg
The Christmas Oratorio (1983) by Göran Tunström
Kristin Lavransdatter (1920) by Sigrid Undset
The Birds (1957) by Tarjei Vesaas
The Ice Palace (1963) by Tarjei Vesaas
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut
To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf

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