- 1984 by George Orwell, England, (1903-1950)
- A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, Norway (1828-1906)
- A Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert, France, (1821-1880)
- Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner, United States, (1897-1962)
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, United States, (1835-1910)
- The Aeneid by Virgil, Italy, (70-19 BC)
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Russia, (1828-1910)
- Beloved by Toni Morrison, United States, (b. 1931)
- Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin, Germany, (1878-1957)
- Blindness by Jose Saramago, Portugal, (1922-2010)
- The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, Portugal, (1888-1935)
- The Book of Job, Israel. (600-400 BC)
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881)
- Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann, Germany, (1875-1955)
- Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, England, (1340-1400)
- The Castle by Franz Kafka, Bohemia, (1883-1924)
- Children of Gebelawi by Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt, (b. 1911)
- Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina, (1899-1986)
- Complete Poems by Giacomo Leopardi, Italy, (1798-1837)
- The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka, Bohemia, (1883-1924)
- The Complete Tales by Edgar Allan Poe, United States, (1809-1849)
- Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo, Italy, (1861-1928)
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881)
- Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, Russia, (1809-1852)
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy, Russia, (1828-1910)
- Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy, (1313-1375)
- The Devil to Pay in the Backlands by Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Brazil, (1880-1967)
- Diary of a Madman and Other Stories by Lu Xun, China, (1881-1936)
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, Italy, (1265-1321)
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain, (1547-1616)
- Essays by Michel de Montaigne, France, (1533-1592)
- Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, (1805-1875)
- Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany, (1749-1832)
- Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais, France, (1495-1553)
- Gilgamesh Mesopotamia, (c 1800 BC)
- The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, England, (b.1919)
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, England, (1812-1870)
- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, Ireland, (1667-1745)
- Gypsy Ballads by Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain, (1898-1936)
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare, England, (1564-1616)
- History by Elsa Morante, Italy, (1918-1985)
- Hunger by Knut Hamsun, Norway, (1859-1952)
- The Idiot by Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881)
- The Iliad by Homer, Greece, (c 700 BC)
- Independent People by Halldor K Laxness, Iceland, (1902-1998)
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, United States, (1914-1994)
- Jacques the Fatalist and His Master by Denis Diderot, France, (1713-1784)
- Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, France, (1894-1961)
- King Lear by William Shakespeare, England, (1564-1616)
- Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, United States, (1819-1892)
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne, Ireland, (1713-1768)
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Russia/United States, (1899-1977)
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia, (b. 1928)
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, France, (1821-1880)
- The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, Germany, (1875-1955)
- Mahabharata, India, (c 500 BC)
- The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil, Austria, (1880-1942)
- The Mathnawi by Jalal ad-din Rumi, Afghanistan, (1207-1273)
- Medea by Euripides, Greece, (c 480-406 BC)
- Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar, France, (1903-1987)
- Metamorphoses by Ovid, Italy, (c 43 BC)
- Middlemarch by George Eliot, England, (1819-1880)
- Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, India/Britain, (b. 1947)
- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, United States, (1819-1891)
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, England, (1882-1941)
- Njaals Saga, Iceland, (c 1300)
- Nostromo by Joseph Conrad, England,(1857-1924)
- The Odyssey by Homer, Greece, (c 700 BC)
- Oedipus the King Sophocles, Greece, (496-406 BC)
- Old Goriot by Honore de Balzac, France, (1799-1850)
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, United States, (1899-1961)
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia, (b. 1928)
- The Orchard by Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi, Iran, (c 1200-1292)
- Othello by William Shakespeare, England, (1564-1616)
- Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo Juan Rulfo, Mexico, (1918-1986)
- Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren, Sweden, (1907-2002)
- Poems by Paul Celan, Romania/France, (1920-1970)
- The Possessed by Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881)
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, England, (1775-1817)
- The Ramayana by Valmiki, India, (c 300 BC)
- The Recognition of Sakuntala by Kalidasa, India, (c. 400)
- The Red and the Black by Stendhal, France, (1783-1842)
- Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust, France, (1871-1922)
- Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih, Sudan, (b. 1929)
- Selected Stories by Anton P Chekhov, Russia, (1860-1904)
- Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence, England, (1885-1930)
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, United States, (1897-1962)
- The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata, Japan, (1899-1972)
- The Stranger by Albert Camus, France, (1913-1960)
- The Tale of Genji by Shikibu Murasaki, Japan, (c 1000)
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, (b. 1930)
- Thousand and One Nights, India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt, (700-1500)
- The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass, Germany, (b.1927)
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, England, (1882-1941)
- The Trial by Franz Kafka, Bohemia, (1883-1924)
- Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett, Ireland, (1906-1989)
- Ulysses by James Joyce, Ireland, (1882-1941)
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Russia, (1828-1910)
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, England, (1818-1848)
- Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis, Greece, (1883-1957)
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