- Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe 1958 Nigeria English
- ✔ Fairy tales Hans Christian Andersen 1835–37 Denmark Danish
- The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri 1308–1321 Italy Italian
- Epic of Gilgamesh Unknown 18th – 17th century BCE Sumer and Akkadian Empire Akkadian
- Book of Job Unknown 7th – 4th century BCE Achaemenid Empire Hebrew
- One Thousand and One Nights Unknown 700–1500 India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt/Tajikistan Arabic
- Njál's Saga Unknown 13th century Iceland Old Norse
- ✔ Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 1813 United Kingdom English
- Le Père Goriot Honoré de Balzac 1835 France French
- Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, a trilogy Samuel Beckett 1951–53 Republic of Ireland French, English
- The Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio 1349–53 Italy Italian
- Ficciones Jorge Luis Borges 1944–86 Argentina Spanish
- ✔ Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 1847 United Kingdom English
- The Stranger Albert Camus 1942 Algeria, French Empire French
- Poems Paul Celan 1952 Romania, France German
- Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1932 France French
- Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes 1605 (part 1), 1615 (part 2) Spain Spanish
- ✔ The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer 14th century England English
- ✔ Stories Anton Chekhov 1886 Russia Russian
- Nostromo Joseph Conrad 1904 United Kingdom English
- Great Expectations Charles Dickens 1861 United Kingdom English
- Jacques the Fatalist Denis Diderot 1796 France French
- Berlin Alexanderplatz Alfred Döblin 1929 Germany German
- ✔ Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866 Russia Russian
- The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky 1869 Russia Russian
- The Possessed Fyodor Dostoevsky 1872 Russia Russian
- The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky 1880 Russia Russian
- Middlemarch George Eliot 1871 United Kingdom English
- Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 1952 United States English
- Medea Euripides 431 BCE Greece Greek
- Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner 1936 United States English
- The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner 1929 United States English
- ✔ Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 1857 France French
- Sentimental Education Gustave Flaubert 1869 France French
- Gypsy Ballads Federico García Lorca 1928 Spain Spanish
- ✔ One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez 1967 Colombia Spanish
- Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez 1985 Colombia Spanish
- Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1832 Saxe-Weimar German
- Dead Souls Nikolai Gogol 1842 Russia Russian
- The Tin Drum Günter Grass 1959 Germany German
- The Devil to Pay in the Backlands João Guimarães Rosa 1956 Brazil Portuguese
- Hunger Knut Hamsun 1890 Norway Norwegian
- ✔ The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway 1952 United States English
- Iliad Homer 760–710 BCE Greece Greek
- Odyssey Homer 8th century BCE Greece Greek
- A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen 1879 Norway Norwegian
- Ulysses James Joyce 1922 Irish Free State English
- Stories Franz Kafka 1924 Czechoslovakia German
- ✔ The Trial Franz Kafka 1925 Czechoslovakia German
- The Castle Franz Kafka 1926 Czechoslovakia German
- Shakuntala Kālidāsa 1st century BCE – 4th century CE India Sanskrit
- The Sound of the Mountain Yasunari Kawabata 1954 Japan Japanese
- Zorba the Greek Nikos Kazantzakis 1946 Greece Greek
- Sons and Lovers D. H. Lawrence 1913 United Kingdom English
- Independent People Halldór Laxness 1934–35 Iceland Icelandic
- Poems Giacomo Leopardi 1818 Italy Italian
- The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing 1962 United Kingdom English
- ✔ Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren 1945 Sweden Swedish
- A Madman's Diary Lu Xun 1918 China Chinese
- Children of Gebelawi Naguib Mahfouz 1959 Egypt Arabic
- Buddenbrooks Thomas Mann 1901 Germany German
- The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann 1924 Germany German
- Moby-Dick Herman Melville 1851 United States English
- Essays Michel de Montaigne 1595 France French
- History Elsa Morante 1974 Italy Italian
- Beloved Toni Morrison 1987 United States English
- The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu 1000–1012 Japan Japanese
- The Man Without Qualities Robert Musil 1930–32 Austria German
- ✔ Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 1955 Russia/United States English
- ✔ Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell 1949 United Kingdom English
- Metamorphoses Ovid 1st century CE Roman Empire Classical Latin
- The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa 1928 Portugal Portuguese
- ✔ Tales Edgar Allan Poe 19th century United States English
- In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust 1913–27 France French
- Gargantua and Pantagruel François Rabelais 1532–34 France French
- Pedro Páramo Juan Rulfo 1955 Mexico Spanish
- Masnavi Rumi 1258–73 Sultanate of Rum Persian
- Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie 1981 United Kingdom, India English
- Bostan Saadi 1257 Persia, Persian Empire Persian
- Season of Migration to the North Tayeb Salih 1966 Sudan Arabic
- Blindness José Saramago 1995 Portugal Portuguese
- ✔ Hamlet William Shakespeare 1603 England English
- ✔ King Lear William Shakespeare 1608 England English
- Othello William Shakespeare 1609 England English
- Oedipus the King Sophocles 430 BCE Greece Greek
- The Red and the Black Stendhal 1830 France French
- Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne 1760 England English
- Confessions of Zeno Italo Svevo 1923 Italy Italian
- ✔ Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1726 Ireland English
- ✔ War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1865–1869 Russia Russian
- Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1877 Russia Russian
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich Leo Tolstoy 1886 Russia Russian
- ✔ Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1884 United States English
- Ramayana Valmiki 5th century BCE - 4th century BCE India Sanskrit
- Aeneid Virgil 29–19 BCE Roman Empire Classical Latin
- Mahabharata Vyasa 9th century BCE – 5th century BCE India Sanskrit
- Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855 United States English
- ✔ Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf 1925 United Kingdom English
- To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf 1927 United Kingdom English
- Memoirs of Hadrian Marguerite Yourcenar 1951 France/Belgium French
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