Bokklubben World Library

Bokklubben World Library is a series of classical books, mostly novels, published by the Norwegian Book Clubs since 2002. It is based on a list of the hundred best books, as proposed by one hundred writers from fifty-four countries, compiled and organized in 2002 by the Book Club. This list endeavors to reflect world literature, with books from all countries, cultures, and time periods.

#1

Things Fall Apart

#1 of 3 in The African Trilogy

1958 • 694 Readers • 185 pages 3.7

#2

The Little Mermaid and Other Fairy Tales

1837 • 10 Readers • 240 pages 4

#3

The Divine Comedy

#1-3 of 3 in La Divina Commedia

1320 • 71 Readers • 798 pages 4.2

#4

The Epic of Gilgamesh

-1800 • 194 Readers • 120 pages 3.5

#5

The Book Of Job

#18 of 66 in Bible

-600 • 10 Readers • 180 pages 5

#6

One Thousand and One Nights

2011 • 31 Readers • 320 pages 3.9

#7

Njal's saga

Íslendingasögur/Sagas of Icelanders

1280 • 24 Readers • 384 pages 4

#8

Pride and Prejudice

Cozy Classics

1811 • 2,741 Readers • 342 pages 4.2

#9

Old Goriot

#23 of 47 in La Comédie Humaine

1835 • 98 Readers • 237 pages 3.7

#10

Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

#1 of 3 in The Trilogy

1958 • 6 Readers • 417 pages 4

#11

The Decameron

1349 • 130 Readers • 418 pages 3.5

#12

Ficciones

1944 • 322 Readers • 192 pages 4.2

#13

Wuthering Heights

197 • 1,717 Readers • 376 pages 3.6

#14

The Stranger

1942 • 2,146 Readers • 134 pages 3.9

#15

Poems of Paul Celan

1972 • 21 Readers • 358 pages 3

#16

Journey to the End of the Night

#1 of 2 in Ferdinand Bardamu

1932 • 164 Readers • 509 pages 4.2

#17

Don Quixote

1605 • 62 Readers • 996 pages 4.1

#18

The Canterbury Tales

1400 • 34 Readers • 672 pages 3.3

#19

Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov

1903 • 97 Readers • 496 pages 4.2

#20

Nostromo

1904 • 47 Readers • 463 pages 3.4

#21

Great Expectations

Graffex

1860 • 966 Readers • 548 pages 3.5

#22

Jacques the fatalist and his master

1785 • 28 Readers • 304 pages 3.6

#24

Crime and Punishment

19 • 2,054 Readers • 602 pages 4.3

#25

The Idiot

1867 • 678 Readers • 692 pages 4

#26

Demons

195 • 306 Readers • 768 pages 4.1

#27

The Brothers Karamazov

19 • 1,255 Readers • 796 pages 4.4

#28

Middlemarch

18 • 480 Readers • 810 pages 4.2

#29

Invisible Man

1952 • 537 Readers • 610 pages 3.8

#30

Medea

2006 • 8 Readers • 129 pages 4.3

#31

Absalom, Absalom!

1936 • 202 Readers • 305 pages 4

#32

The Sound and the Fury

1929 • 453 Readers • 326 pages 3.7

#33

Madame Bovary

1856 • 590 Readers • 368 pages 3.6

#34

Sentimental Education

1869 • 64 Readers • 436 pages 4.2

#35

Gypsy Ballads

1928 • 3 Readers • 161 pages

#36

#38

Faust. Der Tragödie Erster Teil

#1 of 2 in Goethes Faust

1808 • 358 Readers • 354 pages 3.9

#39

Dead Souls

1842 • 252 Readers • 520 pages 3.8

#40

The Tin Drum

#1 of 3 in Die Danziger Trilogie

1959 • 127 Readers • 592 pages 4.2

#41

The Devil to Pay in the Backlands

1963 • 7 Readers • 522 pages

#42

Hunger

1890 • 173 Readers • 150 pages 3.9

#43

The Old Man and the Sea

1952 • 1,508 Readers • 127 pages 3.7

#44

The Iliad

2023 • 12 Readers • 848 pages

#45

The Odyssey

-800 • 1,555 Readers • 541 pages 3.8

#46

A Doll's House

1879 • 158 Readers • 86 pages 3.6

#47

Ulysses : a critical and synoptic edition

1920 • 681 Readers • 656 pages 3.8

#48

The Complete Stories

1915 • 169 Readers • 516 pages 3.9

#49

The Trial

1925 • 876 Readers • 255 pages 4

#50

The Castle

1922 • 250 Readers • 328 pages 3.9