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Compiled in 2002 by Norwegian Book Clubs. e average Goodreads member has read 10 out of 100 books on this list — how many have you read? 1 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 4.28 avg rating — 4,080,723 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 2 1984 by George Orwell 4.19 avg rating — 4,368,986 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 3 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 4.26 avg rating — 857,301 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 4 Hamlet by William Shakespeare 4.02 avg rating — 915,339 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 5 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 4.11 avg rating — 939,970 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 6 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 4.09 avg rating — 821,433 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 7 The Odyssey by Homer 3.80 avg rating — 1,042,165 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 8 The Stranger by Albert Camus 4.02 avg rating — 1,021,002 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 9 The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 4.36 avg rating — 317,752 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 10 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 3.88 avg rating — 820,939 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 11 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 3.80 avg rating — 1,099,778 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 12 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 3.79 avg rating — 779,888 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 13 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 4.15 avg rating — 318,985 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 14 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 3.89 avg rating — 261,975 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 15 The Iliad by Homer 3.90 avg rating — 436,422 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 16 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 3.70 avg rating — 323,201 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 17 The Trial by Franz Kafka 3.96 avg rating — 307,861 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 18 The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 4.07 avg rating — 147,354 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 19 Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville 3.54 avg rating — 546,317 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 20 King Lear by William Shakespeare 3.91 avg rating — 213,128 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 21 Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez 3.93 avg rating — 492,054 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 22 The Complete Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen 4.29 avg rating — 106,637 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 23 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 3.79 avg rating — 292,855 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 24 Othello by William Shakespeare 3.89 avg rating — 378,557 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 25 The Arabian Nights by Anonymous 4.03 avg rating — 75,978 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 26 Ulysses by James Joyce 3.75 avg rating — 125,421 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 27 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 3.86 avg rating — 178,393 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 28 Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1) by Sophocles 3.72 avg rating — 209,756 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 29 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift 3.58 avg rating — 268,364 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 30 The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 3.52 avg rating — 217,103 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 31 The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky 4.20 avg rating — 174,437 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 32 Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1) by Astrid Lindgren 4.15 avg rating — 202,571 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 33 Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1) by Marcel Proust 4.14 avg rating — 58,422 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 34 The Collected Tales of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe 4.29 avg rating — 1,503 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 35 To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 3.80 avg rating — 175,590 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 36 Beloved by Toni Morrison 3.94 avg rating — 419,008 ratings Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 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