Here's a list of the top 100 books nominated by 100 writers from 54 countries. "Don Quixote is to be considered the greatest book of all time [I concur]."
2.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Mark Twain
3.The Aeneid- Virgil
4.Anna Karenina- Tolstoy
(5)Beloved- Toni Morrison
(6)Berlin Alexanderplatz- Alfred Doblin
(7)Blindness- Jose Saramago
(8)The Book of Disquiet- Fernando Pessoa
(9)The Book of Job- Anon
10.The Brothers Karamazov- Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Having read about everything Dostoievski has written long and short I remember most carefully "The Possessed" also translated as "Demons and Devils"]
(11)Buddenbrook- Thomas Mann
12.Canterbury Tales- Chaucer
(13)The Castle- Franz Kafka
(14)Children of Gebelawi- Naguib Mahfouz
15.Collected Fictions- Borges
16.Complete Poems- Giacomo Leopardi
17.The Complete Stories- Kafka
18.The Complete Tales- Edgar Allan Poe
(19)Confessions of Zeno- Italo Svevo
20.Crime and Punishment- Dostoyevsky
21.Dead Souls- Nikolai Gogol
22.The Death of Ivan Ilyich & Other Stories- Leo Tolstoy
["Resurrection" is probably worth the time] 23.Decameron- Boccaccio
(24)The Devil to Pay in the Backlands- Joao Guimaraes Rosa
(25)Diary of a Madman and Other Stories- Lu Xun
26.The Divine Comedy- Dante
27.A Doll's House- Henrik Ibsen
28.Don Quixote- Miguel de Cervantes [Top'o my List -or- Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland"]
(29)Essays- Michel de Montaigne
30.Fairy Tales and Stories- Hans Christian Andersen
31.Faust- Goethe
(32)Gargantua and Pantagruel- Francois Rabelais
33.Gilgamesh- Anon
(34)The Golden Notebook- Doris Lessing
35.Great Expectations- Charles Dickens
36.Gulliver's Travels- Jonathan Swift
(37)Gypsy Ballads- Federico Garcia Lorca
38.Hamlet- Shakespeare
(39)History- Elsa Morante
40.Hunger- Knut Hamsun
41.The Idiot- Dostoyevsky
42.The Iliad- Homer [Always take "Odyssey" o'er the "Iliad"]
(43)Independent People- Halldor K Laxness
(44)Invisible Man- Ralph Ellison
(45)Jacques the Fatalist and His Master- Denis Diderot
(46)Journey to the End of the Night- Ferdinand Celine
47.King Lear- Shakespeare
(48)Leaves of Grass-
Walt Whitman (49)The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy- Laurence Sterne
(50)Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov
51.Madame Bovary- Gustave Flaubert
(52)The Magic Mountain- Thomas Mann
(53)Mahabharata- Anon
(54)The Man Without Qualities- Robert Musil
(55)Mathnawi- Jalal ad-din Rumi
(56)Medea- Euripides
(57)Memoirs of Hadrian- Marguerite Yourcenar
(58)Metamorphoses- Ovid
(59)Middlemarch- George Eliot
60.Midnight's Children- Salman Rushdie
(61)Moby Dick- Herman Melville
(62)Mrs. Dalloway- Virginia Woolf
63.1984- George Orwell
(64)Njaals Saga- Anon
65.Nostromo- Joseph Conrad
66.The Odyssey- Homer
67.Oedipus the King- Sophocles
68.Old Goriot- Honore de Balzac [Great author of many great works]
(69)The Old Man and the Sea-
Ernest Hemingway (70)One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(71)The Orchard- Sheikh Musharrif
72.Othello- Shakespeare
(73)Pedro Paramo- Juan Rulfo
74.Pippi Longstocking- Astrid Lindgren
(75)Poems- Paul Celan
76.The Possessed- Dostoyevsky [My all-time favorite protagonist]
(77)Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
(78)Ramayana- Valmiki
(79)The Recognition of Sakuntala- Kalidasa
80.The Red and the Black- Stendhal
81.Remembrance of Things Past- Marcel Proust [It is not the memories that matter but how they are perceived in terms of inter-relation, so intended Proust, I think]
(82)Season of Migration to the North- Tayeb Salih
83.Selected Stories- Chekhov
(84)Sentimental Education- Gustave Flaubert
85.Sons and Lovers- D.H. Lawrence [Nice prosaic work transitioning Romanticism to Realism]
(86)The Sound and the Fury- Faulkner
(87)The Sound of the Mountain- Yasunari Kawabata
88.The Stranger- Camus
(89)The Tale of Genji- Shikibu Murasaki
(90)Things Fall Apart- Chinua Achebe
91.Thousand and One Nights- Anon
(92)The Tin Drum- Gunter Grass
(93)To the Lighthouse- Virginia Woolf
94.The Trial- Franz Kafka
95.Ulysses- James Joyce [A book about verbal crack]
(96)War and Peace- Tolstoy
(97)Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte
(98)Zorba the Greek- Nikos Kazantzakis [Oops deleted some]
Add to the list "Nana" by Emile Zola, Voltaire's "Candide," and "Lord of the Rings."
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