Världsbiblioteket

Världsbiblioteket (The World Library) was a Swedish list of the 100 best books in the world, created in 1991 by the Swedish literary magazine Tidningen Boken. The list was compiled through votes from members of the Svenska Akademien, Swedish Crime Writers' Academy, librarian, authors and others. About 30 of the books were Swedish.[1][2][3]

List
Title Author Year Country
Bible Various 8th century BC – 2nd century AD Ancient Near East, Roman Empire
Watership Down Richard Adams 1972 United Kingdom
The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende 1982 Chile
The Queen's Tiara Carl Jonas Love Almqvist 1834 Sweden
Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil) Charles Baudelaire 1857 France
The Long Ships Frans G. Bengtsson 1941–1945 Sweden
Kallocain Karin Boye 1940 Sweden
The Death of Virgil Hermann Broch 1945 Austria
United States
Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 1847 United Kingdom
The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov 1967 Soviet Union
The Baron in the Trees Italo Calvino 1957 Italy
The Stranger (The Outsider) Albert Camus 1942 France
The Lost Steps Alejo Carpentier 1953 Cuba
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 1865 United Kingdom
Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1932 France
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes 1605–1615 Spain
Story: "The Lady with the Dog" Anton Chekhov 1899 Russia
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 1902 United Kingdom
The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri 1321 Republic of Florence
Samuels bok Sven Delblanc 1981 Canada
Sweden
The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 1837 United Kingdom
David Copperfield 1850
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1866 Russia
The Idiot 1869
The Brothers Karamazov 1880
An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser 1925 United States
Hunden Kerstin Ekman 1986 Sweden
Second-Class Citizen Buchi Emecheta 1974 Nigeria
United Kingdom
Light in August William Faulkner 1932 United States
Poems Nils Ferlin before 1961 Sweden
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 1857 France
Stad Per Anders Fogelström 1960–1968 Sweden
Simon and the Oaks Marianne Fredriksson 1985 Sweden
The Women's Room Marilyn French 1977 United States
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez 1967 Colombia
The Counterfeiters André Gide 1925 France
Goethe's Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1808 Saxe-Weimar
My Childhood Maxim Gorky 1913–1914 Russia
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 1908 United Kingdom
Brighton Rock Graham Greene 1938 United Kingdom
The Good Soldier Švejk Jaroslav Hašek 1923 Czechoslovakia
Catch-22 Joseph Heller 1961 United States
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway 1926 United States
The Old Man and the Sea 1952
Steppenwolf Hermann Hesse 1927 Germany
Switzerland
Odyssey Homer 8th century BC Smyrna
The World According to Garp John Irving 1978 United States
After the Flood P.C. Jersild 1982 Sweden
The Days of his Grace Eyvind Johnson 1960 Sweden
Ulysses James Joyce 1922 Ireland
The Trial Franz Kafka 1925 Czechoslovakia
Amerika 1927
They Burn the Thistles Yaşar Kemal 1969 Turkey
The Czar's Madman Jaan Kross 1978 Soviet Union (Estonia)
The Dwarf Pär Lagerkvist 1944 Sweden
Barabbas 1950
The Emperor of Portugallia Selma Lagerlöf 1914 Sweden
The Man Without a Way Erik Lindegren 1942 Sweden
Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren 1945 Sweden
Mio, My Son 1954
Batseba Torgny Lindgren 1984 Sweden
The Wind on the Moon Eric Linklater 1944 United Kingdom
The Unknown Soldier Väinö Linna 1954 Finland
Buddenbrooks Thomas Mann 1901 German Empire
The Magic Mountain 1924 Germany
Flowering Nettles Harry Martinson 1935 Sweden
The Road 1948
Aniara 1956
The Razor's Edge W. Somerset Maugham 1944 United Kingdom
The Thorn Birds Colleen McCullough 1977 Australia
Winnie-the-Pooh A. A. Milne 1926 United Kingdom
Tetralogy: The Emigrants Vilhelm Moberg 1949–1959 Sweden
History Elsa Morante 1974 Italy
The Book-dealer Who Ceased Bathing Fritiof Nilsson Piraten 1937 Sweden
Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak 1957 Soviet Union
Remembrance of Things Past Marcel Proust 1913–1927 France
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque 1929 Germany
The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger 1951 United States
Alberta Trilogy Cora Sandel 1926–1939 Norway
The Werewolf Aksel Sandemose 1958 Denmark
Norway
Collected works William Shakespeare 1623, 1634 England
Les Anneaux de Bicêtre Georges Simenon 1963 Belgium
Doctor Glas Hjalmar Söderberg 1906 Sweden
The Serious Game 1912
Oedipus the King Sophocles c. 429 BC Classical Athens
Barefoot (Desculț) Zaharia Stancu 1948 Romania
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 1939 United States
The Red and the Black Stendhal 1830 France
The Charterhouse of Parma 1839
The Red Room August Strindberg 1879 Sweden
The People of Hemsö 1887
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1865–1869 Russia
Anna Karenina 1877
The Christmas Oratorio Göran Tunström 1983 Sweden
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1884 United States
Kristin Lavransdatter Sigrid Undset 1920–1922 Norway
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne 1869 France
Candide Voltaire 1759 Kingdom of France
The House with the Blind Glass Porch Herbjørg Wassmo 1981 Norway
Thérèse Raquin Émile Zola 1867 France

See also


References
  1. Skagegård, Ellinor (March 22, 2017). "Lista: 100 böcker att läsa under en livstid" – via www.svd.se.
  2. "Världsbiblioteket (The World Library) - Swedish List of the 100 Best Books in the World". List Challenges.
  3. "Världsbiblioteket: De 100 bästa böckerna". www.boktipset.se.
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