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  UK
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
 USA
Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 1847  UK
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  UK
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  UK
The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri 1472  Republic of Florence
Samuels bok Sven Delblanc 1981  Canada
 Sweden
The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 1837  UK
David Copperfield 1850
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1866  Russia
The Idiot 1869
The Brothers Karamazov 1880
An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser 1925  USA
Hunden Kerstin Ekman 1986  Sweden
Second-Class Citizen Buchi Emecheta 1974  Nigeria
 UK
Light in August William Faulkner 1932  USA
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  USA
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  UK
Brighton Rock Graham Greene 1938  UK
The Good Soldier Švejk Jaroslav Hašek 1923  Czechoslovakia
Catch-22 Joseph Heller 1961  USA
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway 1926  USA
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  USA
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  UK
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  UK
The Thorn Birds Colleen McCullough 1977  Australia
Winnie-the-Pooh A. A. Milne 1926  UK
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  USA
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  USA
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  USA
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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