Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen Book of Job by Anonymous Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous Njál's Saga by Anonymous One Thousand and One Nights by Anonymous Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Le Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, a trilogy by Samuel Beckett The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë The Stranger by Albert Camus Poems by Paul Celan Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Stories by Anton Chekhov Nostromo by Joseph Conrad Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Jacques the Fatalist and his Master by Denis Diderot Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Devils by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Middlemarch by George Eliot The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Medea by Euripides Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol The Tin Drum by Günter Grass The Devil to Pay in the Backlands by João Guimarães Rosa Hunger by Knut Hamsun The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Iliad by Homer Odyssey by Homer A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen Ulysses by James Joyce Stories by Franz Kafka The Castle by Franz Kafka The Trial by Franz Kafka The Recognition of Sakuntala by Kālidāsa The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence Independent People by Halldór Laxness Poems by Giacomo Leopardi The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren Gypsy Ballads by Federico García Lorca Children of Gebelawi by Naguib Mahfouz Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville Essays by Michel de Montaigne History by Elsa Morante Beloved by Toni Morrison The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Metamorphoses by Ovid The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel by François Rabelais Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo Masnavi by Rumi Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie Bostan by Saadi Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih Blindness by José Saramago Hamlet by William Shakespeare King Lear by William Shakespeare Othello by William Shakespeare The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu Oedipus the King by Sophocles The Red and the Black by Stendhal The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Ramayana by Valmiki Aeneid by Virgil Mahabharata by Vyasa Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf A Madman's Diary by Lu Xun Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar