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Lists of Bests - The Guardian's "100 Best Books of All Time"



Things Fall Apart 
   
    1
    by Chinua Achebe


Hans Christian Andersen: The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories (Anchor Folktale Library) 
   
    2
    by Hans Christian Andersen


Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library Classics) 
   
    3
    by Jane Austen


Old Goriot (Penguin Classics) 
   
    4
    by Honore de Balzac; Introduction-Marion Ayton Crawford


Three Novels by Samuel Beckett: Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable 
   
    5
    by Samuel Beckett


The Decameron (Signet Classics) 
   
    6
    by Giovanni Boccaccio


Borges: Collected Fictions 
   
    7
    by Jorge Luis Borges


Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions) 
   
    8
    by Emily Bronte


The Stranger 
   
    9
    by Albert Camus


Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan 
   
    10
    by Paul Celan


Journey to the End of the Night 
   
    11
    by Louis-Ferdinand Celine


Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) 
   
    12
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra


Canterbury Tales (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) 
   
    13
    by Geoffrey Chaucer


Selected Stories (Signet Classics) 
   
    14
    by Anton Chekhov


Nostromo (Dover Thrift Editions) 
   
    15
    by Joseph Conrad
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