Världsbiblioteket Explained

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

TitleAuthorYearCountry
BibleVariousAncient Near East, Roman Empire
Watership DownRichard Adams1972United Kingdom
The House of the SpiritsIsabel Allende1982Chile
The Queen's TiaraCarl Jonas Love Almqvist1834Sweden
Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil)Charles Baudelaire1857France
The Long ShipsFrans G. Bengtsson1941–1945Sweden
KallocainKarin Boye1940Sweden
The Death of VirgilHermann Broch1945Austria
United States
Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë1847United Kingdom
The Master and MargaritaMikhail Bulgakov1967Soviet Union
The Baron in the TreesItalo Calvino1957Italy
The Stranger (The Outsider) Albert Camus1942France
The Lost StepsAlejo Carpentier1953Cuba
Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll1865United Kingdom
Journey to the End of the NightLouis-Ferdinand Céline1932France
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes1605–1615Spain
Story: "The Lady with the Dog"Anton Chekhov1899Russia
Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad1902United Kingdom
The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri1321Republic of Florence
Samuels bokSven Delblanc1981Canada
Sweden
The Pickwick PapersCharles Dickens1837United Kingdom
David CopperfieldCharles Dickens-->1850United Kingdom-->
Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoyevsky1866Russia
The IdiotFyodor Dostoyevsky-->1869Russia-->
The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky-->1880Russia-->
An American TragedyTheodore Dreiser1925United States
HundenKerstin Ekman1986Sweden
Second-Class CitizenBuchi Emecheta1974Nigeria
United Kingdom
Light in AugustWilliam Faulkner1932United States
PoemsNils FerlinSweden
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert1857France
StadPer Anders Fogelström1960–1968Sweden
Simon and the OaksMarianne Fredriksson1985Sweden
The Women's RoomMarilyn French1977United States
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez1967Colombia
The CounterfeitersAndré Gide1925France
Goethe's FaustJohann Wolfgang von Goethe1808Saxe-Weimar
My ChildhoodMaxim Gorky1913–1914Russia
The Wind in the WillowsKenneth Grahame1908United Kingdom
Brighton RockGraham Greene1938United Kingdom
The Good Soldier ŠvejkJaroslav Hašek1923Czechoslovakia
Catch-22Joseph Heller1961United States
The Sun Also RisesErnest Hemingway1926United States
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway-->1952United States-->
SteppenwolfHermann Hesse1927Germany
Switzerland
OdysseyHomer8th century BCSmyrna
The World According to GarpJohn Irving1978United States
After the FloodP.C. Jersild1982Sweden
The Days of his GraceEyvind Johnson1960Sweden
Ulysses James Joyce1922Ireland
The TrialFranz Kafka1925Czechoslovakia
AmerikaFranz Kafka-->1927Czechoslovakia-->
They Burn the ThistlesYaşar Kemal1969Turkey
The Czar's MadmanJaan Kross1978Soviet Union (Estonia)
The DwarfPär Lagerkvist1944Sweden
BarabbasPär Lagerkvist-->1950Sweden-->
The Emperor of PortugalliaSelma Lagerlöf1914Sweden
The Man Without a WayErik Lindegren1942Sweden
Pippi LongstockingAstrid Lindgren1945Sweden
Mio, My SonAstrid Lindgren-->1954Sweden-->
BatsebaTorgny Lindgren1984Sweden
The Wind on the MoonEric Linklater1944United Kingdom
The Unknown SoldierVäinö Linna1954Finland
Buddenbrooks Thomas Mann1901German Empire
The Magic MountainThomas Mann-->1924Germany
Flowering NettlesHarry Martinson1935Sweden
The RoadHarry Martinson-->1948Sweden-->
AniaraHarry Martinson-->1956Sweden-->
The Razor's EdgeW. Somerset Maugham1944United Kingdom
The Thorn BirdsColleen McCullough1977Australia
Winnie-the-PoohA. A. Milne1926United Kingdom
Tetralogy: The EmigrantsVilhelm Moberg1949–1959Sweden
HistoryElsa Morante1974Italy
The Book-dealer Who Ceased BathingFritiof Nilsson Piraten1937Sweden
Doctor ZhivagoBoris Pasternak1957Soviet Union
Remembrance of Things Past Marcel Proust1913–1927France
All Quiet on the Western FrontErich Maria Remarque1929Germany
The Catcher in the RyeJ. D. Salinger1951United States
Alberta TrilogyCora Sandel1926–1939Norway
The WerewolfAksel Sandemose1958Denmark
Norway
Collected worksWilliam Shakespeare1623, 1634England
Les Anneaux de BicêtreGeorges Simenon1963Belgium
Doctor GlasHjalmar Söderberg1906Sweden
The Serious GameHjalmar Söderberg-->1912Sweden-->
Oedipus the KingSophoclesClassical Athens
Barefoot (Desculț)Zaharia Stancu1948Romania
The Grapes of WrathJohn Steinbeck1939United States
The Red and the BlackStendhal1830France
The Charterhouse of ParmaStendhal-->1839France-->
The Red RoomAugust Strindberg1879Sweden
The People of HemsöAugust Strindberg-->1887Sweden-->
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy1865–1869Russia
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy-->1877Russia-->
The Christmas OratorioGöran Tunström1983Sweden
Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain1884United States
Kristin LavransdatterSigrid Undset1920–1922Norway
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the SeasJules Verne1869France
CandideVoltaire1759Kingdom of France
The House with the Blind Glass PorchHerbjørg Wassmo1981Norway
Thérèse RaquinÉmile Zola1867France

See also

Notes and References

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

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