- Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
- Hans Christian Andersen, Fairy Tales and Stories
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
- Honore de Balzac, Old Father Goriot
- Samuel Beckett, Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
- Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron
- Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions
- Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
- Albert Camus, The Stranger
- Paul Celan, Poems
- Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Journey to the End of the Night
- Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
- Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
- Anton Chekhov, Selected Stories; Thousand and One Nights
- Joseph Conrad, Nostromo
- Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
- Denis Diderot, Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
- Alfred Doblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Possessed; The Brothers Karamazov
- George Eliot, Middlemarch
- Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
- Euripides, Medea
- William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom; The Sound and the Fury
- Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary; A Sentimental Education
- Federico Garcia Lorca, Gypsy Ballads
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude; Love in the Time of Cholera
- Anon, The Epic of Gilgamesh
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust
- Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
- Gnter Grass, The Tin Drum
- Joao Guimaraes Rosa, The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
- Knut Hamsun, Hunger
- Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
- Homer, The Iliad; The Odyssey
- Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
- Anon, The Book of Job
- James Joyce, Ulysses
- Franz Kafka, The Complete Stories; The Trial; The Castle
- Kalidasa, The Recognition of Sakuntala
- Yasunari Kawabata, The Sound of the Mountain
- Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
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- D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
- Halldor K. Laxness, Independent People
- Giacomo Leopardi, Complete Poems
- Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
- Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking
- Lu Xun, Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
- Anon, Mahabharata
- Naguib Mahfouz, Children of Gebelawi
- Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks; The Magic Mountain
- Herman Melville, Moby Dick
- Michel de Montaigne, Essays
- Elsa Morante, History
- Toni Morrison, Beloved
- Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji
- Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
- Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita; Njal's Saga
- George Orwell, 1984
- Ovid, Metamorphoses
- Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
- Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Tales
- Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past
- Francois Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
- Juan Rulfo, Pedro Paramo
- Jalalu'l-Din Rumi, The Mathnawi
- Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
- Sheikh Saadi of Shiraz, The Bostan of Saadi (The Orchard)
- Tayeb Salih, A Season of Migration to the North
- Jose Saramago, Blindness
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet; King Lear; Othello
- Sophocles, Oedipus the King
- Stendhal, The Red and the Black
- Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
- Italo Svevo, Confessions of Zeno
- Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
- Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace; Anna Karenina; The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
- Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Valmiki, Ramayana
- Virgil, The Aeneid
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
- Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway; To the Lighthouse
- Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
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