100 books that changed the world
Books / / December 19, 2019
BBC Culture I asked Experts from around the world to choose favorite books that changed their worldview, and history. Responded to more than 100 writers, journalists, critics and translators from 35 countries. The resulting list of products is far from exhaustive, but any of these books make to think about their outlook on life. Choose something that has not yet read.
1. "The Odyssey", Homer (read on Litres →).
2. "Uncle Tom's Cabin," Harriet Beecher Stowe (buy Litres →).
3. "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley (buy Litres →).
4. "1984" by George Orwell (buy Litres →).
5. "And it's destruction", Chinua Achebe.
6. "Thousand and One Nights" (buy Litres →).
7. "Don Quixote", Miguel de Cervantes (buy Litres →).
8. "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare (buy Chitai-gorod →).
9. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez (buy Litres →).
10. "Iliad", Homer (read on Litres →).
11. "Beloved" by Toni Morrison (buy Litres →).
12. "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri (buy Litres →).
13. "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare (buy Litres →).
14. "Epic of Gilgamesh", the author is unknown.
15. "Harry Potter", JK Rowling (buy Litres →).
16. "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood (buy Litres →).
17. "Ulysses," James Joyce (buy Litres →).
18. "Animal Farm," George Orwell (buy Litres →).
19. "Jane Eyre," Charlotte Bronte (buy Litres →).
20. "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert (buy Litres →).
21. "Three Kingdoms", Luo Guanzhong.
22. "Journey to the West", wu cheng'en (buy at Labirint volume 1, volume 2 →).
23. "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky (read on Litres →).
24. "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen (buy Litres →).
25. "Water Margin", Shi Nai An (buy Chitai-gorod →).
26. "War and Peace," Leo Tolstoy (read on Litres →).
27. "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee (buy Litres →).
28. "Antoinette", Jean Rhys.
29. "Fables", Aesop (buy Litres →).
30. "Candide" by Voltaire (read on Litres →).
31. "Medea" by Euripides (read on Litres →).
32. "Mahabharata", Vyasa.
33. "King Lear" by William Shakespeare (buy Litres →).
34. "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu.
35. "The Sorrows of Young Werther," Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (buy Labirint →).
36. The "process", Kafka (buy Litres →).
37. "In Search of Lost Time", Marcel Proust (read on Litres →).
38. "Wuthering Heights," Emily Bronte (buy Litres →).
39. "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison.
40. "Moby Dick or The White Whale", Herman Melville (buy Litres →).
41. "Their Eyes Were Watching God," Zora Neale Hurston.
42. "At the Lighthouse," Virginia Woolf (buy Litres →).
43. "The True Story of Ah Q", Lu Xun.
44. "Alice in Wonderland", Lewis Carroll (buy Litres →).
45. "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy (read on Litres →).
46. "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad (buy Litres →).
47. "The power of the monkey," Helen Garner.
48. "Mrs. Dalloway", Virginia Woolf (buy Litres →).
49. "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (buy Litres →).
50. "Metamorphosis", Franz Kafka (buy Litres →).
51. "Oresteia" by Aeschylus (buy Litres →).
52. "Cinderella", the author is unknown.
53. "Howl" Allen Ginsberg.
54. "Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo (buy Litres →).
55. "Middlemarch" by George Eliot (buy Litres →).
56. "Pedro Páramo" Juan Rulfo.
57. "Lovers butterfly" Chinese legend.
58. "Canterbury Tales" Geoffrey Chaucer (buy in "Bookvoed» →).
59. "Panchatantra", Vishnu Sharma.
60. "The Posthumous Papers of Braz Cubas", Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis.
61. "Miss Jean Brodie in the prime of life", Muriel Spark.
62. "Philanthropists in torn trousers," Robert Tressel.
63. "Song of avalanches," Okot p'Bitek.
64. "The Golden Notebook", Doris Lessing.
65. "Midnight's Children", Salman Rushdie.
66. "Restless circumstances" Tsitsi Dangarembga.
67. "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (buy Litres →).
68. "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov (buy Litres →).
69. "Ramayana", Maharishi Valmiki (buy Litres →).
70. "Antigone" by Sophocles (read on Litres →).
71. "Dracula" Bram Stoker (buy Litres →).
72. "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin (buy Litres →).
73. "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens (buy Litres →).
74. "America", Raúl Otero Reiche.
75. "Before the Law", Franz Kafka (buy Litres →).
76. "Children of the street", Naguib Mahfouz.
77. "Book of Songs", Petrarch.
78. "Kebra Negast" Ethiopian legend.
79. "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott (buy Litres →).
80. "Metamorphoses" by Ovid (buy Litres →).
81. "Omeros" Derek Walcott.
82. "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," Solzhenitsyn (buy Litres →).
83. "Orlando", Virginia Woolf (buy Litres →).
84. "Rainbow serpent", the myth of the Australian Aborigines.
85. "Revolutionary Road" by Richard Yates (buy Litres →).
86. "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe (buy Litres →).
87. "Song of Myself," Walt Whitman.
88. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain (buy Litres →).
89. "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain (buy Litres →).
90. "Aleph," Jorge Luis Borges.
91. "The Tale of the eloquent peasant", the ancient Egyptian tale.
92. "Emperor's New Clothes" by Hans Christian Andersen (buy Labirint →).
93. "The Jungle," Upton Sinclair.
94. Poetry, Abu Nuwas.
95. "Radetzky March", Joseph Roth.
96. "The Raven", Edgar Allan Poe (buy Litres →).
97. "The Satanic Verses" Salman Rushdie.
98. "The Secret History," Donna Tartt (buy Litres →).
99. "Snow Day," Ezra Jack Keats.
100. "Toba Tek Singh", Saadat Hasan Manto.