# Världsbiblioteket

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.

## List

| Title | Author | Year | Country |
| Bible | Various | 8th century BC – 2nd century AD | Ancient Near East, Roman Empire |
| Watership Down | Richard Adams | 1972 | United Kingdom |
| The House of the Spirits | Isabel Allende | 1982 | Chile |
| The Queen's Tiara | Carl Jonas Love Almqvist | 1834 | Sweden |
| Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil) | Charles Baudelaire | 1857 | France |
| The Long Ships | Frans G. Bengtsson | 1941–1945 | Sweden |
| Kallocain | Karin Boye | 1940 | Sweden |
| The Death of Virgil | Hermann Broch | 1945 | Austria United States |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | 1847 | United Kingdom |
| The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov | 1967 | Soviet Union |
| The Baron in the Trees | Italo Calvino | 1957 | Italy |
| The Stranger (The Outsider) | Albert Camus | 1942 | France |
| The Lost Steps | Alejo Carpentier | 1953 | Cuba |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | 1865 | United Kingdom |
| Journey to the End of the Night | Louis-Ferdinand Céline | 1932 | France |
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes | 1605–1615 | Spain |
| Story: "The Lady with the Dog" | Anton Chekhov | 1899 | Russia |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | 1902 | United Kingdom |
| The Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri | 1321 | Republic of Florence |
| Samuels bok | Sven Delblanc | 1981 | Canada Sweden |
| The Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens | 1837 | United Kingdom |
| David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | 1850 | United Kingdom |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 1866 | Russia |
| The Idiot | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 1869 | Russia |
| The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 1880 | Russia |
| An American Tragedy | Theodore Dreiser | 1925 | United States |
| Hunden | Kerstin Ekman | 1986 | Sweden |
| Second-Class Citizen | Buchi Emecheta | 1974 | Nigeria United Kingdom |
| Light in August | William Faulkner | 1932 | United States |
| Poems | Nils Ferlin | before 1961 | Sweden |
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | 1857 | France |
| Stad | Per Anders Fogelström | 1960–1968 | Sweden |
| Simon and the Oaks | Marianne Fredriksson | 1985 | Sweden |
| The Women's Room | Marilyn French | 1977 | United States |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | 1967 | Colombia |
| The Counterfeiters | André Gide | 1925 | France |
| Goethe's Faust | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 1808 | Saxe-Weimar |
| My Childhood | Maxim Gorky | 1913–1914 | Russia |
| The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame | 1908 | United Kingdom |
| Brighton Rock | Graham Greene | 1938 | United Kingdom |
| The Good Soldier Švejk | Jaroslav Hašek | 1923 | Czechoslovakia |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | 1961 | United States |
| The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway | 1926 | United States |
| The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway | 1952 | United States |
| Steppenwolf | Hermann Hesse | 1927 | Germany Switzerland |
| Odyssey | Homer | 8th century BC | Smyrna |
| The World According to Garp | John Irving | 1978 | United States |
| After the Flood | P.C. Jersild | 1982 | Sweden |
| The Days of his Grace | Eyvind Johnson | 1960 | Sweden |
| Ulysses | James Joyce | 1922 | Ireland |
| The Trial | Franz Kafka | 1925 | Czechoslovakia |
| Amerika | Franz Kafka | 1927 | Czechoslovakia |
| They Burn the Thistles | Yaşar Kemal | 1969 | Turkey |
| The Czar's Madman | Jaan Kross | 1978 | Soviet Union (Estonia) |
| The Dwarf | Pär Lagerkvist | 1944 | Sweden |
| Barabbas | Pär Lagerkvist | 1950 | Sweden |
| The Emperor of Portugallia | Selma Lagerlöf | 1914 | Sweden |
| The Man Without a Way | Erik Lindegren | 1942 | Sweden |
| Pippi Longstocking | Astrid Lindgren | 1945 | Sweden |
| Mio, My Son | Astrid Lindgren | 1954 | Sweden |
| Batseba | Torgny Lindgren | 1984 | Sweden |
| The Wind on the Moon | Eric Linklater | 1944 | United Kingdom |
| The Unknown Soldier | Väinö Linna | 1954 | Finland |
| Buddenbrooks | Thomas Mann | 1901 | German Empire |
| The Magic Mountain | Thomas Mann | 1924 | Germany |
| Flowering Nettles | Harry Martinson | 1935 | Sweden |
| The Road | Harry Martinson | 1948 | Sweden |
| Aniara | Harry Martinson | 1956 | Sweden |
| The Razor's Edge | W. Somerset Maugham | 1944 | United Kingdom |
| The Thorn Birds | Colleen McCullough | 1977 | Australia |
| Winnie-the-Pooh | A. A. Milne | 1926 | United Kingdom |
| Tetralogy: The Emigrants | Vilhelm Moberg | 1949–1959 | Sweden |
| History | Elsa Morante | 1974 | Italy |
| The Book-dealer Who Ceased Bathing | Fritiof Nilsson Piraten | 1937 | Sweden |
| Doctor Zhivago | Boris Pasternak | 1957 | Soviet Union |
| Remembrance of Things Past | Marcel Proust | 1913–1927 | France |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque | 1929 | Germany |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger | 1951 | United States |
| Alberta Trilogy | Cora Sandel | 1926–1939 | Norway |
| The Werewolf | Aksel Sandemose | 1958 | Denmark Norway |
| Collected works | William Shakespeare | 1623, 1634 | England |
| Les Anneaux de Bicêtre | Georges Simenon | 1963 | Belgium |
| Doctor Glas | Hjalmar Söderberg | 1906 | Sweden |
| The Serious Game | Hjalmar Söderberg | 1912 | Sweden |
| Oedipus the King | Sophocles | c. 429 BC | Classical Athens |
| Barefoot (Desculț) | Zaharia Stancu | 1948 | Romania |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | 1939 | United States |
| The Red and the Black | Stendhal | 1830 | France |
| The Charterhouse of Parma | Stendhal | 1839 | France |
| The Red Room | August Strindberg | 1879 | Sweden |
| The People of Hemsö | August Strindberg | 1887 | Sweden |
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | 1865–1869 | Russia |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | 1877 | Russia |
| The Christmas Oratorio | Göran Tunström | 1983 | Sweden |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | 1884 | United States |
| Kristin Lavransdatter | Sigrid Undset | 1920–1922 | Norway |
| Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas | Jules Verne | 1869 | France |
| Candide | Voltaire | 1759 | Kingdom of France |
| The House with the Blind Glass Porch | Herbjørg Wassmo | 1981 | Norway |
| Thérèse Raquin | Émile Zola | 1867 | France |