The selection includes eight works by Russian authors.
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1. George Eliot — "Middlemarch"
2. Toni Morrison — "Beloved"
3. James Joyce — "Ulysses"
4. Virginia Woolf — "To the Lighthouse"
5. Marcel Proust — "In Search of Lost Time"
6. Leo Tolstoy — "Anna Karenina"
7. Leo Tolstoy — "War and Peace"
8. Charlotte Brontë — "Jane Eyre"
9. Jane Austen — "Pride and Prejudice"
10. Gustave Flaubert — "Madame Bovary"
11. F. Scott Fitzgerald — "The Great Gatsby"
12. Charles Dickens — "Bleak House"
13. Jane Austen — "Emma"
14. Virginia Woolf — "Mrs Dalloway"
15. Herman Melville — "Moby-Dick"
16. George Orwell — "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
17. Gabriel García Márquez — "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
18. Jane Austen — "Persuasion"
19. Laurence Sterne — "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman"
20. Emily Brontë — "Wuthering Heights"
21. Henry James — "The Portrait of a Lady"
22. Chinua Achebe — "Things Fall Apart"
23. Salman Rushdie — "Midnight's Children"
24. Kazuo Ishiguro — "The Remains of the Day"
25. Vladimir Nabokov — "Lolita"
26. Miguel de Cervantes — "Don Quixote"
27. Franz Kafka — "The Trial"
28. Fyodor Dostoevsky — "The Brothers Karamazov"
29. Vladimir Nabokov — "Pale Fire"
30. Mary Shelley — "Frankenstein"
31. Muriel Spark — "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"
32. Arundhati Roy — "The God of Small Things"
33. Charles Dickens — "David Copperfield"
34. Hilary Mantel — "Wolf Hall"
35. Charles Dickens — "Great Expectations"
36. Margaret Atwood — "The Handmaid's Tale"
37. Ralph Ellison — "Invisible Man"
38. Edith Wharton — "The Age of Innocence"
39. Zora Neale Hurston — "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
40. Toni Morrison — "Song of Solomon"
41. Joseph Conrad — "Heart of Darkness"
42. Thomas Mann — "The Magic Mountain"
43. Marilynne Robinson — "Housekeeping"
44. James Baldwin — "Giovanni's Room"
45. Doris Lessing — "The Golden Notebook"
46. Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa — "The Leopard"
47. William Makepeace Thackeray — "Vanity Fair"
48. Franz Kafka — "The Metamorphosis"
49. Rohinton Mistry — "A Fine Balance"
50. Jean Rhys — "Wide Sargasso Sea"
51. Elena Ferrante — "My Brilliant Friend"
52. Henry James — "The Golden Bowl"
53. Shirley Hazzard — "The Transit of Venus"
54. Virginia Woolf — "Orlando"
55. Virginia Woolf — "The Waves"
56. Jane Austen — "Mansfield Park"
57. William Faulkner — "The Sound and the Fury"
58. J. M. Coetzee — "Disgrace"
59. Kazuo Ishiguro — "Never Let Me Go"
60. E. M. Forster — "Howards End"
61. W. G. Sebald — "The Rings of Saturn"
62. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — "Half of a Yellow Sun"
63. Zadie Smith — "White Teeth"
64. Ford Madox Ford — "Parade's End"
65. Alice Walker — "The Color Purple"
66. Mikhail Bulgakov — "The Master and Margarita"
67. Robert Musil — "The Man Without Qualities"
68. Cormac McCarthy — "Blood Meridian"
69. Fyodor Dostoevsky — "Crime and Punishment"
70. Thomas Hardy — "Jude the Obscure"
71. Albert Camus — "The Stranger"
72. Octavia Butler — "Kindred"
73. Charles Dickens — "Our Mutual Friend"
74. W. G. Sebald — "Austerlitz"
75. Tsitsi Dangarembga — "Nervous Conditions"
76. Toni Morrison — "The Bluest Eye"
77. Bram Stoker — "Dracula"
78. Willa Cather — "My Ántonia"
79. D. H. Lawrence — "The Rainbow"
80. V. S. Naipaul — "A House for Mr Biswas"
81. James Baldwin — "Go Tell It on the Mountain"
82. Daphne du Maurier — "Rebecca"
83. Thomas Mann — "Buddenbrooks"
84. Graham Greene — "The End of the Affair"
85. Ernest Hemingway — "A Farewell to Arms"
86. Patricia Highsmith — "The Talented Mr. Ripley"
87. Han Kang — "The Vegetarian"
88. Henry James — "The Turn of the Screw"
89. Alan Hollinghurst — "The Line of Beauty"
90. E. L. Doctorow — "Ragtime"
91. Ursula K. Le Guin — "The Left Hand of Darkness"
92. Virginia Woolf — "Jacob's Room"
93. Vasily Grossman — "Life and Fate"
94. Gustave Flaubert — "Sentimental Education"
95. Italo Calvino — "Invisible Cities"
96. Edward P. Jones — "The Known World"
97. Thomas Hardy — "The Return of the Native"
98. Juan Rulfo — "Pedro Páramo"
99. Joseph Heller — "Catch-22"
100. Cormac McCarthy — "The Road"

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