100 books by foreign authors recommended for independent reading

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The Divine Comedy (1308) by Dante Alighieri
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Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532) by François Rabelais
2
Don Quixote (1605) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
3
Tartuffe (1664) by Molière
4
The Citizen of the World (1969) by Oliver Goldsmith
5
The Wild Ass's Skin (1831) by Honoré de Balzac
6
Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) by Charles Maturin
7
Robinson Crusoe (1719) by Daniel Defoe
8
In Search of Lost Time (1913) by Marcel Proust
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The Three Musketeers (1844) by Alexandre Dumas père
10
The Pickwick Papers (1836) by Charles Dickens
11
Faust I & II (1808) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
12
Les Misérables (1862) by Victor Hugo
12
The Red and the Black (1830) by Stendhal
14
Ivanhoe (1819) by Sir Walter Scott
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Hamlet (1603) by William Shakespeare
16
The Last of the Mohicans (1826) by James Fenimore Cooper
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Morals for the 21st Century (2000) by John Baines
18
The Children of Captain Grant (1865) by Jules Verne
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) by Mark Twain
20
Butterball (1880) by Guy de Maupassant
21
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) by Oscar Wilde
22
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885) by Friedrich Nietzsche
23
The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J. D. Salinger
24
Treasure Island (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson
25
Quo Vadis (1895) by Henryk Sienkiewicz
26
Lithuanian Pianos (1966) by Johannes Bobrowski
28
Death of a Hero (1929) by Richard Aldington
29
Hatter's Castle (1931) by A. J. Cronin
30
The Blue Bird (1908) by Maurice Maeterlinck
31
Martin Eden (1909) by Jack London
32
The Tartar Steppe (1940) by Dino Buzzati
33
Spartacus (1971) by Raffaello Giovagnoli
34
The Forsyte Saga (1922) by John Galsworthy
35
Cabbages and Kings (1904) by O. Henry
36
The Good Soldier Svejk (1922) by Jaroslav Hašek
37
Wind, Sand and Stars (1939) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
39
The Immoralist (1902) by André Gide
40
Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding
41
The War of the Worlds (1897) by H. G. Wells
42
The Moon and Sixpence (1935) by W. Somerset Maugham
43
La jeune Parque (1960) by Paul Valéry
44
King Solomon's Mines (1882) by H. Rider Haggard
45
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970) by Richard Bach
46
Snow Country (1947) by Yasunari Kawabata
47
The Clown (1963) by Heinrich Böll
48
Tender is the Night (1934) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
49
The Murders in the Rue Morgue [short story] (1841) by Edgar Allan Poe
50
Germinal (1885) by Émile Zola
51
Penguin Island (1908) by Anatole France
52
Pygmalion (1913) by George Bernard Shaw
53
The Castle (1925) by Franz Kafka
54
The Glass Bead Game (1943) by Hermann Hesse
55
The Stoic (1656) by Theodore Dreiser
56
Crabwalk (2003) by Günter Grass
57
Jean-Christophe (1913) by Romain Rolland
58
This Is the Hour: A Novel About Goya (1956) by Lion Feuchtwanger
59
A Farewell to Arms (1929) by Ernest Hemingway
60
Darkness at Noon (1940) by Arthur Koestler
61
Lust for Life (1934) by Irving Stone
62
The Plague (1947) by Albert Camus
63
Nausea (1959) by Jean-Paul Sartre
64
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1983) by Milan Kundera
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Our Man in Havana (1958) by Graham Greene
66
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1963) by John le Carré
67
Le Coq et l'Arlequin (1979) by Jean Cocteau
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1984 (1949) by George Orwell
69
April Fool's Day: A Novel (P.S.) (2004) by Josip Novakovich
70
Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury
71
Sartoris (1929) by William Faulkner
72
The Golem (1914) by Gustav Meyrink
73
The Elementary Particles (1998) by Michel Houellebecq
74
I, Robot (1940) by Isaac Asimov
75
Disgrace (1999) by J. M. Coetzee
76
Independent People (1946) by Halldór Laxness
77
The Lord of the Rings (1954) by J. R. R. Tolkien
78
Silent World (National Geographic Adventure Classics) (1953) by Jacques-Yves Cousteau
79
Moby Dick (1851) by Herman Melville
80
The Palm-Wine Drinkard and his Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads' Town (1952) by Amos Tutuola
82
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) by Ken Kesey
83
Sunlight on Cold Water (1969) by Françoise Sagan
84
Rabbit, Run (1960) by John Updike
85
Cat Country (1933) by She Lao
87
The Famished Road (1991) by Ben Okri
88
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961) by John Steinbeck
89
The Museum of Innocence (2008) by Orhan Pamuk
90
Don't Look Now / Not After Midnight / A Border-Line Case / The Way of the Cross / The Breakthrough (1971) by Daphne Du Maurier
91
Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce
92
Molloy (1951) by Samuel Beckett
93
Alchemia słowa (1986) by Jan Parandowski
94
The Name of the Rose (1980) by Umberto Eco
95
Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend (1949) by Thomas Mann
96
King Matt the First (1923) by Janusz Korczak
97
Abel Sánchez (1917) by Miguel de Unamuno
98
Flood (1960) by Robert Penn Warren
99
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1941) by Bertolt Brecht
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