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Here the first 21:
| # | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language |
| 1 | Ulysses | James Joyce | 1922 | Irish | English |
| 2 | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1925 | American | English |
| 3 | In Search of Lost Time | Marcel Proust | 1913 | French | French |
| 4 | The Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger | 1951 | American | English |
| 5 | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | 1967 | Colombian | Spanish |
| 6 | Nineteen Eighty Four | George Orwell | 1949 | British | English |
| 7 | Moby-Dick | Herman Melville | 1851 | American | English |
| 8 | The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner | 1929 | American | English |
| 9 | Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes | 1605 | Spanish | Spanish |
| 10 | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | 1877 | Russian | Russian |
| 11 | Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1866 | Russian | Russian |
| 12 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | 1813 | British | English |
| 13 | Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | 1955 | American | English |
| 14 | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | 1869 | Russian | Russian |
| 15 | Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | 1847 | British | English |
| 16 | The Lord of the Rings | J. R. R. Tolkien | 1954 | British | English |
| 17 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 1960 | American | English |
| 18 | The Bible | Unknown | -1400 | Jewish | Hebrew, aramaic, greek |
| 19 | The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1880 | Russian | Russian |
| 20 | The Trial | Franz Kafka | 1925 | Czech | German |
| 21 | The Stranger | Albert Camus | 1942 | French | French |
I never could make heads or tails out of Ulysses.
I didn't realize the new translation of Proust was In Search Of Lost Time. I did read it and liked it when it was called Remembrance Of Things Passed.
I have read most of them, but details have faded from memory.
Did not know about all these retitling? So you are saying is the same book, rewritten but other authors under different title?
Why not reading the original one?
No, no. The translation of the title into English was changed. The book remains intact!
Do you have your own list of the greatest books?
Of course, you?
I've read 11 out of 21