unknown · 7/10 picks in the top 100
"All the works included here possess rare staying power. They invite rereading and never exhaust their enchantment. Each broke new ground in literature and I believe they will still be read a hundred years from now. "
| # | Title | Author | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | #17 |
| 2 | Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie | #23 |
| 3 | Beloved | Toni Morrison | #2 |
| 4 | The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy | #32 |
| 5 | Waiting for the Barbarians | J. M. Coetzee | |
| 6 | Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | #62 |
| 7 | White Teeth | Zadie Smith | #63 |
| 8 | Paradise | Abdulrazak Gurnah | |
| 9 | The Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro | #24 |
| 10 | Septology | Jon Fosse |
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