100 best books of all time according to The Guardian

The page presents The Guardian’s list of the 100 best books of all time. It says the selection was prepared by Norwegian book clubs through nominations from 100 authors in 54 countries, and that Don Quixote was named the best history book, without any other ranking.

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• The Guardian is described as a British newspaper founded in 1821 and formerly known as The Manchester Guardian until 1959.
• Its online version is presented as the second most read English-language newspaper in the world, behind only the New York Times.
• The list of the 100 best books was prepared by Norwegian book clubs.
• The clubs asked 100 authors from 54 countries to name the ten books that had the most decisive impact on world cultural history and on the authors’ own thinking.
• The text says Don Quixote was named the best history book, but gives no other ranking.
• The page gathers titles from many countries and includes novels, poems, plays, short stories, epics, and collections.
• Among the listed works are 1984, The Aeneid, Anna Karenina, The Divine Comedy, Hamlet, Moby-Dick, Ulysses, and War and Peace.
• The list includes authors such as George Orwell, Leo Tolstoy, William Shakespeare, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Virginia Woolf, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and James Joyce.