The Guardian's 2002 "top 100 books of all time" on PG/DP

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• Available at Project Gutenberg
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• Not in Project Gutenberg or Distributed Proofreaders
• Not in Project Gutenberg or Distributed Proofreaders, and online scans available
• Unknown status — might be in an existing anthology
• Published in 1923 or later, so probably not eligible

The Guardian's top 100

• Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, (b. 1930), Things Fall Apart (published in 1958)
• Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, (1805-1875), Fairy Tales and Stories PG 1597
• Jane Austen, England, (1775-1817), Pride and Prejudice PG 1342
• Honore de Balzac, France, (1799-1850), Old Goriot PG 1237
• Samuel Beckett, Ireland, (1906-1989), Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (published in 1951-1953)
• Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy, (1313-1375), Decameron PG 3726 PG 13102 PG 23700
• Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina, (1899-1986), Collected Fictions (practically everything is post-1923)
• Emily Bronte, England, (1818-1848), Wuthering Heights PG 768
• Albert Camus, France, (1913-1960), The Stranger (published in 1942)
• Paul Celan, Romania/France, (1920-1970), Poems. (first publication in 1948)
• Louis-Ferdinand Celine, France, (1894-1961), Journey to the End of the Night (published in 1934)
• Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain, (1547-1616), Don QuixotePG 996
• Geoffrey Chaucer, England, (1340-1400), Canterbury Tales PG 2383 PG 22120
• Anton P Chekhov, Russia, (1860-1904), Selected Stories PG
• Joseph Conrad, England,(1857-1924), Nostromo PG 2021
• Dante Alighieri, Italy, (1265-1321), The Divine Comedy PG 8800
• Charles Dickens, England, (1812-1870), Great ExpectationsPG 1400
• Denis Diderot, France, (1713-1784), Jacques the Fatalist and His Master Google Books (French edition)
• Alfred Doblin, Germany, (1878-1957), Berlin Alexanderplatz (published in 1929)
• Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881)
  • Crime and Punishment PG 2554
  • The Idiot PG 2638
  • The PossessedPG 8117 PG 16824
  • The Brothers KaramazovPG 28054
• George Eliot, England, (1819-1880), Middlemarch PG 145
• Ralph Ellison, United States, (1914-1994), Invisible Man (published in 1952)
• Euripides, Greece, (c 480-406 BC), Medea PG 15081
• William Faulkner, United States, (1897-1962)
  • Absalom, Absalom (published in 1936)
  • The Sound and the Fury (published in 1929)
• Gustave Flaubert, France, (1821-1880)
  • Madame Bovary PG 2413
  • A Sentimental Education PG 34828 PG 27537
• Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain, (1898-1936), Gypsy Ballads (published in 1928)
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Colombia, (b. 1928), One Hundred Years of Solitude; Love in the Time of Cholera
• Gilgamesh, Mesopotamia (c 1800 BC). PG 11000
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany, (1749-1832), Faust PG 14591 PG 18348
• Nikolai Gogol, Russia, (1809-1852), Dead Souls PG 1081
• Gunter Grass, Germany, (b.1927), The Tin Drum
• Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Brazil, (1880-1967), The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (published 1956)
• Knut Hamsun, Norway, (1859-1952), Hunger. PG 8387 PG 18291
• Ernest Hemingway, United States, (1899-1961), The Old Man and the Sea (published in 1952)
• Homer, Greece, (c 700 BC), The Iliad and The Odyssey PG: 16452 PG: 22382 PG 1727 PG 1728 PG 3160 PG 24269
• Henrik Ibsen, Norway (1828-1906), A Doll's House PG 15492
• The Book of Job, Israel. (600-400 BC). PG 8018
• James Joyce, Ireland, (1882-1941), Ulysses PG 4300
• Franz Kafka, Bohemia, (1883-1924)
  • The Complete Stories (collection published in 1971, but numerous stories are pre-1923)
  • The Trial PG 7849
  • The Castle Bohemia (published in 1926)
• Kalidasa, India, (c. 400), The Recognition of Sakuntala PG 16659
• Yasunari Kawabata, Japan, (1899-1972), The Sound of the Mountain (published in 1949)
• Nikos Kazantzakis, Greece, (1883-1957), Zorba the Greek (published in 1946)
• DH Lawrence, England, (1885-1930), Sons and Lovers PG 217
• Halldor K Laxness, Iceland, (1902-1998), Independent People (published 1934)
• Giacomo Leopardi, Italy, (1798-1837), Complete Poems PG 19315
• Doris Lessing, England, (b.1919), The Golden Notebook (published in 1962)
• Astrid Lindgren, Sweden, (1907-2002), Pippi Longstocking (published in 1945)
• Lu Xun, China, (1881-1936), Diary of a Madman and Other Stories PG 24042 — Chinese only
• Mahabharata, India, (c 500 BC). PG 7864 PG 7965 PG 11894 PG 12058 PG 12333 PG 15474 PG 15475 PG 15476 PG 15477
• Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt, (b. 1911), Children of Gebelawi (published 1959)
• Thomas Mann, Germany, (1875-1955), Buddenbrook; The Magic Mountain (published 1924)
• Herman Melville, United States, (1819-1891), Moby Dick PG 15 PG 2489 PG 2701
• Michel de Montaigne, France, (1533-1592), Essays. PG 3600 PG 7551
• Elsa Morante, Italy, (1918-1985), History (published in 1974)
• Toni Morrison, United States, (b. 1931), Beloved (published 1987)
• Shikibu Murasaki, Japan, (N/A), The Tale of Genji Genji PG 19264
• Robert Musil, Austria, (1880-1942), The Man Without Qualities (published 1930-1943)
• Vladimir Nabokov, Russia/United States, (1899-1977), Lolita (published in 1955)
• Njaals Saga, Iceland, (c 1300). Google Books
• George Orwell, England, (1903-1950), 1984 (published 1949)
• Ovid, Italy, (c 43 BC), Metamorphoses PG 21765
• Fernando Pessoa, Portugal, (1888-1935), The Book of Disquiet (published 1985)
• Edgar Allan Poe, United States, (1809-1849), The Complete Tales PG 2147 PG 2148 PG 2149 PG 2150 PG 2151
• Marcel Proust, France, (1871-1922), Remembrance of Things Past (first 4 vols on PG, last 3 are post-1923)
• Francois Rabelais, France, (1495-1553), Gargantua and Pantagruel PG 1200 PG 8166 PG 8167 PG 8168 PG 8169 PG 8170
• Juan Rulfo, Mexico, (1918-1986), Pedro Paramo (published 1955)
• Jalal ad-din Rumi, Afghanistan, (1207-1273), Mathnawi
• Salman Rushdie, India/Britain, (b. 1947), Midnight's Children (published in 1981)
• Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi, Iran, (c 1200-1292), Bustan (The Orchard) TIA (partial) Google Books
• Tayeb Salih, Sudan, (b. 1929), Season of Migration to the North (published in 1966)
• Jose Saramago, Portugal, (b. 1922), Blindness (published in 1995)
• William Shakespeare, England, (1564-1616), Hamlet PG 1787; King Lear PG 1532; Othello PG 1531
• Sophocles, Greece, (496-406 BC), Oedipus the King PG 23
• Stendhal, France, (1783-1842), The Red and the Black PG 798—French only TIA TIA
• Laurence Sterne, Ireland, (1713-1768), The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy PG 1079
• Italo Svevo, Italy, (1861-1928), Confessions of Zeno (published 1923)
• Jonathan Swift, Ireland, (1667-1745), Gulliver's Travels PG 17157
• Leo Tolstoy, Russia, (1828-1910)
  • War and Peace PG 2600
  • Anna Karenina PG 1399
  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories TIA
• Thousand and One Nights, India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt, (700-1500). PG 8655 PG 8656 PG 8657 PG 8658
• Mark Twain, United States, (1835-1910), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn PG 76
• Valmiki, India, (c 300 BC), Ramayana PG 13268
• Virgil, Italy, (70-19 BC), The Aeneid PG 228 PG 18466
• Walt Whitman, United States, (1819-1892), Leaves of Grass PG 1322
• Virginia Woolf, England, (1882-1941), Mrs. Dalloway (published in 1925); To the Lighthouse (published in 1927)
• Marguerite Yourcenar, France, (1903-1987), Memoirs of Hadrian (published in 1951)