Of course, many texts have influenced the literary adventure of human beings. The BBC aimed to highlight these texts by conducting a survey with writers, translators and academics from 35 countries. You’re welcome.
They are the books that change the reader, society and the world. According to the survey conducted by bbc in May 2018 (108 writers, academics, translators and journalists from 35 countries), the list of “books that change the world” is as follows.
1. Odysseia (Homer, 8th century BC)
2. Uncle Tom’s Shack (Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852)
3. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley, 1818)
4. 1984 (George Orwell, 1949)
5. Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe, 1958)
6. Thousand and One Nights Tales (Various Writers, 8 – 18th century)
7. Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes, 1605-1615)
8. Hamlet (William Shakespeare, 1603)
9. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez, 1967)
10. Ilyada (Homer, 8th century BC)
11. Lover (Toni Morrison, 1987)
12. The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri, 1308-1320)
13. Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare, 1597)
14. Gilgamesh epic (author unknown, 22nd-10th centuries BC)
15. Harry Potter Series (JK Rowling, 1997 – 2007)
16. The Tale of the Ambassador (Margaret Atwood, 1985)
17. Ulysses (James Joyce, 1922)
18. Animal Farm (George Orwell, 1945)
19. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë, 1847)
20. Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert, 1856)
21. The Story of the Three Kingdoms (Luo Guanzhong, 1321 – 1323)
22. Journey to the West (Wu Cheng’en, 1592)
23. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevksy, 1866)
24. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen, 1813)
25. The Water’s Edge (Shi Nai’an, 1589)
26. War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy, 1865 – 1867)
27. Kill the Mockingbird (Harper Lee, 1960)
28. A Wide, Wide sea (Jean Rhys, 1966)
29. Aesop’s Tales (Aesop, MS 620-560)
30. Candide (voltaire, 1759)
31. Medea (Euripides, 431 BC)
32. Mahabharata (vyasa, 4th Century BC)
33. King Lear (William Shakespeare, 1608)
34. The Story of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu, before 1021)
35. The Sorrows of Young Walther (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774)
36. Case (Franz Kafka, 1925)
37. On the Trail of Lost Time (Marcel Proust, 1913 – 1927)
38. The HowlingHills (Emily Brontë, 1847)
39. The Unseen Man (Ralph Ellisison, 1952)
40. Moby-Dick (Herman Melville, 1851)
41. Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston, 1937)
42. Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf, 1927)
43. The True Story of Ah Q (Lu Xun, 1921-1922)
44. Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll, 1865)
45. Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy, 1873 – 1877)
46. The Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad, 1899)
47. Monkey Influenza (Helen Garner, 1977)
48. Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf, 1925)
49. King Oedipus (Sophocles, 429 BC)
50. Transformation (franz Kafka, 1915)
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