TOP 100 BOOKS OF ALL TIMES

Hey guys, Did you know that Nigeria’s Chinua Achebe’s ‘Things Fall Apart’ is among the top 100 hundred books of all time according to both Wikipedia and Guardian? Things Fall Apart is the only Nigerian book found in the list. Among the top 100 according to Wikipedia include ‘Ulysses’ by author James Joyce. Below is the full list including year, country and language.

Title	Author	Year	Country	Language
Things Fall Apart	Chinua Achebe	1958	Nigeria	English
Fairy tales	Hans Christian Andersen	1835–37	Denmark	Danish
The Divine Comedy	Dante Alighieri	1265–1321	Italy	Italian
Epic of Gilgamesh	Unknown	18th – 17th century BCE	Sumer and Akkadian Empire	Akkadian
Book of Job	Unknown	6th – 4th century BCE	Achaemenid Empire	Hebrew
One Thousand and One Nights	Unknown	700–1500	India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt	Persian
Njál's Saga	Unknown	13th century	Iceland	Old Norse
Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen	1813	United Kingdom	English
Le Père Goriot	Honoré de Balzac	1835	France	French
Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, a trilogy	Samuel Beckett	1951–53	Republic of Ireland	French, English
The Decameron	Giovanni Boccaccio	1349–53	Ravenna	Italian
Ficciones	Jorge Luis Borges	1944–86	Argentina	Spanish
Wuthering Heights	Emily Brontë	1847	United Kingdom	English
The Stranger	Albert Camus	1942	Algeria, French Empire	French
Poems	Paul Celan	1952	Romania, France	German
Journey to the End of the Night	Louis-Ferdinand Céline	1932	France	French
Don Quixote	Miguel de Cervantes	1605 (part 1), 1615 (part 2)	Spain	Spanish
The Canterbury Tales	Geoffrey Chaucer	14th century	England	English
Stories	Anton Chekhov	1886	Russia	Russian
Nostromo	Joseph Conrad	1904	United Kingdom	English
Great Expectations	Charles Dickens	1861	United Kingdom	English
Jacques the Fatalist	Denis Diderot	1796	France	French
Berlin Alexanderplatz	Alfred Döblin	1929	Germany	German
Crime and Punishment	Fyodor Dostoevsky	1866	Russia	Russian
The Idiot	Fyodor Dostoevsky	1869	Russia	Russian
The Possessed	Fyodor Dostoevsky	1872	Russia	Russian
The Brothers Karamazov	Fyodor Dostoevsky	1880	Russia	Russian
Middlemarch	George Eliot	1871	United Kingdom	English
Invisible Man	Ralph Ellison	1952	United States	English
Medea	Euripides	431 BCE	Greece	Greek
Absalom, Absalom!	William Faulkner	1936	United States	English
The Sound and the Fury	William Faulkner	1929	United States	English
Madame Bovary	Gustave Flaubert	1857	France	French
Sentimental Education	Gustave Flaubert	1869	France	French
Gypsy Ballads	Federico García Lorca	1928	Spain	Spanish
One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel García Márquez	1967	Colombia	Spanish
Love in the Time of Cholera	Gabriel García Márquez	1985	Colombia	Spanish
Faust	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	1832	Saxe-Weimar	German
Dead Souls	Nikolai Gogol	1842	Russia	Russian
The Tin Drum	Günter Grass	1959	Germany	German
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands	João Guimarães Rosa	1956	Brazil	Portuguese
Hunger	Knut Hamsun	1890	Norway	Norwegian
The Old Man and the Sea	Ernest Hemingway	1952	United States	English
Iliad	Homer	850–750 BCE	Greece	Greek
Odyssey	Homer	8th century BCE	Greece	Greek
A Doll's House	Henrik Ibsen	1879	Norway	Norwegian
Ulysses	James Joyce	1922	Irish Free State	English
Stories	Franz Kafka	1924	Austria	German
The Trial	Franz Kafka	1925	Austria	German
The Castle	Franz Kafka	1926	Austria	German
Shakuntala	Kālidāsa	1st century BCE – 4th century CE	India	Sanskrit
The Sound of the Mountain	Yasunari Kawabata	1954	Japan	Japanese
Zorba the Greek	Nikos Kazantzakis	1946	Greece	Greek
Sons and Lovers	D. H. Lawrence	1913	United Kingdom	English
Independent People	Halldór Laxness	1934–35	Iceland	Icelandic
Poems	Giacomo Leopardi	1818	Italy	Italian
The Golden Notebook	Doris Lessing	1962	United Kingdom	English
Pippi Longstocking	Astrid Lindgren	1945	Sweden	Swedish
A Madman's Diary	Lu Xun	1918	China	Chinese
Children of Gebelawi	Naguib Mahfouz	1959	Egypt	Arabic
Buddenbrooks	Thomas Mann	1901	Germany	German
The Magic Mountain	Thomas Mann	1924	Germany	German
Moby-Dick	Herman Melville	1851	United States	English
Essays	Michel de Montaigne	1595	France	French
History	Elsa Morante	1974	Italy	Italian
Beloved	Toni Morrison	1987	United States	English
The Tale of Genji	Murasaki Shikibu	11th century	Japan	Japanese
The Man Without Qualities	Robert Musil	1930–32	Austria	German
Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov	1955	Russia/United States	English
Nineteen Eighty-Four	George Orwell	1949	United Kingdom	English
Metamorphoses	Ovid	1st century CE	Roman Empire	Classical Latin
The Book of Disquiet	Fernando Pessoa	1928	Portugal	Portuguese
Tales	Edgar Allan Poe	19th century	United States	English
In Search of Lost Time	Marcel Proust	1913–27	France	French
The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel	François Rabelais	1532–34	France	French
Pedro Páramo	Juan Rulfo	1955	Mexico	Spanish
Masnavi	Rumi	1258–73	Persia, Mongol Empire	Persian
Midnight's Children	Salman Rushdie	1981	United Kingdom, India	English
Bostan	Saadi	1257	Persia, Mongol Empire	Persian
Season of Migration to the North	Tayeb Salih	1966	Sudan	Arabic
Blindness	José Saramago	1995	Portugal	Portuguese
Hamlet	William Shakespeare	1603	England	English
King Lear	William Shakespeare	1608	England	English
Othello	William Shakespeare	1609	England	English
Oedipus the King	Sophocles	430 BCE	Greece	Greek
The Red and the Black	Stendhal	1830	France	French
Tristram Shandy	Laurence Sterne	1760	England	English
Confessions of Zeno	Italo Svevo	1923	Italy	Italian
Gulliver's Travels	Jonathan Swift	1726	Ireland	English
War and Peace	Leo Tolstoy	1865–1869	Russia	Russian
Anna Karenina	Leo Tolstoy	1877	Russia	Russian
The Death of Ivan Ilyich	Leo Tolstoy	1886	Russia	Russian
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain	1884	United States	English
Ramayana	Valmiki	3rd century BCE – 3rd century CE	India	Sanskrit
Aeneid	Virgil	29–19 BCE	Roman Empire	Classical Latin
Mahabharata	Vyasa	4th century BCE – 4th century CE	India	Sanskrit
Leaves of Grass	Walt Whitman	1855	United States	English
Mrs Dalloway	Virginia Woolf	1925	United Kingdom	English
To the Lighthouse	Virginia Woolf	1927	United Kingdom	English
Memoirs of Hadrian	Marguerite Yourcenar	1951	France	French

FAIRY TALE COMEDY ‘HAPPILY EVER AFTER’ HAS BEEN PICKED UP BY DISNEY

The upcoming movie- ‘Happily Ever After’ will follow the fairytale of a prince and princess in La La land having their ‘happily ever after’ ending. The movie which has A list actress Reese Witherspoon taking up its lead role, will feature how the fairytale pair keep their relationship and life together like other normal couples in everyday life. According to Hollywood reporter, Zac Unteman with partner John Jacobs are on board to produce the film along with her pacific standard partner Bruna Papandrea.

BRITNEY SPEARS’ ‘WORK B**TCH MUSIC’ VIDEO BANNED IN THE UK.

Yeah, pop singer Britney spears’ new music video ‘work B**ch’ has been banned in the UK. The provocative music video is considered inappropriate and is not allowed to be aired on all TV channels in the country before 10pm. Artistes should please try to make their music video more family friendly even sexy gets old.   

WATCH D’BANJ’S NEW VIDEO ‘FINALLY’!

D’banj latest music video is ‘finally’ out. The video which has Wizkid’s appearance in it, is directed by Sesan and choreographed by the CEO dancers. Click here to watch video http://tooxclusive.com/2013/10/02/editedvideo-premiere-dbanj-finally/

DIARY OF THE OTHER WOMAN PT2 COMING SOONER THAN YOU THINK

The second part to the series will be coming out very soon. If you’ve not read the first part click here to keep up http://melonyzblog.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-diary-of-other-woman-exclusive-to_27.html?spref=tw

BILLBOARD’S HOTTEST 10 SONGS CURRENTLY

I’m counting down

Starting off at the tenth spot is ‘safe and sound’ by Capital Cities.

At number 9 (up one from last week) is ‘Summertime and Sadness’ by Lana Del Rey & Cedric Gervalis.

Down one from last week is ‘Applause’ by Lady Gaga at number 8.

At number 7, it is ‘Hold on, Going Home’ by Drake featuring Majid Jordan which was number nine last week.

Still holding it down at number 6 is ‘Holy Grail’ by Jay Z featuring Justin Timberlake.

With one spot down from last week, it’s Robin Thicke featuring T.I and pharrell ‘Blurred lines’ at number 5.

Avicii’s ‘Wake me up’ is this week’s number 4 previously on the fifth spot.

Still holding it down at number 3 is ‘Royals by Lorde’.

Standing strong on the second spot is the tigress herself Katy Perry with ‘Roar’.

And finally at the number one spot is Miley Cyrus with ‘Wrecking ball’.