If you’ve read my previous post, The Music of Strangers, then you will understand why I’ve added this post. If you didn’t, then I’ve come to the realisation that my knowledge of world literature is quite lacking.

A quick Google search brought up BookRiot.com’s Around the World in 80 Books.

The majority of these books are modern novels but here is a list of a 100 world novels spanning the 19th and 20th Century.

Let me know if you have any suggestions of where to start?

I’m thinking of beginning with the Lebanon, because I watched a cookery programme by Nigel Slater on the country, and the food and people seemed nice.