Die ZEIT-Bibliothek der 100 Bücher war eine pädagogisch ambitionierte Artikelserie der Feuilleton-Redaktion der Wochenzeitung Die Zeit. Begonnen 1978, wurde in den folgenden zwei Jahren Woche für Woche eine Rezension zu einem Werk der Weltliteratur veröffentlicht.
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
- The Odyssey by Homer
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- The Bible by Christian Church
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Candide by Voltaire
- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
- One Thousand and One Nights by India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt
- The Aeneid by Virgil
- The Red and the Black by Stendhal
- Confessions by Augustine
- Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
- Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
- Essays by Michel de Montaigne
- The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
- Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
- The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
- Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Anderson
- Light in August by William Faulkner
- Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
- Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
- Household Tales by Brothers Grimm
- Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
- The Castle by Franz Kafka
- Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
- Pensées by Blaise Pascal
- The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Hunger by Knut Hamsun
- The Adventures of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
- The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hašek
- Apology by Plato
- Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
- Germinal by Émile Zola
- The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- I'm Not Stiller by Max Frisch
- Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac
- Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
- The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil
- Tristan by Gottfried von Strassburg
- Tristes Tropiques by Claude Levi-Strauss
- Utopia by Thomas More
- Words by Jean Paul Sartre
- Anniversaries by Uwe Johnson
- Daphnis and Chloe by Longus
- Either Or by Soren Kierkegaard
- Germany, a Winter Tale by Heinrich Heine
- History of My Life by Giacomo Casanova
- Jacques the Fatalist and His Master by Denis Diderot
- Journals: 1889-1913 by André Gide
- Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett
- Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
- Parzival by Wolfram Eschenbach
- Stories by Heinrich von Kleist
- The Nibelungenlied by Anonymous
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Abu Telfan, Return from the Mountains of the Moon by Wilhelm Karl Raabe
- Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts by Joseph von Eichendorff
- Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Germania by Cornelius Tacitus
- Green Henry by Gottfried Keller
- Human, All Too Human by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Hyperion by Friedrich Holderlin
- Lenz by Georg Buchner
- My Life by Leon Trotsky
- Parerga and Paralipomena by Arthur Schopenhauer
- Querelle by Jean Genet
- Schatzkästlein des Rheinischen Hausfreundes by Johann Peter Hebel
- Siebenkäs by Jean Paul
- Simplicius Simplicissimus by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
- Stories from the Lord Keuner by Dieter Wöhrle
- Stories of Adalbert Stifter by Adalbert Stifter
- Sudelbücher by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
- The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx
- The Collected Stories of Heinrich Boll by Heinrich Boll
- The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr by E.T.A. Hoffmann
- The Loyal Subject by Heinrich Mann
- The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers
- The Son of a Servant by August Strindberg
- The Stechlin by Theodor Fontane
- Track by Ernst Bloch
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