UNESCO Collection of Representative Works

UNESCO Collection of Representative Works names 770 books; ReadingRate holds 51 of them, listed here. The most approachable of them is Memed, My Hawk by Yasar Kemal (difficulty 25/100, about 5.4 hours); the hardest is Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin (78/100).

• A Dark Night's Passing by Naoya Shiga (1937) — difficulty 63/100, about 14 hours
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1929) — difficulty 49/100, about 6 hours
• And Then by Natsume Sōseki (1909) — difficulty 43/100, about 4.8 hours
• Botchan by Natsume Sōseki (1906) — difficulty 30/100, about 2.1 hours
• Diary of a Mad Old Man by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1962) — difficulty 64/100, about 4.1 hours
• Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1320) — difficulty 67/100, about 11 hours
• Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin (1791) — difficulty 78/100, about 97 hours
• El Filibusterismo by José Rizal (1891) — difficulty 59/100, about 8.9 hours
• Gita Govinda by Jayadeva (1200) — difficulty 64/100, about 1.1 hours
• Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore (1910) — difficulty 53/100, about 1 hours
• Gora by Rabindranath Tagore (1910) — difficulty 61/100, about 12 hours
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1601) — difficulty 67/100, about 3.1 hours
• I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki (1905) — difficulty 77/100, about 25 hours
• Iceland's Bell by Halldór Laxness (1943) — difficulty 57/100, about 11 hours
• King Lear by William Shakespeare (1606) — difficulty 73/100, about 12 hours
• Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki (1914) — difficulty 41/100, about 4.5 hours
• Kusamakura by Natsume Sōseki (1906) — difficulty 62/100, about 3.4 hours
• Le Cid by Pierre Corneille (1637) — difficulty 47/100, about 1.2 hours
• Light and Darkness by Natsume Sōseki (1916) — difficulty 51/100, about 11 hours
• Masnavi by Rumi (1273) — difficulty 64/100, about 7.9 hours
• Mastro-don Gesualdo by Giovanni Verga (1889) — difficulty 70/100, about 12 hours
• Memed, My Hawk by Yasar Kemal (1955) — difficulty 25/100, about 5.4 hours
• Men of Maize by Miguel Ángel Asturias (1949) — difficulty 65/100, about 10 hours
• My Voice Because of You by Pedro Salinas (1933) — difficulty 63/100, about 42 min
• Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal (1887) — difficulty 60/100, about 13 hours
• Panchatantra by Vishnu Sharma (300) — difficulty 61/100, about 7.5 hours
• Pensées by Blaise Pascal (1670) — difficulty 49/100, about 6.3 hours
• Quincas Borba by Machado de Assis (1891) — difficulty 69/100, about 9.3 hours
• Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong (1522) — difficulty 52/100, about 41 hours
• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (1597) — difficulty 47/100, about 1.7 hours
• Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam (1120) — difficulty 48/100, about 46 min
• Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima (1969) — difficulty 70/100, about 14 hours
• Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling (1766) — difficulty 63/100, about 22 hours
• The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas (1957) — difficulty 56/100, about 4.4 hours
• The Broken Commandment by Shimazaki Tōson (1906) — difficulty 57/100, about 6.4 hours
• The Doll by Bolesław Prus (1890) — difficulty 67/100, about 29 hours
• The Gate by Natsume Sōseki (1910) — difficulty 43/100, about 4.1 hours
• The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas (1963) — difficulty 55/100, about 2.9 hours
• The Lusiads by Luis de Camoes (1572) — difficulty 56/100, about 5 hours
• The Maias by José Maria de Eça de Queirós (1888) — difficulty 65/100, about 23 hours
• The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1948) — difficulty 52/100, about 14 hours
• The Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldun (1377) — difficulty 46/100, about 13 hours
• The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon (1002) — difficulty 65/100, about 12 hours
• The Plague by Albert Camus (1947) — difficulty 53/100, about 6.7 hours
• The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata (1949) — difficulty 60/100, about 5.4 hours
• The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima (1954) — difficulty 35/100, about 2.6 hours
• The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu (1010) — difficulty 63/100, about 8.6 hours
• The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima (1956) — difficulty 67/100, about 9.6 hours
• The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe (1962) — difficulty 62/100, about 5.1 hours
• Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata (1949) — difficulty 59/100, about 2.2 hours
• World Light by Halldór Laxness (1937) — difficulty 71/100, about 25 hours

Questions

How many books are on UNESCO Collection of Representative Works?

770. ReadingRate holds 51 of them, each with how hard it is to read and how long it takes.

Which book on UNESCO Collection of Representative Works is the easiest to read?

Memed, My Hawk by Yasar Kemal, difficulty 25/100, about 5.4 hours. The hardest is Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin, at 78/100.

How long would it take to read every book on UNESCO Collection of Representative Works?

About 563 hours for the 51 books ReadingRate measures, at 250 words a minute adjusted for each book's difficulty: 282 days at two hours a day.

Other lists: Penguin Classics Collection, Penguin Modern Classics, NYRB Classics, Everyman's Library, Library of America, Biblioteca Ayacucho, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Heinemann African Writers Series, Oxford World's Classics. All lists.