The Guardian has published a list of the 100 best books ever published in English

The list includes 75 books originally written in English and 25 in translation.

There are 5 Russian authors on the list: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Grossman and Nabokov, with 8 books between them:

6. "Anna Karenina"
7. "War and Peace"
25. "Lolita"
28. "The Brothers Karamazov"
29. "Pale Fire"
66. "The Master and Margarita"
69. "Crime and Punishment"
91. "Life and Fate"

The literatures of Italy, Austria and France are given 3 books each, Germany 4. Ireland, Nigeria and, unexpectedly, Canada get 2 books apiece. One each for India, Colombia, Spain, Mexico, South Africa, Australia, Zimbabwe and South Korea. 26 of the authors are from the USA and 36 from Britain.

The earliest is from the 17th century: "Don Quixote", naturally. The 18th century is marked by Laurence Sterne. 26 books come from the 19th century, 62 from the 20th, and 10 from the 21st:

63. "White Teeth" by Zadie Smith, 2000
73. "Austerlitz" by Sebald, 2001
94. "The Known World" by Edward P. Jones, 2003
87. "The Line of Beauty" by Alan Hollinghurst, 2004
59. "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro, 2005
98. "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy, 2006
62. "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2006
85. "The Vegetarian" by Han Kang, 2007
34. "Wolf Hall" by Hilary Mantel, 2009
51. "My Brilliant Friend" by Elena Ferrante, 2011.

Ah yes, women are represented on the list by 26 writers with 39 books. The most popular, as is traditional, are Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, Toni Morrison and the Brontë sisters.