Book Report: about

The Norwegian Book Clubs Association asked one hundred writers to choose the ten most important titles among the literary works of all times and places. About 100 authors of 54 different nationalities have proposed these works; among them were John le Carre, Salman Rushdie, Norman Mailer, Alain Robe-Grillet, Carlos Fuentes, V.S. Naipaul, John Irving, Milan Kundera, etc ... Thirteen of these authors are Nobel literature laureates.

International writers
Note: The authors' names and their works are listed alphabetically.
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dot Achebe, ChinuaThings Fall Apart, Nigeria.

dot Andersen, Hans Christian. Fairy Tales and Stories, Danemark.

dot Austen, JanePride and Prejudice, England.

dot Balzac, HonoréOld Goriot, France.

dot Beckett, SamuelMolloy, Ireland. Nobel Prize in 1969

dot Beckett, SamuelMalone Dies, Ireland.

dot Beckett, SamuelThe Unnamable, Ireland

dot Boccaccio, GiovanniDecameron, Italy.

dot Borges, Jorge Luis Collected Fictions, Argentina.

dot Brontë, EmilyWuthering Heights, England.

dot Camus, AlbertThe Stranger, France. Nobel Prize in 1957.

dot Celan, PaulPoems, Romania.

dot Céline, Louis-FerdinandJourney to the End of Night, France.

dot Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel deDon Quixote, Spain.

dot Chaucer, GeoffreyThe Canterbury Tales, England.

dot Chekhov, AntonSelected Stories, Russia

dot Conrad, JosephNostromo, England.

dot Dante, AlighieriThe Divine Comedy, Italy.

dot Dickens, CharlesGreat Expectations, England.

dot Diderot, DenisJacques the Fatalist and His Master, France.

dot Döblin, AlfredBerlin Alexanderplatz, Germany.

dot Dostoyevsky, Fiodor MikhailovitchThe Brothers Karamazov, Russia.

dot Dostoyevsky, Fiodor MikhailovitchCrime and Punishment, Russia.

dot Dostoyevsky, Fiodor MikhailovitchThe Idiot - The Possessed, Russia.

dot Eliot, GeorgeMiddlemarch, England.

dot Ellison, RalphInvisible Man, The United States

dot EuripidesMedea, Greece.

dot Faulkner, WilliamAbsalom! Absalom!>, The United States

dot Faulkner, WilliamThe Sound and the Fury, The United States

dot Flaubert, GustaveMadame Bovary, France.

dot Flaubert, GustaveSentimental Education, France.

dot Garcia Lorca, FedericoGypsy Ballads, Spain.

dot Garcia Márques, GabrielLove at the Time of Cholera, Colombia.

dot Garcia Márques, GabrielOne Hundred Years of Solitude, Colombia. Nobel prize in 1982.

dot Gilgamesh. Epic of Gilgamesh, Mesopotamia

dot Goethe, Johann Wolfgang vonFaust, Germany.

dot Gogol, Nikolai Vasilyevich. Dead Souls, Russia.

dot Grass, GünterThe Tin Drum, Germany. Nobel prize in 1999.

dot Hamsun, Knut PedersenHunger, Norway.

dot Hemingway, ErnestThe Old Man and the Sea, The United States of America

dot Homer. The Iliad and the Odyssey, Greece.

dot Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll's House, Norway.

dot JobThe Book of Job in The Bible, Israël.

dot Joyce, James. Ulysses, Ireland.

dot Kafka, Franz. The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka, Bohemia.

dot Kafka, Franz. The Trial and The Castle, Bohemia.

dot Kalidasa. The Recognition of Sakuntala, India.

dot Kawabata, Yasunari. The Sound of the Mountain, Japan. Nobel prize in 1968.

dot Kazantzakis, Nikos. Zorba the Greek, Greece.

dot Lawrence, David Herbert. Sons and Lovers, England.

dot Laxness, Halldór Kiljan. Independent People, Iceland. Nobel prize in 1955.

dot Leopardi, Giacomo. Complete Poems, Italy.

dot Lessing, Doris. The Golden Notebook, England.

dot Lindgren, Astrid. Pipi Longstocking, Sweeden.

dot Mahfouz, Naguib. Children of Gebalaawi, Egypt. Nobel prize in 1988.

dot Mahabharata. The Mahābhārata (An ancient religious epic), India.

dot Mann, Thomas. Buddenbrooks, Germany. Nobel prize in 1929.

dot Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain, Germany.

dot Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick, or The Whale, The United States

dot Montaigne, Michel Eyquem, seigneur de . Essays, France.

dot Morante, Elsa. History or «La Storia», Italy.

dot Morrison, Toni. Beloved, The United States. Nobel prize in 1993

dot Murasaki, Shikibu. The Tale of Genji, Japan.

dot Musil, Robert. The Man Without Qualities, Germany.

dot Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita, Russia & The United States.

dot Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984). England.

dot Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso). Metamorphoses, Italy.

dot Pessoa, Fernando. Book of Disquiet, Portugal.

dot Poe, Edgar Allen. Long Tales (Short Stories), The United States

dot Proust, Marcel. In Search of Lost Time (Remembrance of Things Past), France.

dot Rabelais, François. Gargantua and Pantagruel, France.

dot Ramayana, Valmiki (An ancient epic), India.

dot Rosa, João GuimarãesThe Devil to Pay in the Backlands, Bresil.

dot Rulfo, Juan. Pedro Páramo, Mexico.

dot Rumi, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad. The Masnavi or Masnavi-I Ma'navi, Iran.

dot Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children, India / Britain.

dot Saadi, Muslih-ud-Din Mushrif-ibn-Abdullah. Bostan (The Orchard), Iran.

dot Salih, Tayeb. Season of Migration to the North, Sudan.

dot Saga (in Old Norse literature), Njal's Saga, Iceland.

dot Saramago, José. Blindness, Portugal.

dot Shakespeare, William. Hamlet, England.

dot Shakespeare, William. King Lear, England.

dot Shakespeare, William. Othello, England.

dot Sophocles. Oedipus the King, Greece.

dot Stendhal. The Red and the Black, France.

dot Sterne, Laurence. The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Ireland.

dot Svevo, Italo. The Confessions of Zeno, Italy.

dot Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels, Ireland.

dot One Thousand and One Nights. Persia or one of the Arabic-speaking countries.

dot Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina, Russia.

dot Tolstoy, Leo. The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories, Russia.

dot Tolstoy, Leo, Leo. War and Peace, Russia.

dot Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The United States

dot Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), Aeneid, Italy.

dot Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass, The United States

dot Woolf, Virginia (Stephen). Mrs Dalloway, England.

dot Woolf, Virginia (Stephen). To the Lighthouse, England

dot Xun, Lu. A Madman's Diary, China.

dot Xun, Lu. Old Tales Retold ("Gu Shi Xin Bian"), China.

dot Yourcenar, Marguerite. Memoirs of Hadrian, France.1


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dot The 100 greatest novels of all time: The list The Guardian, Observer Review, United Kingdom.

CK

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1 The Sunday Herald, Books, May 12, 2002. p. C6.

    
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