- Absalom, Absalom - William Faulkner
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
- The Aeneid - Virgil
- Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
- Beloved - Toni Morrison
- Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Doblin
- Blindness - Jose Saramago
- The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa
- The Book of Job - Anon
- The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor M Dostoyevsky
- Buddenbrook - Thomas Mann
- Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Castle - Franz Kafka
- Children of Gebelawi - Naguib Mahfouz
- Collected Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges
- Complete Poems - Giacomo Leopardi
- The Complete Stories - Franz Kafka
- The Complete Tales - Edgar Allan Poe
- Confessions of Zeno - Italo Svevo
- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor M Dostoyevsky
- Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories - Leo Tolstoy
- Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio
- The Devil to Pay in the Backlands - Joao Guimaraes Rosa
- Diary of a Madman and Other Stories - Lu Xun
- The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
- A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
- Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Essays - Michel de Montaigne
- Fairy Tales and Stories - Hans Christian Andersen
- Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (I DID read the Marlow play Dr. Faustus.)
- Gargantua and Pantagruel - Francois Rabelais
- Gilgamesh - Anon
- The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
- Gypsy Ballads - Federico Garcia Lorca
- Hamlet - William Shakespeare
- History - Elsa Morante
- Hunger - Knut Hamsun
- The Idiot - Fyodor M Dostoyevsky
- The Iliad - Homer
- Independent People - Halldor K Laxness
- Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
- Jacques the Fatalist and His Master - Denis Diderot
- Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine
- King Lear - William Shakespeare
- Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne
- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
- Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
- The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
- Mahabharata - Anon
- The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
- Mathnawi - Jalal ad-din Rumi
- Medea - Euripides (But I did read and love The Bacchae.)
- Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
- Metamorphoses - Ovid
- Middlemarch - George Eliot
- Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
- Moby Dick - Herman Melville
- Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf (Loved The Waves!)
- 1984 - George Orwell
- Njaals Saga - Anon
- Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
- The Odyssey - Homer
- Oedipus the King - Sophocles
- Old Goriot - Honore de Balzac
- The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Orchard - Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi
- Othello - William Shakespeare
- Pedro Paramo - Juan Rulfo
- Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren
- Poems - Paul Celan
- The Possessed - Fyodor M Dostoyevsky
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- Ramayana - Valmiki
- The Recognition of Sakuntala - Kalidasa
- The Red and the Black - Stendhal
- Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust
- Season of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih
- Selected Stories - Anton P Chekhov
- Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
- Sons and Lovers - DH Lawrence (Read and loved Women in Love!)
- The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
- The Sound of the Mountain - Yasunari Kawabata
- The Stranger - Albert Camus
- The Tale of Genji - Shikibu Murasaki (Some of it!)
- Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
- Thousand and One Nights - Anon (Some of it!)
- The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
- To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
- The Trial - Franz Kafka
- Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable - Samuel Beckett
- Ulysses - James Joyce
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
- Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
MUCH Better!
Now THIS is more like it! A list, gathered by the Norwegian Book Clubs, of the top 100 books nominated by 100 writers from 54 countries. This time, I'll just bold the one's I've read.
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I love that Pippi is on this list!
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