Top 40 Most Important Works in the World

Nada como una lista de los 40 mejores libros de los 20's a ahora para aumentar la lista de libros por leer:


(1927) ......To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf, England
(1928) ......The Gypsy Ballads (Romancero gitano) – Federico García Lorca, Spain
(1928) ......The Tower – William Butler Yeats, Ireland
(1929) ......The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner, United States
(1931) ......The Turning Point (I strofí) – Giorgios Seferiades, Greece
(1933-47)...Residence on Earth (Residencia en la tierra) – Pablo Neruda, Chile
(1934-35)...Independent People (Sjálfstætt fólk) – Halldór Laxness, Iceland
(1935-40)...Requiem (Rekviem) – Anna Akhmatova, Russia
(1941)...... Mother Courage and Her Children (Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder) – Bertolt Brecht, Germany
(1942) ......The Stranger (L’étranger) – Albert Camus, France
(1943) ......The Four Quartets – T. S. Eliot, England/United States
(1944) ......Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina
(1945) ......“The Day Before Yesterday” (‘Tmol shilshom) – S. Y. Agnon (Spain/Israel)
(1948) ......Snow Country (Yukiguni) – Yasunari Kawabata, Japan
(1950) ......The Labyrinth of Solitude (El laberinto de la soledad) – Octavio Paz, Mexico
(1952) ......Waiting for Godot (En attendant Godot) – Samuel Beckett, Ireland
(1952) ......Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison, United States
(1952) ......The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway, United States
(1952) ......In Country Sleep – Dylan Thomas, Wales
(1953) ......The Lost Steps (Los pasos perdidos) – Alejo Carpentier, Cuba
(1956) ......The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (Grande sertão: veredas)– João Guimarães Rosa, Brazil
(1956-57)...“The Cairo Trilogy” (Al-Thulathiyya) – Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt
(1957) ......Voss – Patrick White, England/Australia
(1958) ......Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe, Nigeria
(1958) ......The Guide – R. K. Narayan, India
(1959) ......The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) – Günter Grass, Germany
(1961) ......A House for Mr. Biswas – V. S. Naipaul, Trinidad
(1961)......The Book of Disquiet (Livro do desassossego) – Fernando Pessoa, Portugal
(1962)...... The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing, Zimbabwe/England
(1962)...... Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov, Russia/United States
(1962) ......The Time of the Doves (La Plaça del Diamant) – Mercé Rodoreda, Spain
(1962) ......One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Odin den’ Ivana Denisovicha) – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russia
(1964) ......A Personal Matter (Kojinteki-na taiken) – Kenzaburo Oe, Japan
(1966) ......Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957 – W. H. Auden, England
(1967) ......One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien años de soledad) – Gabriel García Márquez, Colombia
(1968) ......House Made of Dawn – N. Scott Momaday, United States
(1972) ......Invisible Cities (Le città invisibili) – Italo Calvino, Italy
(1974) ......The Conservationist – Nadine Gordimer, South Africa
(1978) ......Bells in Winter – Czeslaw Milosz, Poland
(1987) ......Red Sorghum (Hung kao liang) – Mo Yan, China


lista subjetiva, pero de gran calidad.


Top 40 Most Important Works in the World

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