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Tell us about your favorite book!Vicente Aleixandre
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1977
Shadow of Paradise (Sombra del paraíso)Ivo Andric
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1961
Bosnian Chronicle (Travnicka chronika)Devil's Yard (Prokleta avlija)
The Bridge on the Drina (Na Drini cuprija)
Miguel Angel Asturias
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1967
Legends of Guatemala (Leyendas de Guatemala)Men of Maize (Hombres de maíz)
Mulatta (Mulata de tal)
The Cyclone (Viento fuerte)
The President (El Seńor Presidente)
Samuel Beckett
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1969
Endgame (Fin de partie)First Love (Premier amour)
How It Is (Comment c'est)
Molloy
Stories and Texts for Nothing (Nouvelles et textes pour rien)
The Unnamable (L'innommable)
Waiting for Godot (En attendant Godot)
Saul Bellow
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1976
Henderson the Rain KingHerzog
Seize the Day
The Adventures of Augie March
The Dean's December
Henri Bergson
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1927
Laughter: an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic (Le rire)Joseph Brodsky
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1987
Collected Poems in EnglishLess Than One
On Grief and Reason
Poems
Watermark
Pearl Buck
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1938
China SkyDragon Seed
Imperial Woman
Pavilion of Women
Peony
Pivoine
The Good Earth
The Man Who Changed China: The Story of Sun Yat-sen
The Mother
Ivan Bunin
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1933
Collected StoriesLight Breathing and Other Stories
The Life of Arsenyev (Zhizn arsen'eva: u istoka dnej)
Heinrich Böll
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1972
The Clown (Ansichten eines Clowns)The Unguarded House (Haus ohne Hüter)
Albert Camus
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1957
A Happy Death (La mort heureuse)Summer (L'été)
The Fall (La chute)
The First Man (Le premier homme)
The Myth of Sisyphus (Le mythe de Sisyphe)
The Plague (La peste)
The Stranger (L'étranger)
Elias Canetti
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1981
Auto-da-Fé (Die Blendung)The Tongue Set Free: Remembrance of a European Childhood (Die gerettete Zunge: Geschichte einer Jugend)
The Torch in My Ear (Die Fackel im Ohr: Lebensgeschichte 1921-1931)
Camilo José Cela
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1989
Mazurka for Two Dead Men (Mazurca para dos muertos)The Family of Pascual Duarte (La familia de Pascual Duarte)
The Hive (La colmena)
J. M. Coetzee
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2003
Age of IronDisgrace
Elizabeth Costello
Life and Times of Michael K
Slow Man
The Lives of Animals
Waiting for the Barbarians
Youth
Grazia Deledda
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1926
Canes in the Wind (Canne al vento)T.S. Eliot
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1948
Four QuartetsMurder in the Cathedral
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Prufrock and Other Observations
The Waste Land
Odysseus Elytis
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1979
Diary of an Invisible April (Hemerologio henos atheatou apriliou)Six and One Remorses for the Sky (Exi ke mia tipsis yia ton ourano)
The Axion Esti (To axion esti)
The Monogram (To Monoghramma)
William Faulkner
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1949
Absalom, Absalom!As I Lay Dying
Go Down, Moses and Other Stories
Light in August
Sanctuary
Sartoris
The Complete Works of William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury
The Wild Palms
Dario Fo
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1997
Lu Santo Jullŕre FrancescoMistero Buffo
Anatole France
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1921
A Mummer's Tale (Histoire comique)Penguin Island (L'île des pingouins)
The Gods are Athirst (Les Dieux ont soif)
John Galsworthy
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1932
Justice : a Tragedy in Four ActsThe Forsyte Saga
Gabriel García Márquez
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1982
Big Mama's Funeral (Los funerales de la Mama Grande)Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Cronica de una muerte anunciada)
Leaf Storm and Other Stories (La hojarasca)
Love in the Time of Cholera (El amor en los tiempos de cólera)
Love, and Other Demons (Del amor y otros demonios)
Monologue of Isabel Watching It Rain in Macondo (Isabel viendo llover en Macondo)
No One Writes to the Colonel, and Other Stories (El coronel no tiene quien le escriba)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien ańos de soledad)
Strange Pilgrims (Doce cuentos peregrinos)
The Autumn of the Patriarch (El otońo del patriarca)
The General in His Labyrinth (El general en su labertino)
André Gide
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1947
Strait Is the Gate (La Porte Etroite)The Counterfeiters (Les faux monnayeurs)
The Immoralist (L'Immoraliste)
William Golding
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1983
Free FallLord of the Flies
Pincher Martin
The Inheritors
The Spire
Nadine Gordimer
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1991
July's PeopleLoot and Other Stories
Six Feet of the Country
Telling Times
The Conservationist
The Lying Days
The Pickup
Günter Grass
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1999
The Rat (Die Rättin)The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel)
Knut Hamsun
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1920
Growth of the Soil (Markens grřde)Hunger (Sult)
Pan (Pan: af Lřjtnant Thomas Glahns Papirer)
Victoria
Seamus Heaney
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1995
Field WorkNew Selected Poems, 1966-1987
Seeing Things
Ernest Hemingway
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954
A Farewell to ArmsA Moveable Feast
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Islands in the Stream
Men Without Women
The Garden of Eden
The Nick Adams Stories
The Old Man and the Sea
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
The Sun Also Rises
To Have and Have Not
Hermann Hesse
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1946
Beneath the Wheel (Unterm Rad)Demian
Gertrud and I (Gertrud)
Journey to the East
Narcissus and Goldmund (Narziss und Goldmund)
Peter Camenzind
Siddhartha
Steppenwolf (Der Steppenwolf)
The Glass Bead Game (Das Glasperlenspiel)
Elfriede Jelinek
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2004
Das WerkLust
The Piano Teacher (Die Klavierspielerin)
Women as Lovers (Die Liebhaberinnen)
Wonderful Wonderful Times (Die Ausgesperrten)
Johannes V. Jensen
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1944
The Fall of the King (Kongens fald)Juan Ramón Jiménez
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1956
Platero and I: an Andalusian Elegy (Platero y yo: elegía andaluza)Yasunari Kawabata
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1968
House of Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories (Nemureru bijo)Palm-of-the-Hand Stories (Tenohira no shosetsu)
The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories (Izu no odoriko)
The Old Capital (Koto)
The Snow Country (Yukiguni)
The Sound of the Mountain (Yama-no oto)
Thousand Cranes (Senbarazu)
Imre Kertész
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2002
Fatelessness (Sorstalanság)Kaddish for a Child Not Born (Kaddis a meg nem született gyermekért)
Rudyard Kipling
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1907
Actions and ReactionCaptains Courageous
Just So Stories
Kim
The Complete Verse
The Jungle Book
Pär Lagerkvist
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1951
BarabbasThe Dwarf (Dvärgen)
The Hangman (Bödeln)
Selma Lagerlöf
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1909
Tales of a Manor (En herrgĺrdssägen)The Holy City (Jerusalem)
The Story of Gösta Berling (Gösta Berlings saga)
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige)
Halldór Laxness
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1955
Iceland's Bell (Íslandsklukkan)Independent People (Sjálfsćtt fólk)
The Fish Can Sing (Brekkukotsannáll)
World Light (Heimsljós)
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2008
DesertOnitsha
Terra Amata (Terra amata)
The African (L'Africain)
Wandering Star (Étoile errante)
Doris Lessing
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007
Briefing for a Descent into HellMartha Quest
The Cleft
The Golden Notebook
The Good Terrorist
The Grandmothers
The Grass is Singing
This Was the Old Chief's Country
Sinclair Lewis
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930
ArrowsmithBabbitt
Elmer Gantry
Main Street
Maurice Maeterlinck
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1911
The Blue Bird (L'Oiseau bleu)The Life of the Bee (La vie des abeilles)
Naguib Mahfouz
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1988
Akhenaten. Dweller in Thruth (Al-A'ish Fi Al-Haqiqah)Arabian Nights and Days (Layali alf laylah)
Children of Gebelawi (Awlad Haretna)
Khan al-Khalili
Love in the Rain (Al-Hubb Taht Al-Matar)
Midaq Alley (Zuqaq al-Midaq)
Palace Walk (Bayn Al-Quasrayn)
Rhadopis of Nubia (Radubis)
Tales of the Black Cat: Khamarat Quet Aswad
The Beginning and the End (Bidayah Wa-Nihayah)
The Cairo Trilogy
The Harafish (Malhamat Al-Harafish)
The Journey of Ibn Fatouma (Rihlat ibn Fattumah)
The Thief and the Dogs (Al-Liss Wa-Al-Kilab)
Thebes at War (Kifah Tibah)
Thomas Mann
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1929
BuddenbrooksDeath in Venice (Der Tod in Venedig)
Doctor Faustus (Doktor Faustus)
Joseph and His Brothers (Joseph und seine Brüder)
The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg)
Roger Martin du Gard
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1937
Recollections of André Gide (Notes sur André Gide)François Mauriac
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1952
The Knot of Vipers (Le nćud de vipčres)Czeslaw Milosz
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1980
Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition (Rodzinna Europa)Second Space
The Captive Mind (Zniewolony umysl)
The Issa Valley (Dolina Issy)
Gabriela Mistral
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1945
Croquis Mexicanos (Mexican Sketches)Desolación
Magisterio y nińo
Platero and I: an Andalusian Elegy (Platero y yo: elegía andaluza)
Tala
Eugenio Montale
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1975
Cuttlefish Bones (Ossi di seppia)The Storm and Other Things (La bufera e altro)
Toni Morrison
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1993
BelovedJazz
Paradise
Playing in the Dark
Song of Solomon
Sula
Tar Baby
The Bluest Eye
Herta Müller
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2009
The King Bows and Kills (Der König verneigt sich und tötet)The Land of Green Plums (Herztier)
The Passport (Der Mensch ist ein großer Fasan auf der Welt)
V. S. Naipaul
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2001
A Bend in the RiverA House for Mr. Biswas
Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey
Half a Life
India: A Million Mutinies Now
Magic Seeds
Miguel Street
The Enigma of Arrival
The Loss of El Dorado
The Suffrage of Elvira
Pablo Neruda
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1971
AúnCanto General
I confess that I have lived (Confieso que he vivido)
One Hundred Love Sonnets (Cien sonetos del amor)
The Captain's Verses (Los versos del capitán)
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada)
Eugene O'Neill
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1936
Long Day's Journey into NightMourning Becomes Electra
The Emperor Jones, Diff'rent, The Straw
Kenzaburo Oe
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1994
A Personal Matter (Kojinteki na taiken)A Quiet Life
The Silent Cry (Man'en gannen no futoboru)
Orhan Pamuk
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2006
Istanbul: Memories and the City (İstanbul: Hatıralar Ve Şehir)My Name is Red (Benim Adim Kirmizi)
Other colors (Öteki renkler)
Snow (Kar)
The Black Book (Kara Kitap)
The Museum of Innocence (Masumiyet Müzesi)
The New Life (Yeni Hayat)
Octavio Paz
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1990
BlancoFreedom on Parole (Libertad bajo palabra)
Sor Juana or, The Traps of Faith (Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; o, Las trampas de la fe)
The Collected Poems: 1957-1987
The Labyrinth of Solitude (El laberinto de la soledad)
Harold Pinter
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2005
BetrayalDeath etc.
The Birthday Party
The Homecoming
Luigi Pirandello
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1934
Henry IV (Enrico IV)One, None, and a Hundred Thousand (Uno, nessuno e centomila)
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore)
The Late Mattia Pascal (Il fu Mattia Pascal)
The Mountain Giants (I giganti della montagna)
Romain Rolland
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1915
Jean-ChristopheThe Life of Ramakrishna (La vie de Ramakrishna)
Bertrand Russell
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1950
A History of Western PhilosophyDictionary of Mind, Matter, and Morals
Power: A New Social Analysis
Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
The Conquest of Happiness
The Principles of Mathematics
José Saramago
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1998
All the Names (Todos os nomes)Baltasar and Blimunda (Memorial do convento)
Blindness (Ensaio sobre a cegueira)
Death with Interruptions (As intermitęncias da morte)
Quasi Objects (Objecto quase)
Seeing (Ensaio sobre a Lucidez)
The Cave (A caverna)
The Duplicated Man (El hombre duplicado)
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (O evangelho segundo Jesus Cristo)
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (O ano da morte de Ricardo Reis)
Jean-Paul Sartre
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1964
Being and Nothingness (L'etre et le néant)Dirty Hands (Les mains sales)
Nausea (La nausée)
No Exit (Huis clos)
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (Saint Genet, comédien et martyr)
The Age of Reason (L'age de raison)
The Condemned of Altona (Les séquestrés d'Altona)
The Flies (Les mouches)
The Roads to Freedom (Les chemins de la liberté)
The Wall, and Other Stories (Le mur)
What is Literature? (Qu'est-ce que la littérature?)
Giorgos Seferis
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1963
Days of 1945-1951: A Poet's Journal (Meres, 1-7)Logbook III (Imerolóyion katastrómatos III)
Poems
Thrush (Kíkhli)
Jaroslav Seifert
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1984
The Early Poetry of Jaroslav SeifertGeorge Bernard Shaw
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1925
Arms and the ManCandida
Cesar and Cleopatra
Major Barbara
Pygmalion
The Apple Cart
The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with Their Prefaces
The Man of Destiny
Mikhail Sholokhov
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1965
And Quiet Flows the Don (Tikhi Don)One Man's Destiny
Frans Eemil Sillanpää
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1939
People in the Summer Night (Ihmiset suviyössä)The Maid Silja (Nuorena nukkunut)
Claude Simon
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1985
The Georgics (Les Géorgiques)The Wind (Le vent)
Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1978
Shadows on the HudsonShosha
The Cat Who Thought She Was a Dog & the Dog Who Thought He Was a Cat
The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Magician of Lublin (Der kuntsnmakher fun Lublin)
The Slave
Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1970
August 1914 (Avgust Chetyrnadtsatogo)Cancer Ward (Rakovyi Korpus)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha)
The First Circle (V kruge pervom)
The Gulag Archipelago (Arkipelag Gulag)
Wole Soyinka
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1986
A Play of GiantsAké. The Years of Childhood
Death and the King's Horseman
Idanre & Other Poems
Madmen and Specialists
Mandela's Earth and Other Poems
The Lion and the Jewel
The Man Died
The Trials of Brother Jero and The Strong Breed
You Must Set Forth at Dawn
John Steinbeck
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1962
Cannery RowCup of Gold
East of Eden
Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath
The Pearl
The Wayward Bus
The Winter of Our Discontent
Tortilla Flat
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Wislawa Szymborska
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1996
Miracle FairPoems, New and Collected
That's Why We Are Alive (Dlatego żyjemy)
The End and the Beginning (Koniec i poczatek)
View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
Rabindranath Tagore
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913
Broken Ties and Other StoriesFireflies
Galpaguccha
Gora
Kabuliwala
Sadhana, the Realisation of Life
Song Offerings (Gitanjali)
Stray Birds
The Golden Boat
The Home and the World (Ghare-Baire)
The Hungry Stones and Other Stories
Tomas Tranströmer
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2011
For the Living and the Dead (För levande och döda)The Half-Finished Heaven (Den halvfärdiga himlen)
Sigrid Undset
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1928
Gunnar's Daughter (Fortellingen om Viga-Ljot og Vigdis)Kristin Lavransdatter
Mario Vargas Llosa
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010
A Fish in the Water (El pez en el agua)Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (La tía Julia y el escribidor)
Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (Pantaleón y las visitadoras)
Conversation in the Cathedral (Conversación en la catedral)
Death in the Andes (Lituma en los Andes)
Letters to a Young Novelist (Cartas a un novelista)
The Bad Girl (Travesuras de la niña mala)
The City and the Dogs (La Ciudad y Los Perros)
The Cubs and Other Stories (Les Jefes)
The Feast of the Goat (La fiesta del chivo)
The Time of the Hero (La ciudad y los perros)
The War of the End of the World (La guerra del fin del mundo)
Derek Walcott
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1992
Collected Poems 1948-1984Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays
Ti-Jean and His Brothers
Patrick White
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1973
Riders in the ChariotThe Aunt's Story
The Twyborn Affair
Voss
Gao Xingjian
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2000
One Man’s Bible (Yige ren de sheng jing)Soul Mountain (Lingshan)
The Other Shore (Bi'an)
William Butler Yeats
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1923
Selected PoemsThe Second Coming (poem)
The Wanderings of Oisin
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