Favorite Novels x 4!

[Liam]

This thread is dedicated to Mr. T and to his love of "lists,"

Rules are simple, FOUR lists numbering 25 titles each (so, 100 in total).

One list per each of the four categories:

1. British Novels (25 titles)
2. American Novels (25 titles)
3. Anglophone Novels (25 titles)
4. World (i.e. foreign) Novels in translation (25 titles)

*The lists can overlap, though I wouldn't encourage this simply for the sake of including MORE titles for us to consider.

**These lists should focus on favorites, not titles you objectively think/consider to be the best, so don't be afraid to include a silly personal favorite or to exclude an established classic if you happen personally not to like it.

 

[marcus]

4. World (i.e. foreign) Novels in translation (25 titles)

The Magic Mountain (Mann)
The Man Without Qualities (Musil)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez)
The Trial (Kafka)
Ficciones (Borges)
The Book of Disquiet (Pessoa)
Street of Crocodiles (Schulz)
Pedro Páramo (Rulfo)
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (Rosa)
Hopscotch (Cortázar)
Snow Country (Kawabata)
Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky)
Swann's Way (Proust)
The Lost Steps (Carpentier)
The Silent Cry (Ōe)
The Home and the World (Tagore)
A Grain of Wheat (Ngũgĩ)
Mulata (Asturias)
On Heroes and Tombs (Sabato)
Dead Souls (Gogol)
Season of Migration to the North (Salih)
Hunger (Hamsun)
The Passion According to G.H. (Lispector)
Children of Gebelawi (Mahfouz)
The Palm Wine Drinkard (Tutuola)

 

[redhead]

This was actually waaay harder than I thought it would be. Here's American novels:

Moby Dick (Melville)
The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying (Faulkner)
The Reivers (Faulkner)
The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Chabon)
The Adventures of Augie March (Bellow)
Senlin Ascends (Bancroft)
Beyond Apollo (Malzberg)
The Einstein Intersection (Delany)
The Fifth Season (Jemisin)
Europe Central (Vollmann)
The Ice Shirt (Vollmann)
Book of the New Sun (Wolfe)
Fifth Head of Cerberus (Wolfe)
The Dispossesed (Le Guin)
Left Hand of Darkness (Le Guin)
Silence Once Begun (Ball)
Gravity's Rainbow (Pynchon)
House Made of Dawn (Momaday)
The Final Empire (Sanderson)
White Noises (DeLillo)
Cannery Row (Steinbeck)
Wise Blood (O'Connor)
Steps (Kosinski?)

**These lists should focus on favorites, not titles you objectively think/consider to be the best, so don't be afraid to include a silly personal favorite or to exclude an established classic if you happen personally not to like it.

By the way, on the topic of books you "objectively feel to be the best," I sometimes feel like some of my favorites are "inferior" to some of the classics. I would consider The Cape by Kenji Nakagami to be one of my favorites, and yet I gave it four stars. And yet, I've given plenty of other books five stars I wouldn't consider to be my favorites. So despite noticing certain issues in The Cape, I still connected and liked it more than a lot of other five star reads. Does anyone else feel this way ever?

 

[Liam]

Does anyone else feel this way ever?

All the time. I think you chose the right words when you used the verbs "connected" and "liked." Sometimes we can tell that something is not the author's "best" or most accomplished work, but we still connect with it better and thereby it becomes an instant favorite.

 

[wordeater]

The third category is the hardest. I interpreted it as English language novels by authors not born British or American.

British:

1. Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities
2. Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
3. Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
4. Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights
5. Graham Greene - The Quiet American
6. Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
7. Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
8. Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles
9. David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas
10. Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None
11. George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four
12. Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist
13. Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express
14. Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
15. Roald Dahl - The BFG
16. H. G. Wells - The Time Machine
17. Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca
18. Robert Louis Stevenson - Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
19. Graham Greene - Brighton Rock
20. Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
21. Sarah Waters - Tipping the Velvet
22. Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure
23. Ian McEwan - Atonement
24. Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook
25. Philippa Gregory - The Other Boleyn Girl

American:

1. Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth
2. Henry James - The Portrait of a Lady
3. Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God
4. Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
5. Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind
6. Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
7. Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep
8. Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
9. Henry James - The Turn of the Screw
10. Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon
11. Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
12. Theodore Dreiser - An American Tragedy
13. Richard Wright - Native Son
14. Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany’s
15. Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
16. Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
17. John Steinbeck - East of Eden
18. Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence
19. Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games
20. Toni Morrison - Beloved
21. James Elroy - The Black Dahlia
22. Mario Puzo - The Godfather
23. Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr. Ripley
24. John M. Cain - The Postman Always Rings Twice
25. Elizabeth George - Well-Schooled in Murder

English language novelists from other countries:

1. Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
2. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun
3. Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels
4. Yann Martel - Life of Pi
5. Bram Stoker - Dracula
6. Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
7. James Joyce - Ulysses
8. Michel Faber - Under the Skin
9. Ngaio Marsh - A Man Lay Dead
10. Colm Toibin - Brooklyn
11. Ngaio Marsh - Overture to Death
12. Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
13. Arthur Koestler - Darkness at Noon
14. Susan Swan - The Wives of Bath
15. Lawrence Hill - The Book of Negroes
16. Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner
17. Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses
18. J. M. Coetzee - Disgrace
19. Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
20. James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
21. Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead
22. Colleen McCullough - The Thorn Birds
23. Salman Rushdie - Midnight Children
24. Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin
25. Peter Carey - Oscar and Lucinda

Translations:

1. Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
2. Lev Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
3. Isabel Allende - The House of the Spirits
4. Stendhal - The Red and the Black
5. Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment
6. Lev Tolstoy - War and Peace
7. Thomas Mann - Death in Venice
8. Harry Mulisch - The Discovery of Heaven
9. Hermann Hesse - Siddharta
10. Orhan Pamuk - Snow
11. Louis Paul Boon - Chapel Road
12. Émile Zola - Thérèse Raquin
13. Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis
14. Camilla Läckberg - The Stone Cutter
15. Françoise Sagan - Bonjour Tristesse
16. Hugo Claus - Wonder
17. Boris Pasternak - Doctor Zhivago
18. Ivan Toergenjev - Home of the Gentry
19. Astrid Lindgren - Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter
20. Patrick Süskind - Perfume
21. Georges Simenon - Maigret Sets a Trap
22. Knut Hamsun - Hunger
23. Su Tong - Raise the Red Lantern
24. Klaus Mann - Mephisto
25. Irma Joubert - Anderkant Pontenilo

 

[tiganeasca]

I have been puzzling over this challenge since Liam first, uh, inaugurated it. As my esteemed colleague, Dr. redheadhadz, noted above, this is HARD! I still haven't finished all the lists. So I will contribute them, one by carefully, painstakingly, lovingly prepared one after many days, weeks, and months of deep cogitation and contemplation. I offer my thoughts in the order Liam listed them and so, 25 favorite British works first. I should note that they are in no order whatsoever; it's hard enough to get the list down to 25!

J. L. Carr – A Month in the Country
Sir Walter Scott – Rob Roy
Olivia Manning – The Balkan Trilogy/The Levant Trilogy
Robert Louis Stevenson – Treasure Island
Henry Fielding - Joseph Andrews
Daniel Defoe - Moll Flanders
Charles Dickens – Great Expectations
Charles Dickens – David Copperfield
Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Graham Greene - The Quiet American
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
George Orwell – Animal Farm
Sir Walter Scott - Ivanhoe
Joseph Conrad – Lord Jim
Bram Stoker – Dracula
Lewis Carroll – Alice in Wonderland
Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre
Rudyard Kipling – Kim
George Eliot – Middlemarch
H. Rider Haggard –almost anything
William Makepeace Thackeray – Vanity Fair
E. M. Forster – A Passage to India
John Fowles – The Magus
James Hilton – Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness

And don't offer suggestions for god's sake! I might have to rethink the whole damn list again--and I've only got a few decades of life left!

 

[Leseratte]

World (i.e. foreign) Novels in translation (let´s see if I can manage 25 titles)

1- The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (João Guimarães Rosa)
2- The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas/Epitaph of a Small Winner(Machado de Assis)
3- The Brothers Karamazov -Feodor Dostoevsky
4- War and Peace-( L. Tolstoi)
5-The Hour of the Star (Clarice Lispector)
6-The Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma (Lima Barreto)
7- Rebellion in the Backlands (Euclides da Cunha) Not a novel but...
8-Amerika-Franz Kafka
9-The Books of Jacob- Olga Tokarczuk
10- One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
11- South of Nowhere/The Land at the End of the World(Lobo Antunes)
12- The Gospel According to Jesus Christ -José Saramago
13- The Maias (Eça de Queirós)
14- Berlin Alexanderplatz-Alfred Döblin
15-Don Quichote-Cervantes
16- The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr -E. T. A. Hoffmann
17- The Golden Pot: A Modern Fairytale -E. T. A. Hoffmann
18- The Idiot-( Dostoevsky)
19-Lazarillo of Tormes-(anonymous)
20- The German Lesson ( Siegfried Lenz)
21- How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone- Sasa Stanisic
22-The eight Life: for Brilka- Nino Haratischvili
23- Measuring the World -Daniel Kehlman
24- The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum- Heinrich Böll
25- The Painter of Battles -Arturo Pérez-Reverte

 

[Daydreamer]

I can't believe how hard this was for me! And I've only done the American list so far. Here it is (I included 2 collections of short stories):

1. The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor

2. Moby Dick – Herman Melville

3. Member of the Wedding – Carson McCullers

4. Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - McCullers

5. One of Ours – Willa Cather

6. My Mortal Enemy – Cather

7. The Big Sleep - Raymond Carver

8. The Second Confession - Rex Stout

9. Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

10. Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller

11. Absalom, Absalom – William Faulkner

12. Go Down, Moses – Faulkner

13. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott

14. Alice Adams – Booth Tarkington

15. If Beale Street Could Talk – James Baldwin

16. Giovanni’s Room – Baldwin

17. My Name Is Aram – William Saroyan

18. Beloved – Toni Morrison

19. Song of Solomon – Morrison

20. Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway

21. Mr. Sammler’s Planet – Saul Bellow

22. Call it Sleep – Henry Roth

23. Drown – Junot Diaz

24. Where I’m Calling From – Raymond Carver

25. Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton

 

[tiganeasca]

Translated Novels:



1. Hunger – Knut Hamsun

2. Pan – Hamsun

3. Saint Catherine of Siena – Sigrid Undset

4. St. Francis – Nikos Kazantzakis

5. Bread and Wine – Inacio Silone

6. The Fish Can Sing – Halldor Laxness

7. The Thief and the Dogs – Naguib Mahfouz

8. Madame Bovary – Flaubert

9. L’Assommoir – Emile Zola

10. Le Cheval de Troie – Paul Nizan

11. La Cousine Bette – Balzac

12. Le Pere Goriot - Balzac

13. Ficciones – Borges

14. El Lugar Sin Limites – Jose Donoso

15. Mano de Obra – Diamela Eltit

16. Pedro Paramo – Juan Rulfo

17. Wild Sheep Chase – Murakami

18. Frontier – Can Xue

19. Kitchen – Banana Yoshimoto

20. Les Bouts de Bois de Dieu – Ousmane Sembene

21. My Name Is Red - Orhan Pahmuk

22. Moi Tituba Sorciere – Maryse Conde

23. Crime and Punishment – Dostoevsky

24. The Slave - Isaac Bashevis Singer

25. Anna Karenina - Tolstoy

Anyone including Silone AND Balzac AND Ousmane Sembene deserves a big ? (not to mention ?)!

 

[tiganeasca]

Okay. Finally. Next installment. 25 American novels. Ugh. This just gets harder and harder. (In absolutely no order whatsoever)

American:
Willa Cather – My Antonia
Wallace Stegner – Angle of Repose
Edgar Allen Poe - Stories
Wallace Stegner – Crossing to Safety
Jane Smiley – A Thousand Acres
Ursula Hegi – Stones From the River
Norman Mailer – The Naked and the Dead
Larry Watson – Montana, 1948
Carson McCullers – The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Willa Cather – Death Comes for the Archbishop
Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
Sinclair Lewis - Arrowsmith
John Steinbeck – Of Mice and Men
James Michener – Tales of the South Pacific
Amy Tan – The Joy Luck Club
Sinclair Lewis – Main Street
Nathaniel Hawthorne – Stories
Mark Twain – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Ernest Hemingway – For Whom the Bell Tolls
John Steinbeck – The Grapes of Wrath
Toni Morrison – Song of Solomon
John Cheever - Stories
Herman Melville – Billy Budd
William Faulkner – The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner – Absalom, Absalom

 

[Leseratte]

Some of my favorites-novels are listed with you
1.Mark Twain – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
2.Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
3.Herman Melville – Billy Budd
4.William Faulkner – The Sound and the Fury
5.Carson McCullers – The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
6.William Faulkner – The Sound and the Fury
7.William Faulkner – Light in August
8.John Steinbeck – The Grapes of Wrath
That encourages me to see if I manage 17 more titles:
9.Tony Morison: Tar Baby
10. Carson McCullers- The Member of the Wedding
11.Hermann Melwille- Moby Dick
12.Ralph Ellison-Invisible Man
13.Ralph Ellison- Flying Home and Other Stories
14.Louisa May Alcott-Little Women
15.Henry James- The Wings of the Dove
16.Henry James-The Golden Bowl
17.Henry James -The Awkward Age
18.Henry James-The Turning of the Screw
19.Henry James-The Spoils of Poynton
20.Harriet Beecher Stowe -Uncle Tom´s Cabin (have to revisit it though. Would probably read it today with other eyes)
21.Kurt Vonnegut-Slaughterhouse 5
22. Nathaniel Hawthorne -The House of the Seven Gables
23. Mark Twain- Pudd'nhead Wilson
24.Mark Twain-Tom Sawyer
25.James Feminore Cooper-The Last of the Mohicans

 

[Liam]

^You've listed The Sound and the Fury twice, I think--

SO happy to see Henry James so well and generously represented; he is probably my favorite "American" author; I use quotation marks because James considered himself more European (not necessarily "British," just European) than American, though he never belittled where he was from and stayed close with his family until the end.

Have you read The Portrait of a Lady? Probably in my Top 5, not just by James, but in general--

Anyone who has read and understood The Golden Bowl (in the original of course) deserves a medal. That book certainly does test the mettle of man, ?

But I love The Wings of the Dove dearly. BTW, the film adaptation by Iain Softley is excellent and stays true to the book, and it has a beautiful, beautiful soundtrack!

 

[Leseratte]

Thanks, Liam, I have corrected the mistake and included another favorite I nearly forgot.

I think, Henry James is my favorite author too, maybe because he is trapped between two identities and he taught me, what it is to write between lines.
I read The Portrait of a Lady and I love it but I had to choose. If I rightly remember some of it´s elements are present too in The Wings of a Dove, which I think is more complex.
I quite agree about the complexity of The Golden Bowl!?
I watched The Wings of the Dove and the Italian settings are beautiful, but I don´t remember anything else.
Have you read the Spoils of Poynton? Maybe it´s not one of the top novels, but it is so obsessive that it´s almost funny.

 

[tiganeasca]

Oops. It's been a while. Time to post list #3. There are a few I'm still not certain of but if I ponder over it, you'll be reading this list at my funeral, so....

English language novelists from other countries:
(in absolutely no order whatsover)

Khushwant Singh – Mano Majra [A Train to Pakistan]

Gita Mehta – A River Sutra

Tan Twan Eng – The Gift of Rain

Tash Aw – The Harmony Silk Factory

Doris Lessing – The Grass is Singing

Mavis Gallant – Stories

Robertson Davies – The Rebel Angels

Rabindranath Tagore – Stories

I. Allan Sealy – The Everest Hotel

Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart

Lawrence Durrell – Alexandria Quartet

Salman Rushdie – Midnight’s Children

David Malouf – Remembering Babylon

Romesh Gunesekera - Reef

Michael Ondaatje – The English Patient

Damon Galgut – The Quarry

Dalene Mathee – Circles in a Forest

Herman Charles Bosman – Mafeking Road and other stories

Alan Paton – Cry, the Beloved Country

Chinua Achebe – Arrow of God

James Joyce - Dubliners

Yann Martel - Life of Pi

Omair Ahmad – Jimmy the Terrorist

Mulk Raj Anand – Untouchable

William Trevor – Collected Stories

 

[josearcadiobuendia]

It's an old post but here is my top 25 non-english novels:

El Quijote - Miguel de Cervantes

Jacques the fatalist - Denis Diderot

Faust - J.W.Goethe

Dead souls - Nicolai Gogol

Crime and punishment - Fiodor Dostoievski

Bouvard and Pecuchet - Gustave Flaubert

La Regenta - Leopoldo Alas Clarín

The Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann

In search of lost time - Marcel Proust

Independent people - Halldor Laxness

The magic mountain - Thomas Mann

Snow country - Yasunari Kawabata

The Master and Margarita - Mihail Bulgakov

The stranger - Albert Camus

Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges

A bridge on the Drina - Ivo Andric

Pedro Páramo - Juan Rulfo

A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenytsin

Rayuela - Julio Cortazar

Conversation in the Cathedral - Mario Vargas Llosa

Death and the dervish - Mesa Selimovic

One hundred years of solitude - Gabriel García Márquez

The name of the rose - Umberto Eco

Love in time of the cholera - Gabriel García Márquez

The gospel according to Jesus Christ - Jose Saramago

 

[Ben Jackson]

British Novels:

Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
Emma Jane Austen
David Copperfield Charles Dickens
Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson
Tess of D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf
Orlando Virginia Woolf
Lord of the Flies William Golding
Ulysees James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artists as a Young Man James Joyce
1984 George Orwell
The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing
Alexandrian Quartet Lawrence Durrell
A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
Women in Love D H Lawrence
The End of the Affair Graham Greene
A Room with a View E M Forster
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark
Antonement Ian McEwan
The Sea John Banville
The Master Colm Toibin
The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes

American Novels:

Moby Dick Hermann Melville
The Golden Bowl Henry James
The Red Badge of Courage Steve Crane
As I Lay Dying William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner
An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser
Rabbit Run John Updike
East of Eden John Steinbeck
A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving
Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow
Herzog Saul Bellow
Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
Jazz Toni Morrison
Beloved Toni Morrison
Blood Meridian Cormac Mccarthy
Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth
Underworld Don Delillo
The Road Cormac Mccarthy
The Hours Michael Cunningham
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Michael Chabon
Blonde Joyce Carol Oates

Translations:

War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevesky
Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Von Goethe
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevesky
Swann's Way Marcel Proust
The Stranger Albert Camus
Blindness Jose Saramago
Zorba the Greek Nikos Kazantzakis
Death of Virgil Hermann Broch
The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann
Doctor Faustus Thomas Mann
Death of Artemio Cruz Carlos Fuentes
Austerlitz W G Sebald
Nausea Jean Paul Sartre
God's Bit of Wood Ousmane Sembene
The Lover Marguerite Duras
A Thousand Cranes Yasunari Kawabata
A Personal Matter Kenzaburo Oe
Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Soul Mountain Gao Xinjiang
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis Jose Saramago
This Blinding Absence of Light Tahar Ben Jelloun
Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak

English Laguage Novelists from other Countries:

Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
Arrow of God Chinua Achebe
July's People Nadine Gordimer
Cry the Beloved Country Alan Paton
Life and Times of Michael K J M Coetzee
Scenes of Provincial Life J M Coetzee
A Dry White Season Andre Brink
Open City Teju Cole
Half of a Yellow Sun Chimanmada Adichie
The Fishermen Chigozie Obioma
Second Class Citizen Buchi Emecheta
The Beautyful Ones are not Yet Born Ayi Kwei Armah
A Grain of Wheat Ngugi Wa Thiongo'
The Vegetarian Han Kang
Solid Mandala Patrick White
Voss Patick White
The Twyborn Affair Patrick White
The English Patient Michael Ondaatje
A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
God of Small Things Arundhati Roy
Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
The Famished Road Ben Okri
Season of Migration to the North Tayeb Salih
Border Districts Gerald Murnane
Ransome David Malouf

 

[tiganeasca]

I just realized that I never posted my last compilation. This was, in many ways, the toughest:

Translations:
JMG Le Clezio – The Prospector
Honore de Balzac – Cousin Bette
Stijn Streuvels – The Long Road
Alexandre Dumas – The Three Musketeers
Jan Neruda – Prague Tales
Cesare Pavese – The Moon and the Bonfires
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay – Pather Panchali
Homer – The Iliad
Pramoedya Ananta Toer – The Buru Quartet
Ivan Turgenev – A Hunter's Sketches
Dino Buzzati - The Tartar Steppe
Siegfried Lenz – The Heritage
Ismail Kadare – The Three-Arched Bridge
Elsa Morante – History
Nikos Kazantzakis – Zorba the Greek
Karel Schoeman – This Life
Ivo Andrić – The Bridge on the Drina
Shusaku Endo – Silence
Naguib Mahfouz – Children of Gebelaawi
Naiyer Masud – Collected Stories
Hermann Hesse - Narcissus and Goldmund
Gottfried Keller – Stories
Martin Andersen Nexø – Pelle the Conqueror
Junichiro Tanizaki – The Makioka Sisters
Jean Giono – Second Harvest

 

[Stevie B]

I just realized that I never posted my last compilation. This was, in many ways, the toughest:

Translations:
JMG Le Clezio – The Prospector
Honore de Balzac – Cousin Bette
Stijn Streuvels – The Long Road

If you're looking for a decent copy of Stijn Streuvels' The Long Road, the one being sold by Magers and Quinn in Minneapolis is a pretty good one (it's my old copy). It has been overlooked on their bookshelves for over a year.

The Long Road (The Library of Netherlandic Literature)​

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[tiganeasca]

If you're looking for a decent copy of Stijn Streuvels' The Long Road, the one being sold by Magers and Quinn in Minneapolis is a pretty good one (it's my old copy). It has been overlooked on their bookshelves for over a year.

The Long Road (The Library of Netherlandic Literature)​

Streuvels, Stijn
Published by Twayne Publishers, 1976
ISBN 10: 0805781552ISBN 13: 9780805781557
Seller: Magers and Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Contact seller
Seller Rating:
BOOK
Used - Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
US$ 7.50
Convert currency
US$ 3.99 Shipping
Within U.S.A.
Quantity: 1
Add to Basket
Condition: Very Good. May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.
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Thanks for the rec. My lovely old hardcover copy is slowly accumulating dust on its shelf (right next to another Streuvels' masterwork, The Flaxfield). If other folks here don't know Streuvels, I highly recommend him--and this work in particular.

 

[Stevie B]

Thanks for the rec. My lovely old hardcover copy is slowly accumulating dust on its shelf (right next to another Streuvels' masterwork, The Flaxfield). If other folks here don't know Streuvels, I highly recommend him--and this work in particular.

By the way, I noticed The Fall of the King by Johannes Jensen didn't make your top 25, but I did order the book based on your recommendation. It arrived today and a quick glance of the first several pages tells me I'm going to like it (although I'm assuming you'll reimburse me if I don't ?). I'll try to make some good headway with the novel over the weekend.