Ten Favorite Books by Winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature

(in order of preference)

 

  1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

  2. The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago

  3. A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke

  4. To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays by Czesław Miłosz

  5. Barabbas by Pär Lagerkvist

  6. Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata

  7. Life & Times of Michael K. by J. M. Coetzee

  8. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

  9. A Personal Matter by Kenzaburō Ōe

  10. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett


— September 21, 2021


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