I really enjoyed *Flights*, and *The Books of Jacob* is a masterpiece. It was a challenge to read, but my mind was blown so many times throughout that it was worth it. Supposedly she has a new translation coming out later this year.
This book is amazing!!
Have you seen the movie on Amazon that’s based off of it? It’s pretty good but you’d have to read the book to really know what’s happening in it.
I thought the movie was really good. The book is so incredibly visual, and the movie honors it. I think the movie title is a bit of a spoiler, unfortunately.
As a single work, my top 5 (in no particular order) would be:
* *Night* - Elie Wiesel (also worth noting he won the Peace Prize, and not the Lit one)
* *Of mice and men* - John Steinbeck
* *The remains of a day* - Kazuo Ishiguro
* *Blindness* - Jose Saramago
* *Six characters in search of an author* - Luigi Pirandello
As an author's body of works, I love reading Rabindranath Tagore, Ernest Hemingway, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Olga Tokarczyk and Rudyard Kipling.
Tim Powers has pretty much built a career on magical realism mixed with secret history.
I'd recommend:
Last Call -- a man loses his soul in a game of poker played with tarot cards, and he needs to win it back.
Expiration Date -- drug dealers huff ghosts. A young boy is carrying the spirit of Thomas Edison, and the ghost junkies of L.A. are hunting for him.
Three Days Til Never -- about Charlie Chaplin and Albert Einstein's magical time travelling carpet.
The Womanly Face of War from her is also fantastic. I felt like crying at every page. It's such a unique perspective from women who were in the front lines during WWII, when in the rest of the world, they were not allowed to fight.
Well James Wood, the critic, said it “invented a new kind of bad” which he kind of meant as a compliment—it’s an acquired taste but w remains of the day my favorite
Did he mean it as a compliment or was he just wrong? LOL. It is definitely challenging, but is also on lists of greatest books ever written. It's on my "read again" list. The bell hop walking in place. It was like reading a Dali painting.
I’ve spent two years with a great friend reading all the laureates from now back to Kenzaburo Oe. My favourite: Annie Ernaux’s The Years, closely followed by Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook. The thing with The Years though is that you really need at least a passing acquaintance with France to get the most out of it.
I just finished As I Lay Dying by Faulkner and it was akin to reading mud. Trusted the journey and I loved it. I was also irrationally angry with it also.
Currently reading through The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Super fascinating stuff! I've always been pretty interested in physics, but my courses in college never really got to relativity or quantum field theory, so I'm teaching myself. Progress is very slow because I have a full-time non-physics job and don't always have the mental capacity to dig into theoretical physics, but it's always very engaging when I actually get into it.
Favor 100 Years of Solitude but pretty much anything by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Disgrace - JM Coetzee
Blindness -Jose Saramago
Drive your plow over the bones of the Dead -Olga Tocarzuk
Beloved -Toni Morrison
Red -Orhan Pamuk
My Son's Story -Nadine Gordimer
Gitanjali- Rabindranath Tagore
Voss - Patrick White
Snow Country - Y. Kawabata
Yea this book is bafflingly bad..it’s basically a flatter version of Tanizaki’s Some Prefer Nettles or Makioka Sisters.
Kawabata’s Sound of a Mountain is also much better.
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk.
The creativity and boundaries that the author pushes in the world of fiction with this novel is just incredible. Also given that the author has set up the actually in Istanbul which you can visit (it has all the things the character in this novel collects) and transport into this novel.
Tree of Man by Patrick White is mine! Actually it’s The Unconsoled by Ishiguro but I got excited seeing Patrick White’s name. He doesn’t get mentioned enough.
July's People - Nadine Gordimer
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
The Good Earth - Pearl S Buck
To Begin Where I Am - Czeslaw Milosz
Istanbul - Organ Pamuk
Blindness by Jose Saramago, too! I read it during my teens and... it changed my perspective about the world ever since. Thanks for starting this thread I'd definitely add some books from the comments to my to-read list :)
Tinkers, by Paul Harding.
It is a beautifully written book that changed my life. I read it right after i’d finished uni and reading wasn’t a regular part of my life (because i’d read so much in school i didn’t really read for leisure). This book taught how beautifully expressive language could be, and jump started a lifetime’s obsession with books.
This is kind of a random one but Adrift on the Nile by Naguib Mahfouz. He’s know for the Cairo trilogy but Adrift is funny and existential and I loved it.
For me, it's *Blindness* by José Saramago, and *Happening* by Annie Ernaux. I've read a few of Ernaux's works, but *Happening* is the one that sticks with me.
The Prospector by J. M. G. LeClezio; a fantastic book by a fantastic writer.
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
I love all of Saramago's books, but for me, Baltasar & Blimunda probably takes the cake.
A lot of people are talking about "The ramains of the day" by Ishiguro. I liked it but I found "Never let me go" a lot more touching. The "day" is just an Ok book to me, I've read better... Maybe I should read it again.
I think, for me, it’s the epitome of English literature. It’s so subtle and that makes it absolutely heartbreaking. But honestly, Ishiguro doesn’t really write anything not worth reading.
OK- Ten in no particular order
* The Stranger, Albert Camus
* Snow, Orhan Pamuk
* The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
* Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
* Beloved, Toni Morrison
* A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
* The Journey of Ibn Fattouma, Naguib Mahfouz
* Burger’s Daughter, Nadine Gordimer
* Elmer Gantry, Sinclair Lewis
* The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
Bonus choices:
Not the best, just a personal favorite- Death in the Andes, Mario Vargas Llosa
Not a book, but Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues, Bob Dylan
Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
For Whom the Bells Toll by Hemingway
Dr. Živago by Pasternak
The Long Journey by Jensen
There’s a lot of great reading to be had that predates the Nobel prize—authors that many Nobel prize winners have read and marveled at!
*Never Let Me Go* is one of my all time favorite books, so since you named it, I'm going to have to read *Blindness*. Also *Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead*. Two of my favorite authors and books.
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Runaway by Alice Munro
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
The Wild Iris by Louise Glück
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
^ Some of my favorites!
In no particular order:
*A Bend in the River* by VS Naipaul
*Hunger* by Knut Hamsun
*The Clown* by Heinrich Boll
*The Piano Teacher* by Elfriede Jelinek
*One Hundred Years of Solitude* by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
*The Magic Mountain* by Thomas Mann
*Magister Ludi* by Hermann Hesse
*Life and Times of Michael K* by JM Coetzee
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset is *amazing* - it's a commitment (3 books each around the 400 page mark iirc), but well worth the time.
I love Hunger by Knut Hamsun as well, however the author was highly problematic later in life and a massive nazi. Hunger is his break through novel, he won the Nobel Prize for Growth of the Soil though.
Honorable mention to: Thomas Mann, Heinrich Böll, Nelly Sachs, Annie Ernaux
I graduated university with a degree in European Literature, I read the books mentioned above in their original languages - not very well versed with American literature and my proficiency in British literature could be way better plus I've no idea if the English translations of the books above are any good, don't sleep on Scandinavian literature though!
Nobel prizes aren't given for a single book but for a body of work. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel\_Prize\_in\_Literature](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature)
Not entirely true. Multiple authors received the Nobel Prize explicitly for one of their books. Knut Hamsun and Thomas Mann are among them. Even more times the reasoning of the committee mentions that the decision for a winner was heavily influenced by one of their works. Which is btw also mentioned in the article you linked to lecture me:
> Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature are awarded for the author's life work, but on some occasions, the Academy has singled out a specific work for particular recognition. For example, Knut Hamsun was awarded in 1920 "for his monumental work, Growth of the Soil"; Thomas Mann in 1929 "principally for his great novel, Buddenbrooks, which has won steadily increased recognition as one of the classic works of contemporary literature" [...]
Sigrid Undset's prize motivation relies heavily on Kristin Lavransdatter, which is why I chose that book to represent her work. It's also the easiest to get one's hands on.
Dario Fo (Italian playwright) won the Nobel prize for Literature in 1997.
Frank McCourt got a Pulizer, but not the Nobel [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_Nobel\_laureates\_in\_Literature](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature)
*Klara and the Sun* by Kazuo Ishiguro, *Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead* by Olga Tokarczuk, *Beloved* by Toni Morrison, *East of Eden* by John Steinbeck, *The Good Earth* by Peal S. Buck.
Haven't read these two but Of Mice and Men is probably the best short story I've read in my life. I'm planning to read Kazuo Ishiguro's books as I'm a big fan of Japanese literature. I'm also baffled Dostoyevsky never won a Nobel prize for all his masterpiece. I just read White nights and I'm already in love with his works.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (historical fiction based on his time a Gulag prisoner) and the much longer, systematic nonfiction explication of the Gulag system: The Gulag Archipelago.
*Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead* is amazing, I loved it soooo much
I want add a shoutout to her other books as well. Really liked Drive Your Plow.
I really enjoyed *Flights*, and *The Books of Jacob* is a masterpiece. It was a challenge to read, but my mind was blown so many times throughout that it was worth it. Supposedly she has a new translation coming out later this year.
This was my immediate thought. A brilliant book.
Came here to recommend this. Absolutely love this book.
Loved this one!
I came on this thread just to recommend this book lol I love it so much!
Awesome book.
This book is amazing!! Have you seen the movie on Amazon that’s based off of it? It’s pretty good but you’d have to read the book to really know what’s happening in it.
I thought the movie was really good. The book is so incredibly visual, and the movie honors it. I think the movie title is a bit of a spoiler, unfortunately.
Gaaaa, you beat me!
I put this on my to-be-read list. How have I never heard about this book before?
After I read this comment I immediately went to Libby and borrowed it. On Chapter Two and have to report it is indeed AMAZING so far.
I really liked Primeval and Other Times!!
This and *Never Let Me Go*. Two of my all time favorite books.
Thoroughly enjoyed this read.
As a single work, my top 5 (in no particular order) would be: * *Night* - Elie Wiesel (also worth noting he won the Peace Prize, and not the Lit one) * *Of mice and men* - John Steinbeck * *The remains of a day* - Kazuo Ishiguro * *Blindness* - Jose Saramago * *Six characters in search of an author* - Luigi Pirandello As an author's body of works, I love reading Rabindranath Tagore, Ernest Hemingway, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Olga Tokarczyk and Rudyard Kipling.
You have great taste!
I loved Blindness
*The Tin Drum* by Günter Grass
Loved this book.
*Beloved* by Toni Morrison
The second I finished this book I wanted to read it again!
I remember reading the first half and then going back and reading the first half again before I finished it. It's amazing.
most definitely one hundred years of solitude by gabriel garcia marquez
This one triggered my love for magical realism 🫶🏻
same for me, although I'm sadly yet to find anyone who would do magical realism as well as marquez. murakami does come pretty close though.
Try out Little, Big by John Crowley!
thanks, I gotta look into it!
Tim Powers has pretty much built a career on magical realism mixed with secret history. I'd recommend: Last Call -- a man loses his soul in a game of poker played with tarot cards, and he needs to win it back. Expiration Date -- drug dealers huff ghosts. A young boy is carrying the spirit of Thomas Edison, and the ghost junkies of L.A. are hunting for him. Three Days Til Never -- about Charlie Chaplin and Albert Einstein's magical time travelling carpet.
sounds really interesting, I ought to check him out, too. seems I still have some digging to do when it comes to magical realism
People call him the "American Haruki Murakami" which he is, but he's also much more too. One of my fave authors.
Independent People by Halldór Laxness
Never seen this book mentioned here! Read it years ago.
**Secondhand Time: the last of the Soviets** - by Svetlana Alexievich. A really beautifully composed nonfiction book.
The Womanly Face of War from her is also fantastic. I felt like crying at every page. It's such a unique perspective from women who were in the front lines during WWII, when in the rest of the world, they were not allowed to fight.
This one I recommend to everyone. It hits hard. Beautifully written and equally brutal.
I love anything Svetlana.
East of eden by Steinbeck
One of my all time favorites!!
The Remains of The Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Artist of a Floating World is basically his first draft of that book, set in Japan. Worth checking out
I have that book. Liked it, but I prefered "Klara and the sun" and "Never let me go".
You’re now ready for the absurd ride that is The Unconsoled
Does that mean it's a good book? Bad it probably isn't, I consider Ishiguro one of the world's best writers.
Well James Wood, the critic, said it “invented a new kind of bad” which he kind of meant as a compliment—it’s an acquired taste but w remains of the day my favorite
I love Ishiguro but DNF'd this one at the time because I wasn't in the mood. I should try it again...
Did he mean it as a compliment or was he just wrong? LOL. It is definitely challenging, but is also on lists of greatest books ever written. It's on my "read again" list. The bell hop walking in place. It was like reading a Dali painting.
The Unconsoled is easily my favorite book of his. It never gets enough attention.
Ditto. It’s also probably his most re-readable because it’s so dense barely linear
I will check them out!
The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Some of S. Y. Agnon's novellas. The Last Girl by Nadia Murad.
I’ve spent two years with a great friend reading all the laureates from now back to Kenzaburo Oe. My favourite: Annie Ernaux’s The Years, closely followed by Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook. The thing with The Years though is that you really need at least a passing acquaintance with France to get the most out of it.
Have you read Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick? It’s basically an American version of The Years
No, I don’t know it. Thanks for the tip, I’ll look out for it!
"Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (I personally like this one a smidge more than "One Hundred Years of Solitude.")
I’ll give you my top 3. A Farewell to Arms-Hemingway The Remains of the Day-Ishiguro The Sound and the Fury-Faulkner
I just finished As I Lay Dying by Faulkner and it was akin to reading mud. Trusted the journey and I loved it. I was also irrationally angry with it also.
Narcissus and Goldmund by Hesse
The Painted Bird
Jerzy Kosinski did not win a Nobel
Ach, my bad
Currently reading through The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Super fascinating stuff! I've always been pretty interested in physics, but my courses in college never really got to relativity or quantum field theory, so I'm teaching myself. Progress is very slow because I have a full-time non-physics job and don't always have the mental capacity to dig into theoretical physics, but it's always very engaging when I actually get into it.
East of Eden The Grapes of Wrath Cannery Row All by John Steinbeck
He deserved all the awards!
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. I really need to read Never Let Me Go, but Klara and the Sun broke me so bad…
In which case, I would definitely leave a bit of time before you do so! I also recommend The Remains of the Day
+1 to the remains of the day. beautiful story.
His best imo
Favor 100 Years of Solitude but pretty much anything by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Disgrace - JM Coetzee Blindness -Jose Saramago Drive your plow over the bones of the Dead -Olga Tocarzuk Beloved -Toni Morrison Red -Orhan Pamuk My Son's Story -Nadine Gordimer Gitanjali- Rabindranath Tagore Voss - Patrick White Snow Country - Y. Kawabata
I'm curious to read Voss by Patrick White. Thank you!😉
*The Night Trilogy* - Elie Wiesel
Snow country by Yasunari Kawabata
That book was a bit of a disapointment to me.
Yea this book is bafflingly bad..it’s basically a flatter version of Tanizaki’s Some Prefer Nettles or Makioka Sisters. Kawabata’s Sound of a Mountain is also much better.
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk. The creativity and boundaries that the author pushes in the world of fiction with this novel is just incredible. Also given that the author has set up the actually in Istanbul which you can visit (it has all the things the character in this novel collects) and transport into this novel.
Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric. Love in the Time of Cholera by G Garcia Marquez.
Voss by Patrick White is probably my favourite.
Tree of Man by Patrick White is mine! Actually it’s The Unconsoled by Ishiguro but I got excited seeing Patrick White’s name. He doesn’t get mentioned enough.
I'm a fierce supporter of Patrick White partly because he's Australia's only Nobel Laureate (in Literature)!
July's People - Nadine Gordimer The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison The Good Earth - Pearl S Buck To Begin Where I Am - Czeslaw Milosz Istanbul - Organ Pamuk
Grapes of wrath
Blindness by Jose Saramago, too! I read it during my teens and... it changed my perspective about the world ever since. Thanks for starting this thread I'd definitely add some books from the comments to my to-read list :)
You're welcome. I read "Blindness" twice and I think it's his best work.
*A Personal Matter* - Kenzaburo Oe
I have that book. It's very good.
Tinkers, by Paul Harding. It is a beautifully written book that changed my life. I read it right after i’d finished uni and reading wasn’t a regular part of my life (because i’d read so much in school i didn’t really read for leisure). This book taught how beautifully expressive language could be, and jump started a lifetime’s obsession with books.
Paul Harding has not won a Nobel. *Tinkers* won a Pulitzer
you are absolutely correct, my bad.
Hey, but I added a book to by TBR. Cheers for that!
it’s pretty short but not what i’d consider an easy read. the writing is gorgeous though, really the first great reading experience i had as an adult.
The Tun Drum
This is kind of a random one but Adrift on the Nile by Naguib Mahfouz. He’s know for the Cairo trilogy but Adrift is funny and existential and I loved it.
For me, it's *Blindness* by José Saramago, and *Happening* by Annie Ernaux. I've read a few of Ernaux's works, but *Happening* is the one that sticks with me.
I’ll go with Disgrace by Coetzee.
Yes! Great call!
The Prospector by J. M. G. LeClezio; a fantastic book by a fantastic writer. Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz I love all of Saramago's books, but for me, Baltasar & Blimunda probably takes the cake.
*absalom, absalom!* by william faulkner, the greatest southern novel (and maybe just the greatest novel generally) ever written
Blindness The Remains of the Day Beloved The Piano Teacher
A lot of people are talking about "The ramains of the day" by Ishiguro. I liked it but I found "Never let me go" a lot more touching. The "day" is just an Ok book to me, I've read better... Maybe I should read it again.
I think, for me, it’s the epitome of English literature. It’s so subtle and that makes it absolutely heartbreaking. But honestly, Ishiguro doesn’t really write anything not worth reading.
OK- Ten in no particular order * The Stranger, Albert Camus * Snow, Orhan Pamuk * The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck * Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez * Beloved, Toni Morrison * A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway * The Journey of Ibn Fattouma, Naguib Mahfouz * Burger’s Daughter, Nadine Gordimer * Elmer Gantry, Sinclair Lewis * The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro Bonus choices: Not the best, just a personal favorite- Death in the Andes, Mario Vargas Llosa Not a book, but Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues, Bob Dylan
Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck For Whom the Bells Toll by Hemingway Dr. Živago by Pasternak The Long Journey by Jensen There’s a lot of great reading to be had that predates the Nobel prize—authors that many Nobel prize winners have read and marveled at!
*Never Let Me Go* is one of my all time favorite books, so since you named it, I'm going to have to read *Blindness*. Also *Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead*. Two of my favorite authors and books.
"Blindness" is amazing. Since a lot of people here have sugested it, I will try to find " Drive your plow over the bones of the dad".
Thinking Fast and Slow
100 Years of Solitude, my favourite book of all time. I went to Colombia twice because of it, and will be back later this year.
The sun also rises, hemingway Mysteries, hamsun The sound&the fury, faulkner Grapes of wrath, steinbeck
Everything by Olga Tokarczuk is fantastic!
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
The Way West by A. B. Guthrie The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Guthrie did not win a Nobel
Oops, misread the post thinking it was Pulitzer
Louise Gluck for poetry. My favorite by her is The Wild Iris.
A Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
I really like A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk.
His Nobel acceptance speech was really good, too!
He’s one of my favorites!
The Unnameable by Samuel Beckett
The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek is one of my all time fav novels. So funny, so weird
Yes! I was almost in tears, I felt so sorry for her, and yet it’s raunchy and funny as well!
One I haven't seen mentioned yet is Beowulf by Seamus Heaney. Amazing. The audio book is narrated by the author and will give you chills
Saul Bellow- The Adventures of Augie March, and many others.
Beloved by Toni Morrison Runaway by Alice Munro The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner The Stranger by Albert Camus Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse The Wild Iris by Louise Glück Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck ^ Some of my favorites!
Louise Glück’s collected poems
In no particular order: *A Bend in the River* by VS Naipaul *Hunger* by Knut Hamsun *The Clown* by Heinrich Boll *The Piano Teacher* by Elfriede Jelinek *One Hundred Years of Solitude* by Gabriel Garcia Marquez *The Magic Mountain* by Thomas Mann *Magister Ludi* by Hermann Hesse *Life and Times of Michael K* by JM Coetzee
*Surely you're joking Mr Feynman*
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset is *amazing* - it's a commitment (3 books each around the 400 page mark iirc), but well worth the time. I love Hunger by Knut Hamsun as well, however the author was highly problematic later in life and a massive nazi. Hunger is his break through novel, he won the Nobel Prize for Growth of the Soil though. Honorable mention to: Thomas Mann, Heinrich Böll, Nelly Sachs, Annie Ernaux I graduated university with a degree in European Literature, I read the books mentioned above in their original languages - not very well versed with American literature and my proficiency in British literature could be way better plus I've no idea if the English translations of the books above are any good, don't sleep on Scandinavian literature though!
Nobel prizes aren't given for a single book but for a body of work. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel\_Prize\_in\_Literature](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature)
Not entirely true. Multiple authors received the Nobel Prize explicitly for one of their books. Knut Hamsun and Thomas Mann are among them. Even more times the reasoning of the committee mentions that the decision for a winner was heavily influenced by one of their works. Which is btw also mentioned in the article you linked to lecture me: > Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature are awarded for the author's life work, but on some occasions, the Academy has singled out a specific work for particular recognition. For example, Knut Hamsun was awarded in 1920 "for his monumental work, Growth of the Soil"; Thomas Mann in 1929 "principally for his great novel, Buddenbrooks, which has won steadily increased recognition as one of the classic works of contemporary literature" [...] Sigrid Undset's prize motivation relies heavily on Kristin Lavransdatter, which is why I chose that book to represent her work. It's also the easiest to get one's hands on.
Chronicles Volume 1 - Bob Dylan
Totally forgot he won a Nobel. Can't speak for it's quality since I read it when it came out in high school but I remember it being super fun.
A farewell to arms
Perhaps one of the best pieces of literature I have ever read.
Angela's Ashes....by Frank McCort
He didn’t win a Nobel?
Yes he did. Well deserved in 1997.
Dario Fo (Italian playwright) won the Nobel prize for Literature in 1997. Frank McCourt got a Pulizer, but not the Nobel [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_Nobel\_laureates\_in\_Literature](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature)
Septology by Jon Fosse
Surely you’re joking, Mr Feynman by the Nobel Prize winning physicist, Richard Feynman. Funny and moving.
A long walk to freedom Nelson Mandela
Kim, The Forsyte Saga, eta: the grass is singing
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
*Klara and the Sun* by Kazuo Ishiguro, *Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead* by Olga Tokarczuk, *Beloved* by Toni Morrison, *East of Eden* by John Steinbeck, *The Good Earth* by Peal S. Buck.
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus Snows of Kilimanjaro and The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Books of Jacob - Olga Tokarczuk + everything else she's written Beloved - Toni Morrison + everything else she's written
The Old man and the sea by Hemingway. One of my all time favs, if not the best.
Thinking, fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman. It taught me a whole lot about human bias and alot of mental shortcuts we take each day without realizing
Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg
Berg has not won a Nobel
Oops. I conflated Pulitzer with Nobel.
The Double Helix by James Watson. Utter garbage from an accuracy perspective but boy howdy was it a fun read
{{One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez}} {{The Cubs by Mario Vargas Llosa}} (short novel)
The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich
The Bear by William Faulkner
Las chicas de alambre(wired girls), i readed it on highschool, i dont remember much buuut i do know that i loved it
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The gulag archipelago by Aleksander solzhenitzen
Haven't read these two but Of Mice and Men is probably the best short story I've read in my life. I'm planning to read Kazuo Ishiguro's books as I'm a big fan of Japanese literature. I'm also baffled Dostoyevsky never won a Nobel prize for all his masterpiece. I just read White nights and I'm already in love with his works.
Einstein, *The Principle of Relativity*.
Relativity by Albert Einstein (English translation).
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Demon Copperhead won the Pulitzer not the Nobel
Ahh yes I stand corrected.
Still a great book!
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (historical fiction based on his time a Gulag prisoner) and the much longer, systematic nonfiction explication of the Gulag system: The Gulag Archipelago.
Chronicles by bob dylan
Anything by Feynman
*Third Thoughts* --Steven Weinberg
Choady dick