En el 2006 (si no me equivoco) la revista Time publicó una lista de las (según ellos) 100 mejores novelas escritas en inglés desde 1923 hasta el presente. De las que leí, puedo asegurar que merecen estar seleccionadas. Les dejo acá la lista.
A - B
The Adventures of Augie March de Saul Bellow
All the King's Men de Robert Penn Warren
American Pastoral de Philip Roth
An American Tragedy de Theodore Dreiser
Animal Farm de George Orwell
Appointment in Samarra de John O'Hara
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret de Judy Blume
The Assistant de Bernard Malamud
At Swim-Two-Birds de Flann O'Brien
Atonement de Ian McEwan
Beloved de Toni Morrison
The Berlin Stories de Christopher Isherwood
The Big Sleep de Raymond Chandler
The Blind Assassin de Margaret Atwood
Blood Meridian de Cormac McCarthy
Brideshead Revisited de Evelyn Waugh
The Bridge of San Luis Rey de Thornton Wilder
C - D
Call It Sleep de Henry Roth
Catch-22 de Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye de J.D. Salinger
A Clockwork Orange de Anthony Burgess
The Confessions of Nat Turner de William Styron
The Corrections de Jonathan Franzen
The Crying of Lot 49 de Thomas Pynchon
A Dance to the Music of Time de Anthony Powell
The Day of the Locust de Nathanael West
Death Comes for the Archbishop de Willa Cather
A Death in the Family de James Agee
The Death of the Heart de Elizabeth Bowen
Deliverance de James Dickey
Dog Soldiers de Robert Stone
F - G
Falconer de John Cheever
The French Lieutenant's Woman de John Fowles
The Golden Notebook de Doris Lessing
Go Tell it on the Mountain de James Baldwin
Gone With the Wind de Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath de John Steinbeck
Gravity's Rainbow de Thomas Pynchon
The Great Gatsby de F. Scott Fitzgerald
H - I
A Handful of Dust de Evelyn Waugh
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter de Carson McCullers
The Heart of the Matter de Graham Greene
Herzog de Saul Bellow
Housekeeping de Marilynne Robinson
A House for Mr. Biswas de V.S. Naipaul
I, Claudius de Robert Graves
Infinite Jest de David Foster Wallace
Invisible Man de Ralph Ellison
L - N
Light in August de William Faulkner
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe de C.S. Lewis
Lolita de Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies de William Golding
The Lord of the Rings de J.R.R. Tolkien
Loving de Henry Green
Lucky Jim de Kingsley Amis
The Man Who Loved Children de Christina Stead
Midnight's Children de Salman Rushdie
Money de Martin Amis
The Moviegoer de Walker Percy
Mrs. Dalloway de Virginia Woolf
Naked Lunch de William Burroughs
Native Son de Richard Wright
Neuromancer de William Gibson
Never Let Me Go de Kazuo Ishiguro
1984 de George Orwell
O - R
On the Road de Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest de Ken Kesey
The Painted Bird de Jerzy Kosinski
Pale Fire de Vladimir Nabokov
A Passage to India de E.M. Forster
Play It As It Lays de Joan Didion
Portnoy's Complaint de Philip Roth
Possession de A.S. Byatt
The Power and the Glory de Graham Greene
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie de Muriel Spark
Rabbit, Run de John Updike
Ragtime de E.L. Doctorow
The Recognitions de William Gaddis
Red Harvest de Dashiell Hammett
Revolutionary Road de Richard Yates
S - T
The Sheltering Sky de Paul Bowles
Slaughterhouse-Five de Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash de Neal Stephenson
The Sot-Weed Factor de John Barth
The Sound and the Fury de William Faulkner
The Sportswriter de Richard Ford
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold de John le Carre
The Sun Also Rises de Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God de Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart de Chinua Achebe
To Kill a Mockingbird de Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse de Virginia Woolf
Tropic of Cancer de Henry Miller
U - W
Ubik de Philip K. Dick
Under the Net de Iris Murdoch
Under the Volcano de Malcolm Lowry
Watchmen de Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
White Noise de Don DeLillo
White Teeth de Zadie Smith
Wide Sargasso Sea de Jean Rhys
Vale la pena leerlos seguro. Pero por ahora estamos algo jodidos.
ResponderBorrarYo no lei muchos... pero si algunos... "The catcher in the rye" es de lo mas lindo del mundo... "1984" es perturbador, pero perfecto. Leanlos.
ResponderBorrarUfff, hay un montón que son hermosos
ResponderBorrar"On the Road" y "Revolutioary Raod" los amo, pero hay varios muy lindos ahí Robertínnn