4 sept 2009

100 Novelas en Inglés



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

3 comentarios:

  1. Vale la pena leerlos seguro. Pero por ahora estamos algo jodidos.

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  2. Yo no lei muchos... pero si algunos... "The catcher in the rye" es de lo mas lindo del mundo... "1984" es perturbador, pero perfecto. Leanlos.

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  3. Ufff, hay un montón que son hermosos
    "On the Road" y "Revolutioary Raod" los amo, pero hay varios muy lindos ahí Robertínnn

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