Jane Eyre
Little Women
Wuthering Heights
Dracula
Tinkers
Les Miserables
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The Book Thief
The English Patient
The Road
These listed above would be of personal interest, not a list that I feel is important to the bettering of humanity. That list would be:
Night
The Book Thief
Road of Lost Innocence
Waiting For The Barbarians
Not For Sale
A Crime so Monstrous
Les Miserables
Self Reliance
A Brief History of Time
Human Smoke
I'm sorry, I just couldn't decide.
If it aims at bettering the humanity, I would add the following novels:
ReplyDelete• Balzac's "Illusions perdues"/"Lost Illusions" (or "The Lily of the Valley" – can't decide)
• Gide's "Les Faux-Monnayeurs"/"The counterfeiters"
• Proust's "À la recherche du temps perdu"/"In search of Lost time"
• Kawabata's "Michikusa"/"The sound of the Mountain" (or "The Master of go – hard to decide)
• Singer's "The magician of Lublin"
• Sartre's "Les Mots"/"The words" (I know it's not a novel, but…)
• Breton's "Nadja"
• Kundera's "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" ( …still)
• Mann's "The Magic moutain"
• A Flaubert. Any of them. Or each of them...
I'm not good at maths, but I'm pretty sure it still makes ten books.
Wonderful list.
ReplyDeleteHey, thanks for the list. I will keep an eye for them at my next book sale. :)
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