El Pais Favorite Books of 100 Spanish Authors

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El Pais, 150 Books

El Pais ran A Poll of 100 Spanish Authors and Their Favorite Books. This is summary of all the books

This list was originally published in 2008 and was added to this site almost 12 years ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
8 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes 1605 Spanish Spanish
2 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust 1913 French French
24 The Odyssey Homer -740 Greek Ancient greek
45 Fictions Jorge Luis Borges 1944 Argentinian Spanish
21 The Trial Franz Kafka 1925 Czech German
7 Moby-Dick Herman Melville 1851 American English
10 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1877 Russian Russian
66 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka 1915 Czech German
128 The Stories of Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov 1900 Russian Russian
12 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869 Russian Russian
11 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky 1866 Russian Russian
18 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky 1880 Russian Russian
25 The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann 1924 German German
124 Pedro Páramo Juan Rulfo 1955 Mexican Spanish
1 Ulysses James Joyce 1922 Irish English
9 The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner 1929 American English
20 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 1857 French French
46 One Thousand and One Nights Unknown 800 Multiple Arabic
63 Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry 1947 British English
42 The Red and the Black Stendhal 1830 French French
19 The Bible Unknown -1400 Jewish Hebrew, aramaic, greek
584 Poet in New York Federico García Lorca 1940 Spanish Spanish
75 Essays Michel de Montaigne 1580 French French
98 The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe 1902 American English
14 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 1955 American English
116 A Sentimental Education Gustave Flaubert 1869 French French
436 El Aleph Jorge Luis Borges 1949 Argentinian Spanish
118 The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers 1940 American English
51 The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne 1759 British English
31 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 1899 British English
178 The Flowers of Evil Charles Baudelaire 1857 French French
373 The Duino Elegies Rainer Maria Rilke 1923 German German
824 Rhymes And Legends Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer 1871 Spanish Spanish
1123 The Symposium Plato -385 Greek Ancient greek
200 The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa 1982 Portuguese Portuguese
231 Death of Virgil Hermann Broch 1945 Austrian German
354 Hopscotch Julio Cortazar 1963 Argentinian Spanish
222 Thus Spake Zarathustra Friedrich Nietzsche 1883 German German
115 Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson 1883 British English
111 The Waste Land T. S. Eliot 1922 British English
523 Fortunata and Jacinta Benito Pérez Galdós 1887 Spanish Spanish
30 The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri 1308 Italian Italian
687 The Time of the Hero Mario Vargas Llosa 1963 Peruvian Spanish
175 Metamorphoses Ovid 8 Roman Latin
43 Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner 1936 American English
71 Hamlet William Shakespeare 1600 British English
23 The Stranger Albert Camus 1942 French French
3189 Trilce César Vallejo 1922 Peruvian Spanish
156 Poems of Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson 1890 American English
131 King Lear William Shakespeare 1608 British English
4 The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger 1951 American English
1478 The Shipyard Juan Carlos Onetti 1961 Uruguayan Spanish
518 The Odes Horace 23 Roman Latin
57 The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky 1869 Russian Russian
161 The Long Goodbye Raymond Chandler 1953 American English
386 La Regenta Clarín 1884 Spanish Spanish
252 The Waves Virginia Woolf 1931 British English
1533 Dreamtigers Jorge Luis Borges 1960 Argentinian Spanish
125 Antigone Sophocles -441 Greek Ancient greek
79 As I Lay Dying William Faulkner 1930 American English
5 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez 1967 Colombian Spanish
3588 The First Man Albert Camus 1994 French French
1171 Residence on Earth Pablo Neruda 1933 Chilean Spanish
298 Herzog Saul Bellow 1964 American English
401 Celestina Or The Tragic-Comedy Of Calisto And Melibea Fernando de Rojas 1499 Spanish Spanish
1168 The Diaries Franz Kafka 1948 Czech German
155 Macbeth William Shakespeare 1606 British English
950 Richard III William Shakespeare 1592 British English
856 Conversation in the Cathedral Mario Vargas Llosa 1969 Peruvian Spanish
218 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 British English
1961 Demian Hermann Hesse 1919 German German
140 The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir 1949 French French
56 The Leopard Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa 1958 Italian Italian
754 If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem William Faulkner 1939 American English
22 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1884 American English
13 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 1813 British English
173 A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf 1929 British English
48 Journey to the End of The Night Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1932 French French
1393 The Business of Living Cesare Pavese 1952 Italian Italian
608 Canto General Pablo Neruda 1950 Chilean Spanish
137 Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 1900 British English
544 The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes Unknown 1554 Spanish Spanish
3271 Bohemian Lights Ramón del Valle-Inclán 1920 Spanish Spanish
37 The Iliad Homer -750 Greek Ancient greek
1081 The War of the End of the World Mario Vargas Llosa 1981 Peruvian Spanish
330 Dubliners James Joyce 1914 Irish English
85 The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford 1915 British English
3 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925 American English
4565 Mortal y rosa Francisco Umbral 1975 Spanish Spanish
35 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 1865 British English
1429 Aphorisms Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1902 German German
3293 Sonnets Francisco de Quevedo 1648 Spanish Spanish
295 Franz Kafka Franz Kafka 1971 Czech Unknown
2013 Poems Of César Vallejo César Vallejo 1922 Peruvian Spanish
303 Peter And Wendy J. M. Barrie 1911 Scottish English
135 Doctor Faustus Thomas Mann 1947 German German
238 A Season in Hell Arthur Rimbaud 1873 French French
5731 Time And Space Juan Ramón Jiménez 1988 Spanish Spanish
796 The Fall Albert Camus 1956 French French
226 The Alexandria Quartet Lawrence Durrell 1957 British English
47 David Copperfield Charles Dickens 1849 British English
65 Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1726 British English
1554 The Unconsoled Kazuo Ishiguro 1995 British English
2000 Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter Mario Vargas Llosa 1977 Peruvian Spanish
94 Demons Fyodor Dostoevsky 1872 Russian Russian
930 The Seven Madmen Roberto Arlt 1929 Argentinian Spanish
335 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis Giorgio Bassani 1962 Italian Italian
34 The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov 1967 Russian Russian
72 Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov 1962 American English
32 Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf 1925 British English
3370 Fable Of Polyphemus And Galatea Luis de Góngora 1627 Spanish Spanish
70 The Aeneid Virgil -19 Roman Latin
3374 Juan De Mairena Antonio Machado 1936 Spanish Spanish
482 Jakob Von Gunten Robert Walser 1909 Swiss German
275 The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1782 French French
3379 The Shadow Line Joseph Conrad 1917 British English
95 Orlando Virginia Woolf 1928 British English
591 Stories of Guy de Maupassant Guy de Maupassant 1880 French French
214 Life and Fate Vasily Grossman 1980 Russian Russian
318 If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Italo Calvino 1979 Italian Italian