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
380 American Pastoral Philip Roth 1997 American English
81 The Castle Franz Kafka 1926 Czech German
1359 Illuminations Arthur Rimbaud 1886 French French
105 Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 1847 British English
186 Bonjour Tristesse Francoise Sagan 1954 French French
3386 Human Poems César Vallejo 1939 Peruvian Spanish
40 Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1862 French French
509 Sanctuary William Faulkner 1931 American English
593 Complete Poems of Giacomo Leopardi Giacomo Leopardi 1831 Italian Italian
328 Das Kapital Karl Marx 1867 German German
6425 Theory And History Of Ideological Production Juan Carlos Rodríguez 1993 Spanish Spanish
1469 Last Afternoons With Teresa Juan Marsé 1966 Spanish Spanish
460 Bartleby the Scrivener Herman Melville 1853 American English
121 Bleak House Charles Dickens 1852 British English
211 The Tempest William Shakespeare 1623 British English
263 The Tartar Steppe Dino Buzzati 1940 Italian Italian
9223 Poems Jorge Luis Borges 2010 Argentinian Spanish
77 Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855 American English
3389 La Realidad Y El Deseo Luis Cernuda 1936 Spanish Spanish
181 Light in August William Faulkner 1932 American English
592 The Sleepwalkers Hermann Broch 1932 Austrian German
4609 Las Personas Del Verbo Jaime Gil de Biedma
 1975 Spanish Spanish
2567 Poesías Completas Antonio Machado 1940 Spanish Spanish
4757 Claros Del Bosque María Zambrano 1977 Spanish Spanish
2053 Spain, Take This Chalice from Me César Vallejo 1939 Peruvian Spanish
672 Three Trapped Tigers Guillermo Cabrera Infante 1965 Cuban Spanish
272 The Devil to Pay in the Backlands Joao Guimaraes Rosa 1956 Brazilian Portuguese
1139 The Unquiet Grave Cyril Connolly 1944 British English
491 Bouvard et Pécuchet Gustave Flaubert 1881 French French
123 Memoirs of Hadrian Marguerite Yourcenar 1951 French French