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Canon de la narrativa universal del s. XX (cicutadry)

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1

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

94,651 members

1,451 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

2

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

83,201 members

1,307 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

3

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

77,392 members

1,199 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

4

by George Orwell

70,336 members

1,010 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

5

by Ray Bradbury

63,668 members

1,143 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

6

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

61,738 members

871 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

7

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

49,322 members

779 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

8

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

48,627 members

1,238 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

9

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

44,794 members

727 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

10

by Albert Camus

41,019 members

584 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

11

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

39,295 members

520 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

12

by Vladimir Nabokov

35,427 members

637 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

13

by Stephen King

27,420 members

530 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

14

by Truman Capote

26,981 members

519 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

15

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

25,806 members

374 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

16

And Then There Were None

by Agatha Christie

25,676 members

619 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

17

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

23,948 members

514 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

18

A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

23,631 members

512 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

19

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

23,592 members

253 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

20

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

23,457 members

461 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

21

by Virginia Woolf

23,365 members

379 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

22

22,975 members

270 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

23

by Albert Camus

21,210 members

281 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

24

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

19,246 members

526 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

25

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

17,984 members

342 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

26

American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

16,208 members

337 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

27

by John Steinbeck

15,225 members

238 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

28

The Shipping News

by Annie Proulx

14,380 members

277 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

29

14,304 members

315 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

30

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

14,173 members

286 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

31

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

13,929 members

169 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

32

by Upton Sinclair

13,359 members

147 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

33

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

12,015 members

272 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

34

by Raymond Chandler

11,579 members

315 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

35

The New York Trilogy

10,896 members

174 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

36

Suite Française

by Irène Némirovsky

10,649 members

357 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

37

by Rudyard Kipling

10,249 members

220 reviews

3.8

2 Members: cipeciop, Carlos_Cano

38

Wide Sargasso Sea

9,511 members

275 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

39

The Quiet American

by Graham Greene

8,754 members

206 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

40

The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

7,273 members

109 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

41

The End of the Affair

by Graham Greene

7,262 members

192 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

42

The Razor's Edge

by W. Somerset Maugham

6,955 members

131 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

43

The Daughter of Time

by Josephine Tey

6,703 members

251 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

44

Winesburg, Ohio

by Sherwood Anderson

6,569 members

137 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

45

by Marguerite Duras

6,113 members

168 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

46

Death in Venice

6,027 members

119 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

47

The Nine Tailors

by Dorothy L. Sayers

4,866 members

124 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

48

The Wings of the Dove

3,776 members

49 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: cipeciop, Carlos_Cano

49

3,700 members

51 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: cipeciop, Carlos_Cano

50

Memoirs of Hadrian ; and, Reflections on the composition of Memoirs of Hadrian

by Marguerite Yourcenar

3,021 members

68 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

51

A High Wind in Jamaica

by Richard Hughes

2,387 members

70 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

52

by Dashiell Hammett

2,291 members

52 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

53

The Day of the Locust

by Nathanael West

2,084 members

58 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

54

by Ford Madox Ford

1,993 members

29 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

55

by W. H. Hudson

1,912 members

28 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

56

The Old Wives' Tale

by Arnold Bennett

1,678 members

27 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

57

Reflections in a Golden Eye

by Carson McCullers

1,185 members

41 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

58

A Grain of Wheat

by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

1,130 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

59

Miss Lonelyhearts

by Nathanael West

712 members

31 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

60

The Pilgrim Hawk

by Glenway Wescott

526 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

61

by Selma Lagerlöf

422 members

12 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cipeciop, Carlos_Cano

62

The Fall of the King

by Johannes V. Jensen

372 members

14 reviews

3.9

2 Members: cipeciop, Carlos_Cano

63

The Sacred Fount

274 members

4 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: cipeciop, Carlos_Cano

64

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

57,567 members

820 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Carlos_Cano

65

The Little Prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

53,352 members

875 reviews

4.2

Member: Carlos_Cano

66

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

50,315 members

784 reviews

4.2

Member: Carlos_Cano

67

by Joseph Heller

44,496 members

580 reviews

4.1

Member: Carlos_Cano

68

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

35,570 members

564 reviews

3.8

Member: Carlos_Cano

69

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

31,023 members

446 reviews

3.9

Member: Carlos_Cano

70

by Jack Kerouac

30,521 members

426 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Carlos_Cano

71

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

28,786 members

418 reviews

4

Member: Carlos_Cano

72

27,519 members

378 reviews

4

Member: Carlos_Cano

73

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera

24,975 members

307 reviews

4

Member: Carlos_Cano

74

The Name of the Rose

21,826 members

336 reviews

4.2

Member: Carlos_Cano

75

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

by Patrick Süskind

20,369 members

498 reviews

3.9

Member: Carlos_Cano

76

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

19,595 members

248 reviews

4

Member: Carlos_Cano

77

by Haruki Murakami

19,099 members

395 reviews

3.9

Member: Carlos_Cano

78

by Ralph Ellison

18,464 members

232 reviews

4

Member: Carlos_Cano

79

by William Faulkner

16,915 members

238 reviews

3.9

Member: Carlos_Cano

80

The World According to Garp

16,318 members

208 reviews

4.1

Member: Carlos_Cano

81

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

15,884 members

336 reviews

4

Member: Carlos_Cano

82

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

15,595 members

271 reviews

4

Member: Carlos_Cano

83

by Willa Cather

15,308 members

311 reviews

3.9

Member: Carlos_Cano

84

The Metamorphosis [novella]

15,298 members

279 reviews

3.9

Member: Carlos_Cano

85

by Hermann Hesse

15,282 members

215 reviews

4

Member: Carlos_Cano

86

by David Foster Wallace

15,023 members

271 reviews

4.2

Member: Carlos_Cano

87

Tender Is the Night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

14,616 members

195 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Carlos_Cano

88

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

14,594 members

232 reviews

4

Member: Carlos_Cano

89

The Neverending Story

by Michael Ende

13,947 members

252 reviews

4.1

Member: Carlos_Cano

90

by Boris Pasternak

13,029 members

173 reviews

3.8

Member: Carlos_Cano

91

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

12,617 members

138 reviews

4

Member: Carlos_Cano

92

12,442 members

182 reviews

3.8

Member: Carlos_Cano

93

by J. M. Coetzee

11,854 members

299 reviews

3.9

Member: Carlos_Cano

94

by Jean-Paul Sartre

11,540 members

102 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Carlos_Cano

95

The Magic Mountain

11,283 members

196 reviews

4.2

Member: Carlos_Cano

96

Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

10,463 members

105 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Carlos_Cano

97

Light in August

by William Faulkner

10,430 members

113 reviews

4

Member: Carlos_Cano

98

by Robert Graves

10,152 members

181 reviews

4.2

Member: Carlos_Cano

99

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

by John le Carré

9,902 members

270 reviews

4

Member: Carlos_Cano

100

Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller

9,865 members

146 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Carlos_Cano

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Started: Carlos_Cano
October 2024
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