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

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Rank Title Author Added

1

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

94,702 members

1,451 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

2

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

83,228 members

1,306 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

3

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

77,446 members

1,199 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

4

by George Orwell

70,399 members

1,009 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

5

by Ray Bradbury

63,715 members

1,144 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

6

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

61,760 members

872 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

7

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

49,347 members

779 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

8

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

48,669 members

1,238 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

9

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

44,775 members

727 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

10

by Albert Camus

41,051 members

584 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

11

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

39,330 members

523 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

12

by Vladimir Nabokov

35,404 members

637 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

13

by Stephen King

27,446 members

530 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

14

by Truman Capote

26,999 members

519 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

15

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

25,825 members

375 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

16

And Then There Were None

by Agatha Christie

25,707 members

619 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

17

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

23,970 members

514 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

18

A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

23,646 members

513 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

19

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

23,609 members

253 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

20

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

23,471 members

463 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

21

by Virginia Woolf

23,373 members

379 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

22

22,991 members

271 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

23

by Albert Camus

21,223 members

281 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

24

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

19,271 members

526 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

25

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

18,008 members

342 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

26

American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

15,962 members

338 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

27

by John Steinbeck

15,238 members

238 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

28

The Shipping News

by Annie Proulx

14,387 members

277 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

29

14,315 members

316 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

30

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

14,189 members

286 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

31

A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

13,938 members

169 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

32

by Upton Sinclair

13,368 members

147 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

33

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

12,025 members

272 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

34

by Raymond Chandler

11,587 members

315 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

35

The New York Trilogy

10,912 members

174 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

36

Suite Française

by Irène Némirovsky

10,657 members

356 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

37

by Rudyard Kipling

10,259 members

220 reviews

3.8

2 Members: cipeciop, Carlos_Cano

38

Wide Sargasso Sea

9,523 members

275 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

39

The Quiet American

by Graham Greene

8,758 members

206 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

40

The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

7,278 members

109 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

41

The End of the Affair

by Graham Greene

7,268 members

193 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

42

The Razor's Edge

by W. Somerset Maugham

6,965 members

132 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

43

The Daughter of Time

by Josephine Tey

6,711 members

252 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

44

Winesburg, Ohio

by Sherwood Anderson

6,570 members

137 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

45

by Marguerite Duras

6,115 members

168 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

46

Death in Venice

6,032 members

119 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

47

The Nine Tailors

by Dorothy L. Sayers

4,872 members

124 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

48

The Wings of the Dove

3,777 members

49 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: cipeciop, Carlos_Cano

49

3,704 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

3,026 members

68 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

51

A High Wind in Jamaica

by Richard Hughes

2,391 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

2,086 members

58 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

54

by Ford Madox Ford

1,992 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

1,679 members

27 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Carlos_Cano

57

Reflections in a Golden Eye

by Carson McCullers

1,186 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

714 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

421 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

57,598 members

821 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Carlos_Cano

65

The Little Prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

53,419 members

876 reviews

4.2

Member: Carlos_Cano

66

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

50,350 members

784 reviews

4.2

Member: Carlos_Cano

67

by Joseph Heller

44,528 members

580 reviews

4.1

Member: Carlos_Cano

68

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

35,599 members

565 reviews

3.8

Member: Carlos_Cano

69

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

31,031 members

447 reviews

3.9

Member: Carlos_Cano

70

by Jack Kerouac

30,508 members

426 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Carlos_Cano

71

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

28,804 members

418 reviews

4

Member: Carlos_Cano

72

27,539 members

378 reviews

4

Member: Carlos_Cano

73

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera

24,981 members

307 reviews

4

Member: Carlos_Cano

74

The Name of the Rose

21,821 members

336 reviews

4.2

Member: Carlos_Cano

75

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

by Patrick Süskind

20,385 members

499 reviews

3.9

Member: Carlos_Cano

76

The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

19,614 members

249 reviews

4

Member: Carlos_Cano

77

by Haruki Murakami

19,114 members

395 reviews

3.9

Member: Carlos_Cano

78

by Ralph Ellison

18,478 members

232 reviews

4

Member: Carlos_Cano

79

by William Faulkner

16,928 members

239 reviews

3.9

Member: Carlos_Cano

80

The World According to Garp

16,324 members

208 reviews

4.1

Member: Carlos_Cano

81

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

15,899 members

337 reviews

4

Member: Carlos_Cano

82

Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie

15,608 members

271 reviews

4

Member: Carlos_Cano

83

by Willa Cather

15,315 members

311 reviews

3.9

Member: Carlos_Cano

84

by Hermann Hesse

15,290 members

215 reviews

4

Member: Carlos_Cano

85

The Metamorphosis [novella]

15,285 members

280 reviews

3.9

Member: Carlos_Cano

86

by David Foster Wallace

15,041 members

271 reviews

4.2

Member: Carlos_Cano

87

Tender Is the Night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

14,624 members

195 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Carlos_Cano

88

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

14,606 members

232 reviews

4

Member: Carlos_Cano

89

The Neverending Story

by Michael Ende

13,960 members

253 reviews

4.1

Member: Carlos_Cano

90

by Boris Pasternak

13,037 members

173 reviews

3.8

Member: Carlos_Cano

91

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison

12,623 members

136 reviews

4

Member: Carlos_Cano

92

12,448 members

182 reviews

3.8

Member: Carlos_Cano

93

by J. M. Coetzee

11,855 members

299 reviews

3.9

Member: Carlos_Cano

94

by Jean-Paul Sartre

11,549 members

102 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Carlos_Cano

95

The Magic Mountain

11,298 members

196 reviews

4.2

Member: Carlos_Cano

96

Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

10,470 members

105 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Carlos_Cano

97

Light in August

by William Faulkner

10,437 members

113 reviews

4

Member: Carlos_Cano

98

by Robert Graves

10,157 members

181 reviews

4.2

Member: Carlos_Cano

99

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

by John le Carré

9,908 members

270 reviews

4

Member: Carlos_Cano

100

Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller

9,868 members

146 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Carlos_Cano

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Started: Carlos_Cano
October 2024
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