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Canon de la narrativa universal del siglo XX

Based on bookaward: Canon de la narrativa universal del siglo XX

Members: 4 participating members (show all)

All members' list: [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7Sort: Score | Title | Author | Date | CK Order
1
Ulysses
by James Joyce
19,506 members, 270 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (1), roby72 (1), ahef1963 (24)

Score: 9.81

2
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
57,845 members, 951 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (3), thecoroner (9), roby72 (60)

Score: 6.79

3
In Search of Lost Time
by Marcel Proust
3,056 members, 39 reviews
4.51 stars (4.51 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (2), roby72 (3)

Score: 6.4

4
The Man Without Qualities
by Robert Musil
454 members, 7 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

Lists: roby72 (2), thecoroner (3)

Score: 6.4

5
Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre
8,121 members, 60 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (10), roby72 (10), ahef1963 (21)

Score: 6.37

6
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
37,055 members, 555 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (11), roby72 (16), ahef1963 (23)

Score: 6.02

7
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
16,466 members, 259 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (6), thecoroner (22), roby72 (40)

Score: 5.99

8
A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
10,269 members, 115 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (11), thecoroner (18), roby72 (36)

Score: 5.77

9
The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
8,446 members, 128 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (13), thecoroner (19), roby72 (39)

Score: 5.62

10
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino
10,431 members, 218 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: roby72 (20), thecoroner (21), ahef1963 (26)

Score: 5.53

11
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
14,767 members, 224 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: roby72 (4), thecoroner (5)

Score: 5.5

12
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
16,661 members, 188 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (4), roby72 (6)

Score: 5.38

13
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
11,738 members, 216 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (20), roby72 (27), ahef1963 (31)

Score: 5.34

14
1984
by George Orwell
65,634 members, 1,055 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (1), roby72 (90)

Score: 5.3

15
Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
10,374 members, 218 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (16), thecoroner (29), roby72 (63)

Score: 5.14

16
The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
7,618 members, 119 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: roby72 (5), thecoroner (7)

Score: 5.13

17
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
19,308 members, 388 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (15), thecoroner (35), roby72 (101)

Score: 4.94

18
Tender is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
10,709 members, 161 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (26), roby72 (38), ahef1963 (51)

Score: 4.88

19
Journey to the End of the Night
by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
4,971 members, 65 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (6), roby72 (9)

Score: 4.87

20
The Immoralist
by André Gide
2,825 members, 33 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (12), ahef1963 (49), roby72 (122)

Score: 4.87

21
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
19,110 members, 296 reviews
3.57 stars (3.57 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (17), thecoroner (36), roby72 (106)

Score: 4.85

22
Dubliners
by James Joyce
16,082 members, 181 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (35), roby72 (35), thecoroner (47)

Score: 4.82

23
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
14,165 members, 174 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (34), roby72 (34), thecoroner (51)

Score: 4.81

24
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
59,250 members, 944 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (2), roby72 (68)

Score: 4.76

25
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
8,305 members, 235 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (38), ahef1963 (41), roby72 (62)

Score: 4.62

26
La coscienza di Zeno
by Italo Svevo
2,890 members, 41 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (8), roby72 (11)

Score: 4.58

27
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
16,576 members, 288 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: roby72 (7), thecoroner (15)

Score: 4.49

28
Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
5,894 members, 86 reviews
4.39 stars (4.39 stars)

Lists: roby72 (8), thecoroner (14)

Score: 4.45

29
Nostromo
by Joseph Conrad
3,919 members, 48 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (41), ahef1963 (45), roby72 (91)

Score: 4.42

30
Disgrace
by J. M. Coetzee
9,419 members, 239 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (42), ahef1963 (46), roby72 (96)

Score: 4.39

31
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
4,311 members, 140 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (43), ahef1963 (48), roby72 (119)

Score: 4.29

32
Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller
7,429 members, 104 reviews
3.64 stars (3.64 stars)

Lists: roby72 (12), thecoroner (13)

Score: 4.26

33
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
46,692 members, 699 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (4), roby72 (70)

Score: 4.21

35
Herzog
by Saul Bellow
4,386 members, 55 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

Lists: roby72 (14), thecoroner (17)

Score: 4.04

36
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
43,902 members, 598 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (5), roby72 (98)

Score: 3.95

37
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
28,988 members, 385 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: roby72 (15), ahef1963 (22)

Score: 3.88

38
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
39,835 members, 624 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (7), roby72 (115)

Score: 3.68

39
Absalom, Absalom!
by William Faulkner
6,314 members, 87 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: roby72 (22), thecoroner (24)

Score: 3.65

40
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
33,963 members, 447 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (8), roby72 (99)

Score: 3.65

41
Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
8,938 members, 120 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: roby72 (17), thecoroner (34)

Score: 3.63

42
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
26,833 members, 471 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: roby72 (21), thecoroner (28)

Score: 3.61

43
Life: A User's Manual
by Georges Perec
3,090 members, 44 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (23), roby72 (26)

Score: 3.6

44
Memoirs of Hadrian
by Marguerite Yourcenar
4,241 members, 97 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: roby72 (23), thecoroner (27)

Score: 3.58

45
V.
by Thomas Pynchon
4,497 members, 31 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (25), roby72 (25)

Score: 3.58

46
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
31,289 members, 568 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (9), roby72 (107)

Score: 3.55

47
Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov
6,712 members, 117 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: roby72 (19), thecoroner (40)

Score: 3.51

48
Possession: A Romance
by A. S. Byatt
11,405 members, 257 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (14), roby72 (65)

Score: 3.48

49
The Handmaid’s Tale
by Margaret Atwood
32,685 members, 941 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (10), roby72 (113)

Score: 3.48

50
The Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad
5,388 members, 88 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: roby72 (24), thecoroner (37)

Score: 3.43

51
The Plague
by Albert Camus
14,826 members, 184 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: roby72 (28), thecoroner (33)

Score: 3.41

52
Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry
3,565 members, 68 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: roby72 (30), thecoroner (31)

Score: 3.4

53
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
9,042 members, 204 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (30), ahef1963 (33)

Score: 3.38

54
The Old Man and The Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
24,178 members, 398 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (12), roby72 (114)

Score: 3.37

55
Hopscotch
by Julio Cortázar
3,943 members, 84 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (32), roby72 (32)

Score: 3.36

56
The Tin Drum
by Günter Grass
6,465 members, 80 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: roby72 (18), thecoroner (69)

Score: 3.33

57
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
41,965 members, 827 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (19), thecoroner (91)

Score: 3.21

58
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
by João Guimarães Rosa
647 members, 6 reviews
4.51 stars (4.51 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (39), roby72 (42)

Score: 3.17

59
Homo Faber
by Max Frisch
2,250 members, 30 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

Lists: roby72 (41), thecoroner (44)

Score: 3.13

60
History
by Elsa Morante
1,166 members, 24 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: roby72 (37), thecoroner (50)

Score: 3.13

61
The Late Mattia Pascal
by Luigi Pirandello
1,495 members, 23 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: roby72 (29), thecoroner (68)

Score: 3.12

62
Steppenwolf
by Hermann Hesse
11,244 members, 154 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: roby72 (33), thecoroner (59)

Score: 3.11

63
The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
11,511 members, 241 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (18), roby72 (137)

Score: 3.11

64
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
11,431 members, 257 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: roby72 (31), thecoroner (64)

Score: 3.11

65
The Leopard
by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
5,162 members, 121 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: roby72 (45), thecoroner (46)

Score: 3.08

66
Of Human Bondage
by W. Somerset Maugham
7,088 members, 116 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (40), roby72 (54)

Score: 3.07

67
See Under: Love
by David Grossman
595 members, 5 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (45), roby72 (48)

Score: 3.06

68
The Golden Notebook
by Doris Lessing
4,475 members, 71 reviews
3.63 stars (3.63 stars)

Lists: roby72 (43), thecoroner (53)

Score: 3.05

69
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
by Thornton Wilder
3,885 members, 99 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (48), roby72 (50)

Score: 3.02

70
Death in Venice
by Thomas Mann
4,387 members, 91 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: roby72 (47), thecoroner (52)

Score: 3.02

71
Auto-da-Fé
by Elias Canetti
1,958 members, 26 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (49), roby72 (52)

Score: 3

72
Pedro Páramo
by Juan Rulfo
2,308 members, 55 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: roby72 (53), thecoroner (57)

Score: 2.94

73
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
16,063 members, 353 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (42), roby72 (78)

Score: 2.92

74
White Noise
by Don DeLillo
9,141 members, 128 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (55), roby72 (59)

Score: 2.91

75
The Radetzky March
by Joseph Roth
2,266 members, 61 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: roby72 (46), thecoroner (74)

Score: 2.9

76
That Awful Mess on Via Merulana
by Carlo Emilio Gadda
932 members, 20 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

Lists: roby72 (55), thecoroner (62)

Score: 2.89

77
Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
6,341 members, 131 reviews
3.62 stars (3.62 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (43), roby72 (83)

Score: 2.89

78
American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
6,775 members, 159 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: roby72 (51), thecoroner (70)

Score: 2.88

79
Sons and Lovers
by D. H. Lawrence
8,131 members, 87 reviews
3.57 stars (3.57 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (44), roby72 (84)

Score: 2.87

80
The Naked and the Dead
by Norman Mailer
3,494 members, 37 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: roby72 (44), thecoroner (84)

Score: 2.87

81
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
10,619 members, 173 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (52), roby72 (75)

Score: 2.85

82
The Bridge on the Drina
by Ivo Andrić
1,840 members, 47 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: roby72 (58), thecoroner (67)

Score: 2.85

83
Berlin Alexanderplatz
by Alfred Döblin
2,078 members, 29 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: roby72 (57), thecoroner (71)

Score: 2.83

84
Between the Acts
by Virginia Woolf
1,626 members, 16 reviews
3.65 stars (3.65 stars)

Lists: roby72 (49), thecoroner (86)

Score: 2.83

85
If This Is a Man
by Primo Levi
4,880 members, 90 reviews
4.3 stars (4.3 stars)

Lists: roby72 (56), thecoroner (81)

Score: 2.8

86
Light in August
by William Faulkner
7,741 members, 84 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (56), thecoroner (87)

Score: 2.77

87
Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
23,350 members, 345 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (54), thecoroner (93)

Score: 2.76

88
The Power and the Glory
by Graham Greene
6,334 members, 92 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (58), thecoroner (88)

Score: 2.76

89
My Name is Red
by Orhan Pamuk
5,992 members, 146 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: roby72 (61), thecoroner (85)

Score: 2.75

90
Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman
2,460 members, 73 reviews
4.36 stars (4.36 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (65), roby72 (80)

Score: 2.75

91
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
28,043 members, 381 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: roby72 (66), thecoroner (80)

Score: 2.74

92
The Long Goodbye
by Raymond Chandler
4,280 members, 91 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (47), roby72 (118)

Score: 2.74

93
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera
19,167 members, 226 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: roby72 (67), thecoroner (79)

Score: 2.74

94
Man's Fate
by André Malraux
2,062 members, 30 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: roby72 (64), thecoroner (92)

Score: 2.71

95
I, Claudius
by Robert Graves
7,600 members, 138 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (50), roby72 (126)

Score: 2.7

96
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
23,713 members, 326 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (53), roby72 (123)

Score: 2.68

97
The Human Factor
by Graham Greene
2,698 members, 32 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (68), thecoroner (98)

Score: 2.66

98
Call It Sleep
by Henry Roth
1,796 members, 35 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (61), roby72 (111)

Score: 2.66

99
The Good Soldier Svejk
by Jaroslav Hašek
2,874 members, 46 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: roby72 (69), thecoroner (99)

Score: 2.66

100
Goodbye to Berlin
by Christopher Isherwood
1,606 members, 34 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (66), roby72 (108)

Score: 2.64

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