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Canon de la narrativa universal del siglo XX

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

Members: 6 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
21,583 members, 312 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: alex68 (1), thecoroner (1), roby72 (1), ahef1963 (24)

Score: 13.81

2
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
63,768 members, 1,049 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (3), thecoroner (9), alex68 (11), ManWithAnAgenda (33), roby72 (60)

Score: 10.65

3
In Search of Lost Time
by Marcel Proust
3,477 members, 40 reviews
4.52 stars (4.52 stars)

Lists: alex68 (2), thecoroner (2), roby72 (3)

Score: 9.77

4
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
16,292 members, 243 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: alex68 (4), roby72 (4), thecoroner (5), ManWithAnAgenda (68)

Score: 9.73

5
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
18,158 members, 209 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (4), alex68 (5), roby72 (6), ManWithAnAgenda (67)

Score: 9.46

6
The Man Without Qualities
by Robert Musil
544 members, 8 reviews
4.34 stars (4.34 stars)

Lists: roby72 (2), alex68 (3), thecoroner (3)

Score: 9.44

7
A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
11,248 members, 124 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (11), thecoroner (18), alex68 (33), roby72 (36), ManWithAnAgenda (66)

Score: 8.84

8
Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre
8,985 members, 67 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: alex68 (9), thecoroner (10), roby72 (10), ahef1963 (21)

Score: 8.68

9
The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
10,477 members, 170 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (13), thecoroner (19), alex68 (35), roby72 (39), ManWithAnAgenda (65)

Score: 8.68

10
Memoirs of Hadrian
by Marguerite Yourcenar
4,862 members, 112 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (2), roby72 (23), thecoroner (27), alex68 (29)

Score: 8.67

11
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
18,280 members, 304 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: roby72 (7), alex68 (13), thecoroner (15), ManWithAnAgenda (30)

Score: 8.31

12
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
40,262 members, 606 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (11), alex68 (12), roby72 (16), ahef1963 (23)

Score: 8.17

13
Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
11,432 members, 240 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (16), thecoroner (29), ManWithAnAgenda (40), roby72 (63), alex68 (64)

Score: 8.15

14
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
71,986 members, 1,166 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (1), alex68 (63), ManWithAnAgenda (64), roby72 (90)

Score: 8.13

15
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino
11,344 members, 235 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: alex68 (10), roby72 (20), thecoroner (21), ahef1963 (26)

Score: 7.78

16
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
21,139 members, 421 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (15), thecoroner (35), ManWithAnAgenda (63), alex68 (67), roby72 (101)

Score: 7.76

17
The Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad
5,940 members, 96 reviews
3.64 stars (3.64 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (8), alex68 (24), roby72 (24), thecoroner (37)

Score: 7.62

18
Dubliners
by James Joyce
17,692 members, 204 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (35), roby72 (35), thecoroner (47), ManWithAnAgenda (62), alex68 (74)

Score: 7.61

19
The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
8,580 members, 148 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: roby72 (5), alex68 (7), thecoroner (7)

Score: 7.59

20
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
63,572 members, 1,010 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (2), ManWithAnAgenda (61), roby72 (68), alex68 (78)

Score: 7.53

21
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
9,249 members, 259 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (38), ahef1963 (41), ManWithAnAgenda (60), roby72 (62), alex68 (73)

Score: 7.42

22
Journey to the End of the Night
by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
5,499 members, 70 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: alex68 (6), thecoroner (6), roby72 (9)

Score: 7.42

23
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
17,981 members, 283 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (6), thecoroner (22), roby72 (40), alex68 (66)

Score: 7.4

24
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
51,741 members, 780 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (4), ManWithAnAgenda (59), roby72 (70), alex68 (83)

Score: 6.98

25
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
12,688 members, 229 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (20), roby72 (27), ahef1963 (31), alex68 (36)

Score: 6.97

26
Zeno's Conscience
by Italo Svevo
3,205 members, 43 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: alex68 (8), thecoroner (8), roby72 (11)

Score: 6.95

27
Death in Venice
by Thomas Mann
4,819 members, 98 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (7), roby72 (47), thecoroner (52), alex68 (60)

Score: 6.91

28
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
28,969 members, 519 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: roby72 (21), alex68 (23), thecoroner (28), ManWithAnAgenda (58)

Score: 6.88

29
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
15,597 members, 208 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: alex68 (15), ahef1963 (34), roby72 (34), thecoroner (51)

Score: 6.84

30
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
48,420 members, 691 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (5), ManWithAnAgenda (57), alex68 (84), roby72 (98)

Score: 6.72

31
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
31,898 members, 452 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: roby72 (15), ahef1963 (22), ManWithAnAgenda (56), alex68 (86)

Score: 6.66

32
Tender is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
11,735 members, 172 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (26), alex68 (37), roby72 (38), ahef1963 (51)

Score: 6.5

33
The Immoralist
by André Gide
3,068 members, 38 reviews
3.59 stars (3.59 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (12), alex68 (38), ahef1963 (49), roby72 (122)

Score: 6.48

34
The Plague
by Albert Camus
16,604 members, 220 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: roby72 (28), thecoroner (33), ManWithAnAgenda (34), alex68 (65)

Score: 6.47

35
Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
6,684 members, 99 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

Lists: roby72 (8), thecoroner (14), alex68 (17)

Score: 6.42

36
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
21,156 members, 337 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (17), thecoroner (36), alex68 (54), roby72 (106)

Score: 6.33

37
Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller
8,055 members, 114 reviews
3.63 stars (3.63 stars)

Lists: roby72 (12), thecoroner (13), alex68 (14)

Score: 6.32

38
Possession: A Romance
by A. S. Byatt
12,149 members, 272 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (14), ManWithAnAgenda (55), roby72 (65), alex68 (89)

Score: 6.25

39
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
9,885 members, 222 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (30), ahef1963 (33), ManWithAnAgenda (54), alex68 (90)

Score: 6.15

40
Herzog
by Saul Bellow
4,765 members, 58 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

Lists: roby72 (14), alex68 (16), thecoroner (17)

Score: 6.04

41
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
46,886 members, 912 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (19), ManWithAnAgenda (53), thecoroner (91), alex68 (93)

Score: 5.98

42
The Long Goodbye
by Raymond Chandler
4,764 members, 100 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (22), ahef1963 (47), alex68 (113), roby72 (118)

Score: 5.82

43
Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend
by Thomas Mann
3,692 members, 41 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: roby72 (13), thecoroner (16), alex68 (31)

Score: 5.8

44
Nostromo
by Joseph Conrad
4,299 members, 53 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (41), ahef1963 (45), alex68 (79), roby72 (91)

Score: 5.76

45
Disgrace
by J. M. Coetzee
10,057 members, 254 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (42), ahef1963 (46), alex68 (81), roby72 (96)

Score: 5.72

46
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
18,151 members, 395 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (42), ManWithAnAgenda (52), roby72 (78), alex68 (105)

Score: 5.66

47
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
4,796 members, 153 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (43), ahef1963 (48), alex68 (94), roby72 (119)

Score: 5.58

48
Absalom, Absalom!
by William Faulkner
6,940 members, 100 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: alex68 (19), roby72 (22), thecoroner (24)

Score: 5.57

49
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
30,736 members, 424 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (51), roby72 (66), thecoroner (80), alex68 (85)

Score: 5.56

50
Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
10,130 members, 131 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: roby72 (17), alex68 (22), thecoroner (34)

Score: 5.47

51
V.
by Thomas Pynchon
4,783 members, 33 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: alex68 (20), thecoroner (25), roby72 (25)

Score: 5.47

52
Life: A User's Manual
by Georges Perec
3,445 members, 48 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (23), roby72 (26), alex68 (30)

Score: 5.31

53
Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry
3,975 members, 77 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: alex68 (21), roby72 (30), thecoroner (31)

Score: 5.27

54
Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson
5,461 members, 117 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (50), roby72 (92), thecoroner (109), alex68 (122)

Score: 5.24

55
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
36,951 members, 1,059 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (10), ManWithAnAgenda (32), roby72 (113)

Score: 5.16

56
Le Grand Meaulnes
by Alain-Fournier
3,103 members, 71 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (49), thecoroner (113), roby72 (124), alex68 (129)

Score: 5.12

57
Hopscotch
by Julio Cortázar
4,476 members, 91 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: alex68 (27), thecoroner (32), roby72 (32)

Score: 5.12

58
Cathedral
by Raymond Carver
2,761 members, 89 reviews
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (48), thecoroner (119), roby72 (125), alex68 (131)

Score: 5.11

59
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
34,585 members, 607 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (9), ManWithAnAgenda (47), roby72 (107)

Score: 5.08

60
The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan Doyle
13,307 members, 265 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (18), ahef1963 (18), roby72 (137)

Score: 5.05

61
The Leopard
by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
5,854 members, 132 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: alex68 (18), roby72 (45), thecoroner (46)

Score: 5.02

62
The Tin Drum
by Günter Grass
6,997 members, 88 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: roby72 (18), alex68 (32), thecoroner (69)

Score: 5.01

63
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
by João Guimarães Rosa
800 members, 8 reviews
4.53 stars (4.53 stars)

Lists: alex68 (25), thecoroner (39), roby72 (42)

Score: 4.96

64
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
36,649 members, 489 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (8), alex68 (87), roby72 (99)

Score: 4.96

65
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
12,519 members, 283 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: alex68 (26), roby72 (31), thecoroner (64)

Score: 4.88

66
Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov
7,187 members, 127 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: roby72 (19), thecoroner (40), alex68 (72)

Score: 4.88

67
History
by Elsa Morante
1,231 members, 26 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: alex68 (28), roby72 (37), thecoroner (50)

Score: 4.87

68
Homo Faber
by Max Frisch
2,335 members, 27 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: roby72 (41), alex68 (42), thecoroner (44)

Score: 4.71

69
The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
27,141 members, 454 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (12), alex68 (92), roby72 (114)

Score: 4.67

70
Suite Française
by Irène Némirovsky
9,288 members, 330 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (14), roby72 (81), thecoroner (105)

Score: 4.65

71
The Golden Notebook
by Doris Lessing
4,909 members, 81 reviews
3.63 stars (3.63 stars)

Lists: alex68 (39), roby72 (43), thecoroner (53)

Score: 4.65

72
Of Human Bondage
by W. Somerset Maugham
7,715 members, 131 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (40), ManWithAnAgenda (46), roby72 (54)

Score: 4.6

73
That Awful Mess on Via Merulana
by Carlo Emilio Gadda
1,050 members, 23 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

Lists: alex68 (34), roby72 (55), thecoroner (62)

Score: 4.55

74
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
18,039 members, 426 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (45), alex68 (53), thecoroner (54)

Score: 4.5

75
The Late Mattia Pascal
by Luigi Pirandello
1,729 members, 23 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: roby72 (29), thecoroner (68), alex68 (71)

Score: 4.5

76
Auto-da-Fé
by Elias Canetti
2,167 members, 29 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (49), roby72 (52), alex68 (58)

Score: 4.45

77
See Under: Love
by David Grossman
623 members, 7 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (45), roby72 (48), alex68 (76)

Score: 4.42

78
Berlin Alexanderplatz
by Alfred Döblin
2,408 members, 35 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: alex68 (43), roby72 (57), thecoroner (71)

Score: 4.4

79
Pedro Páramo
by Juan Rulfo
2,753 members, 62 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: roby72 (53), thecoroner (57), alex68 (59)

Score: 4.38

80
White Noise
by Don DeLillo
9,941 members, 145 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: alex68 (55), thecoroner (55), roby72 (59)

Score: 4.38

81
Steppenwolf
by Hermann Hesse
12,270 members, 165 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: roby72 (33), thecoroner (59), alex68 (101)

Score: 4.37

82
The Radetzky March
by Joseph Roth
2,565 members, 67 reviews
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

Lists: roby72 (46), alex68 (61), thecoroner (74)

Score: 4.33

83
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
by Thornton Wilder
4,333 members, 105 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (48), roby72 (50), alex68 (102)

Score: 4.28

84
The Bridge on the Drina
by Ivo Andrić
2,084 members, 57 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: roby72 (58), alex68 (62), thecoroner (67)

Score: 4.27

85
The Naked and the Dead
by Norman Mailer
3,809 members, 41 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: roby72 (44), alex68 (70), thecoroner (84)

Score: 4.26

86
American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
7,406 members, 165 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: roby72 (51), thecoroner (70), alex68 (77)

Score: 4.23

87
The President
by Miguel Ángel Asturias
854 members, 15 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: alex68 (45), thecoroner (73), roby72 (105)

Score: 4.16

88
If This Is a Man
by Primo Levi
5,428 members, 91 reviews
4.31 stars (4.31 stars)

Lists: roby72 (56), alex68 (75), thecoroner (81)

Score: 4.16

89
Conversation in the Cathedral
by Mario Vargas Llosa
1,099 members, 23 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: alex68 (52), roby72 (74), thecoroner (96)

Score: 4.13

90
Molloy
by Samuel Beckett
1,024 members, 21 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: alex68 (47), roby72 (77), thecoroner (104)

Score: 4.13

91
Sons and Lovers
by D. H. Lawrence
8,733 members, 89 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (44), roby72 (84), alex68 (107)

Score: 4.12

92
Conversations in Sicily
by Elio Vittorini
586 members, 7 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: alex68 (51), thecoroner (83), roby72 (93)

Score: 4.11

93
Cassandra
by Christa Wolf
675 members, 13 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: alex68 (50), roby72 (86), thecoroner (95)

Score: 4.1

94
Petersburg
by Andrei Bely
1,361 members, 20 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: alex68 (56), thecoroner (58), roby72 (130)

Score: 4.1

95
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
11,713 members, 181 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (52), roby72 (75), alex68 (108)

Score: 4.09

96
My Name Is Red
by Orhan Pamuk
6,525 members, 155 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: roby72 (61), alex68 (80), thecoroner (85)

Score: 4.09

97
Between the Acts
by Virginia Woolf
1,800 members, 19 reviews
3.65 stars (3.65 stars)

Lists: roby72 (49), thecoroner (86), alex68 (110)

Score: 4.06

98
The Lover
by Marguerite Duras
4,598 members, 139 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (44), thecoroner (78), alex68 (142)

Score: 4.06

99
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera
20,720 members, 248 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: roby72 (67), thecoroner (79), alex68 (88)

Score: 4.05

100
Light in August
by William Faulkner
8,454 members, 96 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (56), thecoroner (87), alex68 (103)

Score: 4.03

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