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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
20,433 members, 289 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

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

Score: 9.81

2
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
60,570 members, 1,002 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

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

Score: 6.79

3
In Search of Lost Time
by Marcel Proust
3,224 members, 39 reviews
4.52 stars (4.52 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (2), roby72 (3)

Score: 6.4

4
The Man Without Qualities
by Robert Musil
499 members, 7 reviews
4.36 stars (4.36 stars)

Lists: roby72 (2), thecoroner (3)

Score: 6.4

5
Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre
8,512 members, 66 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
38,487 members, 578 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

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

Score: 6.02

7
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
17,167 members, 272 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
10,712 members, 117 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

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

Score: 5.77

9
The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
9,617 members, 155 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
10,846 members, 228 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

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

Score: 5.53

11
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
15,469 members, 238 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: roby72 (4), thecoroner (5)

Score: 5.5

12
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
17,397 members, 203 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (4), roby72 (6)

Score: 5.38

13
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
12,196 members, 221 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

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

Score: 5.34

14
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
68,773 members, 1,117 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (1), roby72 (90)

Score: 5.3

15
Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
10,869 members, 229 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

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

Score: 5.14

16
The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
8,102 members, 137 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: roby72 (5), thecoroner (7)

Score: 5.13

17
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
20,109 members, 403 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
11,159 members, 164 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

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

Score: 4.88

19
Journey to the End of the Night
by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
5,238 members, 68 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (6), roby72 (9)

Score: 4.87

20
The Immoralist
by André Gide
2,945 members, 36 reviews
3.59 stars (3.59 stars)

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

Score: 4.87

21
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
20,128 members, 319 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

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

Score: 4.85

22
Dubliners
by James Joyce
16,763 members, 196 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
14,850 members, 189 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

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

Score: 4.81

24
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
61,150 members, 980 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (2), roby72 (68)

Score: 4.76

25
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
8,755 members, 251 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

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

Score: 4.62

26
Zeno's Conscience
by Italo Svevo
3,029 members, 43 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (8), roby72 (11)

Score: 4.58

27
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
17,411 members, 291 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: roby72 (7), thecoroner (15)

Score: 4.49

28
Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
6,266 members, 94 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

Lists: roby72 (8), thecoroner (14)

Score: 4.45

29
Nostromo
by Joseph Conrad
4,080 members, 53 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

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

Score: 4.42

30
Disgrace
by J. M. Coetzee
9,731 members, 248 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
4,534 members, 144 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

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

Score: 4.29

32
Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller
7,712 members, 110 reviews
3.63 stars (3.63 stars)

Lists: roby72 (12), thecoroner (13)

Score: 4.26

33
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
49,822 members, 745 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (4), roby72 (70)

Score: 4.21

35
Herzog
by Saul Bellow
4,570 members, 58 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

Lists: roby72 (14), thecoroner (17)

Score: 4.04

36
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
46,103 members, 648 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (5), roby72 (98)

Score: 3.95

37
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
30,399 members, 415 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: roby72 (15), ahef1963 (22)

Score: 3.88

38
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
41,874 members, 659 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (7), roby72 (115)

Score: 3.68

39
Absalom, Absalom!
by William Faulkner
6,598 members, 95 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: roby72 (22), thecoroner (24)

Score: 3.65

40
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
35,267 members, 472 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (8), roby72 (99)

Score: 3.65

41
Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
9,391 members, 124 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: roby72 (17), thecoroner (34)

Score: 3.63

42
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
27,871 members, 500 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: roby72 (21), thecoroner (28)

Score: 3.61

43
Life A User's Manual
by Georges Perec
3,278 members, 45 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (23), roby72 (26)

Score: 3.6

44
Memoirs of Hadrian
by Marguerite Yourcenar
4,536 members, 106 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: roby72 (23), thecoroner (27)

Score: 3.58

45
V.
by Thomas Pynchon
4,611 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
32,891 members, 582 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (9), roby72 (107)

Score: 3.55

47
Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov
6,966 members, 124 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: roby72 (19), thecoroner (40)

Score: 3.51

48
Possession: A Romance
by A. S. Byatt
11,741 members, 264 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (14), roby72 (65)

Score: 3.48

49
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
34,819 members, 1,007 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (10), roby72 (113)

Score: 3.48

50
The Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad
5,662 members, 94 reviews
3.62 stars (3.62 stars)

Lists: roby72 (24), thecoroner (37)

Score: 3.43

51
The Plague
by Albert Camus
15,695 members, 200 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: roby72 (28), thecoroner (33)

Score: 3.41

52
Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry
3,765 members, 75 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: roby72 (30), thecoroner (31)

Score: 3.4

53
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
9,408 members, 211 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
25,580 members, 428 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (12), roby72 (114)

Score: 3.37

55
Hopscotch
by Julio Cortázar
4,226 members, 89 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (32), roby72 (32)

Score: 3.36

56
The Tin Drum
by Günter Grass
6,728 members, 84 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: roby72 (18), thecoroner (69)

Score: 3.33

57
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
44,346 members, 875 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (19), thecoroner (91)

Score: 3.21

58
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
by João Guimarães Rosa
718 members, 7 reviews
4.52 stars (4.52 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (39), roby72 (42)

Score: 3.17

59
Homo Faber
by Max Frisch
2,338 members, 29 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: roby72 (41), thecoroner (44)

Score: 3.13

60
History
by Elsa Morante
1,221 members, 25 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: roby72 (37), thecoroner (50)

Score: 3.13

61
The Late Mattia Pascal
by Luigi Pirandello
1,610 members, 23 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: roby72 (29), thecoroner (68)

Score: 3.12

62
Steppenwolf
by Hermann Hesse
11,752 members, 159 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
12,309 members, 255 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (18), roby72 (137)

Score: 3.11

64
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
11,882 members, 267 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: roby72 (31), thecoroner (64)

Score: 3.11

65
The Leopard
by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
5,514 members, 126 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: roby72 (45), thecoroner (46)

Score: 3.08

66
Of Human Bondage
by W. Somerset Maugham
7,373 members, 124 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (40), roby72 (54)

Score: 3.07

67
See Under: Love
by David Grossman
596 members, 7 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (45), roby72 (48)

Score: 3.06

68
The Golden Notebook
by Doris Lessing
4,685 members, 78 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
4,078 members, 101 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (48), roby72 (50)

Score: 3.02

70
Death in Venice
by Thomas Mann
4,633 members, 90 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: roby72 (47), thecoroner (52)

Score: 3.02

71
Auto-da-Fé
by Elias Canetti
2,059 members, 26 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (49), roby72 (52)

Score: 3

72
Pedro Páramo
by Juan Rulfo
2,521 members, 60 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: roby72 (53), thecoroner (57)

Score: 2.94

73
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
16,972 members, 372 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (42), roby72 (78)

Score: 2.92

74
White Noise
by Don DeLillo
9,523 members, 141 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (55), roby72 (59)

Score: 2.91

75
The Radetzky March
by Joseph Roth
2,415 members, 64 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
983 members, 22 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

Lists: roby72 (55), thecoroner (62)

Score: 2.89

77
Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
6,584 members, 139 reviews
3.62 stars (3.62 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (43), roby72 (83)

Score: 2.89

78
American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
7,044 members, 162 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: roby72 (51), thecoroner (70)

Score: 2.88

79
Sons and Lovers
by D. H. Lawrence
8,440 members, 89 reviews
3.58 stars (3.58 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (44), roby72 (84)

Score: 2.87

80
The Naked and the Dead
by Norman Mailer
3,646 members, 39 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: roby72 (44), thecoroner (84)

Score: 2.87

81
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
11,095 members, 179 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (52), roby72 (75)

Score: 2.85

82
The Bridge on the Drina
by Ivo Andrić
1,967 members, 53 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: roby72 (58), thecoroner (67)

Score: 2.85

83
Berlin Alexanderplatz
by Alfred Döblin
2,244 members, 31 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: roby72 (57), thecoroner (71)

Score: 2.83

84
Between the Acts
by Virginia Woolf
1,712 members, 18 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)

Lists: roby72 (49), thecoroner (86)

Score: 2.83

85
If This Is a Man
by Primo Levi
5,148 members, 92 reviews
4.31 stars (4.31 stars)

Lists: roby72 (56), thecoroner (81)

Score: 2.8

86
Light in August
by William Faulkner
8,051 members, 93 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (56), thecoroner (87)

Score: 2.77

87
Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
24,341 members, 360 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (54), thecoroner (93)

Score: 2.76

88
The Power and the Glory
by Graham Greene
6,654 members, 106 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (58), thecoroner (88)

Score: 2.76

89
My Name Is Red
by Orhan Pamuk
6,238 members, 148 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: roby72 (61), thecoroner (85)

Score: 2.75

90
Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman
2,663 members, 76 reviews
4.36 stars (4.36 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (65), roby72 (80)

Score: 2.75

91
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
29,341 members, 410 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: roby72 (66), thecoroner (80)

Score: 2.74

92
The Long Goodbye
by Raymond Chandler
4,510 members, 98 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (47), roby72 (118)

Score: 2.74

93
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera
19,940 members, 231 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: roby72 (67), thecoroner (79)

Score: 2.74

94
Man's Fate
by André Malraux
2,170 members, 31 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: roby72 (64), thecoroner (92)

Score: 2.71

95
I, Claudius
by Robert Graves
8,000 members, 145 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (50), roby72 (126)

Score: 2.7

96
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
24,258 members, 337 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (53), roby72 (123)

Score: 2.68

97
The Human Factor
by Graham Greene
2,813 members, 34 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (68), thecoroner (98)

Score: 2.66

98
Call It Sleep
by Henry Roth
1,867 members, 38 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (61), roby72 (111)

Score: 2.66

99
The Good Soldier Svejk
by Jaroslav Hašek
3,031 members, 48 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: roby72 (69), thecoroner (99)

Score: 2.66

100
Goodbye to Berlin
by Christopher Isherwood
1,715 members, 36 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (66), roby72 (108)

Score: 2.64

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