Some Nobel Prize-winning authors/books I mean to read one of these days
Submitted by supergirlsf on Tue, 07/06/2004 - 09:49
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- Fateless, Kertesz
- History of the Siege of Lisbon, Saramago
- A Personal Matter, Oe
- Song of Solomon, Morrison
- The Conservationist, Gordimer
- Burgher's Daughter, Gordimer
- Family of Pascal Duarte, Cela
- Palace Walk, Mahfouz
- Memoirs, Canetti
- Billiards at Half Past Nine, Boll
- Lost Honor of Katarina Blum, Boll
- Quiet Flows the Don, Sholokhov
- Bosnian Chroincle, Andric
- Bridge on the Drina, Andric
- Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak
- Independent People, Laxness
- Dwarf, Lagerkvist
- Fall of the King, Jensen
- Forsyte Saga, Galsworthy
- Magic Mountain, Mann
- Death in Venice, Mann
- Kristan Lavrandsdottir, Undset
- Mysteries, Hamsun
- Les Dieux Ont Soif, France
- The Life of the Bee, Maeterlinck
- Quo Vadis?, Sienkiewicz
Author Comments:
I'm split 50/50 on Nobel Prize-winning novels -- some of them I have loved, others... not so much. Either way, I'm curious to read these ones. What I do like about the prize is the exposure it gives to books from different cultures. My curiosity is always motivated by coming across things you wouldn't necessarily find in your average Waldenbooks. Most of these qualify.
I have on my bookshelf to read:
The Second World War by Winston Churchill
I have a hardback set in twelve volumes, somtimes issued in six volumes.
I also remembered that I read   Victoria by Knut Hamsun   (128 pages) a few years back (1977) which I thought was fantastic. I have since learned that he had Nazi sympathies which totally puts me off recommending him.