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LiteratureIn the 1980s Italo Calvino said in his essay Why Read the Classics? that A classic is

a book that has never finished saying what it has to say and comes to the crux of personalchoice in this matter when he says (italics in the original translation): Your classic author

is the one you cannot feel indifferent to, who helps you define yourself in relation to him,even in dispute with him. [Note 1][1 ][2][3 ][4] Consideration of what makes a literary work aclassic is for Calvino ultimately a personal choice, and, constructing a universal definition ofwhat constitutes a Classic Book seems to him to be an impossibility, since, as Calvino saysThere is nothing for it but for all of us to invent our own ideal libraries of classics. [5]

What actually makes a work of literature a classic book is not just a considerationof extensively published authors. In 1920, Fannie M. Clark, a teacher at the Rozelle Schoolin East Cleveland, Ohio, pre dates Calvinos similar conclusions by 60 years when she alsoessayed the question of what makes a book a classic in her article Teaching Children to

Choose in The English Journal , Volume 9, No. 3, The Official Organ of the National Councilof Teachers of English [6]

Over the course of her essay Clark considers the question of what makes a piece ofliterature a classic and why the idea of the classics is important to society as a whole.Clark says that teachers of English have been so long trained in the classics that theseclassics have become to them very much like the Bible, for the safety of which the rise ofmodern science causes such unnecessary fears. [7] She goes on to say that among thesources she consulted was a group of eighth-graders when she asked them the question:What do you understand by the classics in literature? Two of the answers Clark received

were Classics are books your fathers give you and you keep them to give to your childrenand Classics are those great pieces of lit erature considered worthy to be studied in Englishclasses of high school or college. Calvino agrees with the Ohio educator when he statesSchools and universities ought to help us understand that no book that talks about a booksays more than the book in question, but instead they do their level best to make us thinkthe opposite. Clark and Calvino come to a similar conclusion that when a literary work isanalyzed for what makes it 'classic', that in just the act of analysis or as Clark says "theanatomical dissection" ,[7] the reader can end up destroying the unique pleasure that mereenjoyment a work of literature can hold.

While blogging on the website guardian.co.uk in 2009, Chris Cox echoes Twainsclassic sentiments of 1900 and Bennetts witticism about classic books when he opined onthe Guardian.Co Books Blog that there are actually two kinds of classic novels: The firstare those we know we should have read, but probably have not. These are generally thebooks that make us burn with shame when they come up in conversationThe second kind,meanwhile, are those books that we've read five times, can quote from on any occasion, andannoyingly push on to other people with the words: "You have to read this. It's a classic. "[8]

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Books to read, by time period:8000 BCE-600 BCE :

1. The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous, 18 th -17 th century BCE, Sumer and Akkadianempire, written in Akkadian

2. Iliad by Homer, 850-750 BCE, possibly Smyrna, written in classical Greek3. Odyssey by Homer, 8 th century BCE, possibly Smyrna, written in classical Greek

600 BCE-600 CE :1. Book of Job by Anonymous, 6th-4th century BCE, Achaemenid Empire, written in

Hebrew2. Medea by Euripides, 431 BCE, Athens, written in classical Greek3. Oedipus the King by Sophocles, 430 BCE, Athens, written in classical Greek4. Mahabharata by Vyasa, 4th century BCE 4th century CE, India, written in Sanskrit5. Ramayana by Valmiki, 3rd century BCE 3rd century CE, India, written in Sanskrit

6. Aeneid by Virgil, 29 19 BCE, Roman Empire, written in classical Latin7. Shakuntala by Klidsa , 1st century BCE 4th century CE, India, written in Sanskrit8. Metamorphoses by Ovid, 1st century CE, Roman Empire, written in Classical Latin

600 CE-1450 CE :1. One Thousand and One Nights by Anonymous, 700 1500, India/ Iran / Iraq/ Egypt,

written in Persian2. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, 11th century, Japan, written in Japanese3. Njl's Saga by Anonymous, 13th century, Iceland, written by Old Norse4. Bostan by Saadi, 1257, P ersia, Mongol Empire, written in Persian5. Masnavi by Rumi, 1258 73, Persia, Mongol Empire, written in Persian9. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, 1265 1321, Italy, written in Italian10. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, 14th century, England, written in English11. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, 1349 53, Ravenna, written in Italian

1450-1750 CE :1. The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel by Franois Rabelais, 1532 34, France,

written in French6. Essays by Michel de Montaigne, 1595, France, written in French7. Hamlet by William Shakespeare, 1603, England, written in English8. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, 1605 (part 1), 1615 (part 2), Spain, written in

Spanish9. King Lear by William Shakespeare, 1608, England, written in English10. Othello by William Shakespeare, 1609, England, written in English11. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, 1726, Ireland, written in English

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1750 CE-1914 CE :

1. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne, 1760, England, written in English2. Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot, 1796, France, written in French3. Tales by Edgar Allen Poe, 19th century, US, written in English4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, 1813, UK, written in English5. Poems by Giacomo Leopardi, 1818, Italy, written in Italian6. The Red and the Black by Stendhal, 1830, France, written in French7. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832, Saxe-Weimar, written in German8. Le Pre Goriot by Honor de Balzac, 1835, France, written in French9. Fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen, 1835 37, Denmark, written in Danish10. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, 1842, Russia, written in Russian11. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bront, 1847, UK, written in English12. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850, US, written in English

13. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, 1851, US, written in English14. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, 1855, US, written in English15. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, 1857, France, written in French16. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, 1861, UK, written in English17. Les Misrables by Victor Hugo, 1862, France, written in French18. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, 1865 1869, Russia, written in Russian19. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866, Russia, written in Russian20. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1869, Russia, written in Russian21. Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert, 1869, France, written in French22. Middlemarch by George Eliot, 1871, UK, written in English23. The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoevksy, 1872, Russia, written in Russian24. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, 1877, Russia, written in Russian25. A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, 1879, Norway, written in Norwegian26. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1880, Russia, written in Russian27. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, 1884, US, written in English28. Stories by Anton Chekhov, 1886, Russia, written in Russian29. The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy, 1886, Russia, written in Russian30. Hunger by Knut Hamsun, 1890, Norway, written in Norwegian31. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, 1890, Ireland, written in English32. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, 1895, Ireland, written in English33. Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann, 1901, Germany , written in German34. Nostromo by Joseph Conrad, 1904, UK, written in English35. Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence, UK, written in English

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ickenshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Expectationshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Flauberthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Bovaryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grasshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melvillehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dickhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Bront%C3%ABhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heightshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Gogolhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Soulshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Christian_Andersen#Famous_fairy_taleshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_de_Balzachttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_P%C3%A8re_Goriothttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxe-Weimarhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethe%27s_Fausthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stendhalhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_and_the_Blackhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Leopardihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudicehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe_bibliography#Taleshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderothttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_the_Fatalisthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Sternehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Opinions_of_Tristram_Shandy,_Gentleman

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1914 CE-present :1. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, 1913 27, France, written in French2. A Madman's Diary by Lu Xun, 1918, China, written in Chinese3. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, 1920, US, written in English4. Ulysses by James Joyce, 1922, Irish Free State, written in English5. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, 1922, Germany, written in German6. Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo, 1923, Italy, written in Italian7. Stories by Franz Kafka, 1924, Austria, written in German8. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, 1924, Germany, written in German9. The Trial by Franz Kafka, 1925, Austria, written in German10. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, 1925, UK, written in English11. The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald, 1925, US, written in English12. The Castle bv Franz Kafka, 1926, Austria, written in German13. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, 1927, UK, written in English

14. Gypsy Ballads by Federico Garca Lorca, 1928, Spain, written in Spanish15. The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, 1928, Portugal, written in Portuguese16. Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Dblin, 1929, Germany, written in German17. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, 1929, United States, written in English18. The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil, 1930 32, Austria, written in German19. Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Cline, 1932, France, written in

French20. Independent People by Halldr Laxness, 1934 35, Iceland, written in Icelandic21. Absalom, Absalom! By William Faulkner, 1936, US, written in English22. The Stranger by Albert Camus, 1942, Algeria, French Empire, written in French23. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges, 1944 86, Argentina, written in Spanish24. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren, 1945, Sweden, written in Swedish25. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis, 1946, Greece, written in Greek26. 1984 by George Orwell, 1949, UK, written in English27. Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar, 1951, France, written in French28. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, a trilogy by Samuel Beckett, 1951-1953,

Republic of Ireland, written in French and English29. Poems by Paul Celan, 1952, Romania, France, written in German30. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, 1952, United States, written in English31. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, 1952, United States, written in

English32. The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata, 1954, Japan, written in Japanese33. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, 1955, Russia/United States, written in English34. Pedro Pramo by Juan Rulfo, 1955, Mexico, written in Spanish35. The Devil to Pay in the Backlands by Joo Guimares Rosa, 1956, Brazil, written in

Portuguese

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_Lost_Timehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Prousthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Madman%27s_Diaryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu_Xunhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(novel)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Free_Statehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_Consciencehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_Svevohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka_bibliography#Short_storieshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafkahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Austria_(1919%E2%80%931934)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mannhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trialhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafkahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Austria_(1919%E2%80%931934)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs_Dallowayhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs_Dallowayhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Castle_(novel)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Castle_(novel)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_the_Lighthousehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_the_Lighthousehttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Romancero_gitano&action=edit&redlink=1http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Romancero_gitano&action=edit&redlink=1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Garc%C3%ADa_Lorcahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Disquiethttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Disquiethttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Pessoahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Alexanderplatzhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Alexanderplatzhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_D%C3%B6blinhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_and_the_Furyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_and_the_Furyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Faulknerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Without_Qualitieshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Without_Qualitieshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Musilhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_End_of_the_Nighthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_End_of_the_Nighthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Ferdinand_C%C3%A9linehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Peoplehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Peoplehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halld%C3%B3r_Laxnesshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absalom,_Absalom!http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absalom,_Absalom!http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Faulknerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranger_(novel)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranger_(novel)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algeriahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_colonial_empirehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficcioneshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficcioneshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borgeshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pippi_Longstockinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pippi_Longstockinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrid_Lindgrenhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorba_the_Greekhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorba_the_Greekhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikos_Kazantzakishttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs_of_Hadrianhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs_of_Hadrianhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Yourcenarhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molloy_(novel)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molloy_(novel)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malone_Dieshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unnamable_(novel)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Becketthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Irelandhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Celanhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Romaniahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Fourth_Republichttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Manhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Manhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Ellisonhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Man_and_the_Seahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Man_and_the_Seahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingwayhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_the_Mountainhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_the_Mountainhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasunari_Kawabatahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolitahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolitahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokovhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_P%C3%A1ramohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_P%C3%A1ramohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Rulfohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_to_Pay_in_the_Backlandshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_to_Pay_in_the_Backlandshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_Guimar%C3%A3es_Rosahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_Guimar%C3%A3es_Rosahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_to_Pay_in_the_Backlandshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Rulfohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_P%C3%A1ramohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokovhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolitahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasunari_Kawabatahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_the_Mountainhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingwayhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Man_and_the_Seahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Ellisonhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Manhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Fourth_Republichttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Romaniahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Celanhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Irelandhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Becketthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unnamable_(novel)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malone_Dieshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molloy_(novel)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Yourcenarhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs_of_Hadrianhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikos_Kazantzakishttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorba_the_Greekhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrid_Lindgrenhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pippi_Longstockinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borgeshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficcioneshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_colonial_empirehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algeriahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranger_(novel)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Faulknerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absalom,_Absalom!http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halld%C3%B3r_Laxnesshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Peoplehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Ferdinand_C%C3%A9linehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_End_of_the_Nighthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Musilhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Without_Qualitieshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Faulknerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_and_the_Furyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_D%C3%B6blinhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Alexanderplatzhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Pessoahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Disquiethttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Garc%C3%ADa_Lorcahttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Romancero_gitano&action=edit&redlink=1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_the_Lighthousehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Castle_(novel)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs_Dallowayhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Austria_(1919%E2%80%931934)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafkahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trialhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mannhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Austria_(1919%E2%80%931934)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafkahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka_bibliography#Short_storieshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_Svevohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_Consciencehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Free_Statehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(novel)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu_Xunhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Madman%27s_Diaryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Prousthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_Lost_Time

8/12/2019 Reading List - Classics, By Me

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36. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, 1958, Nigeria, written in English37. The Tin Drum by Gnter Grass, 1959, Germany, written in German38. Children of Gebelawi by Naguib Mahfouz, 1959, Egypt, written in Arabic39. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 1960, US, written in English40. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, 1962, United Kingdom, written in English41. Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih, 1966, Sudan, written in Arabic42. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garca Mrquez, 1967, Colombia, written

in Spanish43. History by Elsa Morante, 1974, Italy, written in Italian44. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, 1981, United Kingdom, India, written in

English45. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, 1984, France, written in

Czech, translated to French, then translated to English46. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garca Mrquez, 1985, Colombia, written in

Spanish47. Beloved Toni Morrison, 1987, US, written in English48. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, 1988, Brazil, written in Portuguese49. Blindness by Jos Saramago, 1995, Portugal, written in Portuguese

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_Fall_Aparthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_Fall_Aparthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinua_Achebehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeriahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tin_Drumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tin_Drumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Grasshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Gebelawihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naguib_Mahfouzhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Notebookhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Notebookhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Lessinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season_of_Migration_to_the_Northhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season_of_Migration_to_the_Northhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tayeb_Salihhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitudehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitudehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_M%C3%A1rquezhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombiahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_(novel)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Morantehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight%27s_Childrenhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight%27s_Childrenhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdiehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_in_the_Time_of_Cholerahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_in_the_Time_of_Cholerahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_M%C3%A1rquezhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beloved_(novel)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beloved_(novel)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Morrisonhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindness_(novel)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindness_(novel)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Saramagohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Saramagohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindness_(novel)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Morrisonhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beloved_(novel)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_M%C3%A1rquezhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_in_the_Time_of_Cholerahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdiehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight%27s_Childrenhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Morantehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_(novel)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombiahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_M%C3%A1rquezhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitudehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tayeb_Salihhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season_of_Migration_to_the_Northhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Lessinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Notebookhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naguib_Mahfouzhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Gebelawihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Grasshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tin_Drumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeriahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinua_Achebehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_Fall_Apart