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(Only one novel per writer, in chronological order)
(This page is updated more frequently and generally more reliable.) Thomas Mann (Germany): "Buddenbrooks" (1901) Henry James (USA): "The Golden Bowl" (1904) Joseph Conrad (Britain): "Nostromo" (1904) Luigi Pirandello (Italy): "The Late Mattia Pascal" (1904) Edward-Morgan Forster (Britain): "Howards End" (1910) Boris Bugayev "Andrey Bely" (Russia): "Petersburg" (1912) Franz Kafka (Austria): "The Trial" (1915) James Joyce (Ireland): "Ulysses" (1922) Marcel Proust (France): "In Search of Lost Time" (1922) Italo Svevo (Italy): "Zeno's Conscience" (1923) Andre' Gide (France): "The Counterfeiters" (1925) Francis-Scott Fitzgerald (USA): "The Great Gatsby" (1925) Arthur Schnitzler: "Traumnovelle/ Dream Story" (1925) Virginia Woolf (Britain): "To the Lighthouse" (1927) Julien Green (France): "Adrienne Mesurat" (1927) Mihail Sadoveanu (Romania): "Ancuta's Inn" (1928) Stanislaw Witkiewicz (Poland): "Insatiability" (1930) Vladislav Vancura (Czech): "Marketa Lazarova" (1931) Louis-Ferdinand Celine (France): "Journey to the End of the Night" (1932) William Faulkner (USA): "Light in August" (1932) Joseph Roth (Austria): "Radetskymarsch" (1932) ++ Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (Spain): "San Manuel Bueno Martir" (1933) Robert Musil (Austria): "The Man Without Qualities" (1933) Karel Capek (Czech): "An Ordinary Life" (1934) Elias Canetti (Germany): "Auto Da Fe" (1935) Flann O'Brien (Ireland): "At Swim-two-birds" (1939) Mikhail Bulgakov (Russia): "The Master and Margarita" (1940) Albert Camus (France): "The Stranger" (1942) Hermann Broch (Austria): "The Death of Virgil" (1945) Julien Gracq (France): "A Dark Stranger" (1945) Malcolm Lowry (Britain): "Under the Volcano" (1947) Junichiro Tanizaki (Japan): "Makioka Sisters" (1948) Cesare Pavese (Italy): "The Moon and the Bonfires" (1950) Alejo Carpentier (Cuba): "The Lost Steps" (1953) Rafael Sanchez-Ferlosio (Spain): "The River El Jarama" (1955) William Gaddis (USA): "The Recognitions" (1955) Elsa Morante (Italy): "Arthur's Island" (1957) Patrick White (Australia): "Voss" (1957) Wilson Harris (Guyana): "Palace of the Peacock" (1960) Ernesto Sabato (Argentina): "Of Heroes and Tombs" (1961) Hugo Claus (Belgium): "Amazement" (1962) Carlos Fuentes (Mexico): "The Death of Artemio Cruz" (1962) Doris Lessing (Zimbabwe, 1919): "The Golden Notebook" (1962) Beppe Fenoglio (Italy): "A Private Question" (1963) CarloEmilio Gadda (Italy): "Acquainted with Grief" (1963) Ismail Kadare (Albania): "The General of the Dead Army" (1963) Janet Frame (New Zealand): "Scented Gardens For The Blind" (1963) Julio Cortazar (Argentina): "Hopscotch" (1963) Saul Bellow (USA): "Herzog" (1964) John Barth (USA): "Giles Goat Boy" (1966) Jose Lezama-Lima (Cuba): "Paradise" (1966) Miguel Delibes (Spain): "Five Hours with Mario" (1966) Gabriel Garcia-Marquez (Colombia): "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (1967) Milan Kundera (Czech): "The Joke" (1967) Vladimir Nabokov (Russia): "Ada" (1969) Mario Vargas-Llosa (Peru): "Conversacion en la Catedral" (1969) Michel Tournier (France): "The Ogre" (1970) Jose Donoso (Chile, 1925): "El Obsceno Pajaro de la Noche/ Obscene Bird of Night" (1970) Danilo Kis (Serbia): "Hourglass" (1972) Thomas Pynchon (USA): "Gravity's Rainbow" (1973) Andreas Embirikos (Greece): "The Great Eastern" (1975) Imre Kertesz (Hungary): "Fateless" (1975) Juan Goytisolo (Spain): "Juan the Landless" (1975) Thomas Bernhard (1931): "Korrektur/ Correction" (1975) Sasha Sokolov (Canada): "School For Fools" (1976) Bohumil Hrabal (Czech): "Prilis Hlucna Samota/ Too Loud a Solitude (1976) Barbara Pym (Britain): "Quartet in Autumn" (1977) Josef Skvorecky (Czech): "The Engineer of Human Souls" (1977) Georges Perec (France): "La Vie Mode d'Emploi/ A User's Manual" (1978) Cormac McCarthy (USA): "Suttree" (1979) Italo Calvino (Italy): "If On a Winter's Night a Traveler" (1979) Nadine Gordimer (South Africa): "Burger's Daughter" (1979) Salman Rushdie (India): "Midnight's Children" (1980) Elfriede Jelinek (Germany): "Die Ausgesperrten/ Wonderful Times" (1980) German Espinosa (Colombia): "The Weaver of Crowns" (1982) Uwe Johnson (Germany): "Jahrestage/ Anniversaries" (1983) Jose Saramago (Portugal): "The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis" (1984) Mahmud Dowlatabadi (Iran): "Kelidar" (1984) Haruki Murakami (Japan): "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" (1985) Laszlo Krasznahorkai (1954): "Satantango" (1985) Peer Hultberg (Denmark): "Requiem" (1985) Peter Carey (Australia, 1943): "Illywhacker" (1986) Peter Nadas (1942): "Emlekiratok Konyve/ Book of Memoirs" (1986) Joseph McElroy (USA): "Women and Men" (1987) Milorad Pavic (Serbia): "Dictionary of the Khazars" (1988) Xingjian Gao (China): "Soul Mountain" (1989) Antonia Byatt (Britain): "Possession" (1990) Agustina Bessa-Luis (Portugal): "Abraham's Valley" (1991) (From this point on, it is very tentative) Su Tong (China, 1963): "Wives and Concubines" (1990) Abraham Yehoshua (Hebrew, 1936): "Mar Manni/ Mr Mani" (1990) Dacia Maraini (1936): "La Lunga Vita Di Marianna Ucria" (1990) Imre Kertesz (1929): "Kaddis a Meg Nem Szuletetett Gyermekert/ Kaddish for a Child not Born" (1990) Jane Smiley (USA, 1950): "A Thousand Acres" (1991) George Cusnarencu (Romania, 1951): "Dodecaedru" (1991) Michael Ondaatje (Canada, 1943): "The English Patient" (1992) Daniela Hodrova (Czech, 1946): "Theta/ Masks" (1992) Andrzej Zaniewski (Poland, 1940): "Szczur/ Rat" (1993) Vikram Seth (India, 1952): "A Suitable Boy" (1993) Yoko Tawada (Japan, 1960): "Inu Muko Iri/ The Bridegroom Was a Dog" (1993) Cesar Aira (Argentina): "Como me Hice Monja/ How I Became a Nun" (1993) Amin Maalouf (France, 1949): "Le Rocher de Tanios" (1993) Peer Hultberg (Denmark, 1935): "Byen Og Verden/ The City and the World" (1993) Antonio Tabucchi (Italy, 1943): "Sostiene Pereira" (1994) Vasily Aksjonov or Aksenov (Russia, 1932): "Moskovskaja Saga/ Generations of Winter" (1994) Liudmila Petrushevskaia (Russia, 1938): "The Time: Night" (1994) Jachym Topol (Czech, 1962): "Sestra/ Sister" (1994) Herta Mueller (Germany, 1953): "Herztier/ Hearteater/ The Land of Green Plums" (1994) Almudena Grandes (Spain, 1960): "Malena es un Nombre de Tango" (1994) Winfried Georg Sebald (Germany, 1944): "Die Ringe des Saturn" (1995) Andrei Makine (France, 1957): "Le Testament Francais" (1995) Jon Fosse (Norway, 1959): "Melancholia I" (1995) Kazuo Ishiguro (Britain, 1954): "The Unconsoled" (1995) Assia Djebar (France, 1936): "Vaste Est la Prison" (1995) Jon Fosse (Norway, 1959): "Melancholia I" (1995) Alessandro Baricco (Italy, 1958): "Seta " (1996) David Foster Wallace (USA, 1962): "Infinite Jest" (1996) Olga Tokarczuk (Poland, 1962): "Prawiek i Inne Czasy/ Primeval and Other Times" (1996) Mircea Nedelciu (Romania, 1950): "Tratament Fabulatoriu/ "Confambulatory Treatment" (1996) Don DeLillo (USA, 1936): "Underworld" (1997) Pal Zavada (Hungary, 1954): "Jadviga Parnaja/ Jadviga's Pillow" (1997) Elfriede Jelinek (Germany, 1946): "Die Kinder der Toten" (1997) Ian McEwan (Britain, 1948): "Amsterdam" (1998) Ingo Schulze (Germany, 1962): "Simple Storys" (1998) Xiaobin Xu (China, 1953): "Feathered Serpent" (1998) Lidia Jorge (Portugal, 1946): "O Vale da Paixao" (1998) Per-Olov Enquist (Sweden, 1934): "Livlakarens Besok/ The Royal Physician's Visit" (1999) Antonio Skarmenta (Chile, 1940): "La Boda del Poeta" (1999) Rhea Galanaki (Greece, 1947): "Eleni io Kanenas/ Eleni or Nobody" (1999) Continues: The best novels of the 21st century |