Colombian Pride

The best 20 novels of universal literature.

1. Ana Karenina, Leon Tolstoi
2. Madame Bovary, Gustav Flaubert
3. War and Peace, Leon Tolstoi
4. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
6. Hamlet, William Shakespeare
7. The Great Gatsby, Francis Scott Fitzgerald
8. Time Regained, Marcel Proust
9. Tales, Anton Chejov
10. Middlemarch, George Eliot
11. Don Quijote de la Mancha, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
12. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
13. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
14. Ulysses, James Joyce
15. The Odyssey, Homero
16. Dublineses, James Joyce
17. Crime and Punishment, Fedor Dostoiesky
18. King Lear, William Shakespeare
19. Emma, Jane Austen
20. Cien años de soledad, Gabriel García Márquez. :)

The only two Spanish books: by Miguel de Cervantes, father of the Spanish Language Academy, and our very own Nobel Prize Gabo.

Italics: Read by yours truly.

Who did the ranking? Because “Cien años” and “Don Quijote” should be top ten books IMHO.

Stephen King and Salman Rushdie were among the people who chose them.

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Sorry but, Stephen King hasn’t written anything anywhere near as good as the “worse” book in that list. And Rushdie, well, if he didn’t have a fatwa hanging over his head nobody would know about him.

I stand by my previous comment.

“Sorry but, Stephen King hasn’t written anything anywhere near as good as the “worse” book in that list.”

AMEN!

Unfortunately I wasn’t among the people who chose the books. I would’ve put Isabel Allende in the list as well. :-)