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One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel García Márquez

Seven generations of the Buendía family raise up and then decline alongside the town of Macondo, deep in the Colombian jungle. Amid an endless whirl of desire, war, incest, and solitude, fantastical omens weave through daily life, until…

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• One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel García Márquez (Nobel 1982)
• The Old Man and the Sea — Ernest Hemingway (Nobel 1954)
• The Stranger — Albert Camus (Nobel 1957)
• Beloved — Toni Morrison (Nobel 1993)
• The Remains of the Day — Kazuo Ishiguro (Nobel 2017)
• My Name Is Red — Orhan Pamuk (Nobel 2006)
• Blindness — José Saramago (Nobel 1998)
• The Years — Annie Ernaux (Nobel 2022)
• Snow Country — Kawabata Yasunari (Nobel 1968)
• In the Café of Lost Youth — Patrick Modiano (Nobel 2014)
• The Vegetarian — Han Kang (Nobel 2024)
• Conversation in the Cathedral — Mario Vargas Llosa (Nobel 2010)
• The Golden Notebook — Doris Lessing (Nobel 2007)
• Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse (Nobel 1946)
• Gitanjali — Rabindranath Tagore (Nobel 1913)
• The Home and the World — Rabindranath Tagore (Nobel 1913)
• Palace Walk — Naguib Mahfouz (Nobel 1988)
• Pygmalion — George Bernard Shaw (Nobel 1925)
• Hunger — Knut Hamsun (Nobel 1920)
• The Late Mattia Pascal — Luigi Pirandello (Nobel 1934)
• Death in Venice — Thomas Mann (Nobel 1929)
• The Magic Mountain — Thomas Mann (Nobel 1929)
• The Jungle Book — Rudyard Kipling (Nobel 1907)
• Kim — Rudyard Kipling (Nobel 1907)
• It Can’t Happen Here — Sinclair Lewis (Nobel 1930)
• Main Street — Sinclair Lewis (Nobel 1930)
• The Land of Heart's Desire — W. B. Yeats (Nobel 1923)
• Justice — John Galsworthy (Nobel 1932)
• The Man of Property — John Galsworthy (Nobel 1932)
• The Hairy Ape — Eugene O'Neill (Nobel 1936)
• The Melancholy of Resistance — László Krasznahorkai (Nobel 2025)
• Septology — Jon Fosse (Nobel 2023)
• Paradise — Abdulrazak Gurnah (Nobel 2021)
• The Wonderful Adventures of Nils — Selma Lagerlöf (Nobel 1909)
• The Blue Bird — Maurice Maeterlinck (Nobel 1911)
• Independent People — Halldór Laxness (Nobel 1955)
• Voss — Patrick White (Nobel 1973)
• Burger's Daughter — Nadine Gordimer (Nobel 1991)
• Omeros — Derek Walcott (Nobel 1992)
• Flights — Olga Tokarczuk (Nobel 2018)
• Quo Vadis — Henryk Sienkiewicz (Nobel 1905)