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All-time Classics
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Nervous Conditions
Tsitsi Dangarembga
Nervous Conditions
Tsitsi Dangarembga
4.0·1988·212p
The Betrothed
Alessandro Manzoni
The Betrothed
Alessandro Manzoni
3.9·1827·696p
Prometheus Bound
Aeschylus
Prometheus Bound
Aeschylus
3.9·0·64p
The Famished Road
Ben Okri
The Famished Road
Ben Okri
3.7·1991·500p
The Last Temptation of Christ
Nikos Kazantzakis
The Last Temptation of Christ
Nikos Kazantzakis
4.2·1955·506p
Endgame
Samuel Beckett
Endgame
Samuel Beckett
3.8·1957·276p
The Member of the Wedding
Carson McCullers
The Member of the Wedding
Carson McCullers
3.8·1946·163p
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
4.3·1845·556p
The Golden Ass
Apuleius
The Golden Ass
Apuleius
4.2·170·260p
Under the Net
Iris Murdoch
Under the Net
Iris Murdoch
3.8·1954·304p
The Emigrants
W.G. Sebald
The Emigrants
W.G. Sebald
4.2·1992·240p
Lost Illusions
Honoré de Balzac
Lost Illusions
Honoré de Balzac
4.2·1843·656p
Oscar and Lucinda
Peter Carey
Oscar and Lucinda
Peter Carey
3.7·1988·512p
Life and Times of Michael K
J.M. Coetzee
Life and Times of Michael K
J.M. Coetzee
3.9·1983·184p
Washington Square
Henry James
Washington Square
Henry James
3.7·1880·224p
The Lusiads
Luís de Camões
The Lusiads
Luís de Camões
4.0·1572·288p
The Master
Colm Tóibín
The Master
Colm Tóibín
3.8·2004·368p
In the Skin of a Lion
Michael Ondaatje
In the Skin of a Lion
Michael Ondaatje
4.2·1987·256p
So Long a Letter
Mariama Bâ
So Long a Letter
Mariama Bâ
4.0·1979·96p
The Ghost Writer
Philip Roth
The Ghost Writer
Philip Roth
3.8·1979·192p
Waiting
Ha Jin
Waiting
Ha Jin
3.5·1999·310p
Sabbath's Theater
Philip Roth
Sabbath's Theater
Philip Roth
3.9·1995·472p
Justine
Lawrence Durrell
Justine
Lawrence Durrell
3.8·1957·320p
Gitanjali
Rabindranath Tagore
Gitanjali
Rabindranath Tagore
4.3·1910·80p
Electra
Sophocles
Electra
Sophocles
3.8·0·255p
The Way of All Flesh
Samuel Butler
The Way of All Flesh
Samuel Butler
3.6·1903·450p
Waterland
Graham Swift
Waterland
Graham Swift
3.9·1983·324p
Barnaby Rudge
Charles Dickens
Barnaby Rudge
Charles Dickens
3.6·1841·1p
The Counterfeiters
André Gide
The Counterfeiters
André Gide
3.8·1925·481p
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Alfred Döblin
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Alfred Döblin
3.8·1929·628p
Seven Gothic Tales
Isak Dinesen
Seven Gothic Tales
Isak Dinesen
3.9·1934·482p
Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges
Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges
4.4·1944·180p
Children of Gebelawi
Naguib Mahfouz
Children of Gebelawi
Naguib Mahfouz
4.2·1959·355p
Auto-da-Fé
Elias Canetti
Auto-da-Fé
Elias Canetti
4.0·1935·464p
If Not Now, When?
Primo Levi
If Not Now, When?
Primo Levi
4.2·1982·331p
Benito Cereno
Herman Melville
Benito Cereno
Herman Melville
3.5·1855·128p
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Katherine Anne Porter
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Katherine Anne Porter
4.0·1939·264p
Anthills of the Savannah
Chinua Achebe
Anthills of the Savannah
Chinua Achebe
5.0·1987·240p
The Diary of a Country Priest
Georges Bernanos
The Diary of a Country Priest
Georges Bernanos
4.0·1936·299p
U.S.A.
John Dos Passos
U.S.A.
John Dos Passos
4.1·1938·1288p
