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I've read 29 of the authors and 28 of the books.
Adrienne wrote: "52 books and 51 authors."Very impressive. Did you do literature at university?
15 authors and 26 books.It might be more books because of Shakespeare and Twain...
Impressive indeed,Adrienne!
22 books and 26 authors. I think.Interesting list.
15 authors and 17 books.Very heavy list indeed.
12 authors, 15 books. O.o that's an intense list.
woo, I'm tired just reading it.21 authors
15 books
I can actually up this by one book and I think 5 authors--I went through my college reading lists recently. So I can't remember much of it.
35 authors and 28 books - I was surprised there were some authors on there I hadn't heard of and yet they made this list Francois Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
Juan Rulfo, Mexico, Pedro Paramo
Jalal ad-din Rumi, Afghanistan, Mathnawi
Salman Rushdie, India/Britain, Midnight's Children
Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi, Iran, c The Orchard
Tayeb Salih, Sudan, Season of Migration to the North
Jose Saramago, Portugal, Blindness
34 books and 45 authors. Yay, Don Quixote!
Tasha wrote: "35 authors and 28 books - I was surprised there were some authors on there I hadn't heard of and yet they made this list Francois Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
Juan Rulfo, Mexico, Pedro Pa..."
Rabelais, Rushdie and Saramago are pretty well known, though.
32 books and 34 authors.
I actually like this list a lot. :D
46 authors/45 booksSalman Rushdie is a widely acclaimed author, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Commandeur of the Ordres des Arts et Lettres of France. He was knighted by the Crown although that, to many people, is of less significance. In 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini pronouced a fatwa against him for his work Satanic Verses which it was claimed insulted the prophet Mohammed. As a result of that, he had to go into hiding for 10 years with round the clock protection from the Police. The fatwa has never been lifted but, in spite of that, he has come out of hiding and resumed his career. He won the Booker Prize for his work, Midnight's Children and in 2008 the book was voted the best book to have won the Booker Prize in the award's 40 year history.
François Rabelais was one of the most important writers of the French Renaissance, born in Chinon and living in the first half of the C16. Gargantua and Pantagruel (now generally published together) are the works for which he is most famous internationally. These satirical, bawdy works were, like Rushdie's widely condemned by the religious authorities and by the Sorbonne and he went into hiding for a time under threat of the charge of heresy.
So everyone here is a reader of heavy literature. I'm gonna check all your bookshelves for inspiration. :-)
33 authors, 30 booksand another half dozen books or so that I've partially read...
Petra X wrote: "This came from the Guardian newspaper, 20 June 2009.It is the full list of the 100 best works of fiction, alphabetically by author, as determined from a vote by 100 noted writers from 54 countr..."
22 books. Pedro Paramo was the worst, war and peace the best.
I am an old bookworm, 63 books, 63 authors.
7 Authors5 books
I must say I am often scared off by some of these books and authors! perhaps I should get over it and give some a try...
Yeesh...I think I've read 3 of these books: P&P, Don Quixote and Huck Finn. I've read all the other Jane Austen books too though if that counts...oh, and I guess I read Shakespeare in high school, so I guess that makes 4. Many of these are on my TBR list though.
I think I clock in at 16 books and 17 authors.
14 authors & 11 books... and a bunch more sitting on my shelf patiently waiting.
It is the full list of the 100 best works of fiction, alphabetically by author, as determined from a vote by 100 noted writers from 54 countries as released by the Norwegian Book Clubs. Don Quixote was named as the top book in history but otherwise no ranking was provided.
1) How many of the books have you read, and
2) How many of the authors?
CBhinua Achebe Things Fall Apart
Hans Christian Andersen, Fairy Tales and Stories
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Honore de Balzac, Old Goriot
Samuel Beckett, Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron
Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
Albert Camus, The Stranger
Paul Celan, Poems.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Journey to the End of the Night
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
Anton P Chekhov, Selected Stories
Joseph Conrad, Nostromo
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Denis Diderot, Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
Alfred Doblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz
Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Possessed; The Brothers Karamazov
George Eliot, Middlemarch
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
Euripides, Medea
William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom; The Sound and the Fury
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary; A Sentimental Education
Federico Garcia Lorca, Gypsy Ballads
Gabriel Garcia Marquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude; Love in the Time of Cholera
Gilgamesh,
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust
Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
Gunter Grass, The Tin Drum
Joao Guimaraes Rosa, The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
Knut Hamsun, Hunger.
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
Homer, The Iliad and The Odyssey
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
The Book of Job,
James Joyce, Ulysses
Franz Kafka, The Complete Stories; The Trial; The Castle Bohemia
Kalidasa, The Recognition of Sakuntala
Yasunari Kawabata, The Sound of the Mountain
Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
Halldor K Laxness, Independent People
Giacomo Leopardi, Complete Poems
Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking
Lu Xun, China, Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
Mahabharata,
Naguib Mahfouz, Children of Gebelawi
Thomas Mann, Buddenbrook; The Magic Mountain
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Michel de Montaigne, Essays.
Elsa Morante, History
Toni Morrison, Beloved
Shikibu Murasaki, The Tale of Genji Genji
Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Njaals Saga, Iceland
George Orwell, 1984
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Fernando Pessoa, Portugal, The Book of Disquiet
Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Tales
Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past
Francois Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
Juan Rulfo, Mexico, Pedro Paramo
Jalal ad-din Rumi, Afghanistan, Mathnawi
Salman Rushdie, India/Britain, Midnight's Children
Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi, Iran, c The Orchard
Tayeb Salih, Sudan, Season of Migration to the North
Jose Saramago, Portugal, Blindness
William Shakespeare, Hamlet; King Lear; Othello
Sophocles, Oedipus the King
Stendhal, The Red and the Black
Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
Italo Svevo, Confessions of Zeno
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace; Anna Karenina; The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Thousand and One Nights,
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Valmiki, Ramayana
Virgil, The Aeneid
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse
Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian