The Best Novels of the 20th Century

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)
Augusto Roa-Bastos (Paraguay): "Son of Man" (1959)
Wilson Harris (Guyana): "Palace of the Peacock" (1960)
Ernesto Sabato (Argentina): "Of Heroes and Tombs" (1961)
Hugo Claus (Belgium): "Amazement" (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)
Carlos Fuentes (Mexico): "The Death of Artemio Cruz" (1964)
Saul Bellow (USA): "Herzog" (1964)
John Barth (USA): "Giles Goat Boy" (1966)
Jose Lezama-Lima (Cuba): "Paradise" (1966)
Mario Vargas-Llosa (Peru): "The Green House" (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)
Thomas Bernhard (Austria): "Gargoyles" (1967)
Vladimir Nabokov (Russia): "Ada" (1969)
Michel Tournier (France): "The Ogre" (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)
Sasha Sokolov (Canada): "School For Fools" (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)
Murakami Haruki (Japan): "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" (1985)
Laszlo Krasznahorkai (1954): "Satantango" (1985)
Peer Hultberg (Denmark): "Requiem" (1985)
Peter Nadas (1942): "Emlekiratok Konyve/ Book of Memoirs" (1986)
Joseph McElroy (USA): "Women and Men" (1987)
Milorad Pavic (Serbia): "Dictionary of the Khazars" (1988)
Gao Xingjian/Xingjian (China): "Soul Mountain" (1989)
Antonia Byatt (Britain): "Possession" (1990)
Agustina Bessa-Luis (Portugal): "Abraham's Valley" (1991)

>>9033756
>Only one novel per writer
Why do people do this.

From this point on, it is very tentative. I write ++ where I am sure)

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 (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 (1949): "Le Rocher de Tanios" (1993)
Peer Hultberg (Denmark, 1935): "Byen Og Verden/ The City and the World" (1993)
Vikram Seth (India, 1952): "A Suitable Boy" (1993)
Antonio Tabucchi (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 (1953): "Herztier/ Hearteater/ The Land of Green Plums" (1994)
Almudena Grandes (Spain, 1960): "Malena es un Nombre de Tango" (1994)
Winfried Georg Sebald (1944): "Die Ringe des Saturn" (1995)
Andrei Makine (1957): "Le Testament Francais" (1995)
Jon Fosse (Norway, 1959): "Melancholia I" (1995)
Kazuo Ishiguro (Britain, 1954): "The Unconsoled" (1995)
Assia Djebar (1936): "Vaste Est la Prison" (1995)
Jon Fosse (Norway, 1959): "Melancholia I" (1995)
Alessandro Baricco (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 (1950): "Tratament Fabulatoriu/ "Confambulatory Treatment" (1996)
Don DeLillo (USA): "Underworld" (1997) ++
Pal Zavada (1954): "Jadviga Parnaja/ Jadviga's Pillow" (1997)
Elfriede Jelinek (1946): "Die Kinder der Toten" (1997)
Arundhati Roy (India, 1961): "God of Small Things" (1997)
Ian McEwan (Britain, 1948): "Amsterdam" (1998)
Ingo Schulze (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 (1947): "Eleni io Kanenas/ Eleni or Nobody" (1999)

>>9033761

To keep the list shorter and to encourage variation.

btw thanks for the list scaruffi

>>9033761
One dish per cook

>have read 3 of the books listed

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>not including pic related

Don't forget about the 21st century:


Margaret Atwood (Canada, 1939): "The Blind Assassin" (2000)
Zadie Smith (Britain, 1975): "White Teeth" (2000)
Jeroen Brouwers (Holland, 1940): "Geheime Kamers" (2000)
Leonard Oprea (Romania, 1953): "Cele Noua Invataturi ale lui Theophil Magus despre Magia Transilvana/ The Nine Teachings Of Theophil Magus On Transylvanian Magic" (2000)
Ian McEwan (Britain, 1948): "Atonement" (2001)
Tahar Ben Jelloun (1944): "Cette Aveuglante Absence de Lumiere/ This Blinding Absence of Light" (2001)
Lars-Saabye Christensen (Norway, 1953): "Halvbroren/ The Half Brother" (2001)
Lyudmila Ulitskaya (Russia, 1946): "The Kukotsky Case" (2001)
Yann Martel (Canada, 1963): "Life of Pi" (2002)
Elena Ferrante (1943?): "I Giorni dell'Abbandono/ The Days of Abandonment" (2002)
Mai Jia/ Jiang Benhu (China, 1964): "Jiemi/ Decoded" (2002)
Zyranna Zateli (1951): "With the Strange Name of Ramanthis Erevus Death Arrived Last" (2002)
Jhumpa Lahiri (USA, 1967): "The Namesake" (2003)
Roberto Bolano (Chile, 1953): "2666" (2003)
Jeffrey Eugenides (USA, 1960): "Middlesex" (2003)
David Mitchell (Britain, 1969): "Cloud Atlas" (2004)
Edward Jones (USA, 1950): "The Known World" (2004)
Marilynne Robinson (USA, 1943): "Gilead" (2004)
Michel Houellebecq (1958): "Les Particules Elementaires/ Elementary Particles" (2004)
2005?
2006?
Javier Marias (Spain, 1951): "Tu Rostro Manana/ Your Face Tomorrow" (2007)
Han Kang (Korea, 1970): "The Vegetarian" (2007)
Paolo Giordano (1982): "La Solitudine dei Numeri Primi" (2008)
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (Russia, 1938): "There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby" (2009)
Maylis de Kerangal (1967): "Naissance d'un Pont Birth of a Bridge" (2010)
Karl-Ove Knausgard (Norway, 1968): "Min Kamp/ My Struggle" (2011)
Jennifer Egan (USA, 1952): "A Visit from the Goon Squad" (2011)
Juan Vasquez (Colombia, 1973): "El Ruido de las Cosas al Caer/ The Sound of Things Falling" (2011)
Louise Erdrich (USA, 1954): "The Round House" (2012)
Donna Tartt (USA, 1964): "The Goldfinch" (2013)
Kamel Daoud (1970): "Meursault contre-enquete/ The Meursault Investigation" (2013)
Rafael Chirbes (Spain, 1949): "En la Orilla/ On the Edge" (2013)

This is a good list and includes the actual best 20th century novel, The Man Without Qualities, which everyone forgets about or has never read. Unfortunately I think this thread will probably fall off the board because shitting out a massive list of books that 99.9% of /lit/ hasn't read isn't going to reel in free replies like an OP about a John Green or that indian bitch.

Copypasta from this website

(3doubleyous.scaruffiDOTcomslashfictionslashbestDOThtml)

Apparently banned from Wikipedia.

What the fuck is this shit?

¸
Essay I found on the website

(The Meaning of Art

The value of art depends on the values of the art critic.
Most art is born as imitation, not innovation.
The critic, not the artist, is the one who defines innovation, and rates it.
The artist is merely a vehicle for the aesthetic/ideology of the critic.
The critic is the real artist.
)

This is either some shill trying to infiltrate /lit/ or something else

Charles Portis (USA, 1933): "The Dog of the South" (1979)

>>9033756
Good list, but how is Hamsun not on the list?

>>9034528
Also, Last Exit to Brooklyn should be on the list.

>>9034469

I've read it.

Joyce and Proust still have Musil lapped. Stop trying to be contrarian snowflake boy.

>>9034558
La Recherche > Man Without Qualities > Ulysses

Hard facts only. Joyce is a vulgar man, no less, next to these two guys.

>>9034528
Anglos only read Hunger (1890). Growth of the soil (1917) is only popular with Germans and Nordics.

>>9034499
>he doesn't know scruffy
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