40 Most Important Books of the last 75 years

The World Literature Today at the University of Oklahoma has selected a list of the 40 most important books of the last 75 years. It includes works by writers from 29 countries.

1. "To the Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf
2. "Gypsy Ballads" by Federico Garcia Lorca
3. "The Tower" by William Butler Yeats
4. "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
5. "Turning Point (I strofí)" by Giorgios Seferiades
6. "Residence on Earth" by Pablo Neruda
7. "Independent People" by Halldór Laxness
8. "Requiem" by Anna Akhmatova
9. "Mother Courage and Her Children" by Bertolt Brecht
10. "The Stranger" by Albert Camus
11. "The Four Quartets" by T. S. Eliot
12. "Ficciones" by Jorge Luis Borges
13. "The Day Before Yesterday" by S. Y. Agnon
14. "Snow Country" by Yasunari Kawabata
15. "The Labyrinth of Solitude" by Octavio Paz
16. "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett
17. "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
18. "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
19. "In Country Sleep" by Dylan Thomas
20. "The Lost Steps" by Alejo Carpentier
21. "The Devil to Pay in the Backlands" by João Guimarães Rosa
22. "The Cairo Trilogy" by Naguib Mahfouz
23. "Voss" by Patrick White
24. "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe
25. "The Guide" by R. K. Narayan
26. "The Tin Drum" by Günter Grass
27. "A House for Mr. Biswas" by V. S. Naipaul
28. "The Book of Disquiet" by Fernando Pessoa
29. "The Golden Notebook" by Doris Lessing
30. "Pale Fire" by Vladimir Nabokov
31. "The Time of the Doves" by Mercé Rodoreda
32. "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
33. "A Personal Matter" by Kenzaburo Oe
34. "Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957" by W. H. Auden
35. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez
36. "House Made of Dawn" by N. Scott Momaday
37. "Invisible Cities" by Italo Calvino
38. "The Conservationist" by Nadine Gordimer
39. "Bells in Winter" by Czeslaw Milosz
40. "Red Sorghum" by Mo Yan

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