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Newsweek’s Top 100 Books

23 Фев

War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 1869
1984 – George Orwell 1949
Ulysses – James Joyce 1922
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 1955
The Sound and the Fury The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner 1929
Invisible Man Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison 1952
To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf 1927
The Illiad and The Odyssey – Homer 8th century B.C.
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen 1813
Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri 1321
Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer 15th century
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift 1726
Middlemarch – George Eliot 1874
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe 1958
The Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger 1951
Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell 1936
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1967
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller 1961
Beloved – Toni Morrison 1987
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 1939
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 1981
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 1932
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf 1925
Native Son – Richard Wright 1940
Democracy in America – Alexis de Tocqueville 1835
Origin of Species – Charles Darwin 1859
The Histories – Herodotus 440 B.C.
The Social Contract – Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1762
Das Kapital Karl Marx 1867
The Prince – Niccolo Machiavelli 1532
Confessions – St. Augustine 4th century
Leviathan – Thomas Hobbes 1651
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 431 B.C.
The Lord of the Rings – J. R. R. Tolkien 1954
Winnie-the-Pooh – A. A. Milne 1926
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C. S. Lewis 1950
A Passage to India – E. M. Forster 1924
On the Road – Jack Kerouac 1957
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee 1960
The Holy Bible. Revised Standard Version. NA
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess 1962
Light in August Light in August – William Faulkner 1932
The Souls of Black Folk – W. E. B. Du Bois 1903
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys 1966
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 1857
Paradise Lost – John Milton 1667
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 1877
Hamlet – William Shakespeare 1603
King Lear – William Shakespeare 1608
Othello – William Shakespeare 1622
Sonnets – William Shakespeare 1609
Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman 1855
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain 1885
Kim – Rudyard Kipling 1901
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley 1818
Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison 1977
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey 1962
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway 1940
Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut 1969
Animal Farm – George Orwell 1945
Lord of the Flies – William Golding 1954
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote 1965Ž
The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing 1962
Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust 1913
The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler 1939
As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner 1930
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway 1926
I, Claudius – Robert Graves 1934
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers 1940
Sons and Lovers – D. H. Lawrence 1913
All the King’s Men – Robert Penn Warren 1946
Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin 1953
Charlotte’s Web – E. B. White 1952
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 1902
Night – Elie Wiesel 1958
Rabbit, Run – John Updike 1960
The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton 1920
Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth 1969
An American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser 1925
The Day of the Locust – Nathanael West 1939
Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller 1934
The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett 1930
His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 1995
Death Comes for the Archbishop – Willa Cather 1927
The Interpretation of Dreams – Sigmund Freud 1900
The Education of Henry Adams – Henry Adams 1918
Quotations from Chairman Mao – Mao Zedong 1964
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature – William James 1902
Brideshead Revisited Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh 1945
Silent Spring – Rachel Carson 1962
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money – John Maynard Keynes 1936
Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad 1900
Goodbye to All That – Robert Graves 1929
The Affluent Society – John Kenneth Galbraith 1958
The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 1908
The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Alex Haley and Malcolm X 1965
Eminent Victorians – Lytton Strachey 1918
The Color Purple – Alice Walker 1982
The Second World War (The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; – Winston Churchill 1948

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Swedish Literature

12 Фев

Old Norse

1. Runestone

Early Swedish literature (1200 – 1500)

1. Golden Legend (Legenda aurea)
2. The Chronicle of Charles (Karlskrönikan), the Chronicle of Eric (Erikskrönikan) and the Chronicles of Sture (Stureskrönikorna)
3. Petrus de Dacia (ca 1230-1290)
4. Birgitta Birgersdotter (1303 – 23 July 1373)

Swedish reformation and Renaissance literature (1500 – 1658)

1. Johannes Magnus (1488 – 1544)
2. Olaus Magnus (1490 – 1557)
3. Georg Stiernhielm (1598 – 1672)
4. Olaus Rudbeck (1630 – 1702)
5. Jesper Swedberg (1653 – 1735)
6. Haquin Spegel (Haqvin) (1645 – 1714)

Swedish enlightenment literature (1732 – 1809)

Emanuel Swedberg (1688 – 1772)
Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778)
Johan Henrik Kellgren (1751 – 1795)
Carl Michael Bellman (1740 – 1795)

Swedish Romantic literature (1809 – 1830)

1. Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783 – 1847)
2. Erik Johan Stagnelius (, 1793 – , 1823)
3. Esaias Tegnér (1782 – 1846)
4. Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom (1790 – 1855)
5. Fredrika Bremer (1801 – 1865)
6. Abraham Viktor Rydberg (, 1828 – , 1895)

Swedish realism (1830 – 1910)

1. Johan August Strindberg (1849 – 1912)

2. Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam (1859 – 1940)

3. Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (1858 – 1940)

4. Gustaf Fröding (1860-1911)

5. Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864-1931)

Modernistic Swedish literature

1. Moa Martinson (1890-1964)

2. Harry Martinson (1904-1978)

3. Ivar Lo-Johansson (1901-1990)

4. Pär Fabian Lagerkvist (1891 – 1974)

5. Eyvind Johnson, (1900 – 1976)

6. Hjalmar Söderberg (1869 – 1941)

7. Jan Fridegård (1897 – 1968)

8. Vilhelm Moberg (1898–1973)

In 1997 Biblioteket i fokus, a magazine aimed at libraries, organized a poll to determine the Swedish books of the century. 27,000 people voted to produce a list of 100 books. The top 20 books were

Vilhelm Moberg, Emigrants series, 1949–59
Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking, 1945
Astrid Lindgren, The Brothers Lionheart, 1973
Per Anders Fogelström, City (Stad) series, 1960–1968
Selma Lagerlöf, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige), 1906–07
Astrid Lindgren, Emil of Maple Hills (Emil i Lönneberberga), 1963
Frans G. Bengtsson, The Long Ships (Röde Orm), 1941–45
Astrid Lindgren, Mio, my Mio (Mio, min Mio), 1954
Astrid Lindgren, Ronia the Robber’s Daughter (Ronja Rövardotter), 1981

10. Göran Tunström, Juloratoriet, 1983

11. Selma Lagerlöf, Jerusalem, 1901–02

12. Harry Martinson, Aniara, 1956

13. Marianne Fredriksson, Simon and the Oaks (Simon och ekarna), 1985

14. Kerstin Ekman, Händelser vid vatten, 1993

15. Jan Guillou, Ondskan, 1981

16. Ulf Lundell, Jack, 1976

17. Hjalmar Söderberg, Den allvarsamma leken, 1912

18. Moa Martinson, Mor gifter sig, 1936

19. Jonas Gardell, En komikers uppväxt, 1992

20. Anders Jacobsson, Sören Olsson, Bert-diaries, 1987

In 1998, a poll to determine the most important Swedish 20th century books was conducted on the show Röda rummet on the public television Sveriges television. 17,000 people voted to produce a list of 100 books. The top 20 books were: