Bouquins & Books | 100 Modern Classics You (but really I) COULD Read! @bouquinsbooks | Uploaded December 2022 | Updated October 2024, 22 minutes ago.
This list was inspired by:
@KDbooks youtube.com/watch?v=DUKGbXK_dOk&t=0s
@saintdonoghue youtube.com/watch?v=9rCUilyCtMs
Lists that I used to create my list:
1000 books to read before you die: 1000bookstoread.com
Le Monde 100 books of the century: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Monde%27s_100_Books_of_the_Century
Bookriot's 100 must read classics in translation: bookriot.com/classics-in-translation
@tomlabooks3263 The 15 best Italian novels of all time: youtube.com/watch?v=ZsSfuu-u_T0&t=0s
Booktubers mentioned
@JentheLibrarianreads
@Ursulas_Odds_and_Sods
@Shellyish
@SpringboardThought
@BrandonsBookshelf
@shawnbreathesbooks
@booksimnotreading
I deliberately excluded from the list nonfiction, poetry, plays, and graphic novels. I have limited myself to one entry per author. The book must have been published between 1900 and 1999 inclusively.
1. Lord Jim; Joseph Conrad (Poland/U.K., 1900)
2. My Brilliant Career; Miles Franklin (Australia, 1901)
3. The Buddenbrooks; Thomas Mann (Germany, 1901)
4. I Am a Cat; Soseki Natsume (Japan, 1905)
5. The Complete Claudine; Colette (France, 1907)
6. The Wind in the Willows (U.K., 1908)
7. Le Grand Meaulnes; Alain-Fournier (France, 1913)
8. Reeds in the Wind; Grazia Deledda (Italy, 1913)
9. Metamorphosis; Franz Kafka (Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1915)
10. Herland; Charlotte Perkins Gilman (U.S., 1915)
11. The Home and the World; Rabindranath Tagore (India, 1916)
12. My Antonia; Willa Cather (U.S., 1918)
13. Diary of a Madman; Lu Xun (China, 1918+)
14. Ulysses; James Joyce (Ireland, 1920)
15. The Age of Innocence; Edith Wharton (U.S., 1920)
16. The Forsyte Saga; John Galsworthy (U.K., 1922)
17. Kristin Lavransdatter; Sigrid Undset (Norway, 1922)
18. Siddartha; Hermann Hesse (Germany, 1922)
19. Mrs Dalloway; Virginia Woolf (U.K., 1925)
20. In Search of Lost Time; Marcel Proust (France, 1927)
21. Parade’s End; Ford Madox Ford (U.K., 1928)
22. Grand Hotel; Vicki Baum (Austria, 1929)
23. The Good Earth; Pearl S. Buck (U.S., 1931)
24. Family; Ba Jin (China, 1932)
25. Radetzky March; Joseph Roth (Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1932)
26. Midnight; Mao Dun (China, 1933)
27. I, Claudius; Robert Graves (U.K., 1934)
28. Tender is the Night; F. Scott Fitzgerald (U.S., 1934)
29. Death on the Installment Plan; Louis-Ferdinand Céline (France, 1936)
30. Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata (Japan, 1937)
31. Their Eyes Were Watching God; Zora Neale Hurston (U.S., 1937)
32. Rebecca; Daphne du Maurier (U.K., 1938)
33. The Life of Arseniev; Ivan Bunin (Russia, 1939)
34. Tropisms; Nathalie Sarraute (France, 1939)
35. The Grapes of Wrath; John Steinbeck (U.S., 1939)
36. Beware of Pity; Stefan Zweig (Austria, 1939)
37. The Thibaults; Roger Martin du Gard (France, 1940)
38. The Tartar Steppe (or The Stronghold); Dino Buzzati (Italy, 1940)
39. And Quiet Flows the Don; Mikhail Sholokhov (Russia, 1940)
40. For Whom the Bell Tolls; Ernest Hemingway (U.S., 1940)
41. Love in a Fallen City; Eileen Chang (China/U.S., 1943)
42. Near to the Wild Heart; Clarice Lispector (Brazil, 1943)
43. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; Betty Smith (U.S., 1943)
44. Iceland’s Bell; Halldor Laxness (Iceland, 1943)
45. Ficciones; Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina, 1944)
46. The Bridge on the Drina; Ivo Andric (Serbia, 1945)
47. Brideshead Revisited; Evelyn Waugh (U.K., 1945)
48. Zorba the Greek; Nikos Kazantzakis (Greece, 1946)
49. All the King’s Men; Robert Penn Warren (U.S., 1946)
50. Delta Wedding; Eudora Welty (U.S., 1946)
51. The Makioka Sisters; Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (Japan, 1948)
52. Men of Maize; Miguel Angel Asturias (Guatemala, 1949)
53. Molloy; Samuel Beckett (Ireland; 1951)
54. Memoirs of Hadrian; Marguerite Yourcenar (France, 1951)
55. Excellent Women; Barbara Pym (U.K., 1952)
56. Giovanni’s Room; James Baldwin (U.S., 1956)
57. Train to Pakistan; Khushwant Singh (India, 1956)
58. The Cairo Trilogy; Naguib Mafhouz (Egypt, 1957)
59. The Leopard; Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (Italy, 1958)
60. The Tin Drum; Günter Grass (Germany, 1959)
61. Life and Fate; Vassili Grossman (U.S.S.R., 1959)
62. The Alexandria Quartet; Lawrence Durrell (U.K., 1960)
63. To Kill a Mockingbird; Harper Lee (U.S., 1960)
64. Country Girls; Edna O’Brien (Ireland, 1960)
65. A House for Mr. Biswas; Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipul (Trinidad, 1961)
66. Hidden Mountain; Gabrielle Roy (Canada, 1961)
67. The Book of Lamentations, Rosario Castellanos (Mexico, 1962)
68. Explosion in a Cathedral, Alejo Carpentier (Cuba, 1962)
69. The General of the Dead Army; Ismail Kadare (Albania, 1963)
See first comment for the rest of the list.
This list was inspired by:
@KDbooks youtube.com/watch?v=DUKGbXK_dOk&t=0s
@saintdonoghue youtube.com/watch?v=9rCUilyCtMs
Lists that I used to create my list:
1000 books to read before you die: 1000bookstoread.com
Le Monde 100 books of the century: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Monde%27s_100_Books_of_the_Century
Bookriot's 100 must read classics in translation: bookriot.com/classics-in-translation
@tomlabooks3263 The 15 best Italian novels of all time: youtube.com/watch?v=ZsSfuu-u_T0&t=0s
Booktubers mentioned
@JentheLibrarianreads
@Ursulas_Odds_and_Sods
@Shellyish
@SpringboardThought
@BrandonsBookshelf
@shawnbreathesbooks
@booksimnotreading
I deliberately excluded from the list nonfiction, poetry, plays, and graphic novels. I have limited myself to one entry per author. The book must have been published between 1900 and 1999 inclusively.
1. Lord Jim; Joseph Conrad (Poland/U.K., 1900)
2. My Brilliant Career; Miles Franklin (Australia, 1901)
3. The Buddenbrooks; Thomas Mann (Germany, 1901)
4. I Am a Cat; Soseki Natsume (Japan, 1905)
5. The Complete Claudine; Colette (France, 1907)
6. The Wind in the Willows (U.K., 1908)
7. Le Grand Meaulnes; Alain-Fournier (France, 1913)
8. Reeds in the Wind; Grazia Deledda (Italy, 1913)
9. Metamorphosis; Franz Kafka (Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1915)
10. Herland; Charlotte Perkins Gilman (U.S., 1915)
11. The Home and the World; Rabindranath Tagore (India, 1916)
12. My Antonia; Willa Cather (U.S., 1918)
13. Diary of a Madman; Lu Xun (China, 1918+)
14. Ulysses; James Joyce (Ireland, 1920)
15. The Age of Innocence; Edith Wharton (U.S., 1920)
16. The Forsyte Saga; John Galsworthy (U.K., 1922)
17. Kristin Lavransdatter; Sigrid Undset (Norway, 1922)
18. Siddartha; Hermann Hesse (Germany, 1922)
19. Mrs Dalloway; Virginia Woolf (U.K., 1925)
20. In Search of Lost Time; Marcel Proust (France, 1927)
21. Parade’s End; Ford Madox Ford (U.K., 1928)
22. Grand Hotel; Vicki Baum (Austria, 1929)
23. The Good Earth; Pearl S. Buck (U.S., 1931)
24. Family; Ba Jin (China, 1932)
25. Radetzky March; Joseph Roth (Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1932)
26. Midnight; Mao Dun (China, 1933)
27. I, Claudius; Robert Graves (U.K., 1934)
28. Tender is the Night; F. Scott Fitzgerald (U.S., 1934)
29. Death on the Installment Plan; Louis-Ferdinand Céline (France, 1936)
30. Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata (Japan, 1937)
31. Their Eyes Were Watching God; Zora Neale Hurston (U.S., 1937)
32. Rebecca; Daphne du Maurier (U.K., 1938)
33. The Life of Arseniev; Ivan Bunin (Russia, 1939)
34. Tropisms; Nathalie Sarraute (France, 1939)
35. The Grapes of Wrath; John Steinbeck (U.S., 1939)
36. Beware of Pity; Stefan Zweig (Austria, 1939)
37. The Thibaults; Roger Martin du Gard (France, 1940)
38. The Tartar Steppe (or The Stronghold); Dino Buzzati (Italy, 1940)
39. And Quiet Flows the Don; Mikhail Sholokhov (Russia, 1940)
40. For Whom the Bell Tolls; Ernest Hemingway (U.S., 1940)
41. Love in a Fallen City; Eileen Chang (China/U.S., 1943)
42. Near to the Wild Heart; Clarice Lispector (Brazil, 1943)
43. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; Betty Smith (U.S., 1943)
44. Iceland’s Bell; Halldor Laxness (Iceland, 1943)
45. Ficciones; Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina, 1944)
46. The Bridge on the Drina; Ivo Andric (Serbia, 1945)
47. Brideshead Revisited; Evelyn Waugh (U.K., 1945)
48. Zorba the Greek; Nikos Kazantzakis (Greece, 1946)
49. All the King’s Men; Robert Penn Warren (U.S., 1946)
50. Delta Wedding; Eudora Welty (U.S., 1946)
51. The Makioka Sisters; Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (Japan, 1948)
52. Men of Maize; Miguel Angel Asturias (Guatemala, 1949)
53. Molloy; Samuel Beckett (Ireland; 1951)
54. Memoirs of Hadrian; Marguerite Yourcenar (France, 1951)
55. Excellent Women; Barbara Pym (U.K., 1952)
56. Giovanni’s Room; James Baldwin (U.S., 1956)
57. Train to Pakistan; Khushwant Singh (India, 1956)
58. The Cairo Trilogy; Naguib Mafhouz (Egypt, 1957)
59. The Leopard; Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (Italy, 1958)
60. The Tin Drum; Günter Grass (Germany, 1959)
61. Life and Fate; Vassili Grossman (U.S.S.R., 1959)
62. The Alexandria Quartet; Lawrence Durrell (U.K., 1960)
63. To Kill a Mockingbird; Harper Lee (U.S., 1960)
64. Country Girls; Edna O’Brien (Ireland, 1960)
65. A House for Mr. Biswas; Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipul (Trinidad, 1961)
66. Hidden Mountain; Gabrielle Roy (Canada, 1961)
67. The Book of Lamentations, Rosario Castellanos (Mexico, 1962)
68. Explosion in a Cathedral, Alejo Carpentier (Cuba, 1962)
69. The General of the Dead Army; Ismail Kadare (Albania, 1963)
See first comment for the rest of the list.
