The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 107 times to 111 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2015. I have a goal of reading at least one book by every recipient of the Prize.
If anyone reading this has a similar goal and would like me to link their progress reports to this post, I am happy to do so. Leave a comment with your link and I will add it. There is a group blog called Read the Nobels where people more actively pursuing this project post reviews and record their progress.
Here is the list of Nobel Laureates, starting with the most recent. If I have read any of the author's books, I listed the titles in red after the name; if I have books on my TBR shelf, they are listed in blue. I plan to eventually read something by everyone of these people, even if I have nothing on my TBR shelf right now. Although some may be hard to find as I look at names that ring no bells for me.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Bob Dylan
Svetlana Alexievich
Patrick Modiano
Alice Munro
Mo Yan
Tomas Tranströmer
Mario Vargas Llosa
Herta Müller
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
Doris Lessing
Orhan Pamuk
Harold Pinter
Elfriede Jelinek
J. M. Coetzee
- Disgrace (Booker Prize)
- The Life and Times of Michael K (Booker Prize; reviewed here)
V.S. Naipaul
- A Bend in the River (Modern Library's Top 100)
- A House for Mr. Biswas (Modern Library's Top 100)
- In a Free State (Booker Prize)
Günter Grass
- The Tin Drum (reviewed here)
Dario Fo
Wislawa Szymborska
Seamus Heaney
Kenzaburo Oe
Toni Morrison
- Beloved (Pulitzer Prize; All-TIME 100; College Board's 101; Radcliffe's Top 100)
- The Bluest Eye
- Jazz
- Paradise
- Song of Solomon (Radcliffe's Top 100)
Nadine Gordimer
- Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black and Other Stories (reviewed here)
- Jump and Other Short Stories
- A Sport of Nature
Camilo José Cela
Naguib Mahfouz
- The Beggar (reviewed here)
Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka
Claude Simon
Jaroslav Seifert
William Golding
- Lord of the Flies (Modern Library's Top 100)
- Rites of Passage (Booker Prize)
- The Spire (Anthony Burgess Favorite)
- The General in his Labyrinth
- Of Love and Other Demons
- Love in the Time of Cholera
- Memories of My Melancholy Whores
- One Hundred years of Solitude (College Board's 101)
Czesław Miłosz
Odysseas Elytis
Isaac Singer
- A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw
Saul Bellow
- The Adventures of Augie March (All-TIME 100; College Board's 101; Modern Library's Top 100; National Book Award; reviewed here)
- The Dean's December
- Henderson the Rain King (Modern Library's Top 100)
- Herzog (All-TIME 100; National Book Award winner)
- Humbolt's Gift (Anthony Burgess Favorite; Pulitzer Prize; reviewed here)
- Mr. Sammler's Planet (National Book Award; reviewed here)
- Ravelstein
- Sieze the Day
- The Victim (Anthony Burgess Favorite)
Harry Martinson
Eyvind Johnson
Patrick White
Heinrich Böll
Pablo Neruda
Alexsandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Samuel Beckett
Yasunari Kawabata
Miguel Ángel Asturias
Nelly Sachs
Shmuel Agnon
Michail Sholokhov
Jean-Paul Sartre
Giorgos Seferis
John Steinbeck
- Cannery Row
- The Grapes of Wrath (All-TIME 100; College Board's 101; MLA's Top 30; Modern Library's Top 100; Radcliffe's Top 100; Pulitzer Prize)
- Of Mice and Men (Easton Press Top 100; Radcliffe's Top 100)
- Travels with Charley in Search of America
- The Winter of Our Discontent
Saint-John Perse
Salvatore Quasimodo
Boris Pasternak
- Doctor Zhivago (College Board's 101; reviewed here)
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Halldór Laxness
Ernest Hemingway
- The Complete Stories
- Dangerous Summer
- A Farewell to Arms (College Board's 101; Easton Press Top 100; Modern Library's Top 100; Radcliffe's Top 100)
- For Whom the Bell Tolls (Anthony Burgess Favorite; Radcliffe's Top 100)
- In Our Time (Radcliffe's Top 100)
- Islands in the Stream
- A Moveable Feast (French Connections)
- The Old Man and the Sea (Anthony Burgess Favorite; Radcliffe's Top 100; Pulitzer Prize)
- The Sun Also Rises (All-TIME 100; French Connections; Modern Library's Top 100; Radcliffe's Top 100)
- True at First Light
- The Second World War (Six Volume Set)
Pär Lagerkvist
Bertrand Russell
William Faulkner
- Absolom, Absolom! (Radcliffe's Top 100)
- As I Lay Dying (College Board's 101; Modern Library's Top 100; Radcliffe's Top 100)
- The Hamlet
- Light in August (All-TIME 100; Modern Library's Top 100; Radcliffe's Top 100)
- The Reivers (Pulitzer Prize)
- The Sound and the Fury (All-TIME 100; College Board's 101; Easton Press Top 100; Modern Library's Top 100; Radcliffe's Top 100; reviewed here)
- The Wild Palms
André Gide
Hermann Hesse
- Siddhartha (reviewed here)
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
Frans Eemil Sillanpää
Pearl S. Buck
Roger Martin du Gard
Eugene O'Neill
Luigi Pirandello
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
John Galsworthy
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Sinclair Lewis
- Babbitt (College Board's 101; Modern Library's Top 100; Radcliffe's Top 100)
- It Can't Happen Here
- Kingsblood Royal
- Main Street (Modern Library's Top 100)
- Arrowsmith (Pulitzer)
- Dodsworth
Sigrid Undset
Henri Bergson
Grazia Deledda
George Bernard Shaw
Władysław Reymont
William Butler Yeats*
Jacinto Benavente
Anatole France
Knut Hamsun
Carl Spitteler
Henrik Pontoppidan
Karl Adolph Gjellerup
Verner von Heidenstam
Romain Rolland
Rabindranath Tagore
Gerhart Hauptmann
Maurice Maeterlinck
Paul Heyse
Selma Lagerlöf
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
Rudyard Kipling
Giosuè Carducci
Henryk Sienkiewicz
José Echegaray y Eizaguirre
Frédéric Mistral
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Theodor Mommsen
Sully Prudhomme
NOTE
Updated on January 21, 2018.
OTHERS READING THE WORKS OF NOBEL LAUREATES
Read the Nobels (group blog)
Rebecca Reads
If you would like to be listed here, please leave a comment with links to your progress reports or reviews and I will add them here.
