>Maybe not the greatest but also favorites:
>Gombrowicz: Pornography (1960)
>PerezGaldos, Benito: Nazarin (1895)
>Kundera, Milan: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1985)
>Abe Kobo: Woman in the Dunes (1962)
>Buzzati, Dino: Deserto dei tartari (1940)
>Unamuno, Miguel: Nebla (1914)
>Oe, Kenzaburo: Silent Cry (1967)
>Singer, Isaac: Moskat Family (1950)

>>25511380
>Best Novels since 1850 and only one per writer:
>07 Francois Rabelais (France, 1494): "Gargantua et Pantagruel" (1552)
>08 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Spain, 1547): "El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha" (1615)

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The Best Novels of the 20th Century:
(Only one novel per writer, in chronological order)
>1. Thomas Mann (Germany): "Buddenbrooks" (1901)
>2. Henry James (USA): "The Golden Bowl" (1904)
>3. Joseph Conrad (Britain): "Nostromo" (1904)
>4. Luigi Pirandello (Italy): "The Late Mattia Pascal" (1904)
>5. Edward-Morgan Forster (Britain): "Howards End" (1910)
>6. Boris Bugayev "Andrey Bely" (Russia): "Petersburg" (1912)
>7. Franz Kafka (Austria): "The Trial" (1915)
>8. James Joyce (Ireland): "Ulysses" (1922)
>9. Marcel Proust (France): "In Search of Lost Time" (1922)
>10. Italo Svevo (Italy): "Zeno's Conscience" (1923)
>11. Andre' Gide (France): "The Counterfeiters" (1925)
>12. Francis-Scott Fitzgerald (USA): "The Great Gatsby" (1925)
>13. Arthur Schnitzler: "Traumnovelle/ Dream Story" (1925)
>14. Virginia Woolf (Britain): "To the Lighthouse" (1927)
>15. Julien Green (France): "Adrienne Mesurat" (1927)
>16. Mihail Sadoveanu (Romania): "Ancuta's Inn" (1928)
>17. Stanislaw Witkiewicz (Poland): "Insatiability" (1930)
>18. Vladislav Vancura (Czech): "Marketa Lazarova" (1931)
>19. Louis-Ferdinand Celine (France): "Journey to the End of the Night" (1932)
>20. William Faulkner (USA): "Light in August" (1932)
>21. Joseph Roth (Austria): "Radetskymarsch" (1932) ++
>22. Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (Spain): "San Manuel Bueno Martir" (1933)
>23. Robert Musil (Austria): "The Man Without Qualities" (1933)
>24. Karel Capek (Czech): "An Ordinary Life" (1934)
>25. Elias Canetti (Germany): "Auto Da Fe" (1935)
>26. Flann O'Brien (Ireland): "At Swim-two-birds" (1939)
>27. Mikhail Bulgakov (Russia): "The Master and Margarita" (1940)
>28. Albert Camus (France): "The Stranger" (1942)
>29. Hermann Broch (Austria): "The Death of Virgil" (1945)
>30. Julien Gracq (France): "A Dark Stranger" (1945)
>31. Malcolm Lowry (Britain): "Under the Volcano" (1947)
>32. Junichiro Tanizaki (Japan): "Makioka Sisters" (1948)
>33. Cesare Pavese (Italy): "The Moon and the Bonfires" (1950)
>34. Alejo Carpentier (Cuba): "The Lost Steps" (1953)
>35. Rafael Sanchez-Ferlosio (Spain): "The River El Jarama" (1955)
>36. William Gaddis (USA): "The Recognitions" (1955)
>37. Elsa Morante (Italy): "Arthur's Island" (1957)
>38. Patrick White (Australia): "Voss" (1957)
>39. Wilson Harris (Guyana): "Palace of the Peacock" (1960)
>40. Ernesto Sabato (Argentina): "Of Heroes and Tombs" (1961)

>>25511402
>(...)
>41. Hugo Claus (Belgium): "Amazement" (1962)
>42. Carlos Fuentes (Mexico): "The Death of Artemio Cruz" (1962)
>43. Doris Lessing (Zimbabwe, 1919): "The Golden Notebook" (1962)
>44. Beppe Fenoglio (Italy): "A Private Question" (1963)
>45. CarloEmilio Gadda (Italy): "Acquainted with Grief" (1963)
>46. Ismail Kadare (Albania): "The General of the Dead Army" (1963)
>47. Janet Frame (New Zealand): "Scented Gardens For The Blind" (1963)
>48. Julio Cortazar (Argentina): "Hopscotch" (1963)
>49. Saul Bellow (USA): "Herzog" (1964)
>50. John Barth (USA): "Giles Goat Boy" (1966)
>51. Jose Lezama-Lima (Cuba): "Paradise" (1966)
>52. Miguel Delibes (Spain): "Five Hours with Mario" (1966)
>53. Gabriel Garcia-Marquez (Colombia): "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (1967)
>54. Milan Kundera (Czech): "The Joke" (1967)
>55. Vladimir Nabokov (Russia): "Ada" (1969)
>56. Mario Vargas-Llosa (Peru): "Conversacion en la Catedral" (1969)
>57. Michel Tournier (France): "The Ogre" (1970)
>58. Jose Donoso (Chile, 1925): "El Obsceno Pajaro de la Noche/ Obscene Bird of Night" (1970)
>59. Danilo Kis (Serbia): "Hourglass" (1972)
>60. Thomas Pynchon (USA): "Gravity's Rainbow" (1973)
>61. Andreas Embirikos (Greece): "The Great Eastern" (1975)
>62. Imre Kertesz (Hungary): "Fateless" (1975)
>63. Juan Goytisolo (Spain): "Juan the Landless" (1975)
>64. Thomas Bernhard (1931): "Korrektur/ Correction" (1975)
>65. Sasha Sokolov (Canada): "School For Fools" (1976)
>66. Bohumil Hrabal (Czech): "Prilis Hlucna Samota/ Too Loud a Solitude (1976)
>67. Barbara Pym (Britain): "Quartet in Autumn" (1977)
>68. Josef Skvorecky (Czech): "The Engineer of Human Souls" (1977)
>69. Georges Perec (France): "La Vie Mode d'Emploi/ A User's Manual" (1978)
>70. Cormac McCarthy (USA): "Suttree" (1979)
>71. Italo Calvino (Italy): "If On a Winter's Night a Traveler" (1979)
>72. Nadine Gordimer (South Africa): "Burger's Daughter" (1979)
>73. Salman Rushdie (India): "Midnight's Children" (1980)
>74. Elfriede Jelinek (Germany): "Die Ausgesperrten/ Wonderful Times" (1980)
>75. German Espinosa (Colombia): "The Weaver of Crowns" (1982)
>76. Uwe Johnson (Germany): "Jahrestage/ Anniversaries" (1983)
>77. Jose Saramago (Portugal): "The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis" (1984)
>78. Mahmud Dowlatabadi (Iran): "Kelidar" (1984)
>79. Haruki Murakami (Japan): "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" (1985)
>80. Laszlo Krasznahorkai (1954): "Satantango" (1985)
>81. Peer Hultberg (Denmark): "Requiem" (1985)
>82. Peter Carey (Australia, 1943): "Illywhacker" (1986)
>83. Peter Nadas (1942): "Emlekiratok Konyve/ Book of Memoirs" (1986)
>84. Joseph McElroy (USA): "Women and Men" (1987)
>85. Milorad Pavic (Serbia): "Dictionary of the Khazars" (1988)
>86. Xingjian Gao (China): "Soul Mountain" (1989)
>87. Antonia Byatt (Britain): "Possession" (1990)
>88. Agustina Bessa-Luis (Portugal): "Abraham's Valley" (1991)

>>25511405
(From this point on, it is very tentative)
>89. Su Tong (China, 1963): "Wives and Concubines" (1990)
>90. Abraham Yehoshua (Hebrew, 1936): "Mar Manni/ Mr Mani" (1990)
>91. Dacia Maraini (1936): "La Lunga Vita Di Marianna Ucria" (1990)
>92. Imre Kertesz (1929): "Kaddis a Meg Nem Szuletetett Gyermekert/ Kaddish for a Child not Born" (1990)
>93. Jane Smiley (USA, 1950): "A Thousand Acres" (1991)
>94. George Cusnarencu (Romania, 1951): "Dodecaedru" (1991)
>95. Michael Ondaatje (Canada, 1943): "The English Patient" (1992)
>96. Daniela Hodrova (Czech, 1946): "Theta/ Masks" (1992)
>97. Andrzej Zaniewski (Poland, 1940): "Szczur/ Rat" (1993)
>98. Vikram Seth (India, 1952): "A Suitable Boy" (1993)
>99. Yoko Tawada (Japan, 1960): "Inu Muko Iri/ The Bridegroom Was a Dog" (1993)
>100. Cesar Aira (Argentina): "Como me Hice Monja/ How I Became a Nun" (1993)
>101. Amin Maalouf (France, 1949): "Le Rocher de Tanios" (1993)
>102. Peer Hultberg (Denmark, 1935): "Byen Og Verden/ The City and the World" (1993)
>103. Antonio Tabucchi (Italy, 1943): "Sostiene Pereira" (1994)
>104. Vasily Aksjonov or Aksenov (Russia, 1932): "Moskovskaja Saga/ Generations of Winter" (1994)
>105. Liudmila Petrushevskaia (Russia, 1938): "The Time: Night" (1994)
>106. Jachym Topol (Czech, 1962): "Sestra/ Sister" (1994)
>107. Herta Mueller (Germany, 1953): "Herztier/ Hearteater/ The Land of Green Plums" (1994)
>108. Almudena Grandes (Spain, 1960): "Malena es un Nombre de Tango" (1994)
>109. Winfried Georg Sebald (Germany, 1944): "Die Ringe des Saturn" (1995)
>110. Andrei Makine (France, 1957): "Le Testament Francais" (1995)
>111. Jon Fosse (Norway, 1959): "Melancholia I" (1995)
>112. Kazuo Ishiguro (Britain, 1954): "The Unconsoled" (1995)
>113. Assia Djebar (France, 1936): "Vaste Est la Prison" (1995)
>114. Jon Fosse (Norway, 1959): "Melancholia I" (1995) [Dopplung]
>115. Alessandro Baricco (Italy, 1958): "Seta " (1996)
>116. David Foster Wallace (USA, 1962): "Infinite Jest" (1996)
>117. Olga Tokarczuk (Poland, 1962): "Prawiek i Inne Czasy/ Primeval and Other Times" (1996)
>118. Mircea Nedelciu (Romania, 1950): "Tratament Fabulatoriu/ "Confambulatory Treatment" (1996)
>119. Don DeLillo (USA, 1936): "Underworld" (1997)
>120. Pal Zavada (Hungary, 1954): "Jadviga Parnaja/ Jadviga's Pillow" (1997)
>121. Elfriede Jelinek (Germany, 1946): "Die Kinder der Toten" (1997)
>122. Ian McEwan (Britain, 1948): "Amsterdam" (1998)
>123. Ingo Schulze (Germany, 1962): "Simple Storys" (1998)
>124. Xiaobin Xu (China, 1953): "Feathered Serpent" (1998)
>125. Lidia Jorge (Portugal, 1946): "O Vale da Paixao" (1998)
>126. Per-Olov Enquist (Sweden, 1934): "Livlakarens Besok/ The Royal Physician's Visit" (1999)
>127. Antonio Skarmenta (Chile, 1940): "La Boda del Poeta" (1999)
>128. Rhea Galanaki (Greece, 1947): "Eleni io Kanenas/ Eleni or Nobody" (1999)