List of Nobel Prize winners for literature
 

I'm ashamed to say I've read very, very few of these authors:

http://www.nobelprizes.com/nobel/literature/

I've read books by Toni Morrison (1993), Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978), Ernest Hemingway (1954), William Faulkner (1949), and Rudyard Kipling (1907).

Of those, I think that Singer is the only one I didn't have to read for school, but I probably read some Kipling before the school required it.

Thanks for the list.

Pinter
Heaney (forget what I read but was v. v. depressing stuff)
Morrison
Brodsky
Bellow (hated it-Henderson the Rain King)
Neruda
Solzhenitsyn (depressing)
Beckett
Steinbeck
Camus
Hemingway (HATED it)
Faulkner
Kipling
Tagore
Yeats (loved)
Shaw
Lewis
Mann
Eliot (loved)
Buck (loved)
O'Neill (loved)

Bri - shame you didn't like Seamus Heaney - I am now on a mission to change your mind with a resurrection of the poetry thread :)

Kipling
Yeats
Shaw
Mann
O Neil
Hesse (one novel, to impress a boy - it worked)
Eliot
Faukner
Russell
Hemingway
Camus (again, one novel - see above)
Steinbeck
Beckett
Bellow
Golding
Heaney
Naipaul
Pinter

And very few of them for the reasons they won! I do better with the poets and playwrights than the novelists - I really should try to improve my reading list.

I would recommend Gabriel Garcia Marquez to anyone who really enjoys reading. The writing is as rich and dense and savoury sweet as duck in black cherry sauce :yum:

What? Where's Danielle Steele?

Just kid-dun.

I've read many: the result of taking as many elective lit classes as I could in my liberal arts education. This gives me some ideas what things I should be reading as far as classics. Of course, I still love my little slice o' life books.

I love to read Ann Rule, Rosamund Pilcher and Alice Hoffman! :blush:


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