El crítico norteamericano Raymond L. Williams, especialista en la literatura hispanoamericana, hace este top 64 con las mejores novelas de la historia, en la que figuran Carlos Orlando Pardo, con Verónica resucitada, y Jorge Eliécer Pardo, con el Jardín de las Weismann, al lado de autores como William Faulkner, Juan Rulfo, Mario Vargas Llosa, Fiodr Dostoienvski, Ernest Hemingway, Fránz Kafka, Julio Cortazar, Roberto Bolaño, Carlos Fuentes, Alejo Carpentier, entre otros, como el colombiano Gabriel García Márquez. Aquí el listado completo:
1. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
2. In Search of Lost Time (A la Recherche du Temps Perdu) by Marcel Proust
3. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
4. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
5. Ulysses by James Joyce
6. Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
7. Gravity"s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
8. Conversation in The Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa
9. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoievski
10. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
11. Nineteen-Eighty-Four by George Orwell
12. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
13. Paradiso by José Lezama Lima
14. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
15. Ficciones by Borges (stories)
16. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
17. Rayuela (Hopscotch) by Julio Cortázar
18. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (transcribed as Tolstoi in Spanish)
19. 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
20. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
21. Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes
22. Catch 22, Joseph Heller
23. The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez
24. Beloved, Toni Morrison
25. The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
26. Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
27. La casa verde (The Green House) by Mario Vargas Llosa
28. The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
29. Los ejercitos, (The Armies) Evelio Rosero
30. Tristam Shandy by Lawrence Stern
31. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
32. Manhattan Transfer by John dos Passos.
33. Nadie me vera llorar (No One Will See me Cry) by Cristina Rivera Garza
34. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
35. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoievski
37. El senor Presidente by Miguel Angel Asturias
38. Lolita, Naboakov
39. Rosario Tijeras by Jorge Franco
40. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
41. Metatron by Philip Potdevin
42. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
43. La cresta de Ilión by Cristina Rivera Garza. (Urgently needs translation; this book is hard, but so are most of these books.)
44. La famiia de Pascual Duarte by Camilo José Cela (One of those books everyone reads in Spanish, hardly anyone talks about.)
45. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Huge world impact.)
46. Veronica Resucitada, Carlos Orlando Pardo
47. Under the Volcano by Malcom Lowry
48. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
49. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Probably overrated, but we will include in first round.)
50. Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin (Would be called “total novel” in Latin America.)
51. The Reef by Juan Villoro (Mexico’s number one public intellectual.)
52. The Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
53. The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
54. Season of Anomy by Akinwándé Oluwolé Babátúndé Soyinka (Wolé Soyinka)
55. Noticias del imperio (News from the Empire) by Fernando del Paso (The other great writer in Mexico of Fuentes’s generation)
56. Wild Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (A Caribbean classic.)
57. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (Better novel than the famous one.)
58. Tres tristes tigres (Three Trapped Tigers) by Guillermo Cabrera Infante (Not really translatable, but Susan Jill Levine did masterful job in rewriting.)
59. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
60. Hear the Wind Sing by Haruki
Murakami (Inspired by baseball game) 61. Estación Tula (Tula Station) by David Toscana (The best unknown writer in Mexico)
62. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
63. El jardin de las Weisman by Jorge Eliécer Pardo (Urgently needs translation)
64. Santo Oficio de la memoria by Mempo Giardinelli
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