Hey! I am compiling a list of books to read in the summer, and I am looking for “classics”, but most lists I find are kind of US-centric (who even cares about Gatsby?)… Would you mind giving some recommendations on classic books? I love your blog!

frederick-the-great:

frederick-the-great:

Hello! So I made an effort not to include any British or American writers:

1- Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina. War and Peace.

2- Victor Hugo. Les Miserables, 93.

3- Cervantes. Don Quixote.

4- Dostoevsky. Crime and Punishment, Demons, The Idiot.

5- Bulgakov. Master and Margarita.

6- Émile Zola. Germinal, Au bonheur des dames.

7- Thomas Mann. Magic Mountain, Doctor Faustus.

8- Heinrich Boll, Billiards at half past nine.

9- Stefan Zweig, the world of Yesterday

10- Natsume Soseki, I am a Cat, Kokoro.

11- Voltaire, Candide, L’Ingenu.

12- Umberto Eco. The Name of the Rose. Prague Cemetery.

13- Flaubert, Madame Bovary.

14- One Thousand and One Nights.

15- Orhan Pamuk, The White Castle. Black Books.

16- Salman Rushdie. Midnight’s Children, the Satanic Verses.

17-
Naguib Mahfouz. The Cairo Nights.

18- Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a mask.

19-
Ismail Kadare, The fall of the Stone City.

20- Gabriel Garcia Marquez. 100 years of Solitude. Love in times of Cholera.

21- Jorge Amado. Captains of Sand. Dona Flor and her two husbands.

23- Jorge Luis Borges. Fictions. The Aleph.

24- Frederico Garcia Lorca. The House of Bernarda Alba. Blood Wedding.

25- José Saramago. The Year of the death of Ricardo Reis. The Gospel According to Jesus Christ.

26- Eça de Queiroz, The Maias, The Crime of Father Amaro.

27- Milan Kundera, The unbearable lightness of being.

29- Simone de Beauvoir,. She came to stay.

30- Isabel Allende. The House of Spirits, Eva Luna. Kingdom of the Golden Dragon.

31-
Olga Tokarczuk. Primeval and Other Times

32- Jabra Ibrahim Jabra. In Search of Walid Masoud

33- Esther Tusquets. The same sea as every summer.

34- Sophia de Mello Breyner Andersen. Exemplary tales.

35- Margarite Duras. The lover.

36-  Tawfiq Yusuf Awwad.
Death in Beirut.

37- Fernando Pessoa. The book of Disquiet.

39- Clarice Lispector, Family Ties. Passion According to GH

40- Franz Kafka. The Trail. Metamorphosis.

41- Rainer Maria Rilke. Duino Elegies.

42- Machado de Assis. Brazilian Tales.

43- Luis Sepúlveda.
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

44- Italo Calvino. Invisible City. The Baron in the Trees.

45- Elias Canetti. Auto-da-Fé

46- Homer, The Iliad.

47- Gunter Grass. The Tin Drum.

48- Christa Wolf. Divided Heaven.

49- Primo Levi. If not now, When?

50- Albert Camus, The Stranger.

51- Jung Chang. Wild Swans.

52-
Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

53- Miguel de Unamuno. Abel Sánchez: the History of a Passion.

54- Goethe. Faust. Sorrows of Young Werther.

55- Alexandre Dumas. The Three Musketeers.

56- Virgil. The Aeneid.

I’ve decided to expand on this list:

57 – Amos Oz. Black Box. A Tale of Love and Darkness

58- Joseph Roth. Job. The Radetzsky March. Hotel Savoy.

59- Alexander Pushkin. Eugene Onegin. The Captain’s daughter.

60 – Alfred Doblin. Berlin Alexanderplatz. The People betrayed

61- Dario Fo. We can’t pay, we won’t pay!

62- Nikolay Gogol. The Inspector General. Dead souls.

63- Wolfgang Koeppen. Death in Rome.

64- Shūsaku Endō. The Samurai.

65- Elena Ferrante. My Brilliant friend.

66- Raphaël Jerusalmy. Saving Mozart

67- Isaac Babel. Tales of Odessa.

68- Alexandra Kollontai. Love of Worker Bees.

69 – Miguel Ángel Asturias. The President.

70- W.G Sebald. Austerlitz.

71- Rohinton Mistry. Such a Long journey.

72- Leonardo Padura. The man who loved dogs. Heretics.

73- Vikram Seth. A Suitable boy.

74-
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Americanah.

75-

Nadifa Mohamed. The Orchard of Lost souls.

76-
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor. Weight of Whispers.

77- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. Wizard of the Crow. A Grain of wheat. Petals of blood.

78- Mia Couto. Sleepwalking land.

79- Shahriar Mandanipour. Censoring an Iranian love story.

80- Shahrnush Parsipur. 

Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran

81- Ahmadou Kourouma. Waiting for the wild beasts to vote.

82- Njabulo S. Ndebele. Fools and Other stories.

83- Bertolt Brecht. Mother courage and her children.

84- Yu Hua. Chronicle of a blood Merchant.

85-
Sándor Márai. The rebels.

86- Wang Anyi. Lapse of time

87-
Gao Xingjian. 
Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather.

The other shore.

88- Herman Hesse. Siddhartha.

89- Marianne Fredriksson. Simon and the oaks.

90- Anita Desai. The village by the sea.

91- Jonas Jonasson. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared.

92- Herta Muller. The appointment.

93- Gabriela Mistral. Selected poems.

94- Hjalmar Söderberg. The serious game.

95- Alejandro Zambra. Bonsai.

96-
Chinghiz Aitmatov. Jamilia.

97-
Tadeusz Borowski.
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen.

98- Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost time.

99- Bruno Schulz. The Street of Crocodiles, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

100- Jean Jacques Rousseau. Julie, or the New Heloise.