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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,151,690 ratings — published 1967
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 174 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.75 — 426,325 ratings — published 1958
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,158,020 ratings — published 1866
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,526,609 ratings — published 1942
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,560,069 ratings — published 1915
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,753,784 ratings — published 1988
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,611,308 ratings — published 2003
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.92 — 315,502 ratings — published 1605
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,285,315 ratings — published -800
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.11 — 968,093 ratings — published 1878
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,607,532 ratings — published 1943
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.40 — 414,967 ratings — published 1879
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.94 — 562,907 ratings — published 1985
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.93 — 422,002 ratings — published 1925
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.94 — 537,061 ratings — published -750
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.22 — 865,565 ratings — published 1862
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.71 — 389,896 ratings — published 1856
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.96 — 341,992 ratings — published 1997
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.10 — 568,897 ratings — published 1984
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,819,318 ratings — published 2007
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.76 — 124,200 ratings — published -1800
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.17 — 378,106 ratings — published 1868
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.28 — 450,272 ratings — published 1925
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.09 — 916,460 ratings — published 1922
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,764,369 ratings — published 1949
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,809,200 ratings — published 1945
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,083,682 ratings — published 1846
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.14 — 407,151 ratings — published 1980
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.21 — 232,149 ratings — published 1869
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.11 — 576,735 ratings — published 2002
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.12 — 540,640 ratings — published 1928
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,331,441 ratings — published 1947
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.09 — 179,630 ratings — published 1304
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.76 — 310,371 ratings — published 1759
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.98 — 772,416 ratings — published 1987
The House of the Spirits (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.31 — 347,841 ratings — published 1982
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 55 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.87 — 978,852 ratings — published 1955
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.02 — 332,962 ratings — published 1947
My Name Is Red (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.87 — 63,323 ratings — published 1998
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.97 — 252,232 ratings — published 1981
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 52 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.19 — 364,156 ratings — published 1995
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,009,774 ratings — published 1813
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.02 — 225,268 ratings — published 1831
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,787,900 ratings — published 2001
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 49 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.03 — 213,155 ratings — published 1321
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as world-literature)
avg rating 4.31 — 752,632 ratings — published 2001
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,376,146 ratings — published 1952
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.65 — 457,680 ratings — published 2007
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.70 — 163,584 ratings — published 1774
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as world-literature)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,012,658 ratings — published 1951
“Great works of literature from other places are not only censored by banning them, but even more so by silencing them, by refusing to translate them in the first place. Marginalization is the worst form of censorship and intellectual assassination. Likewise, choosing what gets translated into a certain language and what gets marginalized is a form of shaping and constructing the historical memory of a place according to whims of those who own the money and means of knowledge production.”
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“Miró hacia la biblioteca. Aquella sabiduría no calmaría nunca su fuego; siglos y siglos de palabras no podían satisfacer aquel deseo imperativo e irracional.”
― I Am Legend
― I Am Legend
