Books of Literature by Nobel Prize Winning Authors: 2020 Challenge discussion

I have made a list of the books to be read in 2019. Due to recent ill health I wanted to write up this list whilst I am having better health.

I have chosen 2 books for some months where either the books were very short reads, or that I noted several of you had read the first choice.

January The Man of Property by John Galsworthy or Jean Christophe Vol I by Romain Rolland

February Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun] and/or Reeds in the Wind byGrazia Deledda

March Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw and/or Main Street by Sinclair Lewis


April The Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse and/or The Maid Silja: The History of the Last Offshoot of an Old Family Tree by F.E. Sillanpää

May The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić

June The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing

July One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and/or The Slave by Isaac Bashevis Singer

August Villa triste by Patrick Modiano and/or Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays by Derek Walcott

September The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez

October Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian

November Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee