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Thanks to Derek for suggesting this one..

Nominate your FAVOURITE books by Nobel Laureates here..

This is not an easy task. My picks may not be the best books by Nobel Laureates, but they are two that spoke to me on a personal level and are ones that maybe less people are familiar with (sorry Sam Beckett, I still love you).

Heinrich Boll's Billiards at Half-Past Nine and JMG LeClezio's The Giants.

To help, here's the list of Nobel laureates in Literature:

I'll nominate The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck.

I've been wanting to read Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner and The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse? There's a number of lectures on itunes about Absalom so we could get learned out our nut about it :D

Thanks Leo. This thread is for our bookshelves, rather than group reads though. These are the books group members have read and highly recommend on particular topics. Only the very best for us! :)

Our Group Reads sort of function separately - people nominate books they want to read (usually around a theme). I like the idea of iTunes lectures on Group read books though. Somewhere else to look for "bonus material"!

I don't think we've got enough Nobel Laureate noms for a shelf yet, but I'll update when we do..

Ruby wrote: "Thanks Leo. This thread is for our bookshelves, rather than group reads though. These are the books group members have read and highly recommend on particular topics. Only the very best for us! :)."

Ah cool, this is my first bookshelf contribution, sorry for the confusion!

Instead I'll nominate The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek, Hunger by Knut Hamsun and The Stranger by Albert Camus. Phew! Hope this makes up for my faux pas du shèlve :D

Leo X. wrote: "Instead I'll nominate The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek, Hunger by Knut Hamsun and The Stranger by Albert Camus. Phew!..."

I'll add Absalom, Absalom! for Faulkner. possibly my favorite book ever. Not sure why I didn't nominate it before.

Whitney wrote: "I'll add Absalom, Absalom! for Faulkner. possibly my favorite book ever. Not sure why I didn't nominate it before. ."

Wow! That's some praise :D I'll definitely read it soon then. Here's the iTunes link I was talking about:

There's Woolf and Nabokov and loads of great writers there too!

Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow.

Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling.

Time And Free Will by Henri Bergson. This post reminded me to add this book to the read list. Somehow this one kept slipping by everytime I added older books.

Main Street and Arrowsmith both by Sinclair Lewis.

Cannery Row and Tortilla Flat both by John Steinbeck.

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Just a few that come to mind quickly and all ones that I've read more than once and will (hopefully) read again!

Leo X. wrote: "Ruby wrote: "Hope this makes up for my faux pas du shèlve :D ..."

...and THAT is why I wish I'd learned French! Everything sounds cool in French.

Ruby wrote: "...and THAT is why I wish I'd learned French! Everything sounds cool in French."

Haha! Even better in fake French ;D

Kenzaburo Oe. Just read the dude.

Nanci wrote: "Kenzaburo Oe. Just read the dude."

Which book, Nanci? This is a thread for nominating books to go on our group shelf.

East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot and The Waste Land. I'd recommend "Choruses from 'The Rock'", too, except it doesn't seem to be in a stand-alone book form. :(
No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago,Cancer Ward, The First Circle
The Captive Mind by Czesław Miłosz

Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Barabbas by Pär Lagerkvist
Independent People by Halldór Laxness
Beethoven Was One-sixteenth Black: And Other Stories by Nadine Gordimer
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Blindness or Seeing by José Saramago - can't pick one over other :(

Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Barabbas by Pär Lagerkvist
Independent People by Halldór Laxness
Beethoven Was One-sixteenth Black: And Other Stories by Nadine Gordimer
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Blindness or Seeing by José Saramago - can't pick one over other :(

I had no idea Toni Morrison was a Nobel laureate. There you go.

In everyone's opinion.....

"Best" novel by William Faulkner?

"Best" novel by John Steinbeck?