Orange Prize for Fiction's "50 Essential Reads by Contemporary Authors"

Attributo da Orange Prize for Fiction

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To support the 2004 award, the Orange Prize for Fiction researched the UK’s first ever living library of 50 contemporary ‘essential reads’. The books were chosen by a sample of 500 people mostra altro attending the first week of the Guardian Hay festival and represent the audience’s definitive ‘must have’ bookshelf by living writers. mostra meno
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La casa degli spiriti (1982) di Isabel Allende
Money (1984) di Martin Amis
L'assassino cieco (2000) di Margaret Atwood
Il racconto dell'ancella (1985) di Margaret Atwood
The Regeneration Trilogy (1991) di Pat Barker
La ragazza con l'orecchino di perla (1999) di Tracy Chevalier
La famiglia Winshaw (1994) di Jonathan Coe
Vergogna (1999) di J. M. Coetzee
Riders (1985) di Jilly Cooper
Being Dead (1999) di Jim Crace
Fred and Edie (2000) di Jill Dawson
Il mandolino del capitano Corelli (1993) di Louis De Bernières
Il nome della rosa (1980) di Umberto Eco
Middlesex (2002) di Jeffrey Eugenides
Il canto del cielo (1993) di Sebastian Faulks
Le correzioni (2001) di Jonathan Franzen
The Women's Room (1977) di Marilyn French
Cent'anni di solitudine (1967) di Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Il tamburo di latta (1959) di Günter Grass
Il senso di Smilla per la neve (1992) di Peter Høeg
Alta fedeltà (1995) di Nick Hornby
Quello che ho amato (2003) di Siri Hustvedt
Preghiera per un amico (1989) di John Irving
Gli occhi negli alberi (1998) di Barbara Kingsolver
Misery (1987) di Stephen King
Il taccuino d'oro (1962) di Doris Lessing
Grace Notes (1997) di Bernard MacLaverty
L'amore fatale (1997) di Ian McEwan
Espiazione (2001) di Ian McEwan
In fuga (1996) di Anne Michaels
Avviso ai naviganti (1993) di E. Annie Proulx
Queste oscure materie: la trilogia completa (1995) di Philip Pullman
Pastorale americana (1997) di Philip Roth
I figli della mezzanotte (1981) di Salman Rushdie
Faith Singer (2001) di Rosie Scott
Il ragazzo giusto (1993) di Vikram Seth
Unless (2002) di Carol Shields
Hotel World (2001) di Ali Smith
Denti Bianchi (2000) di Zadie Smith
Dio di illusioni (1992) di Donna Tartt
L' angelo della musica (1999) di Rose Tremain
Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetralogy (1995) di John Updike
Mattatoio n. 5 (1969) di Kurt Vonnegut
Ladra (2002) di Sarah Waters
Trainspotting (1993) di Irvine Welsh
Bambina affittasi (1991) di Jacqueline Wilson
Non ci sono solo le arance (1985) di Jeanette Winterson
Passione (1987) di Jeanette Winterson
Cloudstreet (1991) di Tim Winton

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