Top 100 books chosen by 100 Spanish-speaking writers

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From a poll organized by El Pais in 2008. Each writer named their top 10 books.

You can see all the votes here:

http://www.elpais.com/elpaismedia/eps/media/200808/10/portada/20080810elpepspor_1_Pes_PDF.pdf

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  1. 1.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel De Cervantes

  2. 2.
    In Search of Lost Time: Proust 6-pack (Proust Complete)
    by Marcel Proust

  3. 3.
    The Odyssey
    by Homer

  4. 4.
    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka

  5. 5.
    The Metamorphosis
    by Franz Kafka

  6. 6.
    Anna Karenina (Modern Library Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  7. 7.
    Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
    by Herman Melville

  8. 8.
    Stories of Anton Chekhov
    by Anton Chekhov

  9. 9.
    War and Peace (Modern Library)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  10. 10.
    Ficciones (English Translation)
    by Jorge Luis Borges

  11. 11.
    Poet in New York: A Bilingual Edition
    by Federico GarcĂ­a Lorca

  12. 12.
    The Brothers Karamazov
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  13. 13.
    Crime and Punishment (Everyman's Library)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  14. 14.
    The Bible

  15. 15.
    The Magic Mountain
    by Thomas Mann

  16. 16.
    Pedro Paramo
    by Juan Rulfo

  17. 17.
    Ulysses
    by James Joyce

  18. 18.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner

  19. 19.
    Madame Bovary (Bantam Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

  20. 21.
    Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Malcolm Lowry

  21. 22.
    Death of Virgil
    by Hermann Broch

  22. 23.
    Montaigne: Essays
    by Michel de Montaigne

  23. 24.
    Lolita, 50th Anniversary Edition
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  24. 25.
    The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics)
    by Stendhal

  25. 26.
    Aleph (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Jorge Luis Borges

  26. 27.
    Tristram Shandy (Everyman's Library)
    by Laurence Sterne

  27. 28.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    by Carson McCullers

  28. 29.
    Heart of Darkness (Hesperus Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

  29. 30.
    The Flowers of Evil (Wesleyan Poetry)
    by Charles Baudelaire

  30. 31.
    The Symposium (Penguin Classics)
    by Plato

  31. 32.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger

  32. 33.
    Sentimental Education (Penguin Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

  33. 34.
    Duino Elegies
    by Rainer Maria Rilke

  34. 36.
    This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950
    by Cesare Pavese

  35. 37.
    The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Classics)
    by Fernando Pessoa

  36. 39.
    Thus Spake Zarathustra (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Friedrich Nietzsche

  37. 40.
    Treasure Island (Scholastic Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

  38. 41.
    Hopscotch (Pantheon Modern Writers Series)
    by Julio Cortazar

  39. 42.
    Fortunata and Jacinta: Two Stories of Married Women (Classics)
    by Benito Perez Galdoz

  40. 43.
    The Complete Stories (Everyman's Library)
    by Edgar Allan Poe

  41. 44.
    Time of the Hero
    by Mario Vargas Llosa

  42. 45.
    The Waste Land (Norton Critical Editions)
    by T. S. Eliot

  43. 46.
    Metamorphoses (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Ovid

  44. 47.
    The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    by Emily Dickinson

  45. 48.
    King Lear
    by William Shakespeare

  46. 49.
    Hamlet
    by William Shakespeare

  47. 50.
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    Trilce
    by Cesar Vallejo

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