Forty-five recommended readings
A few months ago he wrote us a member of the writing community to make a suggestion (always are welcome, write us yours).
In his email he proposed to us that we publish a list of books prepared according to our preferences. A list with which we will guide those readers who are looking for new readings or with which we would please book list enthusiasts (we are too).
But above all, we imagine, a list that would be a recommendation of those books that a writer must read yes or yes.
In all honesty, we didn't we feel authoritative enough to compile a list of books every writer must read. Maybe a hundred years from now when we've read much more.
But we did want to please that blog reader (and other curious that there may be) by preparing a list of the works that we have cited on the blog over more than a decade, in the examples that we usually put to illustrate some of the concepts that we review in the articles.
Is this list worth a preliminary, appetizer, incomplete and in progress list that we will continue to expand with new works that we mention in the blog.
All the books that are cited have our explicit recommendation. You can read the works included in the list from beginning to end, with method, or simply peck through it, choosing authors or titles that interest you.
To list these recommended readings we have followed an alphabetical order, not preference or chronological.
We hope you include some of these books among your summer readings, now that the time of year comes that many of us take the opportunity to read more. Although you already know that reading is an activity that a writer must carry out daily as the best way to learn and enrich his texts. The cruising speed that we recommend is fifty books a year.
Con esta lista cerramos la temporada de artĂculos. Volveremos con nuevos contenidos en septiembre. Esperamos que no nos olvides.
- Anna Karénina. Lev Tolstói.
- Arroz y tartana. Vicente Blasco Ibáñez.
- Arte de la ficciĂłn, El. Henry James.
- Asesinato de Roger Ackroyd, El. Agatha Christie.
- Aventuras de Huckleberry Finn, Las. Mark Twain.
- Berlin Alexanderplatz. Alfred Döblin.
- Busca, La. PĂo Baroja.
- Camino, El. Miguel Delibes.
- Capital, La . JosĂ© MarĂa Eça de QueirĂłs.
- Chevengur. Andrei Platonov.
- How writers think. Richard Cohen.
- Alexandria Quartet, El. Lawrence Durrel (tetralogy).
- Culpa del abate Mouret , La. Émile Zola.
- Miraculous cures from Dr. Aira, Las. Cesar Aira.
- David Copperfield. Charles Dickens.
- Hell, Los. Fyodor M. Dostoevsky.
- Miss Barbara. Romulo Gallegos.
- Effi Briest. Theodor Fontane.
- Hooked on stories. Lisa Cron.
- Writer and his ghosts, El. Ernesto Sabato.
- Foam of the days, La. Boris Vian.
- Catcher in the Rye, El. JD Salinger.
- Frost . Thomas Bernhard.
- Industries and adventures of AlfanhuĂ. Rafael Sánchez Ferlossio.
- Jane Eyre. Charlotte Brontë.
- Flaubert's Parrot, El. Julian Barnes.
- Madame Bovary. Gustave Flaubert.
- Mal de Portnoy, El. Philip Roth.
- Editor's Manual. Manuel Pimentel.
- Martin Eden. Jack London.
- Fog. Miguel de Unamuno.
- Paris was a party. Ernest Hemingway.
- Primo Basilio, El . JosĂ© MarĂa Eça de QueirĂłs.
- Bridge over the Drina, A. Ivo Andrić.
- Portrait of a lady. Henry James.
- Robinson Crusoe. Daniel Defoe.
- Red insignia of valor, La. Stephen Crane.
- Red and black. Stendhal.
- S aga of the Forsyte , La. John Galsworthy (trilogy).
- Mrs. Dalloway, La. Virginia Woolf.
- Sonata a Kreutzer. Lev TolstĂłi.
- I am a cat. Natsume SĹŤseki.
- Aunt Tula, La. Miguel de Unamuno.
- All the king's men. Robert Penn Warren.
- Journey to the center of the fable. Augusto Monterroso.