El País: 100 Spanish language authors
El País is a Spanish newspaper, it has the most read Spanish language news website. In 2008 they asked 100 Spanish speaking authors to list up to 10 books that had had a big influence in their lives. Among the authors consulted were Carlos Fuentes, Vargas Llosa and Vila-Matas. This list includes the most popular responses. https://web.archive.org/web/20120625191035/https://elpais.com/elpaismedia/eps/media/200808/10/portada/20080810elpepspor_1_Pes_PDF.pdf
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Ulysses
James Joyce · 1920 · 39 lists
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Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov · 1955 · 38 lists
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez · 1967 · 33 lists
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The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger · 1951 · 32 lists
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Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad · 1899 · 29 lists
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In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust · 1913 · 29 lists
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War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy · 1869 · 29 lists
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen · 1813 · 28 lists
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Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · 1615 · 27 lists
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll · 1865 · 26 lists
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Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert · 1856 · 26 lists
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The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner · 1929 · 26 lists
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain · 1885 · 25 lists
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The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri · 1321 · 25 lists
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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy · 1876 · 24 lists
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The Stranger
Albert Camus · 1942 · 23 lists
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866 · 22 lists
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville · 1851 · 22 lists
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The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880 · 22 lists
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The Trial
Franz Kafka · 1925 · 21 lists
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Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf · 1925 · 20 lists
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David Copperfield
Charles Dickens · 1850 · 19 lists
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The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann · 1924 · 18 lists
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The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov · 1967 · 18 lists
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Gulliver’s Travels
Jonathan Swift · 1726 · 17 lists
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Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner · 1936 · 16 lists
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Les Misérables
Victor Hugo · 1862 · 16 lists
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Under the Volcano
Malcolm Lowry · 1947 · 15 lists
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Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray · 1847 · 15 lists
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The Red and the Black
Stendhal · 1830 · 14 lists
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Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman · 1855 · 13 lists
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Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov · 1962 · 13 lists
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The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler · 1939 · 13 lists
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Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson · 1880 · 13 lists
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Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Céline · 1932 · 12 lists
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The Good Soldier
Ford Madox Ford · 1915 · 12 lists
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Bleak House
Charles Dickens · 1850 · 11 lists
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Orlando
Virginia Woolf · 1928 · 11 lists
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers · 1940 · 11 lists
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American Pastoral
Philip Roth · 1997 · 10 lists
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Herzog
Saul Bellow · 1961 · 10 lists
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The Aeneid
Virgil · 19 · 10 lists
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Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad · 1900 · 9 lists
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The Stories of John Cheever
John Cheever · 1978 · 9 lists
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The Waves
Virginia Woolf · 1931 · 9 lists
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Hamlet
William Shakespeare · 1623 · 8 lists
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The Castle
Franz Kafka · 1907 · 8 lists
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886 · 8 lists
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If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Italo Calvino · 1982 · 6 lists
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Metamorphoses
Ovid · 1479 · 6 lists
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Pedro Paramo
Juan Rulfo · 1955 · 6 lists
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The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa · 1982 · 6 lists
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The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1869 · 6 lists
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Confessions
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1782 · 5 lists
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Memoirs of Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar · 1951 · 5 lists
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The Tartar Steppe
Dino Buzzati · 1940 · 5 lists
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Doctor Faustus
Thomas Mann · 1662 · 4 lists
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Hopscotch
Julio Cortazar · 1987 · 4 lists
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Poems
Alan Dugan · 1807 · 4 lists
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Jakob von Gunten
Robert Walser · 1969 · 3 lists
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La Celestina
Fernando de Rojas · 1899 · 3 lists
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The Time of the Hero
Mario Vargas Llosa · 2011 · 3 lists
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Bouvard and Pécuchet
Gustave Flaubert · 2018 · 2 lists
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Demian
Hermann Hesse · 1919 · 2 lists
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Giorgio Bassani · 1972 · 2 lists
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The Shadow Line
Joseph Conrad · 1917 · 2 lists
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The Shipyard
Juan Carlos Onetti · 2013 · 2 lists
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The War of the End of the World
Mario Vargas Llosa · 2011 · 2 lists
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Three Trapped Tigers
Guillermo Cabrera Infante · 1978 · 2 lists
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A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf · 1929 · 0 lists
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A Season in Hell
Arthur Rimbaud · 1989 · 0 lists
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A Sentimental Education
Gustave Flaubert · 1869 · 0 lists
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As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner · 1915 · 0 lists
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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Mario Vargas Llosa · 1977 · 0 lists
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Bartleby the Scrivener
Herman Melville · 1853 · 0 lists
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Bohemian Lights
Ramón del Valle-Inclán · 1920 · 0 lists
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Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels · 1848 · 0 lists
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Conversación en La Catedral
Mario Vargas Llosa · 1969 · 0 lists
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Das Kapital
Karl Marx · 1867 · 0 lists
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Death of Virgil
Hermann Broch · 2012 · 0 lists
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Demons
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2000 · 0 lists
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Dubliners
James Joyce · 1914 · 0 lists
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Essays
Michel de Montaigne · 1618 · 0 lists
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Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges · 1973 · 0 lists
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Fortunata and Jacinta
Benito Pérez Galdós · 1989 · 0 lists
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If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem
William Faulkner · 1939 · 0 lists
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Illuminations
Arthur Rimbaud · 2002 · 0 lists
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Juan De Mairena
Antonio Machado · 1936 · 0 lists
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King Lear
William Shakespeare · 1604 · 0 lists
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La Regenta
Clarín · 1884 · 0 lists
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Last Afternoons With Teresa
Juan Marse · 0 lists
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Light in August
William Faulkner · 1931 · 0 lists
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Los Siete Locos
Roberto Arlt · 1958 · 0 lists
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Macbeth
William Shakespeare · 1508 · 0 lists
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Mortal y rosa
Francisco Umbral · 1975 · 0 lists
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One Thousand and One Nights
Anonymous · 2005 · 0 lists
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Peter Pan
J. M. Barrie · 1911 · 0 lists
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Poems of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson · 1890 · 0 lists
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Poems of Góngora
Luis de Góngora · 1966 · 0 lists
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Poet in New York
Federico García Lorca · 1936 · 0 lists
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Residence on Earth
Pablo Neruda · 1933 · 0 lists
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Richard III
William Shakespeare · 1597 · 0 lists
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Rimas
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · 1870 · 0 lists
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Sanctuary
William Faulkner · 1931 · 0 lists
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Sonnets
Julián Olivares · 1609 · 0 lists
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Spain, Take This Chalice from Me
César Vallejo · 2008 · 0 lists
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Stories of Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant · 1985 · 0 lists
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The Alexandria Quartet
Lawrence Durrell · 1961 · 0 lists
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The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories
Hans Christian Andersen · 2007 · 0 lists
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The Complete Stories
Franz Kafka · 1971 · 0 lists
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The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe · 1849 · 0 lists
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The Duino Elegies
Rainer Maria Rilke · 2006 · 0 lists
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The Fall
Albert Camus · 1776 · 0 lists
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The First Man
Albert Camus · 1994 · 0 lists
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The Flowers of Evil
Charles Baudelaire · 2012 · 0 lists
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925 · 0 lists
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The Leopard
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa · 2000 · 0 lists
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Laurence Sterne · 1759 · 0 lists
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The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka · 1915 · 0 lists
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The Odyssey
Homer · -800 · 0 lists
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The Poetry of Luis Cernuda
Luis Cernuda · 1999 · 0 lists
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The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir · 1949 · 0 lists
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The Sleepwalkers
Hermann Broch · 1931 · 0 lists
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The Stories of Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov · 1932 · 0 lists
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The Tempest
William Shakespeare · 1895 · 0 lists
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The Waste Land
T.S. Eliot · 1991 · 0 lists
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche · 2011 · 0 lists
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Trilce
César Vallejo · 1922 · 0 lists
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne · 1870 · 0 lists
