A progressive exploration of the great books

The Global Era 1928-

1. Mohandas Gandhi, India, 1928. My Experiments with Truth.
2. Aldous Huxley, England, 1932. Brave New World.
3. Kawabata Yusunari, Japan, 1934. Snow Country.
4. RK Narayan, India, 1935. The English Teacher.
5. Graham Greene, England, 1940. The Power and the Glory.
6. Arthur Koestler, Hungary, 1941. Darkness at Noon.
7. Eugene O’Neill, US, 1941. Long Days’ Journey into Night.
8. Junichio Tanizaki, Japan, 1943. The Makioka Sisters
9. Albert Camus, Algeria, 1943. The Stranger.
10. Jean Paul Sartre, France, 1943. Being and Nothingness.
11. Karl Popper, Austria, 1945. The Open Society and Its Enemies.
12. Simone De Beauviour, France, 1949. The Second Sex.
13. Ernest Hemmingway, US, 1953. The Old Man and the Sea.
14. George Orwell, England, 1948. Nineteen Eighty Four.
15. Ralph Ellison, US, 1952. The Invisible Man.
16. Samuel Becket, Ireland, 1952. Waiting for Godot.
17. Vladimir Nabokov, Russia, 1955. Lolita.
18. Allan Ginsburg, US, 1956. Howl.
19. Jack Kerouac, US, 1957. On the Road.
20. Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, 1958. Things Fall Apart.
21. Pablo Neruda, Chile, 1959. One Hundred Love Sonnets.
22. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Columbia, 1967. One Hundred Years of Solitude
23. Ayn Rand, US, 1957. Atlas Shrugged.
24. Jorges Luis Borges, Argentina, 1964. Labyrinths.
25. Michel Foucault, France, 1966. The Order of Things.
26. Maya Angelou, US, 1969. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
27. VS Naipul, Trinidad, 1979. A Bend in the River.
28. Salman Rushdie, England, 1980. Midnight’s Children.
29. Margaret Atwood, Canada, 1985. The Handmaid’s Tale.
30. Toni Morrison, United States , 1987. Beloved.