The Guardian's Text on the Beach: 50 Best Summer Reads Ever

Given by The Guardian

50 Obras 273,560 Libros 6,387 Reseñas ½ 3.9
Choosing holiday reading doesn't have to be about stuffing the latest blockbuster into your suitcase. From Renaissance Florence to the shores of Madagascar, we select the timeless novels that will mostrar más turn the most restful holiday into an exotic adventure. mostrar menos
Year Awarded:
2009
Obra
El gran Meaulnes (1959) por Alain-Fournier
La casa de los espíritus (1982) por Isabel Allende
I Like It Here (1958) por Kingsley Amis
Hablando del asunto (1991) por Julian Barnes
El cielo protector (1949) por Paul Bowles
La Dama del Lago (1943) por Raymond Chandler
Muerte en el Nilo (1937) por Agatha Christie
Amours de Voyage (1858) por Arthur Hugh Clough
Imogen (1978) por Jilly Cooper
El Cuarteto de Alejandria (Spanish Edition) (1957) por Lawrence Durrell
Romola (1862) por George Eliot
Suave es la noche (1934) por F. Scott Fitzgerald
Donde los ángeles no se aventuran (1905) por E. M. Forster
El Mago (1965) por John Fowles
La mujer del teniente francés (1969) por John Fowles
Chosen by Grayson Perry, artist
Flashman se va al Oeste (1977) por George MacDonald Fraser
Crónica de una muerte anunciada (1981) por Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Beach (1996) por Alex Garland
The Greengage Summer (1958) por Rumer Godden
Chosen by Sophie Dahl, writer and ex-model
Nuestro hombre en La Habana (1958) por Graham Greene
Chocolate (1999) por Joanne Harris
The Reconstructionist (2001) por Josephine Hart
El mensajero (1953) por L. P. Hartley
Fiesta (1926) por Ernest Hemingway
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) por Patricia Highsmith
La Línea de La Belleza (2004) por Alan Hollinghurst
Los hombres que no amaban a las mujeres (2005) por Stieg Larsson
Chosen by Richard Eyre, director
Asesinato de calidad (1962) por John le Carré
Sidra con Rosie (1959) por Laurie Lee
Las abuelas (2003) por Doris Lessing
Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959) por Paule Marshall
Chosen by Jackie Kay, poet and novelist
Up at the Villa (1941) por W. Somerset Maugham
Expiación (2001) por Ian McEwan
Summer's Lease (1988) por John Mortimer
El mar, el mar (1978) por Iris Murdoch
A house for Mr Biswas (1961) por V. S. Naipaul
El paciente Inglés (1992) por Michael Ondaatje
Jean de Florette & Manon of the Springs (1963) por Marcel Pagnol
En busca del tiempo perdido. I. Por el lado de Swann (1913) por Marcel Proust
En busca del tiempo perdido. II. A la sombra de las muchachas en flor (1918) por Marcel Proust
Chosen by Andrew Marr, presenter and journalist
Ancho Mar de los Sargazos (1966) por Jean Rhys
Buenos días, tristeza (1954) por Françoise Sagan
Levantad, Carpinteros, LA Viga Del Tejado/Seymour: Una Introduccion/ (1955) por J. D. Salinger
Bodysurf (2007) por Anita Shreve
LA MADRE (2006) por Edward St. Aubyn
La muerte de Iván Ilich (1886) por Leo Tolstoy
Chosen by Alain de Botton, author and philosopher
El Gatopardo (1958) por Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Chosen by Simon Schama, historian and TV presenter
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1957) por Evelyn Waugh
French Leave (1956) por P. G. Wodehouse
Something is Going to Fall Like Rain (2009) por Ros Wynne-Jones
Chosen by Rosie Boycott, chair of Food London

Descripciones

Choosing holiday reading doesn't have to be about stuffing the latest blockbuster into your suitcase. From Renaissance Florence to the shores of Madagascar, we select the timeless novels that will turn the most restful holiday into an exotic adventure.

(English, Award granter)
URL: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jul/05/summer-reading-books-recommendations
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http://www.theguardian.com/books/2009... (English, Escritos por miembros)

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