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

Given by The Guardian

50 obres 267,272 Llibres 6,254 Ressenyes 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

mostra'n més turn the most restful holiday into an exotic adventure.
mostra'n menys
Year Awarded:
2009
Obra
El gran Meaulnes (1959) de Alain-Fournier
La casa de los espíritus (1982) de Isabel Allende
I Like It Here (1958) de Kingsley Amis
Talking It Over (1991) de Julian Barnes
El Cel protector (1949) de Paul Bowles
La dama del llac (1943) de Raymond Chandler
Mort en el Nil (1937) de Agatha Christie
Amours de Voyage (1858) de Arthur Hugh Clough
Imogen (1978) de Jilly Cooper
Quartet d'Alexandria (1957) de Lawrence Durrell
Romola (1862) de George Eliot
Tendra és la nit (1934) de F. Scott Fitzgerald
Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) de E. M. Forster
La dona del tinent francès (1969) de John Fowles
Chosen by Grayson Perry, artist
The Magus (1965) de John Fowles
Flashman's Lady (1977) de George MacDonald Fraser
Crónica d'una mort anunciada (1981) de Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Beach (1996) de Alex Garland
The Greengage Summer (1958) de Rumer Godden
Chosen by Sophie Dahl, writer and ex-model
Our Man in Havana (1958) de Graham Greene
Chocolat (1999) de Joanne Harris
The Reconstructionist (2001) de Josephine Hart
The Go-Between (1953) de L. P. Hartley
El Sol també s'aixeca (1926) de Ernest Hemingway
L'Enginyós senyor Ripley (1955) de Patricia Highsmith
The Line of Beauty (2004) de Alan Hollinghurst
Els homes que no estimaven les dones (2005) de Stieg Larsson
Chosen by Richard Eyre, director
Un Crim de qualitat (1962) de John le Carré
Sidra amb la Rosie (1959) de Laurie Lee
The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels (2003) de Doris Lessing
Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959) de Paule Marshall
Chosen by Jackie Kay, poet and novelist
Una Casa a Florència (1941) de W. Somerset Maugham
Expiació (2001) de Ian McEwan
Summer's Lease (1988) de John Mortimer
El mar, el mar (1978) de Iris Murdoch
A House for Mr Biswas (1961) de V. S. Naipaul
The English Patient (1992) de Michael Ondaatje
Jean de Florette & Manon of the Springs (1963) de Marcel Pagnol
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (1918) de Marcel Proust
Chosen by Andrew Marr, presenter and journalist
Pel cantó de Swann (1913) de Marcel Proust
Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) de Jean Rhys
Bon dia, tristesa (1954) de Françoise Sagan
Pugeu la biga mestra, fusters Seymour, una introduccó (1955) de J. D. Salinger
Body Surfing (2007) de Anita Shreve
Mother's Milk (2006) de Edward St. Aubyn
La Mort d'Ivan Ilitx (1852) de Leo Tolstoy
Chosen by Alain de Botton, author and philosopher
El guepard (1958) de Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Chosen by Simon Schama, historian and TV presenter
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1957) de Evelyn Waugh
French Leave (1956) de P. G. Wodehouse
Something is Going to Fall Like Rain (2009) de Ros Wynne-Jones
Chosen by Rosie Boycott, chair of Food London

Descripcions

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
A list from The Guardian:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2009... (English, Escrit per membres)

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