Nobel Prize Contenders

1.
Midnight’s Children
Midnight’s Children 3.98 avg rating — 130,712 ratings
2.
Gravity’s Rainbow
Gravity’s Rainbow 4.01 avg rating — 46,895 ratings
3.
The Blind Assassin
The Blind Assassin 3.96 avg rating — 161,164 ratings
4.
The God of Small Things
The God of Small Things 3.96 avg rating — 317,161 ratings
5.
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West 4.16 avg rating — 204,461 ratings
6.
Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun 4.34 avg rating — 176,459 ratings
7.
The Dispossessed
The Dispossessed 4.25 avg rating — 143,154 ratings
8.
Blonde
Blonde 3.93 avg rating — 16,751 ratings
9.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being 4.11 avg rating — 524,847 ratings
10.
A Grain of Wheat
A Grain of Wheat 3.88 avg rating — 6,513 ratings
11.
A Heart So White
A Heart So White 4.02 avg rating — 17,236 ratings
12.
Satantango
Satantango 4.14 avg rating — 9,948 ratings
13.
The Shawl
The Shawl 3.90 avg rating — 4,787 ratings
14.
Clear Light of Day
Clear Light of Day 3.72 avg rating — 4,002 ratings
15.
Woman at Point Zero
Woman at Point Zero 4.21 avg rating — 27,032 ratings
16.
South of the Border, West of the Sun
South of the Border, West of the Sun 3.86 avg rating — 145,068 ratings
17.
Dhalgren
Dhalgren 3.78 avg rating — 12,077 ratings
18.
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis 4.24 avg rating — 6,877 ratings
19.
Novel Without a Name
Novel Without a Name 3.81 avg rating — 1,414 ratings
20.
A Book of Memories
A Book of Memories 4.06 avg rating — 646 ratings
21.
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter 3.87 avg rating — 4,177 ratings
22.
The Palace of Dreams
The Palace of Dreams 3.95 avg rating — 5,974 ratings
23.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer 4.04 avg rating — 530,112 ratings
24.
Almanac of the Dead
Almanac of the Dead 3.95 avg rating — 3,131 ratings
24.
HHhH
HHhH 4.07 avg rating — 27,467 ratings
26.
Europe Central
Europe Central 3.97 avg rating — 3,133 ratings
27.
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse 4.18 avg rating — 13,388 ratings
28.
The Butcher's Wife
The Butcher's Wife
by: Li Ang
3.82 avg rating — 1,042 ratings
29.
The Athenian Murders
The Athenian Murders 3.98 avg rating — 3,067 ratings
30.
The Three Way Tavern: Selected Poems
The Three Way Tavern: Selected Poems
by: Ko Un
3.91 avg rating — 74 ratings
31.
Five Spice Street
Five Spice Street
by: Can Xue
3.31 avg rating — 204 ratings
32.
Aliss at the Fire
Aliss at the Fire
by: Jon Fosse
3.68 avg rating — 4,439 ratings
32.
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender 4.02 avg rating — 1,439 ratings
34.
Samarkand
Samarkand 4.24 avg rating — 30,675 ratings
35.
Sleepwalking Land
Sleepwalking Land
by: Mia Couto
4.01 avg rating — 5,927 ratings
36.
Os Cus de Judas
Os Cus de Judas 3.97 avg rating — 3,166 ratings
36.
A Tale for the Time Being
A Tale for the Time Being 4.06 avg rating — 131,691 ratings
38.
The August Sleepwalker
The August Sleepwalker
by: Bei Dao
4.11 avg rating — 144 ratings
39.
I Hotel
I Hotel 3.85 avg rating — 798 ratings
40.
The Fault in Our Stars
The Fault in Our Stars 4.12 avg rating — 5,580,690 ratings
40.
White Noise
White Noise 3.86 avg rating — 123,848 ratings
42.
The Bleeding of the Stone
The Bleeding of the Stone 3.91 avg rating — 1,569 ratings
43.
Defiance
Defiance 3.72 avg rating — 240 ratings
44.
Adonis: Selected Poems
Adonis: Selected Poems
by: Adonis
4.24 avg rating — 374 ratings
45.
The Following Story
The Following Story 3.66 avg rating — 2,153 ratings
46.
Segu (Ségou, #1)
Segu (Ségou, #1) 4.10 avg rating — 1,994 ratings
46.
Bartleby & Co.
Bartleby & Co. 3.93 avg rating — 4,865 ratings
48.
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1) 4.05 avg rating — 435,537 ratings
49.
Medea and Her Children
Medea and Her Children 4.07 avg rating — 2,588 ratings
50.
Autobiography of Red
Autobiography of Red 4.26 avg rating — 34,582 ratings
51.
Gilead (Gilead, #1)
Gilead (Gilead, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 121,017 ratings
52.
Dusk (Rosales Saga, #1)
Dusk (Rosales Saga, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 1,420 ratings
53.
Penguin Lost
Penguin Lost 3.82 avg rating — 2,544 ratings
54.
The Forty Rules of Love
The Forty Rules of Love 4.12 avg rating — 196,674 ratings
55.
The Guest
The Guest 3.83 avg rating — 499 ratings
56.
Soldiers of Salamis
Soldiers of Salamis 3.85 avg rating — 13,334 ratings
57.
Ransom
Ransom 3.70 avg rating — 5,090 ratings
58.
Tu
Tu 3.96 avg rating — 540 ratings
58.
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking 4.08 avg rating — 465,722 ratings
60.
Gate of the Sun
Gate of the Sun 3.90 avg rating — 2,523 ratings
61.
'Art'
'Art' 3.78 avg rating — 9,839 ratings
62.
Maps
Maps 3.73 avg rating — 992 ratings
63.
Les Années
Les Années 4.17 avg rating — 41,787 ratings
64.
Cardboard Piano
Cardboard Piano 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
65.
La Medusa
La Medusa 4.03 avg rating — 109 ratings
66.
The Last Word
The Last Word 2.98 avg rating — 1,190 ratings
67.
A Curse on Dostoevsky
A Curse on Dostoevsky 3.49 avg rating — 971 ratings
68.
Poezii (Biblioteca pentru toți)
Poezii (Biblioteca pentru toți) 4.05 avg rating — 244 ratings
69.
Half a Rupee Stories
Half a Rupee Stories 3.78 avg rating — 1,178 ratings
70.
Stranger than Fiction
Stranger than Fiction 3.57 avg rating — 22,846 ratings
71.
Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London
Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London 3.85 avg rating — 2,179 ratings
72.
Two Thousand Seasons
Two Thousand Seasons 4.43 avg rating — 381 ratings
73.
Desperately Seeking Paradise: Journeys Of A Sceptical Muslim
Desperately Seeking Paradise: Journeys Of A Sceptical Muslim 3.91 avg rating — 545 ratings
74.
Eyes to See Otherwise: Poetry
Eyes to See Otherwise: Poetry 4.40 avg rating — 55 ratings
75.
Snow Plain: Selected Stories (Jintian)
Snow Plain: Selected Stories (Jintian)
by: Duo Duo
4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
76.
The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy--Rights of Passage / Islands / Masks
The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy--Rights of Passage / Islands / Masks 4.15 avg rating — 252 ratings
77.
Leonora
Leonora 4.11 avg rating — 2,611 ratings