Reading All Nobel Prize in Literature Winners: A Project

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[@thatsci-firogue]

That's quite the commitment

[@storytoob]

I am giving myself like ten years 😂

[@SleepyBookReader-666]

Well another reason to keep following the channel for at least ten more years.

[@storytoob]

❤️🫶🏻

[@esmayrosalyne]

That's an ambitious project, hats off to you! I hope you find many amazing stories, whether you end up finishing the entire list or drop off after a while hahah. Have fun and good luck!!

[@storytoob]

Thank you! We’ll see how it goes 🤣

[@SarahAsYouWish]

What a great project. I may look into exploring at least some of the new to me authors from this list. I’ve been contemplating reading all of the Pulitzer Prize winning books.

[@storytoob]

Also a fun project! Let me know if you end up picking up any of these ☺️

[@jillybeanh67]

Love it when people do these kinds of challenges. I look forward to hearing more of yours. I’ve not read many Nobel prose winners, I have read kazuo Ishiguro but his lesser known pale view of the hills which I really enjoyed. I also want to read olga tokarczuk. However, Nobel prize winners isn’t the prize for me, instead I’ve been toying with the idea of reading the women’s prize, not just winners but possibly also short list and maybe even some of the long lists as so many sound amazing …..and I already have a sizeable number of them…unread.

[@storytoob]

Uh the women’s prize for fiction interests me as well! I’ve wanted to read their shortlist a few times but I never manage to 😂

[@marianamasbooks]

I love this project! I’m curious about the first ones 👀 And also about how many I’ve read. (I mean, very few haha, but still curious).

[@BooksWithBenghisKahn]

Oh wow awesome project! Magic Mountain was an incredible read. Can’t go wrong with Ishiguro or Coetzee, and Orhan Pamuk might be another favorite Nobel winner for me with his books Snow and My Name is Red.

[@storytoob]

Noted on Pamuk - I think Snow is the one I was first aware of so I might start there!

[@BooksWithBenghisKahn]

@@storytoob yeah Snow was the masterpiece for me and very emotionally affecting

[@wibre8753]

You've set yourself quite a task. I'm an admirer of Mario Vargas Llosa, and I would recommend The Feast of the Goat and The War at the End of the World as starting points. Also, if you give Hemingway another try, A Farewell to Arms might be a good one for you.

[@storytoob]

Thanks for the recommendations!

[@nicole.rose13]

this is such a good idea!! I might also try to do this

[@storytoob]

Yes join me!!!

[@beatseven1]

Sounds like a daunting but fascinating project and I'll be looking forward to following along on your journey! Bob Dylan is the only singer/songwriter ( to my knowledge) to win the Nobel Prize for literature (in 2016 I believe). Curious to know if/how you'll tackle his work in this immense undertaking?

[@storytoob]

That’s a good question, and I’m not sure yet! Some of his poetry has been published as books (not sure if it’s song lyrics or not tbh, I’ll have to investigate), so I might read that in combination with diving into his discography a bit.

[@Tarsun19]

Please share the spreadsheet! I want to join this reading project too!

[@callinicobo5991]

Quite a task. I haven't red most of the winner, but I suggest Josè Saramago first of all, and also Grazia Deledda and Camilo josé Cela.

[@storytoob]

Noted! Saramago was on my radar, but I can’t say I know much about Grazia Deledda

[@callinicobo5991]

@@storytoob She was an Italian writer, her books are a little bit heavy and depressing, but also deep and relly well written, at least in my opinion.

[@storytoob]

@callinicobo5991 depressing and well written sounds great!😂

[@OnlyTheBestFantasyNovels]

This is a cool project. Turns out I've somehow already managed to read at least one thing from 8 of them, despite reading primarily fantasy, ha. Given I'm named after one (Tagore) and grew up hearing all about another from my home country (Derek Walcott) you'd think I'd have atleast read those two to make it 10, ha. Will look forward to your updates on how this goes!

[@storytoob]

Nice! Out of the ones you’ve read, which has been your favourite?

[@OnlyTheBestFantasyNovels]

@@storytoob 100 Years of Solitude! Absolutely love that book. I did also really enjoy Siddhartha and Of Mice and Men. I'm like you, The Old Man and the Sea just did nothing for me, ha.

[@storytoob]

@OnlyTheBestFantasyNovels seems like we have similar tastes! One hundred years of solitude is phenomenal

[@nazimelmardi]

Wow, great idea. Now I read all you read… (and I’m not a literature major) plus: Imre Kertész who is by chance Hungarian as I am, Golding, Marquez I read in Spanish, Mann, Pasternak (high school must read), well… there was a time when I was out for other genre too not just fantasy, and my mother is a teacher. 😂🤷‍♂️ We have an extensive library. I personally think it worth reading why they got that price. I’m not sure the books are that good as the price indicates. As for I know why Kertész Imre got it and what’s in his books, ( there is a movie adaptation of it in Hollywood if you are interested, surprisingly about WW2 and holocaust, that shows the point). But in other cases? There are very good books on the list, really entertaining reads. Golding? Kipling is the base of the Disney Book of the Jungle. Now it’s hard to find an original version of his illustrated works. You didn’t read Lord of the Flies? We had that in school.

[@storytoob]

I read some extracts of Lord of the Flies but never the whole thing! My school was mostly focused on books in Spanish🤷🏻‍♀️ but it’s time I fix that!

[@nazimelmardi]

@@storytoob I see. I was in a bilingual school in high school. (Hungarian-Spanish) so what was Spanish I read it in OG, plus we had some extra classes about (so called) Spanish culture. That included colonial culture too. That was thought by Spanish teachers and Latin American teachers too. So we learned even poetry from 13th century to present in Spanish just to demonstrate the language and culture how it changed and the history, music (lyrics - that’s how I learnt about Julio Iglesias not Enrique 😁) etc… At that time I spoke Spanish almost fluent, in Barcelona the people thought I’m from Columbia thanks to my accent because of my native friends in the school from there. Luckily the teachers didn’t forget English entirely so when I ended I had a solid grasp on it too. A few years working in helpdesk as a manager for UK helps to fix your English knowledge and you can read Lord of the Rings or Malazan. 20 years passed and now… thousands of books later… I’m watching AP and DOCTOR FANTASY 😂 to learn English literature perspective on what I read already. 😂 Your channel is always fun. You are creative in what you choose and it’s quite entertaining what Carlos does with the accents. I was always a big fan of the impressions. Keep up the good work!

[@Paul_van_Doleweerd]

Ah, and once you have finished with that, you can start with the Pulitzer prize winners... 😂😂😂

[@storytoob]

It’s neverending 🤣🤣

[@JosephReadsBooks]

You gave me an excuse to see how many Nobel Prize winners I have read. I will make recommendations(or anti-recommendations) for most of them. I will list a few I want to read at the end. Rudyard Kipling : I have only read The Jungle Book. I might read more someday. Sinclair Lewis: It Can't Happen Here is an incredible book. It is scary how accurate it is when it comes to a populist rising to power in the United States. I read it in 2018 and I was not okay 🤣. I recommend this above anything else I list on here. It is great! Herman Hesse : I have enjoyed my time with Siddhartha but as you said you have read some of his stuff. William Faulkner : I DNF'd As I lay Dying. I couldn't stand it. Albert Camus : I like his work but his book The Fall was not for me. I DNF'd it pretty quickly. It was annoying. John Steinbeck : I will give you a recommendation out of left field. Tortilla Flats is a super short book but I really like it. Jean-Paul Sartre : I have read some of his philosophy stuff but I don't remember much. It was a long time ago. William Golding : Lord of the Flies was required reading when I was in school. I just realized I have only read winners from a long ass time ago. I need to rectify that. I want to read The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn eventually. There is a modern translation but I think it is abridged. Which might be fine considering how large the original book was. I am looking forward to seeing what you read as you tackle this project!

[@storytoob]

Thanks for the recommendations! I gotta say, Faulkner and Camus are two of the winners that interest me the least, and this didn’t help 🤣

[@JosephReadsBooks]

@@storytoob I'm glad I could help and discourage you 😂.

[@blacknbluecollarreader]

I'm down for some poetry. Lmk what you get into.

[@storytoob]

Will do! 🫡

[@sw3dge]

You two sure now how to aim high 😅

[@storytoob]

Go big or go home and all that 🤣