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American Literature and the Nobel Prize: Books by Laureates

Find links to each laureate's award speech as well as a brief explanation of why they won the Nobel in Literature.

Books by Laureates

These books are some of the most popular books by winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature. 

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Lord of the Flies

The Plague

East of Eden

For Whom the Bell Tolls

The Tin Drum

Waiting for Godot

The Remains of the Day

The Bridge on the Drina

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

Red Sorghum

Main Street

Klara and the Sun

The Stranger

Blindness

The Good Earth

Never Let Me Go

The Magic Mountain

Steppenwolf

Death with Interruptions

The Golden Notebook

Independent People

The Clown

Waiting for the Barbarians

Snow Country

Kristin Lavransdatter

The Old Man and the Sea

Love in the Time of Cholera

Beloved

As I Lay Dying

The Jungle Book

The Sound and the Fury

Flights

The Feast of the Goat

Of Mice and Men

Dear Life

July’s People

Kim

The Fox Was Ever the Hunter

The Grapes of Wrath

Siddhartha

Doctor Zhivago

The Waste Land

My Name is Red

The Sun Also Rises

Pygmalion

Nausea

The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

A Shining

Hunger

A Bend in the River

A Personal Matter