Nobel Prize Winning Novels: The Essential Reading List

Nobel Prize winning novels represent the pinnacle of world literature. Each year, the Nobel Prize in Literature honors a writer whose work has been of outstanding literary merit — and the books on this list are among the most celebrated results of that legacy. From Gabriel Garcia Marquez's magical realism to Kazuo Ishiguro's quiet devastation, these ten novels span continents, languages, and centuries. If you want to read the best books ever written, start here.