Bob Dylan's memoir, mostly about the years nobody asked about.
Hemingway's 1920s Paris, Gertrude Stein and Fitzgerald, published after his death.
Steinbeck drives around America with a poodle in 1960 to see what it has become.
Choice architecture and how a default option changes what people do; Thaler's Nobel idea.
System 1 and System 2, and every bias you have; Kahneman's Nobel work for readers.
A woman's life in 14th-century Norway in three volumes; Undset's Nobel.
An old woman in a Silesian village and hunters who keep dying; Tokarczuk's eco-thriller.
Florentino waits fifty-one years, nine months and four days for Fermina; Garcia Marquez's romance.
Solzhenitsyn's literary investigation of the camps from 227 witnesses; the abridged edition is enough.
The last day of Trujillo, the Dominican dictator, and a woman who returns; Vargas Llosa.
Voices of the liquidators, widows and resettled villagers; Alexievich's Nobel oral history.
A distillery family in Shandong during the Japanese invasion; Mo Yan's Nobel novel behind Zhang Yimou's film.
Annie Ernaux's life from 1941 to 2006 as a collective French memory in the third person; her Nobel.
A Seoul woman stops eating meat and her family cannot bear it; the Booker International that led to Han Kang's Nobel.
Russians remember the end of the Soviet Union and the 1990s; Alexievich's chorus.
A Tokyo dilettante and a geisha at a hot-spring town; Kawabata's Nobel novel.
Everyone in town knows the twins will kill Santiago Nasar and nobody stops it.
Bjartur of Summerhouses and his sheep against everything; Laxness's Icelandic epic.
Jacob Frank, an 18th-century Jewish messiah, across Poland and Turkey in 900 pages numbered backwards.
Fragments about travel, anatomy and a Chopin's heart smuggled to Warsaw; Tokarczuk's Booker International.
Three generations of a Cairo family from 1917 to 1944; Mahfouz's Nobel work.
Kathy, Ruth and Tommy at Hailsham and what they were made for.
A butler drives to Cornwall and considers what he gave up for a lord; Ishiguro's Booker.
An artificial friend watches over a sick girl; Ishiguro after the Nobel.
A Cape Town professor loses his job and moves to his daughter's farm; Coetzee's second Booker.
A murder among Ottoman miniaturists in 1591 Istanbul, told by everyone including the colour red.
Oskar stops growing at three and drums through Danzig's twentieth century; Grass's Nobel.
A poet returns to Kars in a blizzard as girls kill themselves over headscarves; Pamuk's political novel.
A city goes blind and is quarantined; Saramago without punctuation.
Santiago, a marlin and the sharks; the novella that got Hemingway the Nobel.
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