The best novels of all times

in the Arabic and Hebrew languages

Selected by piero scaruffi
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  1. Isaac Bashevis Singer (Hebrew, 1904): "Die Familje Moshkat/ The Family Moskat" (1950) +
  2. Abdul Rahman Munif (Iraq, 1933): "Mudun al-Milh/ Cities of Salt" (1989) +
  3. Shemuel Agnon (Hebrew, 1888): "Temol Shilshom/ "The Day Before Yesterday/ Ieri e Avant'ieri" (1945) +
  4. Elias Khoury (Lebanon, 1948): "Abwab al-Madinah/ The Gates of the City" (1981) +
  5. Abraham Yehoshua (Hebrew, 1936): "Mar Manni/ Mr Mani" (1990) +
  6. Amos Klausner Oz (Hebrew, 1939): "Kufsah Shorah/ Black Box" (1988) +
  7. Israel Joshua Singer (Hebrew, 1893): "Di Bruder Ashkenazi/ The Brothers Ashkenazi" (1937) +
  8. Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt, 1911): "Bayn al-Qasrayn/ Palace Walk" (1956) +
  9. Aharon Appelfeld (Hebrew, 1932): "Badenhaim Ir Nofesh/ Badenheim 1939" (1978) +
  10. Sholem Yakov Abramovich/ Mendele Mocher Sforim (Hebrew, 1836): "Fischke der Krummer" (1888) +
  11. Abraham Mapu (Hebrew, 1808): "Ahavat Zion/ Love of Zion" (1853) +
  12. Al-Tayyib Salih (Sudan, 1929): "Season of Migration to the North" (1966) +
  13. Chaim Grade (Hebrew, 1910): "The Agunah" (1961) +
  14. Mohamed Choukri (Morocco, 1935) "Al Khubz al-Hafi/ For Bread Alone" (1972) +
  15. Yaakov Shabtai (Hebrew, 1934): "Zikhron Devarim" (1977) +
  16. Abraham Yehoshua (Hebrew, 1936): "Ha-Meahev/ The Lover" (1977) +

Chronological

Arabic literature
Hebrew literature