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The logic of this post is to list some novels that the author could have published and that'd have been enough to set them up as major in the writing history, even if they do have lots of other great works. Like Cervantes with Don Quixote . I'm going with books published after 1950. Some of these will probably be the only good book the author really did (like  Catch 22). In no particular order: 10. The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel )- 1959- Germany - German by G ü nter Grass 9. One Hundred Years of Solitude ( Cien a ñ os de soledad) - 1967- Colombia- Spanish by  Gabriel Garcia Marquez  8. Midnight's Children -1981- United Kingdom - English by  Salman Rushdie 7.  On the Road - 1957 - United States of America- English by Jack Kerouac  6. Catch-22 -1961- United States of America- English by Joseph Heller 5. Lord of the Flies - 1954- United Kingdom- English  by  William Golding 4. Beloved - 1987- United States of...

20. Haruki Murakami - The Wind-up Bird Chronicle -1995 - Japan 19. Vladmir Nabokov - Pale Fire - 1962 -USA 18. Flann O'Brien - At Swim-Two Birds - 1939 - Ireland 17. Harvey Pekar - American Splendor - 1976-2008 - USA 16. Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis - 1915 - Austria-Hungary 15. Thomas Bernhard - The Loser - 1983 - Austria 14. Phillip K. Dick - The Man in The High Castle - 1962 -USA 13. Julian Barnes - Flaubert's Parrot - 1984 -England 12. Martin Amis - Time's Arrow - 1991 -England 11. David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest -1996 -USA

, Nobel's choice of emphasis on "idealistic" or "ideal" (in English translation) in his criteria for the Nobel Prize in Literature has led to recurrent controversy. .In the early twentieth century, the Nobel Committee interpreted the intent of the will strictly and did not award certain world-renowned authors of the time such as Henry James, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Emile Zola, Anton Chekov and Henrik Ibsen .More recently, the wording has been interpreted more liberally. Since there was a reason , albeit a exceedingly poor one, for exclusion of these authors this list only refers to more recent authors who were snubbed (i.e writers who died after 1920). (This list will be biased towards writers who wrote in English or French. Or whose works have been translated into those languages. There are many writers in other languages who are likely to have deserved a Nobel, but a lack of comprehension of those languages makes the judging of their works impossible. Obviou...