Ignácio de Loyola Brandão selects the books that have had most effect on him:

Albert Camus: L’étranger (The Outsider)
Jean-Paul Sartre: La nausée (Nausea)
John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
Graciliano Ramos: Angustia (Anguish)
Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
Marcelo Rubens Paiva: Feliz ano velho (Happy Old Year)
Giuseppe di Lampedusa: Il Gattopardo (The Leopard)
Deonísio da Silva: Avante soldados: para trás
Chekhov: Stories
Carson McCullers: The Ballad of the Sad Café
Erico Verissimo: O tempo e o vento (Time and the Wind)