I chose 20 books from Portugal:

- “Mensagem” (Message) - Fernando Pessoa
- “Livro do Desassossego” (The Book of Disquiet) - Fernando Pessoa (pseudonym Bernardo Soares)

- “Manual dos Inquisidores” (The Inquisitors' Manual) - António Lobo Antunes
- “Os Cus de Judas” (South of Nowhere) - António Lobo Antunes

- “Memorial do Convento” (Baltasar and Blimunda) - José Saramago
- “Ensaio sobre a cegueira” (Blindness) - José Saramago

- “A Sibila” - Agustina Bessa-Luís
- “No Reino da Dinamarca” - Alexandre O'Neill
- "O Incerto Exacto" - António Ramos Rosa
- “O Crime da Aldeia Velha” - Bernardo Santareno
- “O Labirinto da Saudade” (Le labyrinthe de la saudade) - Eduardo Lourenço
- “Ou o Poema Contínuo” - Herberto Hélder
- “Sinais de Fogo” (Signs of Fire) - Jorge de Sena
- “Nome de Guerra” - José de Almada-Negreiros
- “O Delfim” - José Cardoso Pires
- “Felizmente Há Luar!” - Luís de Sttau Monteiro
- “A Confissão de Lúcio” (Lúcio confession’s) - Mário de Sá-Carneiro
- “Casa Pardas - Maria Velho da Costa
- “Criação do Mundo” (The Creation of the World) - Miguel Torga
- “Todos os Poemas” - Ruy Belo
- “Poesia Completa” (complete Poetry) - Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
- “Manhã Submersa” (Misty Morning) - Vergílio Ferreira
- “Mau Tempo No Canal” (Stormy isles: An Azorean tale) - Vitorino Nemésio


Add yours from your country, pls

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Hello!
In 20 books in Portuguese of the 20th century at least an half deserves to be from other lusophones countries (specially Brazil, but also from Angola and Mozambique, and why not from Cape Verde to?). It's not easy to choose because i don't have a big acquaintance with Brazilian literature or from other lusophones countries. I just had read some book from those countries. Although i will try in the next week to pick some 20th century book from lusophones countries.
Brazilians read more portuguese authors than we read Brazilians authors! In Portugal "Paulo Coelho" and "Jorge Amado" are by far the most read authors in the last decades. "Mia Couto" from Mozambique is also a favorite author in Portugal. "José Eduardo Agualusa" and "Pepetela" from Angola and "Craveirinha", from Mozambique sell also many books here (Portugal)

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