The 10 Greatest Books Ever, According to 125 Top Authors (Download Them for Free)
125 Authors have chosen the 10 greatest books ever written. A fantastic list has come together. And if you have an e-reader, you can download them all for free here.
1. Tolstoy, Leo (Лев Николаевич Толстой) "Anna Karenina" (Russian: Анна Каренина = Anna Karenina) - 1877
2. Flaubert, Gustave "Madame Bovary" (French: Madame Bovary: Mœurs de province) - 1857
3. Tolstoy, Lew Nikolajewitsch (Лев Николаевич Толстой) "War and Peace" (Russian: Война и мир = Woina I Mir) - 1868/69
4. Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich [Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков] "Lolita" - 1955
5. Twain, Mark "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" - 1884
6. Shakespeare, William "Hamlet" - 1599-1602
7. Fitzgerald, F. (Francis) Scott "The Great Gatsby" - 1925
8. Proust, Marcel "In Search of Lost Time" (French: À la recherche du temps perdu) - 1913-27
9. Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich (Анто́н Па́влович Че́хов) - Stories, any of them
10. Eliot, George "Middlemarch" - 1871-72
There is a list of them here.
So far, I have read 7 of them but they are all on my wishlist.
A very international list. 4 works by Russian authors, 2 by French, 2 by English, 2 by Americans. I'm just sad there is no German book among them but I suppose if there was, it would be this one:
Mann, Thomas "Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family" (German: Buddenbrooks) - 1901
I have only read four. I might die before I read War and Peace. I like long books but...I did see the movie.
ReplyDeleteOh dear. Which movie did you watch? This one from 1956 with Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda and Mel Ferrer or the mini-series from 2016 with Lily James, James Norton and Paul Dano? The latter is WAY better, written by Andrew Davies, the same guy who did the 1995 Pride & Prejudice version.
DeleteAnyway, I do recommend the book, it's really great.
And my I ask which four you have read?
Have a good day,
Marianne