I have a record of all the books I have read in the last 25 years. It's based on old-fashioned technology, which means it's a small note book, made of real paper, where I write, with a pen. Recently, I have started to transfer it to my computer. Some books I read in Winterlandic, some in English. It would be cool to write a review of each book, but that would take forever. Here is a list of my favorite books, that is, books that I really enjoyed, and recommend for book-lovers like myself:
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor:
The Player (Gambler)
Crime and Punishment
The House of the Dead
The Idiot
Brothers Karamazov
Tolstoy, Leo:
War and Peace
The Cossacks
Sevastopol Stories
Anna Karenina
Turgenev, Ivan:
Fathers and Sons
Smoke
Lermontov, Michael:
A Hero of Our Time
Pushkin, Alexander:
The Queen of Spades
Ibsen, Henrik:
Ghosts
A Doll’s House
The Wild Duck
Rosmersholm
An Enemy of the People
Brand
Hamsun, Knut:
Hunger
Mysteries
Bjørneboe, Jens:
Moment of Freedom
Powderhouse
The Silence
Without a Stitch
Kielland, Alexander:
Poison
Falkberget, Johan
Christianus Sextus
Lindgren, Astrid:
Emil of Lønneberga
Lagerløf, Selma:
Marbacka: The Stories of a Manor
Lundell, Ulf:
Jack
Guillou, Jan:
The Road to Jerusalem
The Knight Templar
Brink, Andre:
Rumours of Rain
A Dry White Season
Hemingway, Ernest:
The Old Man and the Sea
The Sun also Rises
Farewell to Arms
Irving, John:
Hotel New Hampshire
A Prayer for Owen Meany
The World According to Garp
The Ciderhouse Rules
Steinbeck, John:
Tortilla Flat
Grapes of Wrath
Jack Kerouac:
On the Road
Ellis, Bret Easton:
American Psycho
Miller Henry:
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn
Nin, Anais:
Henry and June
Greene, Graham:
The Human Factor
Marquis de Sade:
Justine (Misfortunes of Virtue)
Jean Genet:
Thief’s Diary
The Miracle of the Rose
Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)
The Red and the Black
Adams, Douglas:
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
The Meaning of Life, the Universe and Everything
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
So Long and Thank’s for all the Fish
Mann, Thomas:
Buddenbrooks
Hesse, Herman:
Beneath the Wheel
Allende, Isabel
The House of the Spirits
Eva Luna
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia:
Love in the Time of Cholera
Clandestine in Chile
Lenz, Siegfried:
The German Lesson
Bernhard, Thomas:
Wittgenstein’s Nephew
Concrete
Kundera, Milan:
The Joke
Life is Elsewhere
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Kafka, Franz:
The Trial
The Castle
Joyce, James:
Dubliners
Wilde, Oscar:
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Brown, Dan:
Angels and Demons
The DaVinvi Code
Puzo, Mario:
The Godfather
The Sicilian
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There are so many on this list I want to read.
ReplyDeleteI just finished Galore by Michael Crummy. It was amazing.
Good gracious. I have never even tried to make a list of my favorite books!
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I'm very glad I started to write down title and author of books I read long time ago. Otherwise I wouldn't even remember which books i have read.
ReplyDeleteI think I will make a list from the other end some time too; books I didn't like. I guess that list will be topped by Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters
I looked up Michael Crummy and Galore on Internet, seams to be an interesting book. Will see if I can get it in Winterland (can read it in English of course). I like these family sagas, War and Peace by Tolstoy, Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann, and many more >:)
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping taking a reading challenge might make me slightly more organized so maybe I can make a list. My husband and I usually ask each other periodically what our favorite recently read books were, and sometimes I struggle even to answer that.
ReplyDeletePicking one favorite book is impossibe, therefore I had to make a list. There are so many good books written, and in different genres that can not be compared. For instance you can't really compare "War and Peace" and "The Miracle of the Rose". But both are fantastic books.
ReplyDeleteI believe that it's not a little list but a rather big list for a scientist.
ReplyDeleteHehe, yes maybe.
ReplyDeleteWhat’s big and small depends on the natural scale of the problem at hand. For instance if you’re driving down the street a 320 km (200 miles) per hour, the police officer would say you’re driving fast, even though it’s slow compared to the speed of light (300.000 km/s).
When it comes to book lists, I’m not sure what the natural scale should be >:)