What book to read tonight

Why do we read books? It would seem a strange question, but how many people, so many answers to it there are: some kill time on the way to work, others develop the imagination, others look for answers to their questions, the fourth dissolve in fictional stories to escape from the gray reality.





Reading opens up endless horizons: it gives us the opportunity to live different lives, play other people’s roles, change countries and eras. But we all choose different books and take different ones from them.

Making a list of the best, most important and iconic books that would satisfy our changing tastes is very difficult. It is necessary to pay tribute to the classics, take into account hundreds of factors, including the historical and cultural significance of the book, its relevance and stable popularity.





Nevertheless, literary critics continue to compile their top lists over and over again, providing us with life-saving landmarks in an endless sea of books. Today we want to share one of these lists. How many books have you read from it?

Top of the best books

1. “The Master and Margarita” by Mikhail Bulgakov. Bulgakov's books You can read it dozens, hundreds of times, and it's different every time. Editorial "Site" I have gathered for you the catch phrases from the works of the great Master. Brilliant, topical and modern.
   
   
   
   
   
2. "Eugene Onegin", Alexander Pushkin
3. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
4. The Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
5. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
6. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
7. Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
8. Twelve Chairs by Ilya Ilf, Evgeny Petrov
9. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
10. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
11. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
12. "The Idiot," Fyodor Dostoyevsky
13. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan-Doyle
14. “The Golden Calf”, Ilya Ilf, Evgeny Petrov
15. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
16. Evenings at the Farm near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol
17. "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe
    
    
    
18. Three Comrades, by Erich Maria Remarque
19. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
20. Stories, O. Henry
21. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
22. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
23. Stories, Anton Chekhov. Works by Chekhov We start studying at school. Someone is limited to the short content of a story set at home, and someone begins to swallow book after book, cry, laugh, stay awake at night. We have selected for you 11 best statements of this extraordinary, ironic person, which do not lose relevance to this day.
    
    
24. Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
25. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
    
    
    
26. The Catcher in the Rye by Jerome D. Salinger
27. "Winnie the Pooh," Alan Alexander Milne
28. Flying Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
29. "Red and Black," Stendhal
30. On the Western Front Without Change by Maria Remarque
31. The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
32. "Hamlet," William Shakespeare
33. “The Captain’s Daughter” by Alexander Pushkin
34. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
35. Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
36. The Lord of the Rings by John Tolkien
    
    
    
37. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
38. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
39. Oblomov, Ivan Goncharov
40. "Faust," Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
41. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
42. Scarlet Sails by Alexander Green
43. Fathers and Children, Ivan Turgenev
44. The White Guard, Mikhail Bulgakov
45. The Seagull Named Jonathan Livingston by Richard Bach
    
    
    
46. “The Tales of Belkin”, Alexander Pushkin
47. Notre Dame de Paris, Victor Hugo
48. The Dog of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan-Doyle
49. "1984," George Orwell
50. "Martin Eden," Jack London
51. Three in a Boat, Not Counting a Dog by Jerome K. Jerome
52. "Doctor Zhivago," Boris Pasternak
53. "Jane Eyre," Charlotte Bronte
54. Arc de Triomphe by Erich Maria Remarque
    
    
    
55. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
56. “Picnic on the Roadside”, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
57. Monday Begins on Saturday by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
58. Quiet Don by Mikhail Sholokhov
59. The Children of Captain Grant by Jules Verne
60. Solaris, Stanislaw Lem
61. “Woe from Wit”, Alexander Griboyedov
62. Treasure Island by Robert Lewis Stevenson
63. "The Odyssey," Homer
64. "White Fang," Jack London
65. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
    
    
    
66. “It’s Hard to Be a God” by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
67. Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
68. Dark Alleys by Ivan Bunin
69. "Illusions," Richard Bach
70. Parma Monastery, Stendhal
71. "The Iliad," Homer
72. The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald
73. The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio
74. "The Alchemist," Paulo Coelho
75. “The Adventures of Erast Fandorin” by Boris Akunin
76. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    
    
    
77. Two Captains by Benjamin Kaverin
78. American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
79. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
80. Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
81. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
82. “The Adventures of the Brave Soldier Schweik during the World War” by Jaroslav Gashek
83. "The Process," Franz Kafka
84. Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol
85. "The Gadge", Ethel Lilian Voynich
86. Singing in the Thorn, by Colin McCullough
    
    
    
87. The Holiday That's Always With You by Ernest Hemingway
88. Slaughterhouse Five, or the Crusade of Children by Kurt Vonnegut
89. "The Only One," Richard Bach
90. "Shogun," James Clavell
91. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
92. "The Magi," John Fowles
93. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
94. Lady Chatterley's Lover by David Lawrence
95. The Hunt for Sheep by Haruki Murakami
    
    
    
96. "The Platform," Michel Houellebecq
97. The Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
98. "Amendments," Jonathan Franzen
99. Hello, Sadness! by Françoise Sagan
100. "Ulysses," James Joyce

“Einmal ist keinmal ... Once is like never. If we are destined to live a single life, then we have not lived at all, reflects Milan Kundera in his famous novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

To draw a rather bold analogy, the books, once read as a child or fluently passed once as part of a school literature course, remain for the most part unfamiliar to us.

And the list of those few who read and re-read at intervals of tens of years, narrows like a shavern skin from an inexhaustible hundreds to tens, perhaps even a few.

There are never too many true friends. Bulgakov, Pushkin, Marquez, Hemingway, Nabokov, Strugatsky, Remark...