THE TOP 50 BOOKS OF ALL TİME

THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS (NOVEL, STORY, PLAY, POETRY, ESSAY) FOR YOUR HOME LIBRARY

 Here are the ones i read and failed to read i put a r(ead) and a f(ailed) near them please do so and lets compare our tastes.

1-Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Russia

2-Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, france  r

3-War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Russia

4-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, United States

5-Hamlet by William Shakespeare, England r

6-Selected Poems by William Shakespeare, England

7-Selected Stories by Anton P.Chekhov, Russia

8-Selected Stories by Sait Faik, Türkiye

9-The Stranger by Albert Camus, France r

10-The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, Czechoslovakia r

11-Selected stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe, United States r

12-Ulyses by James Joyce, Ireland f

13-War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Russia

14-Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, Russia

15-The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol, Russia

16-Gone With the Wind by Ernest Hemingway, United States

17-The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, United States

18-Animal Firm by George Orwell, England r

19-Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, France

20-The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, United States

21-In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck, United States

22-Trilogy, Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett, Ireland

23-The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, United States f

24-The Wall –Le mur - by Jean-Paul Sartre, France r

25-Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Russia

26-The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor M.Dostoyevsky, Russia r

27-Crime and Punishment by Fyodor M.Dostoyevsky, Russia r

28-Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain r

29-Essays by Michel de Montaigne, France r (some of them)

30-Guliver Travels by Jonathan Swift, Ireland

31-Victoria by Knut Hamsun, Norway

32-Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, France r

33-One Hundred years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Maquez, Colombia f

34-Codin by Panait Istrati, Romania

35-The Ports of the Levant by Amin Maalouf,  Lebanon

36-Ağrıdağı Efsanesi (The Ararat Legend) by Yaşar Kemal, Türkiye r

37-Aylak Adam (The Loiterer) by Yusuf Atılgan, Türkiye r

38-İlköğretmen- The Primary Teacher by Cengiz Aymatov, Kyrgyzstan r

39-The Waste Land by T.S.Eliot, United States

40-Selected stories by Maxim Gorky, Russia

41- The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, England

42- Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, france r

43- Adolphe by Benjamin Constant, Switzerland

44- Herzog by Saul Bellow, Canada

45- An American tragedy by Theodore Dreiser, United States

46- Beloved by Toni Morrison, United States

47- Timbuktu by  Paul Auster, United States

48- The Waves by Viginia Wolf, England

49- Oil  by Upton Sinclair, United States

50- The Power and the Glory by  Graham Green, England                                                                                                  

 

Enjoy your readings

I understand it, it´s just not my taste. I like to read a book for my pleasure. If going through it seems like a battle, I don´t want to read it anymore "My name is Red" was on the list of my book club, but didn´t even finish it yet. I put it somewhere in a corner and just waited for the next book to come along

 

 

In my opinion "My Name Is Red" is his best book. It is easy to read and very enjoying. If you didn´t like this never open the cover of "Black Book". I finished it and lost my sanity

 

I read his "Istanbul" book first and enjoyed it.  I didn´t read another until recently, when I read "The Black Book".  I enjoyed this one too, although it was peculiar in some ways and my simple mind was disappointed with the ending lol. 

I tried to read "Museum of Innocence" but had to give it up because I wasn´t enjoying the subject matter, although I can appreciate Pamuk´s skill in developing his characters.

His work that I´ve enjoyed the most is "Snow".  I waited for over a month for "My Name is Red" to become available from the library but, after reading about 100 pages, I´ve had to give up on it.  I will return to it later though.  It´s a busy time of year at work and, as I was reading, I found myself wondering what I had just read on the page because my mind drifted to work matters.  I´ll give it another try when I´m on holiday.  So, the fault there is mine, not Pamuk´s.

 

 

 

In my opinion "My Name Is Red" is his best book. It is easy to read and very enjoying. If you didn´t like this never open the cover of "Black Book". I finished it and lost my sanity

 

 

In my opinion "My Name Is Red" is his best book. It is easy to read and very enjoying. If you didn´t like this never open the cover of "Black Book". I finished it and lost my sanity