Are you a good reader?
What are your 15 best novels?
Here are mine=

1-Aylak Adam By Yusuf Atılgan
2-Ağrıdağı Efsanesi By Yaşar Kemal
3- Timbuktu By Paul Auster
4- The trial By Franz Kafka
5- Ulysses By James Joyce
6- One Hundred Years Solutude By Gabriel Garcia Marquez
7- Lolita By Vladimir Nabokov
8- The Stranger –L’Etranger By Albert Camus
9- The Brothers Karamozof By Fyodor Dostoyevski
10-The Grapes of Wratf By John Steinbeck
11-Les Mots By Jean Paul Sartre
12-To the lighthouse By Virginia Woolf
13-Light in August By William Faulkner
14-Victoria By Knut Hamsun
15-Gazi Paşa By Attila İlhan

I would love to tell but because most books I read are in Dutch I think it is of no use doing it.

Well, I suppose that most of us read books in their own languages, so I’m not the exception, but I don’t think it is of no use to recommend my favorites, since they must be translated to other languages too, as capital works of world literature.

For me, the only problem is to chose ONLY 15 best novels, but let me try:

War And Peace – Lev Tolstoy
Evgeny Onegin – Alexandr Pushkin
Resurrection - Lev Tolstoy
Anna Karenina – Lev Tolstoy
Quiet Flows the Don - Mikhail Sholokhov
Torrents of Spring - Ivan Turgenyev
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Time of Death - Dobrica Ćosić
Tzar Radovan's Treasure - Jovan Dučić
Death and the Dervish - Mehmed MeÅ¡a Selimović
The Bridge on the Drina - Ivo Andrić
The Citadel – A. J. Cronin
By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept - Paulo Coelho
1984 - George Orwell

Nice topic for book-lovers. But we are still waiting for Trudy to make her list. Until then, my choice:

The Idiot, F. M. Dostoyevsky
The Posessed, F. M. Dostoyevsky
Epic of Gilgamesh
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
Second book of Migrations (Seobe, knjiga druga), Miloš Crnjanski
A Novel about London (Roman o Londonu), Miloš Crnjanski
Father Bernard the Swell (Bakonja fra-Brne), Simo Matavulj
The Song of Nibelungs (Das Nibelungenlied)
Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg), Thomas Mann
Orlando Enraged (Orlando Furioso), Ariosto
Dead Souls, Nikolay Gogol
Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Vladimir Voinovich
The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince), Antoine de Saint Exupéry

Wow! What an impossible task! I started to write my list but it is truly impossible for me - especially after reading Slavica and Duda's lists - everything from Tolstoy to Dickens - I added both their lists to mine!!! I would also add all six Jane Austin books to my list.

I agree with Duda about The Little Prince - probably the dearest most cherishished book of mine. A children's book with a deep message for adults. A Turkish translation of the entire book is available here:-

http://arzudurukan.www9.50megs.com/index.htm