Now many people can read many works of literature of different times and peoples. Books, since the advent of the first alphabet, has been an integral part of the life of all people. They contain a tremendous amount of information accumulated by mankind throughout its history.
With the advent of the world wide web, books have gained a new digital format. Now it is not necessary to go to the store for a printed version, just select a good e-book and upload a digital copy of the work.
However, among the many books surrounding us, it is difficult to choose the one that really will bring real pleasure and peace to our soul. The team of the well-known throughout the Russian book brotherhood "Flibusta" composed A list of the top 10 books everyone should read. In my life.
Crime and Punishment
Author: Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
Genre: novel
Rating for Liters: 4.7 out of 5
The classic work of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky “Crime and Punishment” deserves special attention of each reader. This is one of the best books of our Russian writer. If for some reason you have not yet met this masterpiece of literature, we advise you to do it quickly.
The book touches on many emotional aspects of human life. The protagonist of the work commits the most terrible crime - murder, and does not do it from a good life. Dostoevsky shows the complex emotional path of the human soul from guilt to repentance. Reading a book helps you understand yourself and set the right priorities in life.
Catcher in the rye
Author: Jerome David Salinger
Genre: novel
Rating for Liters: 4.3 out of 5
Jerome David Salinger is considered a cult classic of our time. His book The Catcher in the Rye has been read by millions of people around the world. The appearance of the novel is associated with a turning point in all 20th-century literature. According to Bill Gates, this is his favorite book.
The author tells the story of a 16-year-old teenager living in America. He is young, ardent, courageous and ready at any time to give up everything for the embodiment of his ideas. The experiences of a teenager will find a response in the soul of any person who undertakes to read this book. "The Catcher in the Rye" will help to remember or survive that wonderful age when it seems that everything is possible.
Anna Karenina
Author: Lev Tolstoy
Genre: novel
Rating for Liters: 4.7 out of 5
The most worthy work of the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, who won millions of people's hearts. The novel, ahead of its time by several years in advance, although it tells about the era of the 19th century. The author touches on many interesting topics of the formation of a person's personality in different life situations.
The plot revolves around a married girl Anna Karenina and a talented officer Alexei Vronsky. The main character will face a difficult choice, from which her whole future life will envy. You will find an intricate love story, noble intrigues, beautiful royal balls and many fascinating details of the bygone world of Tsarist Russia.
Master and Margarita
Author: Michael Bulgakov
Genre: novel
Rating for Liters: 4.7 out of 5
The mystical novel of Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov, on which the author devoted more than 10 years of his life. The writer managed to reveal several storylines devoted to the eternal questions of the meaning of life, the price of the human soul, the concepts of good and evil, love and hate, the nature of human existence.
Flibusta advises re-reading the novel several times, since with each attempt the plot of the book is revealed in a new way. The stories of the Master, Margarita, Woland and other characters from the first pages drag the reader into their mystical world, built with the pen of a genius writer.
Romeo and Juliet
Author: William Shakespeare
Genre: tragedy
Rating for Liters: 4.6 out of 5
William Shakespeare wrote the most beautiful tragic work about the young and ardent love of a man and a woman. The story will tell the reader about the collision and enmity of human hearts, show all manifestations of human hatred, and take Romeo and Juliet into the world of crazy love. The tragedy received many adaptations and theatrical productions.
The feud between the families of Capulet and Montecchi flares up more and more every day. The tension is growing, and anyone is ready to kill his enemy. But it was at this time that the bright and pure love of Romeo and Juliet, who are on opposite sides of the barricades, was born. Nothing can stop them on the path to shared happiness, neither the words of the father, nor even death.
Flowers for Algernon
Author: Daniel Keyes
Genre: 20th century literature, foreign classics
Rating for Liters: 4.5 out of 5
Daniel Keyes wrote a science fiction novel that has received worldwide acclaim. The plot is based on real stories of people from the writer's environment. The idea of the book was formed by Keyes for a long 14 years. The first edition appeared in 1959.
Daniel told on paper a touching and instructive story about a man who, since childhood, suffered from developmental disabilities. Many laughed at him, but he was really happy because he did not notice human hypocrisy.
At one point, he undergoes a brain operation that changes the whole thinking of the protagonist. Suddenly, a man is faced with many problems and questions that he had not even thought about before.
When searching for this work, remember that there are two versions of this book - the story and the story. Both genres tell the same story, but with different events inside.
1984
Author: George Orwell
Genre: dystopia
Rating for Liters: 4.5 out of 5
George Orwell’s novel "1984" was written more than 50 years ago in the distant 1949. In his book, the author addresses the political issues of the totalitarian regime. With the help of the invented anti-utopian world, the writer shows the true face of human nature, endowed with power.
The plot of the novel will immerse the reader in a world where the only and unique political party rules. However, the protagonist of the book deep down disagrees with the ideological slogans of tyrants. He keeps a secret diary where he writes down all his “wrong” thoughts.
"1984" is a book devoted to the aspirations of a person driven into the narrow framework of rules to freedom and equality. The novel is recognized as the best work telling about the problems of a totalitarian society.
Triumphal Arch
Author: Erich Maria Remarque
Genre: novel
Rating for Liters: 4.7 out of 5
The novel by Erich Maria Remarque about the love that has arisen between people completely different from each other. The book was published in 1945, immediately after the end of the war. A year later, the Arc de Triomphe becomes America's best-selling best seller.
The events in the book revolve around a talented surgeon who survived all the upheavals of the First World War, and an Italian girl actress, living only with dreams of future glory. Passion flares up between them, leading them to a pre-doomed relationship.
One hundred years of loneliness
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Genre: novel
Rating for Liters: 4.3 out of 5
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a Colombian author who has succeeded in writing magical realism. The book was published in 1967 in the amount of 8,000 copies. The author shows on the example of one settlement the development of a socio-economic society and its decline.
We are talking about the village of Macondo lost in the jungle and the Buendia family living there. The author will tell you about a completely different world, where miracles are considered commonplace, and questions of social inequality are a mere trifle. However, all Macondo residents have one significant drawback - loneliness.
Eugene Onegin
Author: Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
Genre: novel in verse
Rating for Liters: 4.7 out of 5
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin wrote another book that changed the world, which everyone should read. Eugene Onegin is a novel in poetic form, narrating about love, squeezed into the shackles of imposed values and stereotypes of Tsarist Russia.
The protagonist of the work is a young nobleman who survived the death of his father, but inherited the estate of his uncle. Eugene falls in love with his exact opposite - Tatyana, whose thoughts are occupied with thoughts about foreign literature and loneliness. Moreover, the girl at the time of meeting had already managed to get married, but young love does not suffer any obstacles.
