List of greatest books of all time

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As part of the survey, codenamed “Writers Choose Their Favorite Books,” the 125 most famous writers in Britain and America were asked to compile several book lists.
Norman Mailer, Stephen King, Anne Patchett, Jonathan Franzen, Joyce Carol Oates and other famous authors of our time took part in this survey.
In these lists of books should be located ten of the greatest works of fiction: novels, collections of short stories, dramatic and poetic works.
In total, writers proposed 544 works. Each list of books scored a certain number of points depending on the serial number. If the book was listed under the first number, it received ten points, and if it completed the list, one point.
The literary collection that developed as a result of this experiment, combining the literary preferences of completely different writers, from David Foster Wallace to Stephen King, allows us to look at world literature as a kind of collective work of great writers.
The ten greatest literary works of the twentieth century

1. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. “In Search of Lost Time” by Marcel Proust
4. "Ulysses" by James Joyce
5. The Dubliners by James Joyce
6. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
7. The Sound and Fury of William Faulkner
8. Virginia Wolf Lighthouse
9. The Complete Story, Flannery O’Connor
10. "Pale Flame" by Vladimir Nabokov
The Ten Greatest Literary Works of the 19th Century
1. "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy
2. "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert
3. “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy
4. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
5. Stories by A. P. Chekhov
6. Middlemarch by George Eliot
7. “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville
8. "Great Expectations" of Charles Dickens
9. “Crime and Punishment” by Fedor Dostoyevsky
10. Emma Jane Austen
Ten authors by the number of works that hit the "tops"
1. William Shakespeare - 11
2. William Faulkner - 6
3. Henry James - 6
4. Jane Austen - 5
5. Charles Dickens - 5
6. Fedor Dostoevsky - 5
7. Ernest Hemingway - 5
8. Franz Kafka - 5
9. James Joyce - 4
10. Mark Twain - 4

The ten greatest writers of all time, according to the total number of points scored
1. Leo Tolstoy - 327
2. William Shakespeare - 293
3. James Joyce - 194
4. Vladimir Nabokov - 190
5. Fedor Dostoevsky - 177
6. William Faulkner - 173
7. Charles Dickens - 168
8. Anton Chekhov - 165
9. Gustave Flaubert - 163
10. Jane Austen - 161

27 BOOKS TO BE READ UNTIL 27 YEARS
1. Life on loan. Erich Maria Remarque
2. Portrait of Dorian Gray. Oscar Wilde
3. Lord of the Flies. William Golding
4. The night is tender. Francis Scott Fitzgerald
5. Slaughterhouse 5. Kurt Vonnegut
6. Lolita. Vladimir Nabokov
7. A Clockwork Orange. Anthony Burgess
8. Easy breathing. Ivan Bunin
9. Transformation. Franz Kafka
10. The lover of the French lieutenant. John Fowles
11. Dear friend. Guy De Maupassant
12. Alice in Wonderland. Lewis Carroll
13. Jen Eyre. Charlotte Bronte
14. Scarlet sails. Alexander Green
15. The kid. Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
16. Nastenka. Vladimir Sorokin
17. What to do. Nikolay Chernyshevsky
18. The tramps of drachma. Jack Kerouac
19. April witchcraft. Ray Bradbury
20. Notes of the revolutionary. Peter Kropotkin
21. Shelter. Diary in letters. Anna Frank
22. Carrie. Stephen king
23. Foam days. Boris Vian
24. The neuromancer. William Gibson
25. Abyss in the rye. Jerome David Salinger
26. While the girlfriend is in a coma. Douglas Copland
27. A trap for Cinderella. Sebastian Japrizo

Books that are read in one night
Keeping the reader in constant tension and telling a truly worthy story is an art that not every writer owns. But there are books that, with a small volume, are able to captivate so much that the whole world fades into the background.
Diana Setterfield - The Thirteenth Tale
The Gothic story, in which there is an old gloomy estate, family secrets, ghosts, the intricacies of fate and a feeling of understatement, captures and does not let go until the last page is read. Everything is perfect in this novel: plot, atmosphere, characters, language and sophisticated style. Sleepless night guaranteed.
Ian McEwan - Amsterdam
Two friends - the successful editor-in-chief of the popular daily newspaper and the famous composer working on the Millennium Symphony - conclude an agreement on euthanasia: if one of them falls into a state of unconsciousness and ceases to control itself, the other undertakes to kill him ... Elegant, bewitching a novel about how easily a person is able to destroy everything around him.
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
A book that stuns and dazzles from the very first pages. Probably, a real journey through the galaxy is exactly what it should be - with incredible adventures and implausible situations, with tons of humor and sarcasm. In general, hitchhike and read Adams.
John Fowles - Collector
A lonely, narrow-minded young man unexpectedly wins a huge amount of money in the lottery. What will he do with her, especially considering his passion for collecting butterflies and his secret love for the local beauty? In the story of the confrontation between the maniac and his victim, Fowles saw the confrontation of Good and Evil, a primitive layman and exalted artist, Love, Death and Beauty.
Victor Pelevin - Omon Ra
"OMON Ra" is a terrible story about how the bloody Soviet regime launched human-powered ships into space, but did this happen in reality or ...
According to one of the fellow writers, Pelevin can be read from the beginning, from the middle, from the end - as a scripture. Very accurately noticed. And this little novel will definitely not leave you indifferent, we promise.
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
This is a novel in the traditional sense of the word - not female, not love, but just a classic, timeless, sincere novel. And it is so difficult to return from the good old England with its epic passions and cozy interiors to our gray noisy modernity, that you want to stay in it forever. As in any good book.
Daniel Keyes - Billy Milligan's Multiple Minds
Billy wakes up and discovers that he is in a prison cell. He is informed that he is charged with rape and robbery. Billy is shocked: he did nothing of this! The last thing he remembers is how he wanted to rush down from the roof of the school building. He is told that seven years have passed since then.
Narine Abgaryan - Manyunya
“Manyunya” is a bright, saturated with the sun and smells of a southern bazaar and a stunningly funny story about childhood, about two girlfriends Nara and Manyun, about the formidable and kind Ba - grandmother Manyuni, and about a bunch of their relatives who constantly find themselves in odd situations. This is the very warm, mischievous and full of funny adventure childhood that makes a person happy for life.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Remembering My Sad Whores
One of those books that throw you out of reality and make you ask: "What was that?" A piercing, sad, atmospheric story of life and love - random love, fake love, late, last and most disastrous love, which allows a person to see the world for what it is for at least a moment.
Stephen King “Rita Hayworth, or The Shawshank Redemption” - If at some point you begin to doubt the strength of the human spirit, just read “The Shawshank Redemption”. This is the story of an innocent man sentenced to life imprisonment in prison hell. A story of survival where it is almost impossible to survive. The greatest story of escape and salvation.
 

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