Here is the list of my top ten (or if you are from Kazakhstan you can do up to 22) books that had a MAJOR impact on me (P.S. THERE PROBABLY are MORE NAMES AND TITLES AND I AM SORRY IF I FORGOT YOU, MY DEAR BOOKS -- MY DEAR FRIENDS, YOU CARRIED ME THROUGH THE DARKEST TIMES.) -- 1.Monday Starts on Saturday by Strugatsky Brothers 2.White Bim Black Ear by Gavriil Troyepolsky 3.A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 4.Fairytales by Hans Christian Andersen 5.The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 6.The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi) 7.Karlson Who Lives on the Roof by Astrid Lindgren (and Mio, My Son) 8.Timm Thaler by James Krüss 9.White Lizard by Pavel Vezhinov 10.The Secret History Donna Tartt (and Goldfinch) 11. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (and 1Q84) 12.Notebook by Agota Kristoff 13.Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 14. A Visit from a Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan 15. White Oleander by Janet Fitch 16. Poems and Plays by Federico García Lorca 17. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 18. Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King 19. Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl (and Nightfilm) 20. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (and The Gift) 21. Sories by Sergei Dovlatov 22. Vladimir Mayakovsky, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Anna Akhmatova. P.S. Of course EVERYTHING by Les Plesko (because of the fact that English is my second language it was hard for me to access his writing sometimes BUT I love Les very much -- even if he wrote in Urdu) P.P.S. What is your list?
Posted on: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 02:02:47 +0000
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