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I have not been able to read "The Catcher in the Rye" due to the foul language. It's interesting to me that this keeps me from reading this book. I hadn't realized I was such a "Miss Priss."

Many years ago I read a series by Mikhail Sholokov: And Quiet Flows the Don; Harvest on the Don; The Don Flows Home to the Sea; and, Virgin Soil Upturned. I thoroughly enjoyed the books. Unfortunately, I lent them to an individual who expressed interest and I have not been able to replace these books. I would love to read them again. I believe they were written in the 1940s.

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Solzhenitsyn, Denisovitch. YES ! Sholokov, The Don novels

Dr. Zhivago, man! Just sayin … You could replace The Idiot, good as it is.

Replay, by Ken Grimwood

Faulkner: THE SOUND AND THE FURY. Twain: ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN.

Why weren't the titles of the books mentioned?

War and Peace Crime and Punishment Anna Karenina The Brothers Karamazov Fathers and Sons Dead Souls One Day in the Life of Ivan D. The Idiot Excellent List ! To which I’d want to add a more recent masterpiece … Life and Fate …. by Vassily Grossman Stalin is reported to have enjoyed reading ‘Life and Fate’ so much that he spared the life of the author and - instead - had the book arrested ! Presumably so that no one else could read about what the defence of Stalingrad was really like !

Lathe of Heaven always seemed to me to be Leguin's visit to PKDs world.

Although it's not a novel, I can't imagine how any list would ignore Heinlein's "By His Bootstraps" which posits the future as being as unchangeable as the past. Another great book with time travel is A.E. Van Vogt's "The Weapon Shops of Isher" where a time traveler is bounced from past to future, collecting more time energy along the way, which will have to be released sometime with explosive results. And that's just a subplot!

10 of milións, possible to choose? Fór a responsible reader need cca 30, otherwise fitzgerald, salinger and probably melville are "proamerican" or too long and get boring to be here, modern literature genres and masters are not here ( s.king, asimov or clarke), tolkien and dickens too, ulysses not reader and not planIng, have many news, no crimi here , a christie or "shock you" Rex stout nero wolfe série is marvellous fór me to let them 1 pieces fór best crimi. One Russian enough, 2 maybe for top 20 ( till today not readed war and peace or dostoyevsky ).

If this is true, the public prefer unreadable novels or overrated American novels. I recommend reading Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, Iris Murdoch, and Philip Roth first.

In search of lost time. The theory of everything.

Les Miserables. Count of Monte Christo Guns of August Caption Horatio Hornblower Bible Team of Rivals The Prince The House of Medeci Think and Grow Rich War Lonesome Dove

What...How can you miss out Len Deighton's "Bomber".?

God tried to finish Finnegans wake …. And he could not get past page 50…. I had a fact checker work on this post…..

Ab Urbe Condita was the dating system used to help determine the years for the julian calendar and our revised julian calendar the gregorian calendar. Rome is traditionally believed to be founded in 753 BCE So 753 + the current year = 2777 so the current year is ub Urbe Condita 2,777 or AUC 2,777. Rome was at it's greatest territorial extent in 117 CE so 753 + 117 = 2070 so rome was at it's height in Ab Urbe Condita 2070 or AUC 2070. the calculation to determine years from Ab Urbe Condita to today is very similar to how we determine years from BCE to CE. except we delete 1 in the calculation from BCE years to CE years as there was no year 0. 1 BCE was followed by 1 CE. So 753 BCE + 2024 - 1 = 2776.

Great writer.

The Stand and Battlefield Earth are two books out of hundreds that I can re-read!

And do not forget, in "The Dispossessed" they create the "ansible"

Can't believe , no Dickens , or Dostoevsky , on this list? , know their is personal taste , iv read most of Dickens novels, any of them should be in top 5. And Crime and Punishment , is in my view , the greatest novel of all time .

Two Captains and The Open book by V.Kaverin, The Life and the Destiny by Grossman, The Dead and the Living by K.Simonov, They fought for the Motherland by Sholokhov, The Theatre Romance by M. Bulgakov, The Sail is White by V. Kataev and many , many beautiful Soviet books!😂😂😂Please don't stop at the 19-th century literature.

My top 10: 1. A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James… cannot pick another 9 that I like and love as much as this 💎, love plenty, but this is home

I have picked up 43 Russian books and read 6 so far. A hero of our time by Lermontov and 5 books by Turgenev, including Fathers and Sons. The problem I had with Fathers was that one of the main characters and themes was nihilism - there's no future in it! I tried The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn but I could not finish it. Warps the mind. The best Russian I have read so far by a long way is the book of short stories by Turgenev, Sketches from a hunter's album. Best wishes with your reading choices and to your channel.

As a kid Jeremiah Johnson is what i use to dream about

Heavy on boring American novels. Other than Pirsig's 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' I wouldn't include any. 'Don Quitoxe' is almost unreadable. How can anyone leave out 'The Brothers Karamazov' by Dostoevsky? Not to mention 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte?

Excellent video, concise but eloquently gets the point across.

Why are there Romans and samurai (?) during the War & Peace segment, right after they say 19th century Russia???

Good list.

The girlboss who doesn’t need anyone but excels at everything without even having to learn - that’s a relatively new trope

No, I disagree. These are all great tropes. Not all women are girl bosses. It's okay to need help. There is nothing wrong with the damsel in distress trope. There is nothing wrong with needing help. There is nothing wrong with women needing help from men. Plenty of women are helped by men every single day. Love triangles are great. people like them. Thats why it sells so well. The Wise Woman archetype is one of the oldest in literature, and she often helps the protagonist reach their highest potential. She can be a hero or mentor character, or she can be an obstacle to challenge the hero's worthiness.

Exuberantly emotional bad boys are much more interesting than brooding bad boys, plus they can provide a different kind of romantic tension when the heroine ultimately dumps him or (in a spy thriller or fantasy novel) has to assassinate or duel him.

No James Harriott? If Only They Could Talk (1970) All Creatures Great and Small (1972) It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet (1972) Let Sleeping Vets Lie (1973) Vet in Harness (1974) All Things Bright and Beautiful (1974) Vets Might Fly (1976) All Things Wise and Wonderful (1976) The Lord God Made Them All (1981) Vet in a Spin (1984) Animal Stories, Tame & Wild (1979) James Herriot’s Yorkshire (1979) All Creatures Great and Small Annual 1982 (1981) James Herriot’s Favorite Dog Stories (1986) James Herriot’s Dog Stories (1986) Greatest Cat Stories (1989) James Herriot Story Book (1992) Every Living Thing (1992) James Herriot’s Treasury for Children (1992) James Herriot’s Cat Stories (1994) Seven Yorkshire tales (1995) James Herriot’s Yorkshire Stories (1995) James Herriot’s Yorkshire Village (1995) James Herriot’s Animal Stories (1997) Yorkshire Stories (1998) James Herriot’s Yorkshire Revisited (1999) ALL TAKE PLACE IN YORKSHIRE

I do not like to read. So why should I read Russian literature in times of Nazi Russia?

"The Master and Margarita" (Russian: Мастер и Маргарита) by Mikhail Bulgakov; a favourite of mine!

war and peace, crime punishment, kazmarov, anna karenina,

Read Harper Lee and Me if you want to know what is really going on with To Kill a Mockingbird

My favourite is the Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte.

My the most favourite are 1 AND QUITE FLOWS THE DON,2 MOTHER. The poigant love story between Aksinya Astakhova and Grigory Pentelvich aka Grisha.....her sad end,Grisha's traumatic life,Natasha's sweet bitter life,the line makes me sob,GRIGORY PENTELVICH,OLD BOY,I NEVER THOUGHT I WILL SEE YOU EVER AGAIN.in vol 4 Surprisingly the same experience I experienced twice today

"To kill a Mockingbird" should be higher than ten? It's at least a top five.

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The trouble with quibbles...

I was expecting some obscure and forgotten books. I was pleasantly surprised to see so many old friends. Classics never, really, age, do they?

I enjoyed the article, but not the computer voice. I watched with the sound off. (Friendly criticism)

Personally I think it’s a personal experience in reading as to what is the most important. What changes my life thinking is different than someone else’s. We have similarities but I don’t believe any are exactly the same in what’s the most important to read.

ON THE MOVIES LIST 2) Man of la Mancha (1972) 36) The Man who Killed Don Quixote (2017) ON THE BOOK LIST 9) "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy 15) The Silmarillion - The Hobbit, or there and back again - The Lord of the Rings - Middle Earth stories by J. R. R. Tolkien 24) "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen 40) "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

Got a better narrator?

So many books and so little time. Best wishes.