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Books That Left The Strongest Impression On People
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items These are the top 28 books of various genres and epochs that left the strongest impression on people and that cant be easily forgotten.
This incredible autobiography of Christiane F. provides a vivid portrait of teen friendship, drug abuse, and alienation in and around Berlin's notorious Zoo Station.
Christiane's rapid descent into heroin abuse and prostitution is shocking, but the...
Zoo Station: The Story of Christiane F.
Siddhartha is a novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of a boy known as Siddhartha from the Indian subcontinent during the time of Lord Buddha. In a very simple prose, Hesse has conveyed a very profound message for all seekers....
Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha
This is the tale of Scarlett O’Hara, the spoiled, manipulative daughter of a wealthy plantation owner, who arrives at young womanhood just in time to see the Civil War forever change her way of life. A sweeping story of tangled passion and courage, i...
Margaret Michell - Gone with the Wind
Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk the Green Mile, keeping a date with "Old Sparky," Cold Mountain's electric chair. Prison guard Paul Edgecombe has s...
Stephen King - The Green Mile
Written 75 years ago, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...
Winston Smith toes the ...
George Orwell - 1984
One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendiá family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad and alive with unforgettable men and women—brimming with ...
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In the novel, Ahmet Shabo returns home to seventeenth-century Sarajevo from the war in Russia, numbed by the death in battle or suicide of nearly his entire military unit. In time he overcomes the anguish of war, only to find that he has emerged a re...
Meša Selimović - The Fortress
One spring afternoon, the Devil, trailing fire and chaos in his wake, weaves himself out of the shadows and into Moscow. Mikhail Bulgakov’s fantastical, funny, and devastating satire of Soviet life combines two distinct yet interwoven parts: one set ...
Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita
A pilot crashes in the Sahara Desert and encounters a strange young boy who calls himself the Little Prince. The Little Prince has traveled there from his home on a lonely, distant asteroid with a single rose. The story that follows is a beautiful an...
Antoine de Saint Exupery - The Little Prince
Italy, 1347. While Brother William of Baskerville is investigating accusations of heresy at a wealthy abbey, his inquiries are disrupted by a series of bizarre deaths. Turning his practiced detective skills to finding the killer, he relies on logic (...
Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose
In nineteenth-century Vienna, a drama of love, fate, and will is played out amid the intellectual ferment that defined the era. Josef Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, is at the height of his career. Friedrich Nietzsche, Europe's...
Irvin D. Yalom - When Nietzsche Wept
A grieving father receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him to meet in the Oregon wilderness where his daughter has been abducted and murdered. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant, "The Shack" wrestles ...
William Paul Young - The Shack
Simple yet captivating, Heidi is a beautiful tale of finding one's way back home, of friendship, and of the majestic Alps. Discover the importance of kindness and the healing power of nature and the mountains in this nostalgic read for adults filled ...
Johanna Spyri - Heidi (Illustrated)
Meet Ove. He’s a curmudgeon—the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him “the bitter neighbor from hell.” Bu...
Fredrik Backman - A Man Called Ove
Introducing one of the most famous characters in literature, Jean Valjean—the noble peasant imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread—Les Misérables ranks among the greatest novels of all time. In it, Victor Hugo takes readers deep into the Parisian un...
Victor Hugo - Les Miserables
Behind the subterfuge, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd" and describes the condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life.
Albert Camus - The Stranger
The novel recounts the story of sheikh Ahmed Nuruddin, a dervish living in a kasaba in Bosnia, sometime during the Ottoman rule. When his brother is arrested, the dervish is uprooted from his serene life in the tekke and thrust in the reality of an u...
Meša Selimović - Death and the Dervish
"I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetary of Forgotten Books for the first time..."
Anyone who enjoys novels that are scary, erotic, touching, tragic and thrilling should read this book.
Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the...
Carlos Ruiz Zafon - The Shadow of the Wind
From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder. From that moment on, we share his conflicting feelings of self-loathing and pride...
Fyodor M. Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
The Bridge on the Drina is a vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late 16th century to the beginning of World War I. As we seek to make sense of the current nightmare in this region, this remarkable,...
Ivo Andrić - The Bridge on the Drina
Quo Vadis has been one of historical fiction’s most beloved works. Weaving romance, intrigue, violence, human passion, and divine mercy into a seamless literary garment, Sienkiewicz communicates both the intricacy of human history and the invincibili...
Henryk Sienkiewicz - Quo Vadis
Hesse's novel of two medieval men, one quietly content with his religion and monastic life, the other in fervent search of more worldly salvation. This conflict between flesh and spirit, between emotional and contemplative man, was a life study for H...
Herman Hesse - Narcissus and Goldmund
This autobiography pays tribute to the Serbian culture, toward which Pupin strived to retain an affinity - despite becoming accustomed to the sophistication of America, his rural roots are fondly remembered. Indeed, the author is conscious of being a...
Michael Pupin - From Immigrant to Inventor
Humiliated and Insulted plunges the reader into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma, unrequited love and irreconcilable relationships. At the centre of the story are a young struggling author, an orphaned teenager and a depraved aristocra...
Fyodor M. Dostoevsky - Humiliated and Insulted
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is Friedrich Nietzsche's groundbreaking philosophical work that challenges conventional wisdom and explores the concept of the Ubermensch. Delve into Nietzsche's powerful prose as he takes you on a journey of self-discovery, mo...
Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Dostoyevsky's dark masterpiece evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur and everyone's faith in humanity is tested.
This powerful translation of The Brothers Karamazov features and introduction highlightin...
Fyodor M. Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how sp...
Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go
A stunning accomplishment, A Thousand Splendid Suns is a haunting, heartbreaking, compelling story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love.
Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss ...
Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns