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[Scatty]

Well that would be a hopelessly biased list for anyone, different people have different books they enjoy(ed) and would recommend. For example, there's no Headless Horseman by Mayne Reid, or The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper on the list, which I enjoyed reading as a kid. Not to mention In Search of the Castaways: The Children of Captain Grant by Jules Verne, The Heir from Calcutta by Robert Stilmark (that one is a Russian writer though), Mercedes of Castille, Or, The Voyage to Cathay also by Fenimore Cooper, The Iron King from The Accursed Kings series, by Maurice Druon... I could go on and on. All those books could be considered classics by many, but also unknown to many others.

Second that one wholeheartedly though:

Originally Posted by yoga

1. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov (1966)
   
   Real masterpiece and excellent humor!

[Japo]

I'm not very keen on novels, I'm so prosaic, in college when I read a lot I liked stuff like Thucydides and Sir James Frazer's The Golden Bough. 8D From Nineteen Eighty-Four I actually enjoyed the appendix on Newspeak more than the story.

But where's Moby Dick?!

Herman Hesse is for teenagers or hippies, I read Steppenwolf and Siddhartha, and I liked (the first part of) Steppenwolf better.

I've also read The Lord of the Rings, I like it, but I actually prefer the Silmarillion and The Children of Húrin.

And The Good Soldier Švejk (not bad, not great), Alice in Wonderland, and the Iliad and the Odyssey; but nothing else from that list.

I read all of Robert Graves' historical novels and liked them a lot to varying degrees.

[Lulu_Jane]

I quite like The Good Soldier Svejk, but with the caveat that it is very very very Czech so it got alot funnier once I started living here.

Also, high five Japo for Graves. I utterly love I, Claudius.

[Japo]

Originally Posted by Lulu_Jane

Also, high five Japo for Graves. I utterly love I, Claudius.

A long time ago I went ahead and read every one of this novels (each of them has a completely different historical setting) and his essays.

[yoga]

But where is the book Don Quixote and Sancho Panza of Cervantes?

I am surprised that dear Smiling Spectre does not catch the humor of Hasek.
Pls, i do not want to offend You, друг.
There is a Russian proverb: По вкус и по цвет...(There are no friends on taste and color).
No,no the place № 4 is random as all the books places.

Master Scatty is abs. correct about his books. They are real classic also.

My favorite in this list is Luis Carrol. 10+++++
("You are old, Father William.....)
What is this book? Fairy tale, religion treatise or modern scientific research?
Asking and no answer...

[Lulu_Jane]

Have you read The Screwtape Letters Yoga? I always thought they were very funny

[Smiling Spectre]

Originally Posted by yoga

I am surprised that dear Smiling Spectre does not catch the humor of Hasek.
Pls, i do not want to offend You, друг.
There is a Russian proverb: По вкус и по цвет...(There are no friends on taste and color).
No,no the place № 4 is random as all the books places.

I can catch it. It's simply... not funny for me.

I see clear placards "it's a humor here" in many places. I can understand that this or that must be funny, as it's clearly looks as humorous.

It's simply not funny for me.

Personal humor sense problems, I think.

BTW, check Henry Lion Oldi, if you can read Russian or Polish. It's a best current russian-writing SF&F author, as for me. Just sayin'.

[Panthro]

I've read a lot of books, but only about 5 of those (and seen the film version of a few more).

I'm more a fan of genre fiction though, which is rarely considered for such lists.

[Japo]

Originally Posted by yoga

But where is the book Don Quixote and Sancho Panza of Cervantes?

I started it but I ended up quitting. But the fight against the Basque is very funny.

I think it can be difficult to sympathize with Szvejk because he's so nationalist, Germanophobe and racist in general :P

[yoga]

Originally Posted by Japo

I started it but I ended up quitting. But the fight against the Basque is very funny.

I think it can be difficult to sympathize with Szvejk because he's so nationalist, Germanophobe and racist in general :P

OFF:
Pls to be excused for late answer i was in the village to prepare for grape harvest.



@Lulu_Jane
Ax, still not, Dear Lulu_Jane.
But I will do my best to find and read that book.
TY for the recommendation. Even i am PC maniac i like to read books esp. in rainy days..

@Smiling Spectre
I do have more Russian books than Bulgarian books.
I like Russian old folk fairy tales so named Билины, Сказки о Цар Султанe и так далее..Pls to be excused i used 5 Russian words, namely the name of old Russian books..
BTW, dear Smiling Spectre soon i discovered in my cellar very nice old 2 books:
1. Pedagogical poem
2. Flags over the towers
author A.C. Makarenko.
If the reader ignores some commi deviations the books are very nice. The author organized a colony of 300-400 young hooligans and bandits, who after short period of labor and education became normal and sympathetic young men and women. The ideas of tov. Makarenko are remarkable.
Do You know this author from Ukraine?
Спасибо for recommended author..

@senor Japo.

Ha ha ha,
The good soldier Swejk racist!!

No, no and no!!
Senor Japo,
in the time when the book was written Czechs were in the Austrian-Hungary empire. This is the reason Mr. Swejk does not like all Germans and Austrians. His friend sapper Vodichka hates Hungarians and starts fighting seeing Hungarians. What a mess, but i like this funny book..
Help me, dear Lulu_Jane if i am wrong.

Do You civilized the world?
Pls what was your race?