Boris Strugatsky's list: 121 books that the writer advises to read

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Lifehacker publishes a defiantly subjective list of the favorite books of science fiction writer Boris Strugatsky, which includes only those books that he read at least three times.

When Boris Strugatsky was asked to compile a list of his favorite books, he gladly agreed, but warned that the choice would be extremely subjective. All books have passed a tough selection: the list includes only those very works, without which Strugatsky would have been a completely different person. We publish this list below.

1. A. Adamovich, "The Punishers" (buy on Litres.ru →).

2. I. Babel, "Odessa Stories" (buy at Labirint.ru →), "Cavalry" (buy at Ozon.ru →).

3. G. Baklanov, "A Span of the Earth" (buy at Litres.ru →), "The Dead Do Not Shame" (buy at Labirint.ru →).

4. B. Balter, "Goodbye, boys" (buy at chitai-gorod.ru →).

5. V. Belov, "Habitual Business".

6. A. Beck, "Volokolamskoe shosse" (buy at Labirint.ru →), "New appointment" (buy at Ozon.ru →).

7. G. Böll, “Through the Eyes of a Clown” (buy at Litres.ru →).

8. V. Bogomolov, "In August forty-fourth" (buy at Labirint.ru →).

9. Yu. Bondarev, “Battalions are asking for fire” (buy on Litres.ru →), “Two”.

10. R. Bradbury, "Fahrenheit 451" (buy on Litres.ru →).

11. M. Bulgakov, "Theatrical Novel" (buy at Litres.ru →), "The Master and Margarita" (buy at Litres.ru →).

12. V. Bykov, “It Doesn't Hurt the Dead” (buy on Litres.ru →).

13. Vercors, "People or Animals" (buy on Ozon.ru →).

14. I. Vo, "A Handful of Ashes", "Vile Flesh".

15. A. Volodin, "Autumn Marathon" (buy at Litres.ru →).

16. K. Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle" (buy at Litres.ru →), "Sirens of the Titan" (buy at Litres.ru →).

17. K. Hamsun, "Pan" (buy on Litres.ru →).

18. J. Hasek, "The Adventures of the Good Soldier Schweik" (buy at Litres.ru →).

19. O. Henry, "Kings and Cabbage" (buy at Litres.ru →), most of the stories.

20. N. Gogol, "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka" (read on Litres.ru →), "Nose" (read on Litres.ru →), "Portrait" (read on Litres.ru →), "Notes of a Madman" (read on Litres.ru →).

21. D. Galsworthy, "The Forsyte Saga" (buy at Litres.ru →).

22. M. Gorky, "In People" (read on Litres.ru →).

23. D. Granin, "Zubr" (buy at Litres.ru →), "Place for a monument" (buy at Ozon.ru →).

24. I. Grekova, "On trials" (buy at Litres.ru →), "Behind the checkpoint" (buy at Litres.ru →), "Ladies' master" (buy at Litres.ru →).

25. G. Green, “Comedians” (buy on Bookvoed.ru →), “Our Man in Havana”.

26. J. Darrell, "Under the canopy of a drunken forest" (buy at Ozon.ru →), "The path of the kangaroo" (buy at Ozon.ru →).

27. Ch. Dickens, "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club" (buy at Litres.ru →).

28. S. Dikovsky, "Patriots" (buy on Bookvoed.ru →), "Commandant of Bird Island" (buy on Ozon.ru →).

29. F. Jackson, "… God help me."

30. DK Jerome, “Three men in a boat, not counting a dog” (buy on Litres.ru →), “How we wrote a novel”.

31. A. Daudet, "Tartarin from Tarascon" (buy on Litres.ru →).

32. Y. Dombrovsky, "Keeper of Antiquities" (buy at Chitai-gorod.ru →).

33. F. Dostoevsky, "The Gambler" (read at Litres.ru →), "Demons" (read at Litres.ru →).

34. V. Dudintsev, "Not by bread alone" (buy at Litres.ru →).

35. A. Dumas, "The Three Musketeers" (buy at Litres.ru →).

36. F. Dürrenmatt, "Accident" (buy at Ozon.ru →), "Visit of the Old Lady" (buy at Litres.ru →), "Promise" (buy at Chitai-gorod.ru →).

37. M. Zoshchenko, stories (buy at Litres.ru →).

38. V. Ivanov, "Great Russia" (buy at Labirint.ru →).

39. I. Ilf, E. Petrov, "Twelve Chairs" (buy at Litres.ru →), "Golden Calf" (buy at Litres.ru →).

40. F. Iskander, "Chika's Night and Day", "Kozlotur Constellation".

41. V. Kaverin, "Brawler, or Evenings on Vasilievsky Island" (buy on Ozon.ru →), "Two Captains" (buy on Respublica.ru →).

42. L. Kassil, "Conduit and Schwambrania" (buy at Litres.ru →).

43. F. Kafka, "Process" (buy at Litres.ru →), "Transformation" (buy at Litres.ru →).

44. B. Kellerman "Tunnel" (buy on Ozon.ru →).

45. R. Kipling, "The Jungle Book" (buy at Litres.ru →).

46. W. Collins, "Moonstone" (buy at Litres.ru →).

47. E. Caldwell, Georgia Boy, most of the stories.

48. A. Conan Doyle, "Notes on Sherlock Holmes" (buy at Litres.ru →), "Sir Nigel" (buy at Ozon.ru →).

49. Ch. De Coster, "The Legend of Ulenspiegel" (read on Litres.ru →).

50. V. Konetsky, "Salty Ice" (buy on Litres.ru →).

51. M. Crichton, "The Andromeda Strain" (buy on Ozon.ru →).

52. A. Kuprin, "Duel" (read at Litres.ru →), "Garnet bracelet" (read at Litres.ru →), "Shulamith" (buy at Labirint.ru →).

53. V. Kurochkin, "In war as in war" (buy on Litres.ru →).

54. L. Lagin, "Old Man Hottabych" (buy on Litres.ru →).

55. M. Larney, "The fourth vertebra" (buy on Ozon.ru →), "Madam Counselor".

56. M. Lassila, "For the matches" (buy at Chitai-gorod.ru →).

57. S. Lem, "Solaris" (buy at Labirint.ru →), "Voice of Heaven" (buy at Bookvoed.ru →), "The Star Diaries of Iyon the Quiet" (buy at Chitai-gorod.ru →).

58. M. Lermontov, "A Hero of Our Time" (read on Litres.ru →).

59. N. Leskov, “Non-lethal Golovan” (read on Litres.ru →), “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District”, “Lefty” (buy on Litres.ru →).

60. H. Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (buy at Litres.ru →).

61. D. London, “Michael, Jerry's brother” (buy at Litres.ru →), “Sea Wolf” (read at Litres.ru →), short stories.

62. N. Lewis, "The Sicilian Specialist" (buy on Ozon.ru →).

63. T. Mann, "Confessions of the Adventurer Felix Krul" (buy on Ozon.ru →).

64. G. G. Marquez, "Autumn of the Patriarch" (buy at Litres.ru →).

65. P. Merimee, "Chronicles of the times of Charles IX" (buy at Litres.ru →), "Lokis" (read at Litres.ru →).

66. I. Metter, "By Conscience" (buy on Ozon.ru →) and other stories.

67. S. Maugham, "Rain" (buy at Labirint.ru →) and other stories.

68. V. Nabokov, "Lolita" (buy on Litres.ru →).

69. V. Nekrasov, "In the trenches of Stalingrad" (buy at Labirint.ru →).

70. Nibel and Bailey, "Seven Days in May" (buy on Ozon.ru →).

71. P. Nilin, "Cruelty" (buy at Chitai-gorod.ru →), "Probationary period".

72. D. Aldridge, "Sea Eagle" (buy on Labirint.ru →), "I don't want him to die."

73. V. Orlov, "Violinist Danilov" (buy on Book24.ru →).

74. D. Orwell, "1984" (buy at Litres.ru →).

75. D. O'Hara, The Lockwood Case (buy at Ozon.ru →), Date in Samarra (buy at Chitai-gorod.ru →).

76. E. A. Poe, "The Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym", "Black Cat" (buy at Chitai-gorod.ru →).

77. N. Pomyalovsky, "Essays on the Bursa" (read on Litres.ru →).

78. D. Priestley, "Blackout at Gratley" (buy on Ozon.ru →).

79. A. Pushkin, “The Captain's Daughter” (buy on Litres.ru →), “The Queen of Spades” (read on Litres.ru →), “Dubrovsky” (read on Litres.ru →).

80. F. Rabelais, "Gargantua and Pantagruel" (read on Litres.ru →).

81. E. M. Remarque, "Arc de Triomphe" (buy at Ozon.ru →), "Three Comrades" (buy at Litres.ru →), "Black Obelisk" (buy at Litres.ru →).

82. A. Rybakov, "Heavy Sand" (buy at Litres.ru →).

83. K. Saymak, "Goblin Reserve" (buy at Litres.ru →), "All Living" (buy at Bookvoed.ru →).

84. M. Saltykov-Shchedrin, "The History of a City" (buy at Litres.ru →), "Pompadours and Pompadours" (read at Litres.ru →).

85. D. Swift, "Gulliver's Travels" (buy at Litres.ru →).

86. Yu. Semenov, "Seventeen Moments of Spring" (buy at Litres.ru →).

87. E. Seton-Thompson, "Royal Analostanka", "Domino".

88. J. Simenon, almost all the novels about Maigret.

89. K. Simonov, "The Living and the Dead" (buy on Litres.ru →).

90. A. Solzhenitsyn, "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" (buy at Litres.ru →), "Matryonin Dvor" (buy at Litres.ru →), "Case at the Kochetovka Station" (buy at Litres.ru →), "GULAG Archipelago "(Buy on Litres.ru →).

91. D. Steinbeck, “The Winter of Our Anxiety” (buy at Сhitai-gorod.ru →).

92. R. Stevenson, "Shipwrecked" (buy at Litres.ru →), "Treasure Island" (buy at Litres.ru →).

93. D. Salinger, "The Catcher in the Rye" (buy at Labirint.ru →).

94. M. Twain, "Tom Sawyer" (buy at Litres.ru →), "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (buy at Litres.ru →), "Yankees from Connecticut at the Court of King Arthur" (buy at Litres.ru →).

95. A. Tolstoy, "Nikita's Childhood" (buy at Litres.ru →), "The Adventures of Nevzorov, or Ibicus" (buy at Litres.ru →), "Emigrants" (buy at Litres.ru →).

96. L. Tolstoy, "Hadji Murat" (read at Litres.ru →), "War and Peace" (buy at Litres.ru →).

97. Yu. Trifonov, "The Old Man", "House on the Embankment".

98. Yu. Tynyanov, "Death of Vazir-Mukhtar" (buy at Litres.ru →), "Lieutenant Kizhe" (buy at Litres.ru →), "Pushkin" (buy at Litres.ru →).

99. T. Wilder, Ides of March (buy at Book24.ru →), Theophilus North (buy at Litres.ru →).

100. RP Warren, "All the King's Men" (buy at Litres.ru →).

101. H. Wells, "War of the Worlds" (buy at Litres.ru →), "The Island of Dr. Moreau" (buy at Labirint.ru →), "The Invisible Man" (buy at Litres.ru →).

102. A. Fadeev, "The Defeat" (buy at Chitai-gorod.ru →).

103. G. Fallada, "The Wolf Among Wolves" (buy on Ozon.ru →).

104. L. Feuchtwanger, "The Jewish War" (buy at Labirint.ru →), "Foxes in the Vineyard" (buy at Ozon.ru →).

105. G. Flaubert, "Salammbeau" (read on Litres.ru →).

106. W. Faulkner, "Village" (buy at Litres.ru →), "City" (buy at Ozon.ru →), "Osobnyak" (buy at Ozon.ru →).

107. M. Frain, Tin Soldiers.

108. M. Frisch, "Homo faber" (buy at Labirint.ru →).

109. E. Hemingway, "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (buy at Litres.ru →), "Fiesta" (buy at Litres.ru →), "To Have and Not to Have" (buy at Labirint.ru →).

110. D. Heller, "Amendment-22" (buy at Litres.ru →).

111. K. Chapek, "The War with the Salamanders" (buy on Litres.ru →).

112. A. Chapygin, Razin Stepan (buy at Chitai-gorod.ru →).

113. GK Chesterton, "Tales of Father Brown" (buy at Litres.ru →).

114. A. Chekhov, stories (buy at Litres.ru →).

115. D. Cheever, Bullet Park, The Wapshot novels.

116. E. Schwartz, "Dragon" (buy at Litres.ru →), "The Naked King" (buy at Litres.ru →).

117. G. Scherfig, "Scorpio", "The Lost Official" (buy on Ozon.ru →).

118. V. Shefner, "Sister of Sorrow".

119. M. Sholokhov, "Quiet Don" (buy at Litres.ru →).

120. I. Shaw, “Rich man, poor man” (buy at Litres.ru →), “Young lions” (buy at Litres.ru →).

121. V. Yan, "Genghis Khan" (buy at Labirint.ru →).