333 books that will give you a storm of emotions

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

Your friends are vying about them, and critics write rave reviews on the Internet. If you haven't read these books by now, it's time to fix it.

Twitter users shared their favorite books, which they read avidly and advised their friends. Here are collected bestsellers in the genres of non-fiction, fantasy and science fiction, talented works based on which films and TV series were shot, immortal classics and recently published books that are gaining popularity.

1. Harry Potter and the Methods of Rational Thinking by Eliezer Yudkowsky.

2. "False Blindness" by Peter Watts (buy on Litres →).

3. "Shantaram", Gregory Roberts (buy on Litres →).

4. "Hyperion", Dan Simmons (buy on Litres →).

5. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (buy on Liters →).

6. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (buy on Litres →).

7. "1984" by George Orwell (buy on Liters →).

8. "The Three-Body Problem", Liu Cixin (buy on Liters →).

9. "Terror", Dan Simmons (buy on Liters →).

10. “The House In Which…”, Mariam Petrosyan (buy on Liters →).

11. Ready Player One, Ernest Kline (buy at Litres →).

12. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand (buy on Litres →).

13. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (buy on Litres →).

14. "Ubik", Philip Dick (buy on Litres →).

15. "Cryptonomicon", Neil Stevenson (buy on Litres →).

16. "11/22/63", Stephen King (buy on Liters →).

17. Sapiens. A Brief History of Humanity”, Yuval Noah Harari (buy on Litres →).

18. "The Witcher", Andrzej Sapkowski (buy on Litres →).

19. "S. N. U. F. F.", Victor Pelevin (buy at Litres →).

20. "Stranger in a foreign country", Robert Heinlein (buy on Litres →).

21. "Deep in the Sky" by Vernor Vinge (buy on Litres →).

22. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt (buy on Liters →).

23. "The Mysterious Story of Billy Milligan" by Daniel Keyes (buy on Litres →).

24. Echopraxia, Peter Watts (buy at Litres →).

25. "Quantum Thief", Hannu Raaniemi.

26. "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card (buy on Litres →).

27. “Reality is in question. Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World”, Jane McGonigal (buy at Litres →).

28. “The World Upside Down”, Christopher Priest (buy on Liters →).

29. “My productive brain. How I Tested The Best Self-Development Techniques And What Came Out Of It”, Caroline Williams (buy at Litres →).

30. The Worm by John McCrae.

31. "Animal Farm", George Orwell (buy on Liters →).

32. Anathem by Neil Stevenson.

33. “Doomed City”, Strugatsky brothers (read on Litres →).

34. "The Dark Tower", Stephen King (buy on Litres →).

35. "Semievie", Neil Stevenson (buy on Liters →).

36. Think Slow … Decide Fast, Daniel Kahneman (buy on Litres →).

37. Station of Lost Dreams, Chyna Mieville (buy on Liters →).

38. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy (buy on Liters →).

39. “The Civilization of Status” by Robert Sheckley (buy on Liters →).

40. "Lullaby" by Chuck Palahniuk (buy on Liters →).

41. American Psycho, Bret Ellis (buy at Liters →).

42. "Dune", Frank Herbert (buy on Litres →).

43. “The Empire must die. The history of Russian revolutions in persons”, Mikhail Zygar (buy on Litres →).

44. “Red pill. Look the truth in the eye!”, Andrey Kurpatov (buy on Liters →).

45. “Of course you are kidding, Mr. Feynman!”, Richard Feynman (buy on Litres →).

46. "Flame over the Abyss", Vernor Vinge (buy on Litres →).

47. "Dark Forest", Liu Qixin (buy on Liters →).

48. The Green Mile, Stephen King (buy on Liters →).

49. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (buy on Liters →).

50. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez (buy on Litres →).

51. The Chronicles of Siala, Alexey Pekhov.

52. Thanatonauts, Bernard Werber (buy on Labirint →).

53. This Book Is Full of Spiders by David Wong.

54. "Altered Carbon" by Richard Morgan (buy on Liters →).

55. Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (buy on Litres →).

56. "Little Life", Chania Yanagihara (buy on Liters →).

57. "Gadfly", Ethel Voynich (read on Liters →).

58. "GULAG Archipelago", Alexander Solzhenitsyn (buy on Liters →).

59. "Zuleikha opens her eyes", Guzel Yakhina (buy on Litres →).

60. "iPhuck 10", Victor Pelevin (buy on Litres →).

61. “Uwe's Second Life” by Fredrik Backman (buy on Liters →).

62. The Thick Notebook by Agota Christoph.

63. The First Law by Joe Abercrombie.

64. The Wasp Factory, Ian Banks (buy on Chitai-gorod →).

65. Solaris, Stanislav Lem (buy on Liters →).

66. "Day of the Oprichnik", Vladimir Sorokin (buy on Litres →).

67. Martin Eden, Jack London (buy on Liters →).

68. "Harry Potter", J. K. Rowling (buy on Litres →).

69. "Tales of the Dark Forest", Ivan Volkert.

70. The Long Walk, Stephen King (buy on Liters →).

71. "Blue bacon", Vladimir Sorokin (buy on Liters →).

72. "Benevolent", Jonathan Littell (buy on Litres →).

73. "The Rose and the Worm", Robert Ibatullin (buy on Liters →).

74. "The Running Man", Stephen King (buy on Liters →).

75. “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” By Philip Dick (buy on Litres →).

76. The Martian by Andy Weyer (buy on Labirint →).

77. Coordinates of Miracles by Robert Sheckley.

78. The Story of Your Life by Ted Chan (buy on Labirint →).

79. "The Invisibles" by Chuck Palahniuk (buy on Liters →).

80. "The many-armed god of the Dalain", Svyatoslav Loginov (buy on Liters →).

81. The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny (buy on Labirint →).

82. "Text", Dmitry Glukhovsky (buy on Liters →).

83. Fifteen Lives of Harry August, Claire North (buy at Liters →).

84. "The Eternal Life of Death", Liu Qixin (buy on Liters →).

85. "Magus", John Fowles (buy on Liters →).

86. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.

87. "Door to Summer", Robert Heinlein (buy at Liters →).

88. Dark Matter, Blake Crouch (buy on Litres →).

89. Slaughterhouse Five: Children's Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut.

90. "The Color of Magic", Terry Pratchett (buy on Liters →).

91. "House of Leaves", Mark Danilevsky (buy on Labirint →).

92. "Neuromancer" by William Gibson (buy on Liters →).

93. Bill, Hero of the Galaxy by Harry Garrison.

94. "Steppenwolf", Hermann Hesse (buy on Liters →).

95. Quarantine by Greg Egan.

96. "Empire of Angels", Bernard Werber (buy on Litres →).

97. Castle of Glass by Jannette Walls and Rodrigo Corral.

98. Origins, Dan Brown (buy at Liters →).

99. "Hour of the Bull", Ivan Efremov (buy on Liters →).

100. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (buy at Liters →).

101. "Ambassador City", China Mieville (buy on Labirint →).

102. "Aurora", Kim Robinson (buy on Liters →).

103. “Black Swan. Under the Sign of Unpredictability , Nassim Taleb (buy on Liters →).

104. “The man who mistook his wife for a hat, and other stories from medical practice,” Oliver Sachs (buy on Liters →).

105. End of Rainbows by Vernor Vinge.

106. "Sugar Kremlin", Vladimir Sorokin (buy on Liters →).

107. Wirth, Jeff Noon (buy on Litres →).

108. "Nowhere", Neil Gaiman (buy on Liters →).

109. “Perfume”, Patrick Süskind (buy on Labirint →).

110. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson.

111. Tunnel in the Sky by Robert Heinlein.

112. “The Space of Revelation”, Alastair Reynolds (buy on Liters →).

113. "Guard", Alexey Pekhov (buy on Litres →).

114. "Star Butterfly", Bernard Werber (buy on Litres →).

115. "Empire" V "", Victor Pelevin (buy on Liters →).

116. "Life of insects", Victor Pelevin (buy on Liters →).

117. "Moscow 2042", Vladimir Voinovich (buy on Liters →).

118. "Golem", Gustav Meyrink (read on Liters →).

119. “I, you, he, she and other perverts”, Jesse Bering (buy on Chitai-gorod →).

120. “Meat,” Joseph D'Lacy.

121. Men in Red, John Scalzi (buy on Liters →).

122. Doomed to Win by John Scalzi.

123. Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham (buy from Liters →).

124. A Song of Ice and Fire by George Martin.

125. "Future", Dmitry Glukhovsky (buy on Liters →).

126. “John Dies in the Finale,” David Wong.

127. "We", Evgeny Zamyatin (buy on Litres →).

128. "New Moon", Ian MacDonald (buy on Liters →).

129. "Capital", Karl Marx (read on Liters →).

130. "Shadow of the Wind", Carlos Ruiz Zafon (buy on Litres →).

131. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (buy on Litres →).

132. "The Ringworld" by Larry Niven.

133. Echo Labyrinths by Max Fry (buy on Labirint →).

134. "The Master and Margarita", Mikhail Bulgakov (buy on Liters →).

135. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (buy on Liters →).

136. Avalanche by Neil Stevenson.

137. Scarlet Rebellion, Pierce Brown (buy on Liters →).

138. "Time of Berezovsky", Pyotr Aven (buy on Liters →).

139. Losing Innocence, Richard Branson (buy at Litres →).

140. God Is an Illusion by Richard Dawkins (buy at Liters →).

141. Broken Angels by Richard Morgan (buy on Liters →).

142. MYTHS. MIF Corporation”, Robert Asprin (buy on Labirint →).

143. Spin by Robert Wilson.

144. The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein.

145. "Draft", Sergey Lukyanenko (buy on Liters →).

146. "Ethnogenesis", inter-author cycle.

147. Locke Lamora's Tricks by Scott Lynch (buy on Litres →).

148. Insomnia, Stephen King (buy on Liters →).

149. “A Brief History of Time. From the Big Bang to Black Holes”, Stephen Hawking (buy on Litres →).

150. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Suzanne Clarke (Buy on Liters →).

151. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (buy on Liters →).

152. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky (read on Liters →).

153. "Fractal Prince" by Hannu Rayaniemi (buy on Labirint →).

154. "Scar", China Mieville (buy on Liters →).

155. "The Survivor", Chuck Palahniuk (buy on Liters →).

156. “Elon Musk. Tesla, SpaceX and the Road to the Future”, Ashley Vance (buy at Litres →).

157. "Snowman", Yu Nesbo (buy on Litres →).

158. "Rods", Yuri Mamleev.

159. The Adventures of the Gallant Soldier Schweik, Jaroslav Hasek (buy on Litres →).

160. The Thirteenth Tale, Diana Setterfield (buy on Litres →).

161. "Drood, or the Man in Black", Dan Simmons (buy on Litres →).

162. “Ilion. Olympus, Dan Simmons (buy on Labirint →).

163. "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini (buy on Litres →).

164. The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky (read on Litres →).

165. "The World That Perished", Nick Harquay (buy on Litres →).

166. “Parallel Worlds. About the structure of the universe, higher dimensions and the future of space”, Michio Kaku (buy on Litres →).

167. “There must be one hero”, Henry Oldie (buy on Litres →).

168. “Calendar. Talks about the main thing”, Dmitry Bykov (buy on Labirint →).

169. Scripts of People's Lives, Claude Steiner (buy on Litres →).

170. The Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich by Philip Dick (buy on Litres →).

171. How Music Became Free by Stephen Witt (buy from Labirint →).

172. The Collector, John Fowles (buy on Litres →).

173. “The subtle art of indifference. A Paradoxical Way to Live Happily,”Mark Munson (buy from Chitai-gorod →).

174. Stop being a nice guy! A proven way to achieve what you want in love, sex and life”, Robert Glover (buy at Litres →).

175. "Eltyshevs", Roman Senchin (buy on Litres →).

176. "The Sacred Book of the Werewolf", Victor Pelevin (buy on Liters →).

177. “What If?.. Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions,” Randall Munroe (buy on Labirint →).

178. Storm in the Harbor of the Winds, George Martin and Lisa Tuttle (buy on Liters →).

179. "Spectrum", Sergey Lukyanenko (buy on Liters →).

180. "Chapaev and Emptiness", Victor Pelevin (buy on Litres →).

181. "Red Laughter", Leonid Andreev (read on Litres →).

182. “The End of Eternity”, Isaac Asimov (buy on Litres →).

183. "Over the Cuckoo's Nest", Ken Kesey (buy on Liters →).

184. The Trial, Franz Kafka (buy at Liters →).

185. “Farewell to Arms!” By Ernest Hemingway (buy on Litres →).

186. “Pines. A City in Nowhere”, Blake Crouch (buy on Liters →).

187. We Are Alive, Ayn Rand (buy on Liters →).

188. Cetaganda by Lois Bujold.

189. “Reason for God. Why are there so many believers among smart people”, Timothy Keller (buy at Liters →).

190. The Way of the Sword, Henry Oldie (buy on Litres →).

191. “Insanely happy. Incredibly funny stories about our everyday life”, Jenny Lawson (buy at Litres →).

192. Premonition of the End by Julian Barnes (buy on Litres →).

193. “The Red Cross. Roman”, Sasha Filipenko (buy on Liters →).

194. Songs of the Dead Children, Toby Litt.

195. "Arc de Triomphe", Erich Maria Remarque (buy on Litres →).

196. Time and Time Again by Ben Elton (buy on Liters →).

197. The Kidnapper, Brom (buy on Liters →).

198. "Classes of Nations: Feminist Criticism of Nation-Building", Elena Gapova (buy on Liters →).

199. "Samurai without a sword", Kitami Masao (buy on Litres →).

200. Space Engineers by Clifford Simack.

201. "Two Lives", Concordia Antarova.

202. "Kim Jong Il Film Company Presents", Paul Fisher (buy on Liters →).

203. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (buy on Litres →).

204. “War has no female face”, Svetlana Aleksievich (buy on Litres →).

205. "Kalinova Yama", Alexander Pelevin (buy on Liters →).

206. Everest. Deadly Ascent”, Anatoly Bukreev and G. Weston De Walt (buy on Litres →).

207. Blind Faith, Ben Elton (buy on Litres →).

208. Elegant Universe. Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory,”Brian Greene.

209. “Shelling sector”, Vasily Melnik.

210. Production. The World History of the Struggle for Oil, Money and Power”, Daniel Yergin.

211. Lust for Life, Irving Stone (buy on Labirint →).

212. Blood Font by Clark Simon.

213. “To stay alive. Psychology of Behavior in Extreme Situations”, Lawrence Gonzalez (buy on Litres →).

214.“Stay in my shoes,” Michelle Faber.

215. "The Catcher of Men", Nadezhda Popova.

216. Source, Ayn Rand (buy on Liters →).

217. “Only I live here”, Alexander Pelevin (buy on Liters →).

218. “The Baghdad Thief”, Andrey Belyanin (buy on Liters →).

219. "Book without a title", anonymous.

220. 2001. A Space Odyssey”, Arthur Clarke (buy on Liters →).

221. "Moscow - Petushki", Venedikt Erofeev (buy on Liters →).

222. Through Time, Vernor Vinge (buy on Litres →).

223. "Jacob's colorful twigs: a private look at the picture of the universal celebration of life", Vladimir Martynov.

224. Gorillas in the Fog by Diane Fossey.

225. Shotguns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond (buy on Liters →).

226. Abandoned Cars, Jeff Noon (buy on Litres →).

227. “Project“Phoenix”. A novel about how DevOps is changing business for the better”, Jin Kim (buy at Litres →).

228. Inquisitor Eisenhorn by Dan Abnett.

229. The Wall, Jean-Paul Sartre (buy on Labirint →).

230. "Blindness", Jose Saramago (buy on Litres →).

231. "The title of the book", Ilidar Belugin (read on Litres →).

232. River of the Gods by Ian MacDonald.

233. "The Buried Giant", Kazuo Ishiguro (buy on Litres →).

234. The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson.

235. Metamorphoses, Marina and Sergei Dyachenko.

236. "The Sorrow of Satan", Maria Corelli (buy on Litres →).

237. A Brief History of Seven Murders by Marlon James (buy at Litres →).

238. “The Taking of Ishmael”, Mikhail Shishkin (buy on Litres →).

239. Abbess Kruskaya. Do Not Disturb”, Muriel Spark (buy from Labirint →).

240. "Scandinavian Gods", Neil Gaiman (buy on Liters →).

241. "The Reamde Virus" by Neil Stevenson (buy on Liters →).

242. "Brida", Paulo Coelho (buy on Litres →).

243. Tau Zero, Paul Anderson.

244. "City of Stairs", Robert Bennett (buy on Liters →).

245. “Prometheus rebelled. The Psychology of Evolution, Robert Wilson.

246. The First Rule of the Wizard, Terry Goodkind (buy on Liters →).

247. Dinner at the Palace of Perversion by Tim Powers.

248. "The Name of the Rose", Umberto Eco (buy on Litres →).

249. The Legend of Thunder, Felix Kres.

250. Clara and the Shadow by Jose Carlos Somoza.

251. "Fight Club", Chuck Palahniuk (buy on Labirint →).

252. "Room", Emma Donoghue (buy on Liters →).

253. "Mother of Learning", nobody103.

254. "Glass Jack", Adam Roberts (buy on Labirint →).

255. “The Science of Characters. Understand Human Nature”, Adler Alfred (buy on Labirint →).

256. Detective Elijah Bailey and Robot Daniel Olivo, Isaac Asimov.

257. Foundation, Isaac Asimov.

258. "Star Ice", Alastair Reynolds (buy on Litres →).

259. "Prefect", Alastair Reynolds (buy on Litres →).

260. "Thank you all!", Alex Goy.

261. "Karzhizh", Alexander Berger (buy on Liters →).

262. “Breadwinners. Space as a Memory”, Alexander Kushnir (buy on Labirint →).

263. “Human evolution. Monkeys, Bones and Genes , Alexander Markov (buy on Liters →).

264. "The Art of Offending", Alexander Nevzorov (buy on Liters →).

265. “Defense Against the Dark Arts. Guide to the world of paranormal phenomena”, Alexander Panchin (buy on Litres →).

266. “Germany and the Germans. What guidebooks are silent about”, Alexander Tomchin (buy on Liters →).

267. "Sanych. Hackers ", Alexander Chubaryan.

268. "Black Day", Alexey Doronin (buy on Liters →).

269. "Bad weather", Alexey Ivanov (buy on Liters →).

270. "Heart of Parma", Alexey Ivanov (buy on Litres →).

271. "Wind and Sparks", Alexey Pekhov (buy on Liters →).

272. “An autopsy will show. Notes of a keen forensic expert”, Alexey Reshetun (buy on Litres →).

273. "Petrovs in the Flu and Around It", Alexey Salnikov (buy on Liters →).

274. "Notes of the Cat Shashlik", Alexey Eksler.

275. “Fall. Exile and the Kingdom”, Albert Camus (buy on Liters →).

276. “Dog yard, dog cold”, Alfina and Cornel.

277. The Plague in Bedrograd, Alfina and Cornel.

278. Tiger! Tiger!”, Alfred Bester (buy on Labirint →).

279. The Man Without a Face by Alfred Bester.

280. The Saga of Reinevan, Andrzej Sapkowski.

281. “Frankly. Autobiography , Andre Agassi.

282. Burnt by Andreas Eschbach.

283. "Anomalous zone", Andrey Kokotyukha (buy on Liters →).

284. “Someone else's skin, or Sergei Yurkin's cosplay”, Andrey Koschienko.

285. "Waterloo Bridge", Andrey Lazarchuk.

286. "The Tadpole and the Saints: A Novel", Andrey Filimonov (buy on Litres →).

287. Nightmares, Beloved, Anna Jane (buy on Litres →).

288. "Moth", Henri Charrière (buy on Litres →).

289. “Steppe. The story of one trip”, Anton Chekhov.

290. "Citadel", Antoine de Saint-Exupery (buy on Litres →).

291. "White Tiger", Aravind Adiga.

292."The Gospel According to the Executioner", Arkady Vayner and Georgy Vayner (buy on Litres →).

293. "City and Stars", Arthur Clarke (buy on Liters →).

294. Childhood's End by Arthur Clarke (buy on Labirint →).

295. Songs of a Distant Earth, Arthur Clarke.

296. "Slave of the Locked Lands", Artyom Kamenisty (buy on Litres →).

297. “Someone is wrong on the Internet! Scientific research of controversial issues”, Asya Kazantseva (buy on Liters →).

298. “Everyday Life in North Korea,” Barbara Demik (buy on Liters →).

299. “An extraordinary journey into madness and back. Operators and Things, Barbara O'Brien.

300. Red Moon by Benjamin Percy.

301. The Last Secret by Bernard Werber.

302. Escape from the death camp by Blaine Harden (buy on Liters →).

303. The Thief of Eternity, Boyne Joyne.

304. "Rock", Boris Milovzorov.

305. "Inhabited Island", Strugatsky Brothers (buy on Labirint →).

306. Roadside Picnic, Strugatsky Brothers (buy on Litres →).

307. “Monday starts on Saturday”, Strugatsky Brothers (buy on Litres →).

308. "Dracula", Bram Stoker (buy on Liters →).

309. "Born in the Mist" by Brandon Sanderson.

310. "Crimea Island", Vasily Aksyonov (buy on Liters →).

311. “Education by Dr. Spock,” Vasily Belov.

312. "Black Man", Vasily Golovachev (buy on Liters →).

313. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo (buy on Liters →).

314. "Batman Apollo", Victor Pelevin (buy on Litres →).

315. "The Nameless Slave", Vitaly Zykov (buy on Litres →).

316. "Red Tambourine", Vladimir Belobrov.

317. "Raspberry Pelican", Vladimir Voinovich (buy on Litres →).

318. "Tension", Vladimir Ilyin (buy on Liters →).

319. "Laughter of the Shaman", Vladimir Serkin (buy on Liters →).

320. "Blizzard", Vladimir Sorokin (buy on Liters →).

321. "Monoclon", Vladimir Sorokin (buy on Liters →).

322. Goodbye Berlin! By Wolfgang Herndorf (buy on Labirint →).

323. Autumn of the Patriarch, Gabriel García Márquez (buy on Litres →).

324. Children of Earth and Sky, Guy Gavriel Kay (buy on Litres →).

325. The Lions of Al-Rassan, Guy Gavriel Kay.

326. The Mortal Torment of an Alien, Harry Garrison (buy on Liters →).

327. Ecumene by Henry Lyon Oldie.

328. Billiards at half past nine, Heinrich Theodor Böll (buy on Bookvoed →).

329. "Notes of the Kupchinsky Gopnik", Gleb Stashkov (buy on Litres →).

330. The City of Permutations by Greg Egan (buy on Liters →).

331. Old Men, Gustav Hasford.

332. The Eye of the Mind by Douglas Hofstadter.

333. "Shogun" by James Clavell (buy on Liters →).