The one. The only. THE BEST BOOK EVER.

April 13, 2013 Ksenia Anske

Photo by Natalia Osiatynska

Call me crazy, but, obviously, when I have time on my hands, I read, and, obviously, as I read, I tweet, and, obviously, as I tweet, I retweet. Long story short, I was tweeting about reading Lolita by Nabokov and got asked what my most favorite book of all time is. I got stumped a bit, because my life breaks into two parts. One part is before I became a writer full time and finally allowed myself to read fiction every day, and the time when I wasn't a writer, I didn't know I would be one, and I always felt guilty by sneaking in a novel to read. So, the first books that came to my mind were the ones that changed something deep in me. It was Harry Potter, of course, I don't remember now which one I liked best, but I do remember reading until 4 in the morning, falling asleep, waking up, and reading again. Then I said Fight Club, because every time I read it, I cry from the beauty of his language. And I said 1Q84. And of course everything Stephen King, and a bunch of Russian books like Master and Margarita, but by now I broke the rule of one book only. I turned it around and asked my 40,000+ followers on Twitter for their choice. As a result, my twitter feed exploded, and people asked me to compile a list on my blog.

Well then, here are the top mentioned books, in no particular order. Enjoy!

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

The Witches by Roald Dahl

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

To Kill a Mockinbird by Harper Lee

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzerald

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Dune by Frank Herbert