Here's some of my best choices:
My name is Red (Turkish: Benim Adım Kırmızı) - by Orhan Pamuk
Part murder mystery, part love story-set amid the perils of religious repression in sixteenth-century Istanbul.
Maybe it's not a commercial crowd-pleaser, but I believe it could please the most exquisite literary taste.Of Love and Other Demons (Spanish: Del amor y otros demonios) - by Gabriel García Márquez
The Borgia Bride - bu Jeanne Kalogridis
The Borgia bride is a sumptuous historical novel of passion, betrayal, scheming and incest, set in the Vatican during the 15th century, one of the most exciting, violent and also sensual times of European history. The plot and characters are based on actual historical personages and events.
The Gardener - by Rabindranath Tagore
One of my favorit poems:
Come as you are; do not loiter over your toilet.
If your braided hair has loosened,
if the parting of your hair be not straight,
if the ribbons of your bodice be not fastened,
do not mind.
Come as you are; do not loiter over your toilet.
Come, with quick steps over the grass.
If the raddle come from your feet because of the dew,
if the rings of bells upon your feet slacken,
if pearls drop out of your chain, do not mind.
Come with quick steps over the grass.Do you see the clouds wrapping the sky?
Flocks of cranes fly up from the further river-bank and fitful gusts of wind rush over the heath.
The anxious cattle run to their stalls in the village.
Do you see the clouds wrapping the sky?In vain you light your toilet lamp-it flickers and goes out in the wind.
Who can know that your eyelids have not been touched with lamp-black?
For your eyes are darker than rain-clouds.
In vain you light your toilet lamp--it goes out.Come as you are; do not loiter over your toilet.
If the wreath is not woven, who cares;
if the wrist-chain has not been linked,
let it be.
The sky is overcast with clouds--it is late.
Come as you are; do not loiter over your toilet.
Love Lasts Three Years (French: L'Amour dure trois ans) - by Frédéric Beigbeder
As one said: Fast and crazy ride and writing, easy to love and easy to hate.
For me - witty, charming and so real.
Seducing the Demon: writing for my life - by Erica Jong.
I was and still am - fascinated.
Read a book now and then.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.Or, as the famous Oscar Wilde said:
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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