{"id":86,"date":"2018-08-03T22:57:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T20:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/readerwitch.com\/?p=86"},"modified":"2018-08-03T22:57:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T20:57:54","slug":"best-books-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/2018\/08\/03\/best-books-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Books Ever according to Book Depository"},"content":{"rendered":"

Book Depository has it own Best Books Ever list<\/a>. Looks like I have many good books ahead of me! Although, I\u2019m slightly puzzled to see On the Origin of Species<\/em><\/a> by Charles Darwin in that list. It\u2019s undoubtedly a huge and important work, but is it really the best book ever? The same question goes for Anne Frank\u2019s diary<\/a>, a unique document of course but, forgive my blasphemy, is it really such a good literary work? Maybe Book Depository just compiled best literary works with the most influential ones.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here\u2019s my humble list from the books I read in that category, ranked from those I liked the most to those I liked less:<\/p>\n

1. One Hundred Years of Solitude<\/a><\/em> by Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez<\/p>\n

2. Madame Bovary<\/em><\/a> by Gustave Flaubert<\/p>\n

3. Lolita<\/em><\/a> by Vladimir Nabokov<\/p>\n

4. Fahrenheit 451<\/em><\/a> by Ray Bradbury<\/p>\n

5. Goodbye to Berlin<\/em><\/a> by Christopher Isherwood<\/p>\n

6. All Quiet on the Western Front<\/a>\u00a0by Erich Maria Remarque<\/p>\n

7. Wuthering Heights<\/em><\/a> by Emily Bront\u00eb<\/p>\n

8. Short stories by Anton Chekhov<\/em><\/a> (Although that\u2019s not fair. There are many stories. How can one judge all of them as one piece?)<\/p>\n

9. The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/em><\/a> by Oscar Wilde<\/p>\n

Hey, is there anybody out there? Are you reading this? What books would you suggest to read from that Best Books Ever list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These are the best books ever according to Book Depository. Some titles are quite surprising but some definitely deserve to be in the list. Have you read any of these books? Continue reading Best Books Ever according to Book Depository<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[99,101,104,133,150,258,374,397,497,526],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/screen-shot-2018-08-03-at-22-45-10-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}