1. J. M. Coetzee – “Waiting for the Barbarians”

The most mysterious writer of all Nobel laureates, dedicated his Nobel speech not to anyone, but to Robinson Crusoe, the man whose name was a mystery for a long time. A small town on the outskirts of anonymous Empire agitated by the news of the imminent attack of barbarian tribes from the border deserts. Come out of the heart of the Empire, colonel, who is ready to knock out from a person the necessary evidence. Municipal judge, who does not want to panic and as a result turned from the prosecutor into the accused. Captive girl who becomes an object of sense-worship for a judge. The novel is a parable, the novel is metaphor, reminiscent of the mad fantasy of Kafka, Beckett, and Dino Buzzati. A real pleasure for readers of intelligent bestseller.

2. Markus Zusak – “The Book Thief”

January 1939. Germany. The country, with bated breath. The death has never had so much work. And there will be more. Mother carries a nine-year Liesel Meminger and her younger brother to adoptive parents under the Munich, because their father is gone – it blew the breath of a stranger and a strange word “communist” and in the eyes of mother girl  sees  a fear of the same fate. On the way,  death is visiting boy and firstly noticing Liesel.As a result the girl is on Himmelshtrasse – Heavenly Street.  A person who dreamed up this name, certainly had a good sense of humor. Not that there was a sheer hell. No. But not paradise.

3. Kazuo Ishiguro – “The remains of the Day”

Japanese-born graduate of the literary course of Malcolm Bradbury, who wrote the best English novel of the end of XX century! Steven Butler, without fear and without reproach served as Lord Darlington, talks about how he has developed a sense of duty and ability to put the right people in the right place, demonstrating a truly samurai isolation within its Code of service. In 1989, for the “The remains of the day” Ishiguro achieved Booker (and it was probably the only solution of the Booker committee in the history of the award when no one provoked protests). Screen version of this book directed by James Ivory with Anthony Hopkins in the main role had a great success. And Boris Akunin wrote a kind of remake of “The remains of the day” – the novel “Coronation.”

4. Ian McEwan – “On Chesil Beach”

Ian McEwan is one of the ‘ruling triumvirate “of contemporary British fiction (along with Julian Barnes and Martin Amis), winner of the Booker Prize for his novel” Amsterdam “. His newest book is offered to your attention, and it is also included in last year’s Booker shortlist. This, according to the critic, “poignant, for all its intimacy, the story of missed opportunities in the era before the sexual revolution.” The main events of the novel take place among Edward Mayhew and Florence Ponting in their wedding night: both recall to their past life, and fear of the future.

5. John Crowley – “Aegypt”

Why is it known that gypsies are able to predict the future? Why dollar represents a pyramid and shining eye? Why the statue of Moses by Michelangelo has horns on his head? Because the modern era was preceded by Egypt. Because first of all, it was not like today, and other laws held sway, and soon everything will change again, and forgotten gods again reign in the hearts and in heaven. Because New York academic intrigue and twists coca dealership lead modest historian Pierce Moffett in the American wilderness, while Bruno is sent on a journey of a lifetime, and John Dee and Edward Kelley see angels in the magic crystal. All this takes place in the novel “Aegypt” of incomparable John Crowley; the first novel of the tetralogy, which is called – “Aegypt”.

6. Ray Bradbury – “Dandelion Wine”

Enter to the light world of a twelve years boy and live with him one summer, filled with happiness and sad events, mysterious and disturbing; summer, when every day amazing discoveries are made, the most important of which – you’re alive, you breathe, you feel! “Dandelion Wine” by Ray Bradbury – classical works included in the golden fund of world literature.

7. Iain Banks – “Wasp Factory”

The famous novel of the outstanding Scotsman most controversial debut in the English prose of the last decades. Meet Frank sixteen. He killed three of them. He is not what he looks like. He is not the one who considers himself. Welcome to the island, which is guarded by Sacrificial Pillars. The house where in the attic there is a deadly Wasp Factory.

8. Bret Easton Ellis – “Rules of Attraction”

In the prestigious Camden college have fun and drink a lot. A newcomer will not relax for a moment  from extravagant parties and extreme fun, which seems to have no end. Falling and changing each other, quarreling and taking their own lives, the local bohemians hurry to thoroughly examine all the forbidden passions and vices, bearing in mind the fundamental law: there person spend time in vain only if he learns tough rules of reckless sex …

9. David Mitchell – “Ghostwritten”

The “Ghostwritten” raised the young author to the British literary Olympus. On these pages there are intertwined ways of life of the young sectarian, who organized sarin attack in the Tokyo underground,  saxophonist-amateur, who earns mone in a vynyl shop, bank manager from London who launders money of Russian mafia in Hong Kong, and veteran of British intelligence, decided to publish his memories, and disembodied ghost hovering over the Mongolian steppes, a woman physicist from the Irish island, which is hunted by Pentagon, and kidnappers of Hermitage paintings, New York DJ and many, many others ….

10. Doris Lessing – “The Fifth Child”

Harriet and David from the very beginning are able to carry out the beautiful dream of all newlyweds: they have a large and comfortable house, a stable income, four happy and adorable kids and a lot of loving relatives. Holidays at their home are abundant fests of life and family happiness. And then a fifth child appeared in this family, nothing supernatural … But is it a human or no?