What's your Top 5? Must-read lists of the Library's English Conversation Group

Every Wednesday the employees of the library have a closed English discussion group for practice and our little EVS team has been part of it ever since we arrived here. We set a topic for the following week which we rarely follow - usually we talk about random things, and each Wednesday afternoon we have a great cozy time. Last week we decided that this week we should bring lists of our favourite books, or rather our personal list of Top 5 must-read books, to share with the rest of the group and discuss. I have included them to share them with you, but also for our own reference. Some fantastic-looking titles in there...

I have also included Goodreads links (wherever possible) for ease of use.

Vale

1. Khaled Hosseini ~ "The Kite Runner"
2. Isabel Allende ~ "Paula"
3. Seneca ~ "Epistulae morales ad Lucilium"
4. Oscar Wilde ~ "The Happy Prince and Other Tales"
5. Albert Camus ~ "The Myth of Sisyphus"

Addie

1. Fyodor Dostoyevsky ~ "Crime and Punishment"
2. Ernest Hemmingway ~ "A Farewell to Arms"
3. Erich Maria Remarque ~ "Arch of Triumph"
4. Dimiter Dimov ~ "Doomed Days"
5. Yordan Yovkov ~ "Short Stories"

Evelina

1. Khaled Hosseini ~ "The Kite Runner"
2. Anna Gavalda ~ "Hunting and Gathering"
3. Elif Safak ~ "The Forty Rules of Love"
4. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez ~ "Love in the Time of Cholera"
5. Dimiter Dimov ~ "Doomed Days"

Boryana (she chose to list authors instead of separate books)

1. Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. Mikhail Bulgakov
3. Truman Capote
4. Franz Kafka
5. Viktor Paskov

Maria

1. H.C. Andersen ~ "The Little Mermaid"
2. Ludvig Holberg ~ "Mascarade"
3. Cecelia Ahern ~ "If You Could See Me Now"
4. Stephenie Meyer ~ "Twilight" / "The Host"
5. William Shakespeare ~ "A Midsummernight's Dream"

Dimitris

1. Jonathan Safran Foer ~ "Eating Animals"
2. Bill Bryson ~ "A Short History of Nearly Everything"
3. Ursula Le Guin ~ "The Dispossessed"
4. Aldous Huxley ~ "Brave New World"
5. Jose Saramago ~ "Death With Interruptions"

Zanda

1. Inga Žolude ~ "Sarkanie bērni"
2. Sofi Oksanen ~ "Stalin's cows" / "Purge"
3. Erlend Loe  ~"Doppler" "muleum"
4. Hallgrimur Helgason ~ "101 reykjavik"
5. Svetlana Alexievich ~ "Voices from chernobyl "

Vicente

1. Vasily Grossman ~ "Life and Fate"
2. Marguerite Yourcenar ~ "Memoirs of Hadrian"
3. Michel Houellebecq ~ "The Possibility of An Island"
4. Norman Mailer ~ "The Naked and the Dead"
5. Miguel Delibes ~ "Los Santos Inocentes"