Carmody wrote:Could you share with us what you consider to be a great book in any language?rdearman
There may be a great book out there written in French I just haven't seen it yet.
I will tell you the books I like, that doesn't however make them great books.
Lord of the Rings (and the Hobbit)
Dune (or anything written by Frank Herbert)
The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov
The horse clans novels (the entire series)
The destroyer series (Warren Murphy)
Way-Farer series by Dennis Schmidt
Thraxas series by Martin Scott
James Cavell novels (Taipan, Shogun, Noble House, etc)
Robert E Howard books
Incarnations of Immortality series by Piers Anthony
Raise the Titanic
Number One Ladies Detective Agency series Alexander McCall Smith
The sword of Shannara
Illusions the adventures of a reluctant messiah Richard Bach
Musashi, Eiji Yoshikawa
Andre Norton (any of them)
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
The Blind Assassin
Any book written by David Gemmell
Neuromancer, William Gibson
The Shining, The Stand, Salems Lot, (Stephen King)
Interview With the Vampire
The Godfather (Any Mario Puzo actually)
2001: A Space Odyssey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
A Clockwork Orange
Stranger in a Strange Land, The moon is a harsh mistress, (Roberty A Heinlein)
I, Robot
Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men
All Quiet on the Western Front
Tarzan of the Apes
Sherlock Holmes novels
Kim, Rudyard Kipling
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, etc
Treasure Island
Little Women
Most of the books by Jules Verne
Walden, Henry David Thoreau
The Fall of the House of Usher
Gulliver’s Travels
Robinson Crusoe
The Legend of Drizzt Series
The Urth of the New Sun
The Ghost Brigades, (The old mans war series) John Scalzi
Louis L'Amour westerns
A Mote in God's Eye, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
The Uplift Series by David Brin
Serpent War Saga, Brian E Feist
Le Petit Nicolas
Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
All of the books written by P.G. Wodehouse
The art of war
The war of art
Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The Stainless Steel Rat series by Harry Harrison (which is the first time I ever heard of Esperanto BTW)
Riverworld Philip José Farmer
A Wizard of Earthsea
The Martian, by Andy Weir
Titan, John Varley
Enders Game, Orson Scott Card
The Hardy Boys series, Franklin W. Dixon
Robert Ludlum books, all most all of them.
The Sunset Warrior, Eric Van Lustbader
The Pillars of the Earth, Ken FOllet
Spellsinger series, Alan Dean Foster
John Grisham books
The Night's Dawn Trilogy, Peter F. Hamilton
I am Legend, Richard Matheson
Berserker Series, Fred Saberhagen
Lucifer's Hammer, Larry Niven
Michael John Moorcock, Elric of Melniboné
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle Camp
MythAdventures, Robert Asprin
I'm sure there are more, but that was all I could think of.