About bestseller books
Do you see catchy headlines online like “Top 100 Books Everyone Should Read”, “Bestsellers of All Time” and other variations on the theme of the only correct reading list? Not sure which one to really believe? So the list below is based solely on your preferences.

What are the most popular books that almost never fly out of the top ten of the list? Firstly, it’s Fahrenheit 451. Ray Bradbury’s famous novel is about how to live in a world where reading books is a crime. They say that he was born in the author’s head after watching the frames of the documentary chronicle of the Second World War, where the Nazis threw books into the fire. The writer then seemed to be burned himself: there was a feeling that a person was being burned in front of him. “People and books are one flesh,” Bradbury liked to say.

The dystopia 1984 by George Orwell is not far behind. The main themes of this novel, alas, continue to be relevant: the danger of dictatorship, the dead-end path of restricting human freedoms, and the horror of totalitarian ideas brought to the point of absurdity. The popular phrase “Big Brother is watching you” comes from this book. Big Brother is the protagonist of 1984, he is responsible for the Thought Police and the Ministry of Love.

You also permanently assigned the “Bestsellers” mark to Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita, Erich Maria Remarque’s Three Comrades, Daniel Keyes’s Flowers for Algernon, Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, Antoine de Sainte’s The Little Prince – Exupery. These books have been on the list for many years. But this does not mean that you refer exclusively to the classics as the best. There are also relative novelties. Examples are The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Shantaram and Shadow of the Mountain by Gregory David Roberts, The Martian by Andy Weier, and Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.