In the days when winter makes you feel better, we said that the best thing for these days is to read a book and we wanted to prepare a good book recommendation list. In the list, we have included 15 books in different genres, each more successful than the other, immersive, enlightening and adding meaning.
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15 enjoyable and successful book suggestions from different genres
Taboo – James George Frazer
Every society in the world, without exception, has customs, traditions, superstitions and meanings that are attributed to some concepts, some of which date back thousands of years, and some that have just emerged. Taboo, all these and invalid; it is even a successful work that criticizes the effects of the necessity to ‘respect’ the concepts that sometimes harm people, with a wonderful expression.
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In Praise of Animals – Michel de Montaigne
Almost everyone has heard of Montaigne’s Essays. Praise for Animals is a part of Essays and its focus is human superiority over animals; As a matter of fact, there is a widespread belief that he can do whatever he wants on animals. But Montaigne adds a great perspective on this subject and repeatedly points out with examples and quotes that we are not actually superior to animals.
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A Universal History of Vile – Jorge Luis Borges
This work of Jorge Luis Borges, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, tells us how this baseness is intertwined with the system and how the “debauchery” is actually fed through the stories of some characters defined as “despicable” for many cultures and societies…
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The Bullying of the Majority – Alexis de Tocqueville
The Bullying of the Majority explains that the ‘passion for equality’, especially in modern democracies, can become a threat to freedom and in time, may lead to societies governed by the brutal and dominant rules of the majority; A successful work that offers a glimpse of the society of the 1830s to the present.
French lawyer, thinker and historian Tocqueville, with his notes written more than a hundred years ago, mapped American society and created a landscape that we can call ‘this is officially today’s society’…
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It Was Raining Flaky Butterflies – Charles Darwin
Containing the notes of Charles Darwin from his long voyage with a ship belonging to the British Royal Navy at a young age, Flaky Butterfly Raining is about the journey of one of the most brilliant scientists of our history, in which we were partners in his efforts to understand nature and people. While trying to understand what is going on around us with him, we are reliving his journey full of adventures.
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The World’s Most Beautiful History – Andre Brahic & Paul Tapponnier & Jacques Girardon & Lester R. Brown
A journalist, a geophysicist, an astrophysicist and an environmental expert have come together to write a wonderful book in which they answer countless questions from space to the structure of the earth, from the possibility of life on Mars to the possibilities of earthquakes in the Marmara. While the book answers many questions about the universe with the help of experts, it also helps us to create a perspective from which we can better understand life.
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The Right to Sloth – Paul Lafargue
As modern people who are tired of stopping and thinking, doing nothing, spending time without looking at a screen, feeling sad when we don’t rush somewhere, feeling that we are doing nothing, and feeling that we always have to achieve more, don’t we have the right to be lazy? Written by Paul Lafargue in 1883, this work tells us the story of our ‘slave lives’, which has become inextricable today, in a language with plenty of irony…
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Letter to the Unborn Child – Oriana Fallaci
“But I always asked myself that nasty question: What if you don’t like being born? What if one day you shout and blame me: Who told you to give birth to me? Why did you give birth to me, why?”…
In this book, where we read the conversations that an abandoned woman started to have with her child while she was still pregnant, we witness speeches that make us think about many concepts such as being human, being a child, being a mother, and being an individual.
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In Praise of the Shadow – Cuniciro Tanizaki
One of the most important names in Japanese literature, Cuniçiro Tanizaki’s Ode to the Shadow, tells in a plain language the reflection of the increasingly modern and ‘global’ world in Eastern and Western cultures through simple objects and behaviors.
She sheds light on the differences between the ‘East’ and ‘West’, which we think are fading day by day, with countless sentences such as, “While pitch-darkness decorates our fantasies, they make even ghosts clear as glass.”
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Exploding Comets – Expressionist Tales
In this selection, which includes the stories of many writers, from leading expressionists such as Franz Held, Oskar Panizza and Paul Scheerbart to well-known names such as Gustav Meyrink, Franz Kafka and Robert Musil, you will read a selection of stories that tell the stories of the poor, the oppressed, the mentally ill and the marginalized in a completely different language.
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Great Masters of the Short Story
In The Great Masters of the Short Story, which is also a short story selection, you will find the stories of many authors such as Oscar Wilde, Jack London, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Mark Twain that you will enjoy reading.
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A’mak-ı Hayal – Ahmet Hilmi from Filibe
In this work, which is accepted as the first philosophical and surreal novel of our literature, we read the surreal journey of the character named Raci, who wants to reach the truth.
Raci, who went to the Peak of Nothingness with Buddha, to Mount Olympus where the Greek gods are located, to the battlefield of Hormuz and Ahrimen, to the planet Merih on the back of Simurg, to Mount Kaf and many other places, travels from land to land without knowing where his end will lead. we are enjoying this journey with him; we try to understand philosophy, religions, mythology and life.
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Signal Officer – Charles Dickens
We have a book recommendation that you will read with excitement and anxiety; Signal Officer. Consisting of three stories Dickens tells in the horror genre, The Signal Officer is full of murders, ghosts and details where the real and the surreal come together. At the same time, the work, which is a mirror to this side of societies, eliminates the line between what is real and what is not, and raises many questions.
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Mortal Eggs – Mikhail Bulgakov
What will happen to us if power, knowledge and power are abused? Well, I know many of us have had some answers… Mortal Eggs also tells the story of a scientist whose untested invention is abused because of his obsession with ‘having knowledge and getting ahead of the enemy’.
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Shadow Over Inssmouth – HP Lovecraft
Our last suggestion is for those who love to read horror genre books, Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth, one of the authors who have managed to get their names on this subject in the history of literature. In this short story, which has inspired many works written after it and is considered a classic of the genre, we read about the frightening chain of events that a young person who ends up in a town encounters here. While all this is happening, the author offers an insight into the degeneration and decay of people and the collapse of modern society.
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