9 books with which you can spend a whole night

Diana Setterfield "The Thirteenth Fairy Tale"

Gothic history, in which there is an old gloomy estate, family secrets, ghosts, the intricacies of fate and a feeling of innuendo, captures and does not let go until the last page is read. In this novel everything is fine: the plot, atmosphere, characters, language and exquisite style. A sleepless night is guaranteed.

Iain McEwen "Amsterdam"

Two friends - the successful editor-in-chief of a popular daily newspaper and the famous composer working on the Millennium Symphony - conclude an agreement on euthanasia: if one of them falls into a state of unconsciousness and ceases to control himself, the other pledges to kill him ... Elegant, bewitching a novel about how easily a person is able to destroy everything around him.

Douglas Adams "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

A book that wrackers and dumbfound from the very first pages. Probably, this trip on the galaxy is exactly the way it should be - with incredible adventures and improbable situations, with tons of humor and sarcasm. In general, hitch-hike and read Adams.

John Fowles "Collector"

A lonely, discreet young man suddenly wins a huge sum of money in a lottery. What will he do with her, especially if you take into account his passion for collecting butterflies and secret love for a local beauty? In the history of confrontation between the maniac and his victim, Fowles saw the confrontation between Good and Evil, a primitive philistine and an exalted artist, Love, Death and Beauty.

Victor Pelevin "Omon Ra"

"Aumont Ra" is a horrible story about how the bloody Soviet regime launched ships into space on human draft, but it happened in reality or ...

According to one of his fellow Peru, Pelevin can be read from the beginning, from the middle, from the end - as a sacred scripture. Very accurately noticed. And this little novel just will not leave you indifferent, we promise.

Jane Austen "Pride and Prejudice"

This is a novel in the traditional sense of the word - not female, not love, but simply a classic, eternal, sincere romance. And it is so difficult to return from old good England with its epic passions and cozy interiors in our gray noisy modernity that I want to stay in it forever. As in any good book.

Daniel Kies "The Multiple Minds of Billy Milligan"

Billy wakes up and finds himself in a jail cell. He was told that he was accused of rape and robbery. Billy is shocked: he did not do anything! The last thing he remembers is how he wanted to rush down from the roof of the school building. He is told that seven years have passed since then.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Remembering my sad whores"

One of those books that throw you out of reality and force you to ask: "What was that?". A piercing, sad, atmospheric story of life and love - accidental love, unreal love, late, last and most disastrous love, which allows a person to at least for a moment see the world as it is.

Stephen King "Rita Hayworth, or Escape from Shawshank"

If at some point you begin to doubt the strength of the human spirit, just read "Escape from Shawshank." This is the story of an innocent man sentenced to life imprisonment in prison hell. The history of survival is where it is practically impossible to survive. The greatest story of escape and salvation.