THE BEST NOVELS OF 1980s

1. The Name of the Rose (1982) Umberto Eco
2. Beloved (1987) Toni Morrison
3. Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) Gabriel García Márquez
4. A Book of Memories (1986) Peter Nadas
5. The War of the End of the World (1981) Mario Vargas Llosa
6. Blood Meridian (1985) Cormac McCarthy
7. Cities of Salt (1984-1989) Abdul Rahman Munif
8. The Loser (1983) Thomas Bernhard
9. Life and Fate  (written in 1959, published in 1988) Vasili Grossman 
10. Stone Upon Stone (1984) Wiesław Myśliwski
11. Kelidar (1984) Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
12. The Aesthetics of Resistance (1981) Peter Weiss
13. Satantango (1985) László Krasznahorkai
14. Dictionary of the Khazars (1984) Milorad Pavić
15. Midnight's Children (1981) Salman Rushdie
16. Flaubert's Parrot (1984) Julian Barnes
17. The House of the Spirits (1982) Isabel Allende
18. Perfume (1985) Patrick Süskind
19. Wittgenstein's Nephew (1982) Thomas Bernhard
20. White Noise (1985) Don DeLillo
21. Woodcutters (1987) Thomas Bernhard
22. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) Milan Kundera
23. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1984) José Saramago
24. The White Castle (1985) Orhan Pamuk
25. Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) J. M. Coetzee
26. Money (1984) Martin Amis
27. The Color Purple (1982) Alice Walker
28. The Old Gringo (1985) Carlos Fuentes
29. Lanark (1981) Alasdair Gray
30. Norwegian Wood (1987) Haruki Murakami
31. Requiem (1985) Peer Hultberg

THE BEST NOVELS OF 1990s

1.       Blindness (1995) José Saramago

2.       Infinite Jest (1996) David Foster Wallace

3.       My Name Is Red (1998) Orhan Pamuk

4.       The Savage Detectives (1998) Roberto Bolaño

5.       The Royal Physician's Visit (1999) Per-Olov Enquist

6.       The Elementary Particles (1998) Michel Houellebecq

7.       Underworld (1998) Don DeLillo

8.       Ingenious Pain (1997) Andrew Miller

9.       America Pastoral (1997) Philip Roth

10.   The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1997) Haruki Murakami

11.   Mason & Dixon (1997) Thomas Pynchon

12.   The Rings of Saturn (1995) W. G. Sebald

13.   The Black Book (1990) Orhan Pamuk

14.   I Saw Ramallah (1997) Mourid Barghouti

15.   All the Pretty Horses (1992) Cormac McCarthy

16.   A Heart So White (1992) Javier Marías

17.   The Land of Green Plums (1994) Herta Müller

18.   Disgrace (1999) J. M. Coetzee

19.   Possession (1990) A. S. Byatt

20.   The Things They Carried (1990) Tim O'Brien

THE 30 GREATEST DIRECTORS OF ALL TIME

1. Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999)
2. Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
3. Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007)
4. Orson Welles (1915-1985)
5. Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998)
6. Jean-Luc Godard (1930- )
7. Federico Fellini (1920-1993)
8. Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986)
9. Martin Scorsese (1942- )
10. Francis Ford Coppola (1939- )
11. Yasujirō Ozu (1903-1963)
12. Robert Bresson (1901-1999)
13. Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007)
14. Luis Buñuel (1900-1983)
15. Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889-1968)
16. Jean Renoir (1894-1979)
17. Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)
18. Kenji Mizoguchi (1898-1956)
19. John Ford (1894-1973)
20. Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948)
21. F. W. Murnau (1888-1931)
22. Fritz Lang (1890-1976)
23. Buster Keaton (1895-1966)
24. Billy Wilder (1906-2002)
25. François Truffaut (1932-1984)
26. D. W. Griffith (1875-1948)
27. Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016)
28. David Lynch (1946- )
29. Roberto Rossellini (1906-1977)
30. Howard Hawks (1896-1977)