THE BEST TURKISH MOVIES

1.       Yol (The Way), Şerif Gören, 1982

2.       Umut (Hope), Yılmaz Güney, 1970

3.       Muhsin Bey (Mr. Muhsin), Yavuz Turgul, 1987

4.       Sürü (The Herd), Zeki Ökten, 1978

5.       Susuz Yaz (Dry Summer), Metin Erksan, 1964

6.       Selvi Boylum Al Yazmalım (My Girl with the Red Scarf), Atıf Yılmaz, 1977

7.       Masumiyet (Innocence), Zeki Demirkubuz, 1997

8.       Gelin (The Bride), Ömer Lütfi Akad, 1973

9.       Uzak (Distant), Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2002

10.   Otobüs (The Bus), Tunç Okan, 1975

11.   Kader (Destiny), Zeki Demirkubuz, 2005

12.   Sevmek Zamanı (Time to Love), Metin Erksan, 1965

13.   Bir Zamanlar Anadolu’da (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia), Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011

14.   Bal (Honey), Semih Kaplanoğlu, 2010

15.   Gurbet Kuşları (Birds of Exile), Halit Refiğ, 1964

16.   Anayurt Oteli (Motherland Hotel), Ömer Kavur, 1987

17.   Sonbahar (Autumn), Özcan Alper, 2007

18.   Beş Vakit (Times and Winds), Reha Erdem, 2006

19.   Hakkari’de Bir Mevsim (A Season in Hakkari), Erden Kıral, 1983

20.   Mayıs Sıkıntısı (Clouds of May), Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 1999

21.   Karpuz Kabuğundan Gemiler Yapmak (Boats Out of Watermelon Rinds), Ahmet Uluçay, 2004

22.   Çoğunluk (Majority), Seren Yüce, 2010

23.   Yumurta (Egg), Semih Kaplanoğlu, 2007

24.   Üç Arkadaş (Three Friends), Memduh Ün, 1958

25.   Yazgı (Fate), Zeki Demirkubuz, 2001

26.   Süt (Milk), Semih Kaplanoğlu, 2007

27.   Hayat Var (My Only Sunshine), Reha Erdem, 2008

28.   Güneşe Yolculuk (Journey to the Sun), Yeşim Ustaoğlu, 1998

29.   Vesikalı Yarim (My Prostitute Love), Ömer Lütfi Akad, 1968

30.   Kanun Namına (In the Name of the Law), Ömer Lütfi Akad, 1952

THE BEST TURKISH DIRECTORS

1. Nuri Bilge Ceylan (1959-)
2. Yılmaz Güney (1937-1984)
3. Metin Erksan (1929-2012)
4. Ömer Lütfi Akad (1916-2011)
5. Zeki Demirkubuz (1964-)
6. Atıf Yılmaz (1925-2006)
7. Reha Erdem (1960-)
8. Ömer Kavur (1944-2005)
9. Halit Refiğ (1934-2009)
10. Erden Kıral (1942-2022)

THE BEST JAPANESE NOVELS OF 20TH CENTURY

1. Kokoro 1914 Natsume Sōseki
2. The Sound of the Mountain 1954 Yasunari Kawabata
3. The Sea of Fertility 1969-71 Yukio Mishima
4. The Makioka Sisters 1948 Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
5. The Silent Cry 1967 Kenzaburō Ōe
6. Snow Country 1947 Yasunari Kawabata
7. A Personal Matter 1964 Kenzaburō Ōe
8. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle 1997 Haruki Murakami
9. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion 1956 Yukio Mishima
10. Silence 1966 Shusaku Endo
11. Some Prefer Nettles 1929 Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
12. The Setting Sun 1947 Osamu Dazai
13. Woman in the Dunes 1962 Kobo Abe
14. Norwegian Wood 1987 Haruki Murakami
15. Botchan 1906 Natsume Sōseki
16. Black Rain 1965 Masuji Ibuse
17. Kappa 1927 Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
18. Kitchen 1988 Banana Yoshimoto
19. A Dark Night's Passing 1921-37 Naoya Shiga
20. The Doctor's Wife 1966 Sawako Ariyoshi

THE GREATEST NOVELISTS OF 20TH CENTURY

1. James Joyce 
2. Marcel Proust 
3. Franz Kafka 
4. William Faulkner 
5. Thomas Mann 
6. Virginia Woolf 
7. Vladimir Nabokov 
8. Gabriel Garcia Marquez 
9. Joseph Conrad 
10. Henry James 
11. Albert Camus 
12. Robert Musil 
13. John Steinbeck 
14. Cormac McCarthy 
15. Louis-Ferdinand Céline 
16. Carlos Fuentes 
17. Knut Hamsun 
18. Hermann Hesse 
19. Gunter Grass 
20. Mario Vargas Llosa 
21. Mikhail Bulgakov 
22. Hermann Broch 
23. Julio Cortazar 
24. John Fowles 
25. Italo Calvino 
26. George Orwell 
27. Dino Buzzati 
28. Thomas Pynchon 
29. Ernesto Sabato 
30. Thomas Bernhard 
31. Yasunari Kawabata 
32. Jose Saramago 
33. Ernest Hemingway 
34. Alejo Carpentier 
35. D. H. Lawrence 
36. Mikhail Sholokhov 
37. Umberto Eco 
38. Guillermo Cabrera Infante 
39. Carlo Emilio Gadda 
40. Ismail Kadare 

THE BEST AMERICAN NOVELS OF 20TH CENTURY

1. Absalom, Absalom!, 1936 William Faulkner
2. The Grapes of Wrath, 1939 John Steinbeck
3. The Sound and the Fury ,1929 William Faulkner
4. Lolita, 1955 Vladimir Nabokov
5. The Ambassadors, 1903 Henry James
6. Gravity's Rainbow, 1973 Thomas Pynchon
7. Catch-22, 1961 Joseph Heller
8. The Catcher in the Rye, 1951 J. D. Salinger
9. Invisible Man, 1952 Ralph Ellison
10. Blood Meridian, 1985 Cormac McCarthy
11. As I Lay Dying, 1930 William Faulkner
12. Of Mice and Men, 1937 John Steinbeck
13. The Great Gatsby, 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. Slaughterhouse-Five, 1969 Kurt Vonnegut
15. The Old Man and the Sea, 1952 Ernest Hemingway
16. The Golden Bowl, 1904 Henry James
17. Beloved, 1987 Toni Morrison
18. The Recognitions, 1955, William Gaddis
19. Underworld, 1997, Don DeLillo
20. America Pastoral, 1997, Philip Roth 
21. The Sun Also Rises, 1926 Ernest Hemingway
22. Infinite Jest, 1996 David Foster Wallace
23. The U.S.A. Trilogy, 1930-36 John Dos Passos
24. On the Road, 1957 Jack Kerouac
25. An American Tragedy, 1925 Theodore Dreiser
26. Light in August, 1932 William Faulkner
27. Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, 1969 Vladimir Nabokov
28. Martin Eden, 1909 Jack London
29. A Confederacy of Dunces, 1980 John Kennedy Toole
30. All the Pretty Horses, 1992 Cormac McCarthy
31. Herzog, 1964 Saul Bellow
32. White Noise, 1985 Don DeLillo
33. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, 1940 Carson McCullers
34. The Wings of the Dove, 1902 Henry James
35. Tender Is the Night, 1934 F. Scott Fitzgerald
36. Rabbit, Run, 1960, Jon Updike, 
37. The Color Purple, 1982, Alice Walker
38. The Naked and the Dead, 1948, Norman Mailer
39. The Sot-Weed Factor, 1960, John Barth
40. The Day of The Locust, 1939, Nathaniel West
41. The Sheltering Sky, 1949, Paul Bowles
42. Native Son, 1940, Richard Wright
43. Pale Fire, 1962 Vladimir Nabokov
44. JR, 1975, William Gaddis
45. Suttree, 1979 Cormac McCarthy
46. The Age of Innocence, 1920 Edith Wharton
47. V, 1963 Thomas Pynchon
48. Libra, 1988 Don DeLillo
49. Arrowsmith, 1925 Sinclair Lewis
50. Cannery Row, 1945 John Steinbeck

THE GREATEST TURKISH POETS

1. Yunus Emre (1240?-1321?)
2. Nazım Hikmet (1902-1963)
3. Fuzuli (1483-1556)
4. Karacaoğlan (17th)
5. Edip Cansever (1928-1986)
6. Turgut Uyar (1927-1985)
7. Bakî (1526-1600)
8. Cemal Süreya (1931-1990)
9. Nedim (1681?-1730)
10. Orhan Veli Kanık (1914-1950)
11. Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca (1914-2008)
12. Yahya Kemal Beyatlı ( 1884-1958)
13. Şeyh Galip (1757-1799)
14. Oktay Rifat (1914-1988)
15. Melih Cevdet Anday (1915-2002)
16. Behçet Necatigil (1916-1979)
17. Ece Ayhan (1931-2002)
18. Nef’i (1572-1635)
19. Pir Sultan Abdal (1480-1550)
20. İlhan Berk (1918-2008)
21. Ahmet Haşim (1884?-1933)
22. Tevfik Fikret (1867-1915) 
23. Sezai Karakoç (1933-)
24. Gülten Akın (1933-2015)
25. Dadaloğlu (1785-1868)

THE BEST POETS OF CLASSIC PERSIAN LITERATURE

1. Rumi (1207-1273)
2. Hafez Shirazi (1325/1326–1389/1390)
3. Omar Khayyam (1048–1131)
4. Sadi (1184-1283/1291?)
5. Ferdowsi (940–1020)
6. Nizami Ganjavi  (1141?-1209)
7. Farīd ud-Dīn  Attar (1145-1146-1221)
8. Jami (1414-1492)
9. Rudaki (858-941)
10. Anvari (1126–1189)
11. Sana’i (1080?-1131)
12. Unsuri (?-1039/1040)
13. Salman Saveci (1309-1376)
14. Asadi Tusi (?- 1072)
15. As'ad Gurgani (11th)
16. Mahmūd Shabistarī (1288-1340)
17. Amir Khusrow (1253-1325)
18. Manuchehri (?-1040)
19. Mas'ud-i Sa'd-i Salmān (1046-1121)
20. Khāqāni (1121/1122-1190)