My top 10 books. Some are now films 1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 2. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 3. American Pastoral by Philip Roth 4. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 5. Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger 6. The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels by Patrick O'Brian 7. The Stories of Flannery O'Connor by Flannery O'Connor 8. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 9. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke 10. Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

Hi... "Les misérables" is a master piece to learn about the life during the XVIII century in France... It is a classical book and movie...

I love movies, my favorite is Forrest Gump which kind of embodies a sketch of the American Dream from one small side. Check out: http://www.imdb.com/chart/top