{"id":7757,"date":"2016-01-17T07:57:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T12:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=7757"},"modified":"2016-01-23T08:04:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T13:04:30","slug":"writers-pick-top-10-books-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=7757","title":{"rendered":"Writers Pick Top-10 Books of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books is a readers\u2019 collection of dream lists.<\/p>\n

It is the ultimate guide to the world’s greatest books \u2013 as picked by writers such as Norman Mailer, Annie Proulx, Stephen King, Jonathan Franzen, Claire Messud, Margaret Drabble, Michael Chabon and Peter Carey. The Top Ten includes summaries of 544 books-each of which is considered to be among the ten greatest books ever written by at least one leading writer. You can get this treasure from Amazon<\/a> (where else?!)<\/p>\n

Here are three intriguing lists from that book.<\/p>\n

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TOP TEN WORKS OF THE 20TH CENTURY<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov<\/li>\n
  2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald<\/li>\n
  3. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust<\/li>\n
  4. Ulysses by James Joyce<\/li>\n
  5. Dubliners by James Joyce<\/li>\n
  6. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez<\/li>\n
  7. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner<\/li>\n
  8. To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf<\/li>\n
  9. The complete stories of Flannery O\u2019Connor<\/li>\n
  10. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    TOP TEN WORKS OF THE 19th CENTURY<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy<\/li>\n
    2. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert<\/li>\n
    3. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy<\/li>\n
    4. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain<\/li>\n
    5. The stories of Anton Chekhov<\/li>\n
    6. Middlemarch by George Eliot<\/li>\n
    7. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville<\/li>\n
    8. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens<\/li>\n
    9. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky<\/li>\n
    10. Emma by Jane Austen<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      TOP TEN AUTHORS BY NUMBER OF BOOKS SELECTED<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      1. William Shakespeare \u2014 11<\/li>\n
      2. William Faulkner \u2014 6<\/li>\n
      3. Henry James \u2014 6<\/li>\n
      4. Jane Austen \u2014 5<\/li>\n
      5. Charles Dickens \u2014 5<\/li>\n
      6. Fyodor Dostoevsky \u2014 5<\/li>\n
      7. Ernest Hemingway \u2014 5<\/li>\n
      8. Franz Kafka \u2014 5<\/li>\n
      9. (tie) James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Vladimir Nabokov, Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf \u2014 4<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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        Read more about this book at Brian Pickings<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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