The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books13 points
10 Works 108,997 Books 1,574 Reviews 4.1
125 writers submitted top-ten lists of their favorite works. Editor J. Peder Zane then utilized a point system and compiled a best-of list based on all the lists.
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David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickens |
Sister Carrie (1900) by Theodore Dreiser |
The Bear (1942) by William Faulkner |
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway |
Jesus' Son: Stories (1992) by Denis Johnson |
Ship of Fools (1962) by Katherine Anne Porter |
Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus (442 BCE) by Sophocles |
East of Eden (1952) by John Steinbeck |
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson |
The Leopard (1958) by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa |
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