The Top Ten by Peder Zane
The Top Ten is a book and a website edited by Peder Zane. "We launched Top Ten Books because we had to know: Which books do our favorite authors deem the best ever written? When they gave us the answer we wanted more: Why do these particular titles mean so much to them? So we asked some of ‘em to write a short appreciation of one of their picks. A.L. Kennedy, Stephen King, Margot Livesey, Lydia Millet and Tom Wolfe are among the writers who expressed their admiration for works that range from uber-classics such as The Bible to obscure gems." This list is the top 100 of all the chosen books. https://www.toptenbooks.net/the-list-of-books-view https://toptenbooks.net/all-author-lists-view
- 1
Ulysses
James Joyce · 1920 · 39 lists
- 2
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov · 1955 · 38 lists
- 3
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez · 1967 · 33 lists
- 4
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 1960 · 33 lists
- 5
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger · 1951 · 32 lists
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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck · 1939 · 32 lists
- 7
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad · 1899 · 29 lists
- 8
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison · 1952 · 29 lists
- 9
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy · 1869 · 29 lists
- 10
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë · 1847 · 29 lists
- 11
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen · 1813 · 28 lists
- 12
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · 1615 · 27 lists
- 13
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë · 1847 · 26 lists
- 14
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert · 1856 · 26 lists
- 15
Middlemarch
George Eliot · 1871 · 26 lists
- 16
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner · 1929 · 26 lists
- 17
To The Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf · 1927 · 25 lists
- 18
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy · 1876 · 24 lists
- 19
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866 · 22 lists
- 20
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880 · 22 lists
- 21
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway · 1926 · 22 lists
- 22
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston · 1937 · 22 lists
- 23
The Trial
Franz Kafka · 1925 · 21 lists
- 24
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf · 1925 · 20 lists
- 25
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens · 1861 · 19 lists
- 26
A Passage to India
E. M. Forster · 1924 · 18 lists
- 27
The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann · 1924 · 18 lists
- 28
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov · 1967 · 18 lists
- 29
Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner · 1936 · 16 lists
- 30
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce · 1916 · 15 lists
- 31
Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray · 1847 · 15 lists
- 32
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy · 1985 · 14 lists
- 33
The Red and the Black
Stendhal · 1830 · 14 lists
- 34
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway · 1940 · 13 lists
- 35
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov · 1962 · 13 lists
- 36
The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James · 1881 · 13 lists
- 37
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark · 1961 · 13 lists
- 38
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1850 · 13 lists
- 39
Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol · 1842 · 12 lists
- 40
Emma
Jane Austen · 1815 · 12 lists
- 41
The Good Soldier
Ford Madox Ford · 1915 · 12 lists
- 42
Beloved
Toni Morrison · 1987 · 11 lists
- 43
Bleak House
Charles Dickens · 1850 · 11 lists
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Rabbit is Rich
John Updike · 1981 · 8 lists
- 46
Persuasion
Jane Austen · 1817 · 7 lists
- 47
Tender is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1933 · 7 lists
- 48
The Charterhouse of Parma
Stendhal · 1962 · 7 lists
- 49
Clarissa
Samuel Richardson · 1748 · 6 lists
- 50
Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens · 1800 · 6 lists
- 51
Rabbit Redux
John Updike · 1961 · 6 lists
- 52
Notes from the Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1864 · 4 lists
- 53
Independent People
Halldór Laxness · 1999 · 3 lists
- 54
The Man Who Loved Children
Christina Stead · 1940 · 3 lists
- 55
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll · 1865 · 2 lists
- 56
The Hamlet
William Faulkner · 1940 · 2 lists
- 57
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain · 1885 · 0 lists
- 58
All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren · 1946 · 0 lists
- 59
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner · 1915 · 0 lists
- 60
Catch-22
Joseph Heller · 1961 · 0 lists
- 61
Collected Stories
Katherine Anne Porter · 1900 · 0 lists
- 62
Cousin Bette
Honoré de Balzac · 1846 · 0 lists
- 63
Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio · 1516 · 0 lists
- 64
Demons
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2000 · 0 lists
- 65
Don Juan
Lord Byron · 1819 · 0 lists
- 66
Dubliners
James Joyce · 1914 · 0 lists
- 67
Hamlet
William Shakespeare · 1623 · 0 lists
- 68
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust · 1913 · 0 lists
- 69
King Lear
William Shakespeare · 1604 · 0 lists
- 70
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman · 1855 · 0 lists
- 71
Macbeth
William Shakespeare · 1508 · 0 lists
- 72
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville · 1851 · 0 lists
- 73
My Ántonia
Willa Cather · 1918 · 0 lists
- 74
One Thousand and One Nights
Anonymous · 2005 · 0 lists
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Parade's End
Ford Madox Ford · 1950 · 0 lists
- 77
Paradise Lost
John Milton · 1667 · 0 lists
- 78
Rabbit At Rest
John Updike · 1990 · 0 lists
- 79
Rabbit, Run
John Updike · 1960 · 0 lists
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut · 1969 · 0 lists
- 82
Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway · 1930 · 0 lists
- 83
Tess Of The D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy · 1891 · 0 lists
- 84
The Aeneid
Virgil · 19 · 0 lists
- 85
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The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer · 1478 · 0 lists
- 87
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty · 1980 · 0 lists
- 88
The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
Isaac Babel · 2002 · 0 lists
- 89
The Complete Stories
Franz Kafka · 1971 · 0 lists
- 90
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The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri · 1321 · 0 lists
- 92
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925 · 0 lists
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Laurence Sterne · 1759 · 0 lists
- 95
The Odyssey
Homer · -800 · 0 lists
- 96
The Stand
Stephen King · 1978 · 0 lists
- 97
The Stories of Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov · 1932 · 0 lists
- 98
The Stories of John Cheever
John Cheever · 1978 · 0 lists
- 99
The Stranger
Albert Camus · 1942 · 0 lists
- 100
The Tempest
William Shakespeare · 1895 · 0 lists
- 101
The Transit of Venus
Shirley Hazzard · 1980 · 0 lists
