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The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books. "What if you asked 125 top writers to pick their favorite books? Which titles would come out on top?" The list has 544 titles.
Your favorites? Any glaring omissions?
Hey, where's Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy) by Naguib Mahfouz? Or Little Big Man (Panther) by Thomas Berger? No Rumpole books by John Mortimer?! Life and Fate (New York Review Books Classics) by Vasily Grossman? The Tears of Autumn by Charles McCarry is one of the great anbd under-appreciated spy novels ever.
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Ones I've read and (in bold) particularly recommend:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
The Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendahl Candide by Voltaire
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Catcher In the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Closely Watched Trains (European Classics) by Bohumil Hrabal
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Conner
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
The Iliad by Homer
Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Maigret Series of Mystery Novels by Georges Simenon
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Native Son by Richard Wright
1984 by George Orwell
The Odyssey by Homer
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Rabbit Redux by John Updike
The Radetzky March (Works of Joseph Roth) by Joseph Roth
Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Modern Library Classics) by Joseph Conrad
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John LeCarre
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay
The Trial by Franz Kafka
True Grit by Charles Portis
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Watership Down by Richard Adams
"1984" by George Orwell, "Slaughterhouse 5" and "Breakfast of Champions" by Kurt Vonnegut, "The Stand: by Stephen King and the Harry Potter series. I'll probably get laughed at for the last 2, but I found them hugely entertaining!
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