In 2007 J. Peder Zane, the book editor of the Raleigh News & Observer, asked 125 top writers to name their favorite books — writers like Norman Mailer, Annie Proulx, Stephen King, Jonathan Franzen, Claire Messud, and Michael Chabon. Here is the list from those efforts.
To find additional top 10 list from Zane's efforts check-out his book The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books. It includes additional list for categories and dates for example.
The five-year span kicking off in October 2012 should give me time to complete these. With the exception of if I will actually read In Search of Lost Time in this period, at over 4000 pages I am unsure if I want to commit to this read yet.
Article was found at openculture.com.
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2. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (Read 6/2014)
3. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
4. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
6. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
7. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Read 1/2014)
8. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust***
9. The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
10. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot
***Yikes that is a big compilation of stories, over 4000 pages. Modern Library has a VERY EXPENSIVE Kindle version: In Search of Lost Time, Complete and Unabridged.
[Notice: Original posting 2013-12-22 at Plethora of Books Blog: http://bookchallenges.weebly.com]
Tags: Fiction, Top List