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Alix Ohlin's Top Ten List
Congratulations to Alix Ohlin (O-lean), who has two books on Oprah’s Summer Reading List: the short story collection “Signs and Wonders” and the novel “Inside.”
Alix Ohlin’s Top Ten List
1. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (1961).
2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925).
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847).
4. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges (1944).
5. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (1994).
6. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920).
7. Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers (1935).
8. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925).
9. The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien (1967).
10. Daybook: The Journey of an Artist by Anne Truitt (1982).
New List
Claire Messud
1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813).
2. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust (1913–27).
3. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (1881).
4. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1857).
5. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1877).
6. The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1872).
7. Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo (1923).
8. A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul (1961).
9. The Loser by Thomas Bernhard (1983).
10. Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey (1988).
Classic List
Arthur Phillips
1. The stories of Franz Kafka (1883–1924).
2. Life: A User’s Manual by Georges Perec (1978). See below).
3. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (1924).
4. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (1962).
5. Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1600).
6. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust (1913–27).
7. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1869).
8. The stories of Anton Chekhov (1860–1904).
9. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (1844).
10. The Odyssey by Homer (ninth century b.c.e.?).