The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books





Here are the last 20 top ten lists posted:

From Marc Anderson submitted 4/11/2007

  1. crime and punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  2. the count of monte cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  3. war and peace by Leo Toltstoy
  4. anna karenia by Leo Tolstoy
  5. the brothers karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  6. a clockwork orange by Anthoney Burgess
  7. in cold blood by Truman Capote
  8. the great gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  9. lolita by Vladimir Nobakov
  10. madame bovary by Gustave Flaubert

From Ben Tuthill submitted 04/20/2007

  1. Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger
  2. The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor
  3. 1984 by George Orwell
  4. Catcher In The Rye by J. D. Salinger
  5. Lord Of The Flies by William Golding
  6. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
  7. Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
  8. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
  9. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
  10. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

From don levy submitted 04/20/2007

  1. Pere Goriot by Honre De Balzac
  2. Pride and Predjudice by Jane Austen
  3. House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
  4. Bridehead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
  5. My Antonia by Willa Cather
  6. Wutrhering Heights by Emily Bronte
  7. Siddhartha by Hermann hesse
  8. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut JR.
  9. Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis
  10. The Bean Trees by Barbara Klingslover

From Greg Allen Marks submitted 04/19/2007

  1. The Old Forest by Peter Taylor
  2. Babylon in a Jar by Andrew Hudgins
  3. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
  4. Hinge and Sign by Heather McHugh
  5. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
  6. A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
  7. The Old Forest by Peter Taylor
  8. Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson
  9. To the Green Man by Mark Jarman
  10. Spring Snow by Mishima

From Beverly Marks-Dunne submitted 04/19/2007

  1. The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick
  2. Babylon in a Jar by Andrew Hudgins
  3. Snow White by Donald Barthelme
  4. Hinge and Sign by Heather McHugh
  5. In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason
  6. Ariel by Sylvia Plath
  7. The Old Forest by Peter Taylor
  8. Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson
  9. Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden
  10. Hip Logic by Terrance Hayes

From Tim Marks submitted 04/19/2007

  1. Friend of My Youth by Alice Munro
  2. Walking to Martha's Vineyard by Franz Wright
  3. Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme
  4. All Things, All at Once by Lee K. Abbott
  5. Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver
  6. Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
  7. The Old Forest by Peter Taylor
  8. The Outlaw Sea by William Langeweische
  9. Killing Pablo by Mark Bowden
  10. Babylon in a Jar by Andrew Hudgins

From Corrie Marks submitted 04/19/2007

  1. Ravelstein by Saul Bellow
  2. Walking to Martha's Vineyard by Franz Wright
  3. The Kitchen Sink by Albert Goldbarth
  4. Opened Ground by Seamus Heaney
  5. Cathedral by Raymond Carver
  6. Friend of My Youth by Alice Munro
  7. The Old Forest by Peter Taylor
  8. The Collected Poems by Thomas Merton
  9. Migration by W.S. Merwin
  10. Babylon in a Jar by Andrew Hudgins

From Michael Emmons submitted 04/18/2007

  1. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
  2. Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
  3. Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson
  4. Breaking and Entering by Joy Williams
  5. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
  6. Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
  7. The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
  8. In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
  9. The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus
  10. Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

From Theron R. Arnold submitted 04/16/2007

  1. Huck Finn by Mark Twain
  2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  3. Leaves of Grass (1st ed.) by Walt Whitman
  4. 1984 by George Orwell
  5. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  6. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  7. War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  8. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
  9. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
  10. Chuse Your Inheritance by T. Ray A.

From Claire Romines submitted 04/15/2007

  1. All Things, All at Once by Lee K. Abbott
  2. War Trash by Ha Jin
  3. The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat
  4. Chasing the Sea by Tom Bissell
  5. Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
  6. The Overcoat by Gogol
  7. Dead Souls by Gogol
  8. The Cherry Orchard by Chekhov
  9. Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns by Andrew Wood
  10. The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor

From anna karenia submitted 04/13/2007

  1. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  2. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  3. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  4. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  5. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  6. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  7. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  8. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  9. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  10. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

From H. Lichtenstein submitted 04/13/2007

  1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  2. Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
  3. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  4. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  5. Middlemarch by George Eliot
  6. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
  7. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  8. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
  9. The Red and the Black by Stendhal
  10. The D'Artagnan Saga (The Three Musketeers; Twenty Years After; The Man in the Iron Mask) by Alexandre Dumas

From Mojgan submitted 04/12/2007

  1. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  2. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  3. The Piece of String by GUY DE MAUPASSANT
  4. The Bet by Anton Chekhov
  5. The Blind Owl by Sadeq Hedayat
  6. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  7. Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
  8. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
  9. Fates worse than Death by Kurt Vonnegut
  10. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

From Larry Ziegler submitted 04/12/2007

  1. The Old Forest by Peter Taylor
  2. Ward No. 6 by Anton Chekhov
  3. Cancer Ward by Aleksander Solzhenitzyn
  4. I Am One of You Forever by Fred Chappell
  5. So Long, And Thanks for All The Fish by Douglas Adams
  6. The Practical Heart by Allen Gurganus
  7. Star by Pamela Anderson
  8. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
  9. Rape: A Love Story by Joyce Carol Oates
  10. The Exhibitionist by Henry Sutton

From Stephen Dilley submitted 04/11/2007

  1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  2. Emma by Jane Austen
  3. The Citadel by AJ Cronin
  4. King Lear by William Shakespeare
  5. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
  6. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
  7. The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
  8. The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
  9. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
  10. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

From Jan submitted 04/11/2007

  1. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
  2. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  3. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
  4. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  5. Watership Down by Richard Adams
  6. The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien
  7. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  8. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  9. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
  10. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

From C. G. Mackay submitted 04/11/2007

  1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  2. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  3. Hard Times by Charles Dickens
  4. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Doestoesky
  5. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  6. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
  7. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  8. Dracula by Bram Stoker
  9. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  10. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas

From James Horsfall submitted 04/10/2007

  1. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
  2. The Iliad by Homer
  3. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsy
  4. Medea by Euripides
  5. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  6. The Stranger by Albert Camus
  7. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  8. Waiting for the Barbarians by J M Coetzee
  9. Stories by Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka
  10. A Bend in the River by V S Naipaul

From Kady Crenshaw submitted 04/10/2007

  1. Town Smokes by Pinckney Benedict
  2. Silent Retreats by Philip F. Deaver
  3. My Antonia by Willa Cather
  4. Spartina by John Casey
  5. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
  6. Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
  7. Separate Flights by Andre Dubus
  8. In the Land of Dreamy Dreams by Ellen Gilchrist
  9. Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones
  10. Time Out of Mind by Bob Dylan

From Mark Crenshaw submitted 04/10/2007

  1. Town Smokes by Pinckney Benedict
  2. Sleep by Stephen Dixon
  3. My Antonia by Willa Cather
  4. All Things, All at Once by Lee K. Abbott
  5. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
  6. Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks
  7. Finding a Girl in America by Andre Dubus
  8. A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion
  9. All Aunt Hagar's Children by Edward P. Jones
  10. For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge by Van Halen

From mark anderson submitted 04/09/2007

  1. huck finn by Twain
  2. a tale of two cities by Dickens
  3. of mice and men by Steinbeck
  4. beowulf by Anonymous 8th cent.
  5. lord of the rings by Tolkien
  6. moby dick by Melville
  7. the scarlet letter by Hawthorne
  8. morte darthur by Mallory
  9. pearl by Anonymous 14th cent.
  10. paradise lost by milton

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