The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books





Here are the last 20 top ten lists posted:

From John Mato submitted 02/25/2010

  1. Baltasar and Blimunda by Jose Saramago
  2. Gospel according to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago
  3. Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  4. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
  5. Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
  6. Idiot by Fiodor Dostojewski
  7. 100 years of Solitude by Gabriel G. Marquez
  8. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
  9. 93 by Victor Hugo
  10. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R.Tolkien

From Kate Berry submitted 02/23/2010

  1. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  2. The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
  3. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
  4. The Giver by Lois Lowry
  5. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
  6. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
  7. Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
  8. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
  9. Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
  10. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

From Jacob submitted 02/20/2010

  1. Crime and Punishment by F. Dostoyevsky
  2. The Diary of a Young Girl by A. Frank
  3. The Power and The Glory by G. Greene
  4. King Lear by W. Shakespeare
  5. Don Quixote by Cervantes
  6. The Ragamuffin Gospel by B. Manning
  7. The Lord of The Rings by J. Tolkien
  8. The Great Divorce by C. Lewis
  9. A Tale of Two Cities by C. Dickens
  10. And Then There Were None by A. Christie

From André submitted 02/11/2010

  1. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
  2. Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
  3. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  4. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
  5. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
  6. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
  7. Sanshiro by Natsume Soseki
  8. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
  9. 1984 by George Orwell
  10. King Lear by William Shakespeare

From Aloysius submitted 02/11/2010

  1. The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
  2. Concluding by Henry Green
  3. Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
  4. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
  5. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  6. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
  7. "The Jolly Corner" by Henry James
  8. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
  9. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke
  10. Death Comes to the Archbishop by Willa Cather

From Sarah submitted 02/06/2010

  1. The Bacchae by Euripides
  2. Lolita by Nabokov
  3. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
  4. Hamlet by Shakespeare
  5. Ulysses by James Joyce
  6. Dubliners by James Joyce
  7. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  8. The Iliad by Homer
  9. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
  10. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

From death_angel submitted 02/05/2010

  1. The Twilight Saga by Stephenie meyer
  2. If you could see me now by Cecelia Ahern
  3. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
  4. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
  5. N.P by Banana Yoshimoto
  6. Save me by Guillaume Musso
  7. If only it was true by Marc Levy
  8. The girl who played go by Shan sa
  9. P.S I love you by Cecelia Ahern
  10. Twenty Something: The Quarter-life Crisis of Jack Lancaster by Iain Hollingshead

From Rajeev submitted 02/05/2010

  1. Mahabharatha by vyasa
  2. Ramayana by valmiki
  3. don quixote by cervantes
  4. war and peace by tolstoy
  5. in search of lost time by marsel proust
  6. divine comedy by dante
  7. masnavi by rumi
  8. stories by checkov
  9. prophet by kahlil gibran
  10. gitanjali by tagore

From Davidcla submitted 01/29/2010

  1. Middlemarch by George Eliot
  2. King Lear by William Shakespeare
  3. Sonnets (1609) by William Shakespeare
  4. To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
  5. Ulysses by James Joyce
  6. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
  7. The World As I Found It by Bruce Duffy
  8. Persuasion by Jane Austen
  9. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
  10. The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary

From Alistair McHarg submitted 01/28/2010

  1. Invisible Driving by Alistair McHarg
  2. Moonlit Tours by Alistair McHarg
  3. Washed Up by Alistair McHarg
  4. Colleted Poems by Alistair McHarg
  5. Simonetta Suite by Alistair McHarg
  6. El Lagarto Cartoons by Alistair McHarg
  7. Selected Cartoons by Alistair McHarg
  8. The Year in Reviews by Alistair McHarg
  9. Shadow Puppet Dancing by Alistair McHarg
  10. Hurry Sandown by Alistair McHarg

From Sophia White submitted 01/22/2010

  1. Jane Eyre. by Charlotte Bronte.
  2. I capture the Castle. by Dodie Smith.
  3. Little Women. by Louisa May Alcott.
  4. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.
  5. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
  6. Katherine. by Anya Seaton.
  7. Frenchman's Creek. by Daphne Du Maurier.
  8. His Dark Materials. by Phillip Pullman
  9. Tess of the D'Ubervilles. by Thomas Hardy.
  10. Anna Karenina. by Leo Tolstoy.

From Nora Donovan submitted 01/20/2010

  1. The House of Mirth by
  2. Middlemarch by
  3. A Light in August by
  4. If Beale Street Could Talk by
  5. A Death in the Family by
  6. A Farewell to Arms by
  7. Death Comes to the Archbishop by
  8. I Heard the Owl Call My Name by
  9. The Poisonwood Bible by
  10. Stones for Ibarra by

From Mark Leland submitted 01/14/2010

  1. Candide by Voltaire
  2. The Sound And The Fury by William Faulkner
  3. Sophie's Choice by William Styron
  4. The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  5. The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
  6. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  7. Animal Farm by George Orwell
  8. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  9. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  10. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

From Wes Lee submitted 01/13/2010

  1. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  2. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  3. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  4. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  5. 1984 by George Orwell
  6. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
  7. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  8. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  9. Fight Club by Palahniuk
  10. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

From Ian Munnerlyn submitted 01/09/2010

  1. Persuasion by Jane Austen
  2. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  3. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  4. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
  5. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  6. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  7. Underworld by Don DeLillo
  8. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  9. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
  10. Little, Big by John Crowley

From Jollie submitted 01/01/2010

  1. Socrates in love by Kyoichi Katayama
  2. Norwegian Wood by Murakami Haruki
  3. Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
  4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  5. The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
  6. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
  7. The Da Vinci code by Dan Brown
  8. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
  9. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  10. Legend of Porasitus by The Wanderer

From Tenken submitted 30/12/2009

  1. Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling
  2. The Giver by Lois Lowry
  3. Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
  4. Little Prince by Saint-Exupéry
  5. Socrates in love by Kyōichi Katayama
  6. Q&A by Vikas Swarup
  7. Legend of Porasitus by The Wanderer
  8. Story of A Seagull and The Cat Who Taught Her To Fly by Luis Sepolveda
  9. Alice in the Wonderland world by Lewis Carroll
  10. The Da Vinci code by Dan Brown

From midori submitted 12/30/2009

  1. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
  2. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  3. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  4. Jane Eyre by Charllot Bronte
  5. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
  6. The Valorous Years by A.J. Cronin
  7. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
  8. Der Schwarze Obelisk by Erich Maria Remarque
  9. Sans Famille (Nobody's Boy) by Hector Malot
  10. A History of Japan by R.H.P MASON - J.G.CAIGER

From midori submitted 12/30/2009

  1. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
  2. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  3. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  4. Jane Eyre by Charllot Bronte
  5. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
  6. The Valorous Years by A.J. Cronin
  7. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
  8. Der Schwarze Obelisk by Erich Maria Remarque
  9. Sans Famille (Nobody's Boy) by Hector Malot
  10. A History of Japan by R.H.P MASON - J.G.CAIGER

From Hanki Nguyen submitted 12/29/2009

  1. Q&A by Vikas Swarup
  2. Sky brial by Han Xian
  3. The giver by Lois Lowry
  4. Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
  5. The Professor's Beloved Equation by Yoko Ogawa
  6. Tobie Lolness by Timothee De Fombelle
  7. le Soleil des Scorta by Laurent Gaudé
  8. Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe
  9. Neige by Maxence Fermine
  10. La Joueuse de Go (The Girl Who Played Go) by Shan Sa

From Jamie Brick submitted 12/19/2009

  1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  2. Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
  3. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
  4. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  5. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
  6. Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  7. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
  9. Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
  10. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig

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