The blog of The Top Ten author J. Peder Zane.
Reading Tonight with Allan Gurganus
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
I'll be reading with Allan Gurganus tonight at 7 p.m. the Regulator Bookshop in Durham. An earlier reading with Clyde Edgerton and G.D. Gearino inspired some great conversation with the audience about the difference between a "great" book and a "favorite."
Here's Allan's Top Ten:
Allan Gurganus
1. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
2. The Stories of Anton Chekhov
3. Middlemarch by George Eliot
4. Speak Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
5. A Death in the Family by James Agee
6. Absalom Absalom! by William Faulkner
7. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
8. Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
9. Emma by Jane Austen
10. The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
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I love Allan Gurganus (in an abstract sense, of course)! OH, you fortunate man. His 'Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All' is one of the best novels I've read.