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Lorrie Moore's List
Monday, March 5, 2007

It's fun to be the book editor! The morning mail brought fresh copies of Lorrie Moore's first novel, "Anagrams," and one of her superb story collections, "Self-Help." Vintage Books has slapped new covers of these gems, which will be available March 13. As we read Lorrie, let's take a peek at "The Top Ten" books she'd bring to a desert island.

Lorrie Moore
1. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
2. Dubliners by James Joyce
3. The Iliad by Homer
4. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
5. Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer
6. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
7. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
8. Washington Square by Henry James
9. Middlemarch by George Eliot
10. Open Secrets by Alice Munro

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