The blog of The Top Ten author J. Peder Zane.
Top Ten on the Air
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Tom Perrotta and Gail Godwin were gracious enough to join me this morning on Minnesota Public Radio. Host Kerri Miller did a great job — and hats off to producer Chris Dall who prepared the broadcast. Have a listen.
Here are their lists:
GAIL GODWIN
1. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
2. Emma by Jane Austen
3. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
4. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
5. Middlemarch by George Eliot
6. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
7. The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
8. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
9. Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen
10. Atonement by Ian McEwan
Gail Godwin’s novels include "The Odd Woman," "A Mother and Two Daughters," "The Good Husband," and "Queen of the Underworld."
TOM PERROTTA
1. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
2. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
3. Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
4. Howards End by E. M. Forster
5. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
6. My Ántonia by Willa Cather
7. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
8. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
9. Rabbit Angstrom by John Updike
10. Where I’m Calling From by Raymond Carver
Tom Perrotta is the author of five works of fiction, including the novels "Election," "Joe College," and "Little Children."
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Absalom has an enormous false start in it I think. Right smack in the middle Faulkner gets the idea that the demon is actually a racist! Their next book club pick could have paired with Oprah's!
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I just received Little Children in the mail from BookMooch.com, so it's fun to see Perrotta's list on the blog today. If Perrotta AND Auster both love Don Quixote, I think I'm gonna have to suck it up and give it a try one day.