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Top Ten Review - Conversational Reading
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Another bookmark-worthy website, Conversational Reading, considers "The Top Ten." The posting references a few author lists, including:
Paul Auster
1. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
2. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
3. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
4. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
5. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
6. Ulysses by James Joyce
7. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
8. The Castle by Franz Kafka
9. Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy: Molly, Malone Dies and The Unnamable
10. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
Jonathan Franzen
1. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
3. The Trial by Franz Kafka
4. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
5. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
7. The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
8. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
9. The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
10. Independent People by Halldor Laxness
Lydia Millet
1. J.R. by William Gaddis
2. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
3. Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Narnia Chronicles) by C.S. Lewis
4. The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
5. The Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard
6. War With the Newts by Karl Capek
7. Auto-da-Fé by Elias Canetti
8. Red the Fiend by Gilbert Sorrentino
9. Masquerade and Other Stories by Robert Walser
10. Molloy by Samuel Beckett
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Top Ten Q&A
Lisa Guidarini runs one of the most ambitious literary blogs - definitely worth a bookmark. Click on her name to read an interview with me about "The Top Ten." While you're there, check out her posting about some guy named Roth.
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Reading Tonight with Allan Gurganus
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
Posted by J. Peder Zane at 8:02 AM
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