From exclusive lists published in the book "The Top Ten".
The Top Ten List of Top Ten Works by Living Writers
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Blood Meridian, or an Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
- The Stand by Stephen King
- The Stories of Alice Munro by Alice Munro
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
- The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
- Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson
- The Transit of Venus; Love in the Time of Cholera; Song of Solomon (tie) by Shirley Hazzard; Gabriel García Márquez; Toni Morrison