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All-Time Top Ten Lists

These lists are compiled from all the author lists – as we add new lists, they are subject to change. We awarded points for each selection – 10 points for a first place pick, nine points for a second place pick, and so on. We totaled all the points and ranked them accordingly. These are the books with the highest total in each category.

 

New List

Lionel Shriver

1. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (1940).
2. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (1936).
3. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1877).
4. The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene (1948).
5. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (1961).
6. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920).
7. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1966).
8. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1868).
9. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (1895).
10. Paris Trout by Pete Dexter (1988).

Classic List

Karen Joy Fowler

1. Middlemarch by George Eliot (1871–72).
2. The Tempest by William Shakespeare (1610).
3. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (1605, 1615).
4. The Tale of Genji by Shikibu Murasaki (c. 1001–1010 c.e.).
5. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare (1595).
6. Emma by Jane Austen (1816).
7. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847).
8. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925).
9. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967).
10. Dubliners by James Joyce (1916).