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Top Ten Land welcomes William Boyd while the Scottish writer is firing on all cylinders. His 16th novel, Trio, is receiving glowing reviews for its tale of three people leading secret lives – a movie producer, a novelist and an actress – who are making a disaster-plagued British film in 1968, a year when Britain was still swingin' as the world was coming apart.

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William Boyd

Top Ten Land welcomes William Boyd while the Scottish writer is firing on all cylinders. His 16th novel, Trio, is receiving glowing reviews for its tale of three people leading secret lives – a movie producer, a novelist and an actress – who are making a disaster-plagued British film in 1968, a year when Britain was still swingin' as the world was coming apart.

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Mary Gaitskill

1. Ulysses by James Joyce (1922).
2. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955).
3. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (1962).
4. Bleak House by Charles Dickens (1853).
5. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1857).
6. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (1927).
7. Gusev by Anton Chekhov (1860–1904).
8. Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie (1904).
9. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol (1842).
10. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (1831).

 

 

 

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Lev Grossman

1. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1857).
2. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925).
3. Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (1993).
4. Ulysses by James Joyce (1922).
5. The Trial by Franz Kafka (1925).
6. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis (1950-56).
7. The Once and Future King by T.H. White (1958).
8. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (1945).
9. Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer (1381).
10. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol (1842).