The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books7 points

43 Werken 399,713 boeken 7,007 Besprekingen 4.1
125 writers submitted top-ten lists of their favorite works. Editor J. Peder Zane then utilized a point system and compiled a best-of list based on all the lists.
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Alle, 10 points (30), 100 points (1), 105 points (1), 107 points (1), 11 points (7), 110 points (1), 111 points (1), 12 points (6), 126 points (1), 13 points (10), 131 points (1), 14 points (3), 15 points (8), 150 points (1), 16 points (9), 160 points (1), 17 points (6), 171 points (1), 18 points (5), 19 points (2), 20 points (4), 21 points (6), 22 points (3), 23 points (2), 24 points (3), 26 points (2), 27 points (3), 28 points (2), 3 points (1), 30 points (2), 31 points (2), 32 points (2), 35 points (1), 36 points (1), 38 points (1), 39 points (1), 40 points (3), 41 points (1), 42 points (2), 43 points (1), 44 points (1), 45 points (1), 47 points (1), 49 points (1), 50 points (1), 52 points (2), 54 points (1), 55 points (1), 56 points (1), 6 points (11), 61 points (1), 62 points (1), 63 points (1), 66 points (1), 67 points (1), 7 points (43), 72 points (2), 79 points (1), 8 points (36), 81 points (1), 85 points (1), 87 points (1), 88 points (1), 9 points (33)
Werk
Onder moeders vleugels (1868) door Louisa May Alcott
Verstand en gevoel (1811) door Jane Austen
Nachtwoud (1936) door Djuna Barnes
Herzog (1964) door Saul Bellow
My Ántonia (1918) door Willa Cather
Het grote slapen (1939) door Raymond Chandler
The Beans of Egypt, Maine (1985) door Carolyn Chute
Letourneau's Used Auto Parts (1988) door Carolyn Chute
Merry Men (1994) door Carolyn Chute
De uren (1998) door Michael Cunningham
U.S.A. (1938) door John Dos Passos
De lichtende weg (1987) door Margaret Drabble
The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant (1996) door Mavis Gallant
The Comedians (1966) door Graham Greene
De avond van de feestdag (1966) door Shirley Hazzard
Hedda Gabler (1890) door Henrik Ibsen
The thin red line (1962) door James Jones
En eentje zag ze vliegen (1962) door Ken Kesey
Edelman, bedelman, schutter, spion (1974) door John le Carré
Onder de vulkaan (1947) door Malcolm Lowry
Le Morte d'Arthur (1485) door Thomas Malory
Het hart is een eenzame jager (1940) door Carson McCullers
Death of a Salesman (1948) door Arthur Miller
Het verhaal van Genji (2015) door Shikibu Murasaki
Geheugen, spreek een autobiografie herzien (1947) door Vladimir Nabokov
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (1899) door Frank Norris
Wat ze droegen (1990) door Tim O'Brien
Metamorfoses (8) door Ovid
De Messias van Stockholm (1987) door Cynthia Ozick
Gargantua en Pantagruel (1532) door François Rabelais
De vlakte in vlammen (1953) door Juan Rulfo
De ringen van Saturnus een Engelse pelgrimage (1995) door W. G. Sebald
De Lorax (1971) door Dr. Seuss
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943) door Betty Smith
De ontvoering van David Balfour (1886) door Robert Louis Stevenson
In de ban van de ring (1954) door J. R. R. Tolkien
Een samenzwering van idioten (1980) door John Kennedy Toole
Phineas Finn (1869) door Anthony Trollope
Drie zusters (1901) door Anton Tschechow
De kleur paars (1982) door Alice Walker
Charlottes web (1952) door E. B. White
The Dreamer Wakes (1986) door Cao Xuequin
Een geval van ordeverstoring (1975) door Richard Yates

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