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The Greatest Books of All Time, as Voted by 125 Famous Authors
"Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work," Jennifer Egan once said. This intersection of reading and writing is both a necessary bi-directional life skill for us mere mortals and a secret of iconic writers' success, as bespoken by their personal libraries. "The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books" asks 125 of modernity's greatest British and American writers—including Norman Mailer, Ann Patchett, Jonathan Franzen, Claire Messud, and Joyce Carol Oates—"to provide a list, ranked, in order, of what [they] consider the ten greatest works of fiction of all time- novels, story collections, plays, or poems."
Of the 544 separate titles selected, each is assigned a reverse-order point value based on the number position at which it appears on any list—so, a book that tops a list at number one receives 10 points, and a book that graces the bottom, at number ten, receives 1 point.
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Top Ten Authors by Points Earned
1. Leo Tolstoy – 327
2. William Shakespeare – 293
3. James Joyce – 194
4. Vladimir Nabokov – 190
5. Fyodor Dostoevsky – 177
6. William Faulkner – 173
7. Charles Dickens – 168
8. Anton Checkhov – 165
9. Gustave Flaubert – 163
10. Jane Austen – 161
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