author · 6/10 picks in the top 100
"Is this exercise even possible? I think I might only be sure of War and Peace and In Search of Lost Time. In a different mood, at a different time, I might have chosen 8 other completely different novels. "
| # | Title | Author | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | #7 |
| 2 | In Search of Lost Time | Marcel Proust | #5 |
| 3 | The Man Without Qualities | Robert Musil | #67 |
| 4 | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | Laurence Sterne | #19 |
| 5 | Orlando | Virginia Woolf | #54 |
| 6 | I Served the King of England | Bohumil Hrabal | |
| 7 | The Trial | Franz Kafka | #27 |
| 8 | The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas | Gertrude Stein | |
| 9 | Life, a User's Manual | Georges Perec | |
| 10 | Chéri | Colette |
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