author · 10/10 picks in the top 100
"I thought this would be fun and it ended up being the hardest job imaginable. What does the best 10 books even mean? Are they the books that have changed you? That have changed fiction? That you return to the most? What about all the ones you have to leave out? In the end I picked 10 that, if I was cast away with them on a desert island, I would never tire of going back to, that would always give me more. "
| # | Title | Author | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | #10 |
| 2 | Middlemarch | George Eliot | #1 |
| 3 | The Great Gatsby | F Scott Fitzgerald | #11 |
| 4 | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | #6 |
| 5 | Emma | Jane Austen | #13 |
| 6 | Mrs Dalloway | Virginia Woolf | #14 |
| 7 | The Go-Between | LP Hartley | #99 |
| 8 | A Fine Balance | Rohinton Mistry | #49 |
| 9 | The Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro | #24 |
| 10 | Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel | #34 |
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