author · 8/10 picks in the top 100
"I know these are kind of conservative / old choices but, for me, they have stood the test of time. I am going by a combination of pleasurable / historically influential (in the novel tradition) – plus whichever books I thought of first, because otherwise choosing 10 is crazy! "
| # | Title | Author | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | #6 |
| 2 | Middlemarch | George Eliot | #1 |
| 3 | The Portrait of a Lady | Henry James | #21 |
| 4 | Pale Fire | Vladimir Nabokov | #29 |
| 5 | Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes | #26 |
| 6 | The Makioka Sisters | Jun'ichirō Tanizaki | |
| 7 | Eugene Onegin | Alexander Pushkin | |
| 8 | The Trial | Franz Kafka | #27 |
| 9 | In Search of Lost Time | Marcel Proust | #5 |
| 10 | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë | #8 |
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