author · 5/10 picks in the top 100
"I have left out some obvious titles by American and British and Russian writers. I have little doubt that your other contributors will focus on them, perhaps exclusively. Ten is a tight list. If I had 20, I would have included the obvious and the inevitable."
| # | Title | Author | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rig Veda | Anonymous | |
| 2 | The Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri | |
| 3 | Ulysses | James Joyce | #3 |
| 4 | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | #17 |
| 5 | 2666 | Roberto Bolaño | |
| 6 | Pale Fire | Vladimir Nabokov | #29 |
| 7 | Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie | #23 |
| 8 | White Teeth | Zadie Smith | #63 |
| 9 | All About H. Hatterr | G. V. Desani | |
| 10 | Silent Spring | Rachel Carson |
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