author/academic · 9/10 picks in the top 100
"Obviously I have run out of space! But the first nine on the list are the ones I have taught and reread all the time. And the last one is a representative of the young(er) generation. "
| # | Title | Author | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middlemarch | George Eliot | #1 |
| 2 | Persuasion | Jane Austen | #18 |
| 3 | Moby-Dick | Herman Melville | #15 |
| 4 | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | #7 |
| 5 | To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf | #4 |
| 6 | A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway | #83 |
| 7 | The Story of Lucy Gault | William Trevor | |
| 8 | The Transit of Venus | Shirley Hazzard | #53 |
| 9 | Housekeeping | Marilynne Robinson | #43 |
| 10 | White Teeth | Zadie Smith | #63 |
Voters with the most books in common.