The 10 Greatest Books of All Time: Have You Read Them?

Time Magazine today has an article which listed The 10 Greatest Books of All Time from J. Peder Zane's The Top 10.

There are several lifetimes' worth of promising literary leads here — 544 books in all. An 85-page appendix providing enlightened summaries of all the works mentioned is worth the price of admission all on its own. But to get you started, here, in all its glory, is the all-time, ultimate Top Top 10 list, derived from the top 10 lists of 125 of the world's most celebrated writers combined. Read it and — well, just read it.

1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
2. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
3. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
4. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
6. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
7. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
9. The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
10. Middlemarch by George Eliot

*Photo from Wikipedia showing the cover of the classic UK Penguin edition of Anna Karenina.

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