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Book Recommendations by Author

Lee K Abbott
1. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899)
2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)
3. Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger (1953)
4. So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell (1979)
5. The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty (1954)
6. Rabbit Angstrom — Rabbit, Run (1960)
7. The stories of Andre Dubus (1936–99)
8. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (1929)
9. The stories of John Cheever (1912–82)
10. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967)
Diana Abu Jaber
1. The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (c. 1450)
2. The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing by Rumi (1707-1273).
4. The stories of Anton Chekhov (1860–1904)
5. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
6. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (1927)
7. Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1600)
8. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
9. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (1951)
10. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926)
Sherman Alexie
1. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)
2. Howl by Allen Ginsberg (1956)
3. The poems of Emily Dickinson (1830–86)
4. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (1990)
5. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (1605, 1615)
6. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko (1977)
7. She Had Some Horses by Joy Harjo (1983)
8. The Branch Will Not Break by James Wright (1963)
9. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)
10. Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)
Kate Atkinson
1. Persuasion by Jane Austen (1817)
2. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865)
3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
4. Middlemarch by George Eliot (1871–72)
5. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (1881)
6. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
7. Pricksongs & Descants by Robert Coover (1969)
8. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (1961)
9. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)
10. The Railway Children by E. Nesbit (1906)
Paul Auster
1. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (1605, 1615)
2. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1869)
3. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
4. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)
5. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust (1913–27)
6. Ulysses by James Joyce (1922)
7. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
8. The Castle by Franz Kafka (1926)
9. Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable, a trilogy by Samuel Beckett (1951–54)
10. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne (1759–67)
Melissa Bank
1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1877)
2. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
3. The stories of Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
4. East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1952)
5. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
6. The stories of Raymond Carver (1938–88)
7. Middlemarch by George Eliot (1871–72)
8. Washington Square by Henry James (1880)
9. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
10. Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger (1953)
Russell Banks
1. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (1605, 1615)
2. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
3. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)
4. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (1929)
5. The Odyssey by Homer (ninth century b.c.e.?)
6. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (1380s?)
7. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1869)
8. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1857)
9. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880)
10. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967)
John Banville
1. Ill Seen, Ill Said by Samuel Beckett (1981)
2. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1864)
3. Ulysses by James Joyce (1922)
4. Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann (1947)
5. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
6. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
7. Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald (2001)
8. Dirty Snow by Georges Simenon (1950)
9. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726, 1735)
10. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (1847–48)
Andrea Barrett
1. Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667)
2. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1869)
3. Middlemarch by George Eliot (1871–72)
4. Metamorphoses by Ovid (8 c.e.)
5. Bleak House by Charles Dickens (1853)
6. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)
7. The Aeneid by Virgil (19 b.c.e.)
8. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
9. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847)
10. The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth (1932)
Madison Smartt Bell
1. The Book of Leviathan by Peter Blegvad (2001)
2. 1982, Janine by Alasdair Gray (1984)
3. Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy (1985)
4. The Beans of Egypt, Maine (1985)
5. The Horse’s Mouth by Joyce Cary (1944)
6. Death of the Fox (1971)
7. Continental Drift by Russell Banks (1985)
8. Street of Lost Footsteps by Lyonel Trouillot (1998)
9. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)
10. The Conference of the Birds by Farid ud-Din Attar. ​
Tom Bissell
1. Middlemarch by George Eliot (1871-72)
2. Ulysses by James Joyce (1922)
3. Stonerby John Williams (1965)
4. Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy (1985)
5. London Fields by Martin Amis (1990)
6. Of a Fire on the Moon by Norman Mailer (1971)
7. The Widow's Children by Paula Fox (1976)
8. Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuscinski (1982)
9. Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone (1973)
10. Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade by Robert Sabbag (1998)
Chris Bohjalian
1. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1321)
2. Ulysses by James Joyce (1922)
3. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1860–61)
4. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1877)
5. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
6. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)
7. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847)
8. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)
9. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)
10. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (1862)
Christopher Bollen
​1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
2. Howards End by E. M. Forster (1921)
3. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie (1988)
4. The Waves by Virginia Woolf (1931)
5. The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer (1979)
6. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (1351–53)
7. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1966)
8. The Quiet American by Graham Greene (1956)
9. The Bacchae by Euripides (408–406 b.c.e.)
10. The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith (1955)
THOMAS CORAGHESSAN BOYLE
​1. Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich (1984)
2. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
3. Fiskadoro by Denis Johnson (1985)
4. The Messiah of Stockholm by Cynthia Ozick (1987)
5. Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid (1990)
6. White Noise by Don DeLillo (1985)
7. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez (1983)
8. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges (1944)
9. V. by Thomas Pynchon (1963)
10. The stories of John Cheever (1912–82)
Adam Braver
1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (1984)
2. The stories of Raymond Carver (1938–88)
3. The White Album by Joan Didion (1979)
4. The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson (1952)
5. Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr. (1964)
6. Ask the Dust by John Fante (1939)
7. The stories of Anton Chekhov (1860–1904)
8. Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson (1992)
9. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (1951)
10. The stories of Carson McCullers (1917-67)
Judy Budnitz
1. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
2. Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson (1992)
3. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren (1946)
4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)
5. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1877)
6. The stories of Isaac Babel (1894–1940)
7. The House of Breath by William Goyen (1950)
8. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (1961)
9. Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme (1981)
10. The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz (1934)
James Lee Burke
1. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (1929)
2. Dubliners by James Joyce (1916)
3. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (1940)
4. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren (1946)
5. The stories of Flannery O’Connor (1925–64)
6. The stories of Andre Dubus (1936–99)
7. Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain (1941)
8. The Big Sky by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. (1947)
9. The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham (1919)
10. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
Peter Cameron
1. The Outward Room by Millen Brand (1937)
2. The Professor’s House by Willa Cather (1925)
3. Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov (1895)
4. The Evening of the Holiday by Shirley Hazzard (1966)
5. The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay (1956)
6. The Chateau by William Maxwell (1961)
7. Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym (1977)
8. Light Years by James Salter (1975)
9. What’s for Dinner? by James Schuyler (1978)
10. A Voice Through a Cloud by Denton Welch (1950)
Bebe Moore Campbell
1. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (1951)
2. Native Son by Richard Wright (1945)
3. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (1977)
4. Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)
5. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)
6. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1857)
7. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
8. The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982)
9. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925)
10. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1877)
Ethan Canin
1. The stories of John Cheever (1912–82)
2. Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1864)
3. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson (1919)
4. The stories of Alice Munro (1931– )
5. The Old Forest and Other Stories by Peter Taylor (1985)
6. Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow (1956)
7. American Pastoral by Philip Roth (1997)
8. At Play in the Fields of the Lord by Peter Matthiessen (1965)
9. Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth (1992)
10. Mrs. Bridge (1959)
Philip Caputo
1. The Oresteia by Aeschylus (458 b.c.e.)
2. Medea by Euripides (431 b.c.e.)
3. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1321)
4. Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1606)
5. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1857)
6. The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1872)
7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1877)
8. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (1883)
9. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899)
10. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (1936)
Peter Carey
1. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1857)
2. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne (1759–67)
3. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1860–61)
4. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (1605, 1615)
5. Middlemarch by George Eliot (1871–72)
6. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1877)
7. Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald (2001)
8. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (1985)
9. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (1881)
10. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847)
Michael Chabon
1. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges (1964)
2. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (1962)
3. Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini (1921)
4. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
5. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
6. Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe (1836–47)
7. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust (1913–27)
8. Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667)
9. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (1985)
10. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler (1953)
Fred Chappell
1. The Iliad by Homer (ninth century b.c.e.?)
2. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (1605, 1615)
3. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (1380s?)
4. Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais (four books published between 1532 and 1552)
5. The Odyssey by Homer (ninth century b.c.e.?)
6. The Aeneid by Virgil (19 b.c.e.)
7. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (1939)
8. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)
9. Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667)
10. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (1749)
Sandra Cisneros
1. The Time of the Doves by Mercè Rodoreda (1962)
2. The Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermout (1955)
3. Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr (1984)
4. The Burning Plain and Other Stories by Juan Rulfo (1953)
5. Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys (1939)
6. La Flor de Lis by Elena Poniatowska (1988)
7. Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa (1999)
8. The Book of Embraces by Eduardo Galeano (1989)
9. Dreamtigers by Jorge Luis Borges (1964)
10. Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks (1953)
Pearl Cleage
1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967)
2. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (1947)
3. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)
5. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (1959)
6. Gorilla, My Love by Toni Cade Bambara (1972)
7. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (1934)
8. Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen (1890)
9. China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston (1980)
10. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)
Michael Connelly
1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
2. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West (1939)
3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)
4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey (1962)
5. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1962)
6. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (1940)
7. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler (1953)
8. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
9. The Public Burning by Robert Coover (1976)
10. Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain (1941)
Robert Coover
Robert Coover

1. The Epic of Gilgamesh (18th century B.C.E.?)
2. Ovid’s Metamorphoses (8 c.e.)
3. The Celestina (1499)
4. Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quijote (1605, 1615)
5. The Collected Shakespeare
6. Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851)
7. James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922)
8. Jorge Luis Borges’ Ficciones (1944)
Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland

1. Answered Prayers by Truman Capote (1987)
2. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
3. The Ice Age by Margaret Drabble (1977)
4. The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble (1987)
5. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson (1919)
6. Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion (1970)
7. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk (1996)
8. Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh (1928)
9. Ask the Dust by John Fante (1939)
10. Breaking and Entering by Joy Williams (1988)
Jim Crace
Jim Crace

1. Things Fall Apart (for setting the record straight)
2. Invisible Cities (for his celebration of lying)
3. Waiting for the Barbarians (for its pessimism)
4. Robinson Crusoe (for its optimism)
5. Middlemarch (for its insight and wisdom)
6. Invisible Man (for its call to arms)
7. A Passage to India (for its symphonic perfection)
8. The Tin Drum (for its imaginative creativity)
9. Beloved (for its emotional clarity)
10. The stories of Flannery O’Connor (for their unerring narrative focus)

Source: Toptenbooks
Stanley Crawford
Stanley Crawford is an American writer and farmer. His novels include, among others, Travel Notes, The Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine, Some Instructions, and Petroleum Man. Wikipedia

1. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726, 1735)
2. The plays of Molière (1622–73)
3. Emma by Jane Austen (1816)
4. The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal (1839)
5. Middlemarch by George Eliot (1871–72)
6. The stories of Anton Chekhov (1860–1904)
7. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1869)
8. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (1881)
9. The Stranger by Albert Camus (1942)
10. Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (1999)
Michael Cunningham
1. King Lear by William Shakespeare (1605)
2. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1857)
3. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (1855–91)
4. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (1927)
5. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
6. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
7. Dubliners by James Joyce (1916)
8. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (1930)
9. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (1898)
10. The stories of Flannery O’Connor (for their unerring narrative focus)
Edwidge Danticat
1. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
2. The Stranger by Albert Camus (1942)
3. Germinal by Émile Zola (1884)
4. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)
5. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967)
6. Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)
7. Night by Elie Wiesel (1958)
8. The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982)
9. The Trial by Franz Kafka (1925)
10. Masters of the Dew by Jacques Roumain (1947)
Robb Forman Dew
1. The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead (1940)
2. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1869)
3. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1934)
4. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868)
5. Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1606)
6. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
7. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren (1946)
8. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925)
9. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865)
10. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1962)
Chitra Divakaruni
1. Bhagavadgita (fifth century b.c.e.)
2. Mahabharata (fifth century b.c.e.)
3. Galpo Guccho by Rabindranath Tagore (1912)
4. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1877)
5. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (1954–56)
6. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (1995–2000)
7. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967)
8. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (1986)
9. The Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda (1970)
10. The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle (1997)
Emma Donoghue
1. Clarissa by Samuel Richardson (1747–48)
2. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (1595)
3. Emma by Jane Austen (1816)
4. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1860–61)
5. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (1998)
6. Red Shift by Alan Garner (1973)
7. Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1782)
8. Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All by Allan Gurganus (1989)
9. The Passion by Jeanette Winterson (1987)
10. Ulverton by Adam Thorpe (1992)
Margaret Drabble
1. Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (1606)
2. Emma by Jane Austen (1816)
3. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1857)
4. The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov (1901)
5. The Aeneid by Virgil (19 b.c.e.)
6. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1321)
7. Germinal by Émile Zola (1884)
8. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (1962)
9. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (1927)
10. The Old Wives’ Tale by Arnold Bennett (1908)
Bret Easton Ellis
1. Sentimental Education: The Story of a Young Man by Gustave Flaubert (1869)
2. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1877)
3. Middlemarch by George Eliot (1871–72)
4. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
5. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
6. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1857)
7. Ulysses by James Joyce (1922)
8. Rabbit Angstrom— Rabbit, Run (1960)
9. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (1847–48)
10. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
Clyde Edgerton
1. Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1600)
2. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (1605, 1615)
3. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (1380s?)
4. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)
5. Light in August by William Faulkner (1932)
6. The stories of Flannery O’Connor (1925–64)
7. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (1930)
8. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (1949)
9. The stories of Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
10, Candide by Voltaire (1759)
Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan

1. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (1962)
2. The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard (1980)
3. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (1905)
4. Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys (1939)
5. Middlemarch by George Eliot (1871–72)
6. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)
7. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne (1759–67)
8. Underworld by Don DeLillo (1997)
9. Germinal by Émile Zola (1884)
10. Don Juan by Lord Byron (1819)
Percival Everett
Percival Everett

1. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne (1759–67)
2. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler (1903)
3. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)
4. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)
5. Cane by Jean Toomer (1923)
6. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1962)
7. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather (1927)
8. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (1971)
9. Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut (1987)
10. Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter (1984)
Amanda Filipacchi
Amanda Filipacchi

1. The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt (2014)
2. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust (1913–27)
3. Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi (1947)
4. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (1905)
5. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847)
6. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)
7. The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde (1891)
8. The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson (1916-65)
9. Emma by Jane Austen (1816)
10. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
Elizabeth Flock
Elizabeth Flock

1. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1857)
2. Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac (1847)
3. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925)
4. My Ántonia by Willa Cather (1918)
5. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1859)
6. The Folded Leaf by William Maxwell (1945)
7. Stories of Raymond Carver (1938–88)
8. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (1990)
9. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1962)
10. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (1961)
Karen Joy Fowler
Karen Joy Fowler
1. Middlemarch by George Eliot (1871–72)
2. The Tempest by William Shakespeare (1610)
3. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (1605, 1615)
4. The Tale of Genji by Shikibu Murasaki (c. 1001–1010 c.e.)
5. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare (1595)
6. Emma by Jane Austen (1816)
7. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847)
8. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925)
9. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967)
10. Dubliners by James Joyce (1916)

Meg Wolitzer
​1. Middlemarch by George Eliot (1871–72)
2. The Tempest by William Shakespeare (1610)
3. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (1605, 1615)
4. The Tale of Genji by Shikibu Murasaki (c. 1001–1010 c.e.)
5. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare (1595)
6. Emma by Jane Austen (1816)
7. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847)
8. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925)
9. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967)
10. Dubliners by James Joyce (1916)
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