Book Selection from World-Famous Authors

Famous literary figures such as Norman Mailer, Annie Proulx, Stephen King, Jonathan Franzen, Claire Messud, Margaret Drabble, Michael Chabon, and Peter Carey contributed to the list and compilation book The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books. The top 10 novels of Contemporary English and American literature of the 19th and 20th centuries have been collected in these lists.
 
Here are the favorite novels of world-famous authors...
 
Top 10 novels of the 19th century
 

1. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
2. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald 
3. In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust
4. Ulysses - James Joyce
5. Dubliners - James Joyce
6. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez 
7. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
8. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf 
9. The Complete Stories - Flannery O'Connor
10. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov

 
Top 10 novels of the 20th century
 

1. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
2. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
3. War and Peace - Lev Tolstoy
4. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
5. Stories of Anton Chekhov - Anton Chekhov
6. Middlemarch - George Eliot
7. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
8. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 
9. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevski 
10. Emma - Jane Austen