J. Peder Zane, The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books [2007]
182 entries: 167 monographical, 15 otherwise
Ranked
Zane's book compiles lists from 125 writers naming "the ten greatest works of fiction of all time." The cumulative top ten that emerged from the project, presented at the beginning of the book, does not reveal any surprises. While some of the contributors definitely saw this project as an opportunity to promote obscure works, many of them clearly did not, producing lists no more idiosyncratic than most of the "great books" lists created by critics and scholars. Given that the top ten does not include any poetry or non-fiction, I have drawn out a longer list from this book. Thankfully, at least a few contributors ignored the "fiction" requirement, so we at least have one quasi-historical work, the Bible, plus a little poetry. Zane provides a master list with all 544 works collectively named by the 125 participants, and places them in order of the number of points they received (a first-place ranking from one of the 125 gets the work 10 points, a second-place ranking nine points, and so on). I haveve included all the works that received at least 10 points; therefore, all works that an author listed no. 1 are included. I could include all 544 titlesnothing in this project's guidelines demands otherwise; I might do so eventually. For now, you would have to read the book to see the works that received less than 10 points or to see which authors listed each of these works. A good article from Time magazine about the book is still online.
- Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina_20
published in part serially 1873-7 in Rússkij Véstnik; in its entirety, 1877; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's English translationRussian
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- Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary_29
originally published serially Oct. 1856-Dec. 1856 in La Revue de Paris; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Frances Steegmuller's English translationFrench
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- Leo Tolstoy
Voyna i Mir"_25
War and Peace
originally entitled 1805, published in part, 1865 and 1867; retitled and published in its entirety, 1869Russian
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- Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita_11
1955English
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- Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_23
1884English
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- William Shakespeare
Hamlet_27
1602English
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- F Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby_17
1925English
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- Marcel Proust
À la Recherche du Temps Perdu_17
In Search of Lost Time; In Remembrance of Things Past
originally published in seven volumes, two of which originally published as two books each, 1913-27French
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Stories_7
late Nineteenth-early Twentieth centuriesRussian
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- George Eliot
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life _22
originally published serially Dec. 1871-Dec. 1872English
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- Miguel de Cervantes
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha_37
Don Quixote
originally published in two volumes, 1605 and 1615; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Edith Grossman's English translationSpanish
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- Herman Melville
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale_26
1851English
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- Charles Dickens
Great Expectations_15
originally published serially Dec. 1860-Aug. 1861 in All the Year RoundEnglish
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- James Joyce
Ulysses_20
published in part serially Mar. 1918-Dec. 1920 in the Little Review; in its entirety, 1922English
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- Homer
Odýsseia_36
The Odyssey
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B.C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Robert Fitzgerald's English translationGreek
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- James Joyce
Dubliners_10
1914English
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- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Prestuplénie i Nakazániye_23
Crime and Punishment
originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1866 in Rússkij Véstnik; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's English translationRussian
*Eliot* *Powys* *Classics* *France* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- William Shakespeare
King Lear_21
1606English
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- Jane Austen
Emma_11
originally anonymously published 1815English
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- Gabriel García Márquez
Cien Anõs de Soledad_18
One Hundred Years of Solitude
1967; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Gregory Rabassa's English translationSpanish
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- William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury_13
1929English
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- Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse_12
1927 English
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- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Brat'â Karamazovy_23
The Brothers Karamazov
originally published serially 1880 in Rússkij VéstnikRussian
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- Dante
La Divina Commedia_33
The Divine Comedy
originally entitled La Commedia; written ca. 1308-21Italian
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Stories_1
Twentieth CenturyEnglish
*Zane*
- Laurence Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman_14
originally published in nine volumes, 1759-67English
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- Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice_30
originally anonymously published 1813English
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- Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights_17
originally published 1847 under the pseudonym, Ellis Bell; revised 1850English
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- The Bible_17
Downs also lists John Wycliffe's 1382 English translation of the Vulgate; Bloom, Dirda, and the Globe and Mail specify the King James Version, translated 1604-11 to English from the Hebrew and Aramaic (Old Testament) and the Greek (New Testament), revised 1769 by Benjamin BlayneyHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
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- Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire_8
1962English
*List* *Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard*
- William Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom!_7
1936English
*Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Norway* *Zane* *Smart* *Newman*
- Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady_14
originally published serially Oct. 1880-Nov. 1881 in Macmillan's and Nov. 1880-Dec. 1881 in the Atlantic MonthlyEnglish
*Eliot* *Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Educated*
- Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird_5
1960English
*Recommended* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard*
- Geoffrey Chaucer
Canterbury Tales_30
1478; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Nevill Coghill's modern English versionEnglish
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- Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness_16
originally published serially Feb.-Apr. 1899 in Blackwood'sEnglish
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- Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway_11
published in part, Jul. 1923, as 'Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street', in the Dial; in its entirety, 1925English
*Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Educated*
- Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man_12
1952English
*Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Educated*
- Charles Dickens
Bleak House_7
originally published serially Mar. 1852-Sep. 1853English
*Classics* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Guardian* *Zane* *Newman*
- Franz Kafka
Der Prozess_16
The Trial
1925German
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- Toni Morrison
Beloved_9
1987English
*Recommended* *Trinity* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *Telegraph* *Zane* *Harvard* *Deposit*
- Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography_16
originally published under the pseudonym, Currer Bell, 1847English
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- Albert Camus
L'Étranger_14
The Stranger
1942French
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- John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath_11
1939English
*Hundred* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Guardian* *Zane* *Deposit* *Graphic*
- Robert Penn Warren
All the King's Men_5
1946English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Zane* *Smart*
- Ford Madox Ford
The Good Soldier_4
1915English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Zane*
- J D Salinger
Catcher in the Rye_8
1951English
*Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Guardian* *Zane* *Taylor* *Graphic*
- Jane Austen
Persuasion_6
originally anonymously published 1817English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Guardian* *Zane* *Newman*
- William Shakespeare
Macbeth_16
ca. 1607English
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Zane* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- Aeschylus
Oresteia_19
The House of Atreus
458 B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Zane* *Newman*
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter_21
1850English
*Baldwin* *Eliot* *Classics* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_17
1865English
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- Stendhal
Le Rouge et le Noir, Chronique du XIXe Siècle_18
The Red and the Black
1830French
*Powys* *Classics* *France* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Newman* *Deposit*
John Updike
- Rabbit, Run_3
1960English
*Fadiman* *Zane* *Telegraph*
- Rabbit Redux_3
1971English
*Fadiman* *Zane* *Telegraph*
- Rabbit Is Rich_3
1981English
*Fadiman* *Zane* *Telegraph*
- Rabbit at Rest_3
1990English
*Fadiman* *Zane* *Telegraph*
Stories_1
Twentieth CenturyRussian
*Zane*
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night_6
originally published serially Jan.-Apr. 1934 in Scribner's MagazineEnglish
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Zane* *Deposit* *Newman*
- James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man_14
originally published serially Feb. 1914-Sep. 1915, in the EgoistEnglish
*Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Zane* *Smart* *Deposit* *Newman*
- Joseph Heller
Catch-22_10
1961English
*List* *Learning* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Deposit*
- Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death_3
1969English
*Recommended* *Zane* *Deposit*
Stories_1
Twentieth CenturyEnglish
*Zane*
- John Milton
Paradise Lost_27
1667; revised 1674English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Powys* *Invitation* *Classics* *Zulli* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
Aeneid_26
First Century B C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Dudley Fitts and Robert Fagles's English translationLatin
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- Cormac McCarthy
Blood Merdian or The Evening Redness in the West_4
1985English
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- Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass_20
1855; expanded and revised through ninth edition, 1892English
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- Nikolai Gogol
Mërtvyâ Duši_11
Dead Souls
1842Russian
*Classics* *France* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Harvard* *Newman*
- Thomas Mann
Der Zauberberg_12
The Magic Mountain
1924; Mallison ("Smart") specifies John E Woods's English translationGerman
*Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart*
Stories_1
Twentieth CenturyEnglish
*Zane*
- Mikhail Bulgakov
Mástyer i Margaríta_6
The Master and Margarita
published in part, 1966-67, in Moskva; in its entirety, 1973; revised 1989; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor's English translationRussian
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- Charles Dickens
Our Mutual Friend_6
originally published serially May 1864-Nov. 1865English
*Classics* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Deposit*
- William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying_8
1930English
*Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Campbell* *Zane* *Newman*
The Hamlet_3
1940English
*Bloom* *Zane* *Newman*
- Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises_7
1926English
*Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Zane* *Deposit* *Newman*
- Homer
Iliad_33
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B.C; Cowan and Guinness ("Trinity") specifiy Richard Lattimore's English translation; Mallison ("Smart") notes Derek Jacobi's modern aural versionGreek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Classics* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *World* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Giovanni Boccaccio
Il Decameron, Cognominato Prencipe Galeotto_12
ca. 1351-53Italian
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- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Besy_9
Demons; The Devils; The Possessed
1872Russian
*Powys* *Classics* *France* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Norway* *Zane* *Newman*
- Christina Stead
The Man Who Loved Children_2
1940English
*Bloom* *Zane*
- Stendhal
Le Chartreuse de Parme_12
The Charterhouse of Parma
1839French
*Classics* *France* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Zane* *Newman*
Stories_3
Twentieth CenturyEnglish
*Van Doren* *Zane* *Newman*
- Halldór Laxness
Sjálfstætt Fólk_2
Independent People
originally published in two volumes, 1934 and 1935Icelandic
*Norway* *Zane*
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- Kitab alf Laylah Wa-Laylah_17
The Thousand and One Nights; The Arabian Nights
Ninth-Fifteenth centuries; Taylor specifies Richard Burton's versionArabic
*Lubock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *France* *Downs* *Ward* *Magill* *Oriental* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Taylor*
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Zapaski iz Podpol'â_6
Notes From Underground
1864Russian
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Foundation* *Zane* *Smart* *Newman*
- Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God_7
1937English
*Bloom* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Dirda* *Zane* *Harvard*
- Stephen King
The Stand_1
1978English
*Zane*
- William Shakespeare
The Tempest_20
1611English
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- Sherwood Anderson
Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life_5
1919; twenty-two stories, ten of which originally published in periodicals: 'The Book of the Grotesque', Feb. 1916 in Masses; 'Hands', Mar. 1916 in Masses; 'Paper Pills' (originally entitled 'The Philosopher'), Jun.-Jul. 1916 in the Little Review, ; 'The Strength of God', Aug. 1916 in Masses; 'Queer', Dec. 1916 in Seven Arts; 'The Untold Lie', Jan. 17 in Seven Arts; 'Mother', Mar. 1917 in Seven Arts; 'The Thinker', Sep. 1917 in Seven Arts; 'The Man of Ideas', Jun. 1918 in the Little Review; 'An Awakening', Dec. 1918 in the Little ReviewEnglish
*Hundred* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Zane*
- Lord Byron (George Gordon, Lord Byron)
Don Juan_8
originally published in six volumes: Jul. 1819; Aug. 1821; Jul. 1823; Aug. 1823; Dec. 1823; Mar. 1824English
*Classics* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Zane* *Newman*
- Daniel Defoe
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner_21
originally anonymously published 1719English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Dirda* *Great* *Zane* *Deposit* *Newman*
- Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling_19
1749English
*Baldwin* *Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Newman*
- E M Forster
A Passage to India_8
1924English
*Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Zane* *Smart*
- Samuel Richardson
Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady_5
1748English
*Classics* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Zane* *Newman*
- Voltaire
Candide, ou L'Optimisme_23
1759; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Tobias Smollett's English translationFrench
*Powys* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic*
Labyrinths_6
English translations of stories mostly originally published in Ficciones and El AlephSpanish
*Good* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Zane*
- Raymond Chandler
The Long Goodbye_2
1953English
*Zane* *Deposit*
Evan S Connell
- Mrs. Bridge_1
1959English
*Zane*
- Mr. Bridge_1
1969English
*Zane*
- Thomas Hardy
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented_14
published in part serially Jul.-Dec. 1891 in the GraphicEnglish
*Powys* *Hundred* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Deposit*
Stories_2
early Twentieth CenturyGerman
*Zane* *Newman*
- George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four_17
1949English
*Van Doren* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Jonathan Swift
Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and Then a Captain of Several Ships_29
Gulliver's Travels
1726; revised 1735English
*Lubbock* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Rebecca West
The Fountain Overflows_1
1956English
*Zane*
- James Agee
A Death in the Family_3
1957English
*Recommended* *Zane* *Smart*
- Italo Calvino
Le Città Invisibili_4
Invisible Cities
1972Italian
*Bloom* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Zane*
Poems_6
Nineteenth CenturyEnglish
*Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Zane* *Newman* *Educated*
- E M Forster
Howards End_4
1910English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Zane*
- Graham Greene
The Power and the Glory_3
1940English
*Bloom* *Great* *Zane*
Stories_1
late Twentieth CenturyEnglish
*Zane*
Anthony Powell
- A Question of Upbringing_2
1951English
*Fadiman* *Zane*
- A Buyer's Market_2
1952English
*Fadiman* *Zane*
- The Acceptance World_2
1955English
*Fadiman* *Zane*
- At Lady Molly's_2
1957English
*Fadiman* *Zane*
- Casanova's Chinese Restaurant_2
1960English
*Fadiman* *Zane*
- The Kindly Ones_2
1962English
*Fadiman* *Zane*
- The Valley of Bones_2
1964English
*Fadiman* *Zane*
- The Soldier's Art_2
1966English
*Fadiman* *Zane*
- The Military Philosophers_2
1968English
*Fadiman* *Zane*
- Books Do Furnish a Room_2
1971English
*Fadiman* *Zane*
- Temporary Kings_2
1973English
*Fadiman* *Zane*
- Hearing Secret Harmonies_2
1975English
*Fadiman* *Zane*
- Muriel Spark
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie_2
1961English
*Recommended* *Zane*
- Harriet Doerr
Stones for Ibarra_1
1984English
*Zane*
- Günter Grass
Die Blechtrommel_6
The Tin Drum
1959German
*Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Norway* *Zane*
- William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet_13
ca. 1591-97English
*Durant* *Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Zane* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- Charles Dickens
The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account)_15
originally published serially May 1849-Nov. 1850English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Classics* *Magill* *Read* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Guardian* *Zane* *Telegraph* *Newman*
- Theodore Dreiser
Sister Carrie_4
1900English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Zane*
'The Bear'_1
originally entitled 'Lion', published Dec. 1935 in Harper's; revised and retitled May 1942 for inclusion in the Saturday Evening Post; included in Go Down, Moses and Other Stories, 1942English
*Zane*
- Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls_7
1940English
*Magill* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Zane* *Harvard* *Telegraph* *Newman*
- Denis Johnson
Jesus' Son_2
1992English
*Bloom* *Zane*
- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Il Gattopardo_5
The Leopard
1958; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Archibald Colquhoun's English translationItalian
*Ward* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Zane* *Smart*
- Katherine Anne Porter
Ship of Fools_2
1962English
*Recommended* *Zane*
Sophocles
- Antigone_22
ca. 441 B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Campbell* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *World* *Newman*
- Oidipous epi Kolōnō_20
Oedipus at Colonus
401 B CGreek
*Lubbock* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *World* *Newman*
- Oidipous Tyrannos_25
Oedipus Rex; Oedipus the King
ca. 429 B.C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald's English translationGreek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *World* *Newman* *Educated*
- John Steinbeck
East of Eden_3
1952English
*Recommended* *Magill* *Zane*
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde_7
1886English
*Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Zane* *Newman* *Graphic*
- George Eliot
Daniel Deronda _4
1876English
*Baldwin* *Bloom* *Zane* *Newman*
- Gabriel García Márquez
El Amor en los Tiempos del Cólera_6
Love in the Time of Cholera
1985Spanish
*Bloom* *Trinity* *Norway* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart*
- Shirley Hazzard
The Transit of Venus_1
1980English
*Zane*
- William Maxwell
So Long, See You Tomorrow_1
1979English
*Zane*
- Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon_4
1977English
*Bloom* *Fadiman* *Harvard* *Educated*
- Émile Zola
Germinal_10
originally published serially Apr. 1884-Jan. 1885 in Gil BlasFrench
*Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Dirda* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Newman*
- John Fante
Ask the Dust_1
1939English
*Zane*
- Ford Madox Ford
Parade's End_4
originally published in four volumes: Some Do Not..., 1924; No More Parades, 1925; A Man Could Stand Up, 1926; Last Post, 1928English
*Rexroth* *List* *Bloom* *Zane*
- Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day_4
1989English
*Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Deposit*
- Henry James
The Ambassadors_12
originally published serially 1903 in the North American ReviewEnglish
*Powys* *Classics* *Read* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Zane* *Smart* *Newman*
Nine Stories_4
originally published 1948-53 in varied periodicals: the New Yorker, Harper's, and the Information World ReviewEnglish
*Van Doren* *Bloom* *Zane* *Harvard*
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero_18
originally published serially Jan. 1847-Jul. 1848English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Zulli* *Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Newman*
- Richard Wright
Native Son_8
1940English
*Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Kanigel* *Zane* *Educated*
Bhagavad Gita_8
part of the Mahabharata; ca. Ninth Century B C-Fourth CenturySanskrit
*Eliot* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Oriental* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Great* *Zane*
- Abe Kobo
Suna no Onna_3
The Woman in the Dunes
1962Japanese
*Ward* *Recommended* *Zane*
- Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart_9
1958English
*Ward* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Taylor*
- John Banville
The Untouchable_1
1997English
*Zane*
- Samuel Beckett
Mal Vu Mal Dit_1
Ill Seen Ill Said
1981French
*Zane*
The Book of Leviathan_1
selection of Leviathan comic stripsEnglish
*Zane*
- Millen Brand
The Outward Room_1
1937English
*Zane*
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Casa Guidi Windows_1
1851English
*Zane*
- Truman Capote
Answered Prayers_1
1986English
*Zane*
--
- The Golden Argosy: The Most Celebrated Short Stories in the English Language_1
1955; anthology of 39 stories, four of which (Stephen Vincent Benét's The Devil and Daniel Webster, Max Beerbohm's The Happy Hypocrite, Booth Tarkington's Monsier Beaucaire, and Henry Van Dyke's The Story of the Other Wise Man) count as monographical works
*Zane*
- Stephen Vincent Benét
The Devil and Daniel Webster_1
originally published 1936 in the Saturday Evening PostEnglish
*Zane*
- Henry Van Dyke
The Story of the Other Wise Man_1
1895English
*Zane*
- Booth Tarkington
Monsieur Beaucaire_1
1900English
*Zane*
- Max Beerbohm
The Happy Hypocrite_1
originally published Oct. 1896 in the Yellow BookEnglish
*Zane*
- Willa Cather
The Professor's House_3
1925English
*Bloom* *Dirda* *Zane*
- Kate Chopin
The Awakening_5
1899English
*Bloom* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Zane* *Graphic*
J M Coetzee
- Disgrace_1
1999English
*Zane*
- Waiting for the Barbarians_1
1980English
*Zane*
- Katherine Dunn
Geek Love_1
1989English
*Zane*
- Louise Eldrich
Love Medicine_1
1984English
*Zane*
- William Gaddis
J R_2
1975English
*Fadiman* *Zane*
- Robert Graves
I, Claudius: From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B C, Murdered and Deified A D 54_5
1934English
*Fadiman* *Zane* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Deposit*
- Henry James
The Golden Bowl_6
1904English
*Powys* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Zane* *Newman*
- T E Lawrence
Seven Pillars of Wisdom_3
1922English
*France* *Zane* *Telegraph*
- C S Lewis
The Screwtape Letters_2
1942English
*Trinity* *Zane*
- Sándor Márai
A Gyertyák Csonkig Égnek_1
Embers
1942Hungarian
*Zane*
- Herman Melville
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade_2
1857English
*Zane* *Newman*
Harold Pinter
- The Birthday Party_1
1958English
*Zane*
- The Homecoming_2
1965English
*Bloom* *Zane*
- Mercè Rodoreda
La Plaça del Diamant_2
The Time of the Doves
1962Catalan
*Bloom* *Zane*
- William Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra_13
ca. 1606-08English
*Invitation* *Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Zane* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- Tanizaki Junichiro
Sasameyuki_4
The Makioka Sisters
published in part serially Jan.-Mar. 1943 in Chuo Koron; in its entirety in three volumes: 1946, 1947, and 1948Japanese
*Ward* *Fadiman* *Great* *Zane*
Émile Zola
- L'Assommoir_5
1877French
*Ward* *Bloom* *Dirda* *Zane* *Newman*
- Nana_6
originally published serially 1879-80 in La VoltaireFrench
*Bloom* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Zane* *Newman*