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For the Love of Books From the Greatest Books

Ronald Schwartz polled 115 major writers about their favorite books, and published each of their ballots in the book "For the Love of Books".
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Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
1
James Joyce
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
2
Marcel Proust
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
3
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
4
Herman Melville
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
5
Leo Tolstoy
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
6
J.D. Salinger
No Fear Shakespeare: Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
No Fear Shakespeare: Hamlet
7
William Shakespeare
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
8
Leo Tolstoy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2) (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
9
Mark Twain
Look Homeward, Angel (Thomas Wolfe)
Look Homeward, Angel
10
Thomas Wolfe
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
11
Charles Dickens
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
12
Gustave Flaubert
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost
13
John Milton
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (Wallace Stevens)
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
14
Wallace Stevens
The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (William Butler Yeats)
The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
15
William Butler Yeats
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom!
16
William Faulkner
Collected Stories of William Faulkner (William Faulkner)
Collected Stories of William Faulkner
17
William Faulkner
The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford)
The Good Soldier
18
Ford Madox Ford
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
19
James Joyce
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
20
Vladimir Nabokov
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
21
Virginia Woolf
Journey to the End of the Night (Louis-Ferdinand Céline)
Journey to the End of the Night
22
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
23
Miguel De Cervantes
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield
24
Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities
25
Charles Dickens
The Poems of Emily Dickinson
The Poems of Emily Dickinson
26
Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot (T.S. Eliot)
Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot
27
T.S. Eliot
Stories of Ernest Hemingway (Hemingway, Ernest)
Stories of Ernest Hemingway
28
Hemingway, Ernest
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (Machado De Assis)
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
29
Machado De Assis
Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
Leaves of Grass
30
Walt Whitman
Carry On, Jeeves (P. G. Wodehouse)
Carry On, Jeeves
31
P. G. Wodehouse
One Thousand and One Nights (Anonimus)
One Thousand and One Nights
32
Anonimus
Desert Solitaire (Edward Abbey)
Desert Solitaire
33
Edward Abbey
Collected Poems of W.H. Auden (W.H. Auden)
Collected Poems of W.H. Auden
34
W.H. Auden
The Sot-Weed Factor (John Barth)
The Sot-Weed Factor
35
John Barth
The Works of Max Beerbohm (Max Beerbohm)
The Works of Max Beerbohm
36
Max Beerbohm
The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow)
The Adventures of Augie March
37
Saul Bellow
Henderson the Rain King (Saul Bellow)
Henderson the Rain King
38
Saul Bellow
Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford English Dictionary
39
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Jane Eyre
40
Charlotte Brontë
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