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Top 10 Favourites by Historical Period

Do you like the same books as writers? The favourite 10 books of 125 writers were tallied (544 individual books were mentioned).
This challenge lists the overall 10 favourite books of the writers by historical period, in descending rank. See the list structure below.
01-10: 20th century
11-20: 19th century
21-30: 18th century
31-41: 16th & 17th century (tie for 10th place between Henry V and Othello)
42-51: 15th century & earlier
This list is derived from the book "The Top Ten: Writers Pick their Favorite Books" edited by J. Peder Zane.
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Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
1
Vladimir Nabokov
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
2
F. Scott Fitzgerald
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
3
Marcel Proust
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
4
James Joyce
Dubliners (James Joyce)
Dubliners
5
James Joyce
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
6
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
7
William Faulkner
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
8
Virginia Woolf
The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Conner (Flannery O'Conner)
The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Conner
9
Flannery O'Conner
Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
Pale Fire
10
Vladimir Nabokov
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
11
Leo Tolstoy
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
12
Gustave Flaubert
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
13
Leo Tolstoy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
14
Mark Twain
Stories: Anton Chekhov (Anton Chekhov)
Stories: Anton Chekhov
15
Anton Chekhov
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
16
George Eliot
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby-Dick
17
Herman Melville
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
18
Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
19
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Emma (Jane Austen)
Emma
20
Jane Austen
Tristram Shandy (Laurence Sterne)
Tristram Shandy
21
Laurence Sterne
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe
22
Daniel Defoe
Clarissa (Samuel Richardson)
Clarissa
23
Samuel Richardson
Candide (Voltaire)
Candide
24
Voltaire
Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
Tom Jones
25
Henry Fielding
Gullivers Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gullivers Travels
26
Jonathan Swift
Joseph Andrews (Henry Fielding)
Joseph Andrews
27
Henry Fielding
The Story of the Stone (Cao Xueqin)
The Story of the Stone
28
Cao Xueqin
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
29
Dangerous Liaisons (Pierre Choderlos De Laclos)
Dangerous Liaisons
30
Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet
31
William Shakespeare
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
32
Miguel De Cervantes
King Lear (William Shakespeare)
King Lear
33
William Shakespeare
MacBeth (William Shakespeare)
MacBeth
34
William Shakespeare
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost
35
John Milton
The Tempest (William Shakespeare)
The Tempest
36
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare)
Romeo and Juliet
37
William Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra (William Shakespeare)
Antony and Cleopatra
38
William Shakespeare
The Plays of Molière (Molière)
The Plays of Molière
39
Molière
Henry V (William Shakespeare)
Henry V
40
William Shakespeare
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