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Top 10 Favourites by Historical Period - Page 2

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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Othello (William Shakespeare)
Othello
41
William Shakespeare
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
42
Homer
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy
43
Dante Alighieri
The Bible: Authorized King James Version With Apocrypha (Various)
The Bible: Authorized King James Version With Apocrypha
44
Various
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
45
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Orestia Trilogy (Aeschylus)
The Orestia Trilogy
46
Aeschylus
The Aeneid (Virgil)
The Aeneid
47
Virgil
The Iliad (Homer)
The Iliad
48
Homer
The Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio)
The Decameron
49
Giovanni Boccaccio
Arabian Nights (One Thousand and One Nights) (Anonymous)
Arabian Nights (One Thousand and One Nights)
50
Anonymous
Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
Oedipus Rex
51
Sophocles
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