How many of these have you read?

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
Middlemarch by George Eliot

The above is the consensus top 10 greatest books of all time from J. Peder Zane’s The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books.

5 thoughts on “How many of these have you read?”

  1. I’ve read all of these except the Proust. I remember thinking, while reading these, that each one (except for Middlemarch, which I struggled through and Hamlet, which is not my favorite Shakespeare play) was the greatest thing ever written.

    I think I’d substitute “King Lear” for “Hamlet” and add to this list: “The Master and Margarita” by Mikhail Bulgakov, and “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

  2. Seven. I’ve never read Hamlet; I have tried, but I’ve never been able to make it all the way through one work of Shakespeare. His stuff bores me to tears.

  5. 7
    Hadn’t read the Proust, the Elliot or the Fitzgerald

    And I have to say *reading* a play generally sucks.

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