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