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Top 10 Favourites by Nationality (Plus Bonus)

Do you like the same books as writers? The favourite 10 books of 125 writers were tallied. The first part of this challenge lists the overall 10 favourite books of the writers (in descending rank) by nationality.
The bonus is "The Top 10 Authors by Number of Works Selected". Check the item if you have read ANY of that author's works. See the list structure below.
01-10: American
11-20: British/Irish (the source book calls James Joyce British!)
21-30: Russian
31-40: French
41-53: The Top 10 Authors by Number of Works Selected (multiple ties occurred)
This list is derived from the book "The Top Ten: Writers Pick their Favorite Books" edited by J. Peder Zane.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
2
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
3
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
4
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
5
Flannery O'Conner the Complete Stories
Flannery O'Conner the Complete Stories
6
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
7
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
8
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
9
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
10
The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)
The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)
11
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
12
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
13
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
14
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses (James Joyce)
15
King Lear (William Shakespeare)
King Lear (William Shakespeare)
16
Emma (Jane Austen)
Emma (Jane Austen)
17
Dubliners (James Joyce)
Dubliners (James Joyce)
18
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
19
Tristram Shandy (Laurence Sterne)
Tristram Shandy (Laurence Sterne)
20
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice
21
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
22
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
23
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
24
Stories: Anton Chekhov
Stories: Anton Chekhov
25
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
26
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
27
Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
28
Red Cavalry (Isaac Babel)
Red Cavalry (Isaac Babel)
29
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
30
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
31
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
32
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
33
The Outsider (Albert Camus)
The Outsider (Albert Camus)
34
Candide (Voltaire)
Candide (Voltaire)
35
Germinal (Emile Zola)
Germinal (Emile Zola)
36
L'assommoir (Emile Zola)
L'assommoir (Emile Zola)
37
Nana (Emile Zola)
Nana (Emile Zola)
38
Cousin Bette (Honoré De Balzac)
Cousin Bette (Honoré De Balzac)
39
Diary of a Country Priest (Georges Bernanos)
Diary of a Country Priest (Georges Bernanos)
40
The Fall (Albert Camus)
The Fall (Albert Camus)
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