Brontëites Top Ten

Some days ago we published a post about The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books, a newly published book of self-explanatory subject. The editor of the book, Peder Zane, has written to us providing very interesting information about the book and the Brontë choices of the 125 interviewed writers:

You can learn more about my book, post your own Top Ten list, and download a literary screensaver at my website: http://www.toptenbooks.net/

We highly recommend a visit to the website, it's worthwhile.

The lists:

Andrea Barrett 1. Paradise Lost by John Milton 2. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 3. Middlemarch by George Eliot 4. Metamorphoses by Ovid 5. Bleak House by Charles Dickens 6. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 7. The Aeneid by Virgil 8. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 9. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 10. The Radetsky March by Joseph Roth Andrea Barrett won a National Book Award for her story collection Ship Fever. Her other works include the novel The Voyage of the Narwhal andstory collection Servants of the Map. Chris Bohjalian 1. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 2. Ulysses by James Joyce 3. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 4. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 5. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 6. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 7. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 8.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 9. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 10. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo Chris Bohjalian is the author of ten novels, including Of Two Minds, Before You Know Kindness, and Midwives, an Oprah Book Club selection. Peter Carey Here it is—no Joyce or Eliot or Kafka although they invented the river we swim in. No Bible either, which is impossible. The Great Gatsby is a perfect work of art and I cut it out. No Faulkner, although I owe him everything. No Chekhov, Munro—what sort of list is that? 1. Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 2. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne 3. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 4. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes 5. Middlemarch by George Eliot 6. Anna Karenin by Leo Tolstoy 7. Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald 8. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez 9. The Portrait Of a Lady by Henry James 10. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Peter Carey is an Australian writer who has twice won the Booker Prize, for his novels Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang. Karen Joy Fowler 1. Middlemarch by George Eliot 2. The Tempest by Shakespeare 3. Don Quixote by Cervantes 4. Tale of the Genji by Lady Murasaki 5. Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare 6. Emma by Austen 7. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 8. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 9. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 10. The Dubliners by James Joyce Karen Joy Fowler is Nebula Award-winning writer of is science fiction/fantasy (Sarah Canary, Artificial Things: Stories) and literary fiction(The Jane Austen Book Club). Denise Gess 1. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 2. The Stranger by Albert Camus 3. Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell 4. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 5. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles 6. Dubliners by James Joyce 7. Beloved by Toni Morrison 8. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 9. Madame Bovary by Flaubert 10. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Denise Gess has written the novels Good Deeds and Red Whiskey Blues and, with William Lutz, the history Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History. Jim Harrison 1.The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoevsky 2.In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust 3.Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 4.Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 5.Ulysses by James Joyce 6.Independent People bv Haldor Laxness 7. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner 8.One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 9.Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller The Stranger by Albert Camus Jim Harrison has written novels (Legends of the Fall, The Summer He Didn't Die), a memoir, Off to the Side, and a work of gastronomy, The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand. Elizabeth Hay 1. The Stories of Anton Chekhov 2. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 3. The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald 4. The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald 5. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee 6. Persuasion by Jane Austen 7. The Stories of Alice Munro 8. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 9. The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers 10. Break it Down by Lydia Davis Elizabeth Hay has written the novels A Student of Weather and Garbo Laughs and the story collection Small Change. She received Canada’s Marian Engel Award for her body of work. Alice Hoffman 1. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 2. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 3. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D.Salinger 4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 5. Beloved by Toni Morrison

6. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 7. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 8. The Stories of Grace Paley 9. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 10. Grimms’ Fairy Tales by Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm Alice Hoffman is the author of sixteen novels and two storycollections, including Practical Magic, Turtle Moon, Blackbird House, The Ice Queen, and most recently, Skylight Confessions. Thomas Keneally 1. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 2. Treasure Island by R.L.Stevenson 3. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 4. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 5. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 6. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce 7. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Wolfe 8. The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald 9. Voss by Patrick White 10. The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass Thomas Keneally is an Australian historian (The Great Shame: And the Triumph of the Irish in the English Speaking World) and novelist who the Booker Prize for his historical novel of the Holocaust, Schindler’s List. Sue Monk Kidd 1. The Awakening by Kate Chopin 2.The Doll House by Henrik Ibsen 3.To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 4.Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 5.Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 6.The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 7.Oedipus the King by Sophocles 8.The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 9.Thirteen Stories by Eudora Welty 10. The Color Purple by Alice Walker Sue Monk Kidd is the author of two novels, The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair, and an essay collection, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine. Margot Livesey 1. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 2. Sunset Song by Lewis Grassick Gibbon. 3.Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford. 4. The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West. 5. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. 6. Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar. 7. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 8. A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert 9. The Stories of Mavis Gallant 10. The Stories of William Trevor Margot Livesey grew up in Scotland and is a writer in residence at Emerson College in Boston. Her novels include Banishing Verona and Eva Moves The Furniture. Patrick McGrath 1. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 2. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 3. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad 4. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 5. Ship of Fools by Katherine Ann Porter 6. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 7. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 8. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann 9. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 10. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Patrick McGrath is the English author of two story collections and six novels, including Spider, Asylum and Port Mungo. Lorrie Moore 1. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 2. Dubliners by James Joyce 3. The Iliad by Homer 4. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio 5. Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer 6. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 7. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 8. Washington Square by Henry James 9. Middlemarch by George Eliot 10. Open Secrets by Alice Munro Lorrie Moore is author of three story collections (Birds of America), two novels (Anagrams), and a children's book, The Forgotten Helper. She teaches at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Lee Smith 1. The Dead by James Joyce 2. Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset 3. The Sheltered Life by Ellen Glasgow 4. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner 5. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 6. The Stories of Eudora Welty 7. The Stories by Flannery O'Connor 8. The River Earth by James Still 9. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 10. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Lee Smith is has published 11 books of fiction including the novels Oral History, Fair and Tender Ladies and The Last Girls, and the story collection News of the Spirit. Adriana Trigiani 1. Casa Guidi Windows by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 3. The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein 4. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White 5. Bertha and George Washington Crosses the Delaware, two plays by Kenneth Koch 6. Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward 7. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller 8. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 9. The Palm Beach Story, Sullivan's Travels and TheLady Eve, three screenplays by Preston Sturges 10. When I Grow Too Old To Dream, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein Adriana Trigiani is a playwright, television writer, filmmaker and author of the bestselling novels Big Stone Gap, Big Cherry Holler, Milk Glass Moon, Lucia, Lucia, and The Queen of the Big Time.

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