One Hit Wonders: 23 Works that Earned a Top Slot but no Other

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One of the appendixes from the book <i>The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books</i>. Author J. Peter Zane asked 125 authors about their favorite books and compiled many lists based upon their choices. Each of these books made one author’s number one, but was not mentioned in any other author’s top ten list.

Note: The list contains 24 items on the list because Zane listed The Birthday Party (#3) and The Homecoming (#4) as one selection.

  1. 1.
    Answered Prayers (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Truman Capote

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  2. 2.
    The Tragedy of Anthony and Cleopatra (Oxford World's Classics)
    by William Shakespeare

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  3. 3.
    The Awakening
    by Kate Chopin

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  4. 4.
    Bhagavadgita
    by S. Radhakrishnan

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  5. 5.
    The Birthday Party (Pinter Plays)
    by Harold Pinter

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  6. 6.
    The Homecoming: A Play By Harold Pinter
    by Harold Pinter

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  7. 7.
    The Book of Leviathan
    by Peter Blegvad

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  8. 8.
    ?
    Casa Guidi Window: A Poem (Collected Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
    by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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  9. 9.
    The Confidence Man, Second Edition (Norton Critical Edition)
    by Herman Melville

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  10. 10.
    Embers
    by Sandor Marai

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  11. 11.
    Geek Love: A Novel
    by Katherine Dunn

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  12. 12.
    I, Claudius: Classic Collection
    by Robert Graves

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  13. 13.
    ?
    Ill Seen Ill Said
    by Samuel Beckett

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  14. 14.
    JR (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by William Gaddis

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  15. 15.
    The Golden Argosy

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  16. 16.
    L'Assommoir (The Dram Shop) (Penguin Classics)
    by Émile Zola

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  17. 17.
    Love Medicine : A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Louise Erdrich

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  18. 18.
    Nana (Penguin Classics)
    by Emile Zola

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  19. 19.
    The Screwtape Letters (Gift Edition)
    by C. S. Lewis

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  20. 20.
    Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
    by T.E. Lawrence

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  21. 21.
    The outward room
    by Millen Brand

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  22. 22.
    Things Fall Apart: A Novel
    by Chinua Achebe

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  23. 23.
    The Time of the Doves (La Plaza del Diamante)
    by Merce Rodoreda

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  24. 24.
    The Woman in the Dunes
    by Kobo Abe

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Created by Perlle on Feb 29, 2008.
 

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