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
  2. 2.
    The Tragedy of Anthony and Cleopatra (Oxford World's Classics)
    by William Shakespeare
  3. 3.
    The Awakening
    by Kate Chopin
  4. 4.
    Bhagavadgita
    by S. Radhakrishnan
  5. 5.
    The Birthday Party (Pinter Plays)
    by Harold Pinter
  6. 6.
    The Homecoming: A Play By Harold Pinter
    by Harold Pinter
  7. 7.
    The Book of Leviathan
    by Peter Blegvad
  8. 8.
    ?
    Casa Guidi Window: A Poem (Collected Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
    by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  9. 9.
    The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Herman Melville
  10. 10.
    Embers
    by Sándor Márai
  11. 11.
    Geek Love: A Novel
    by Katherine Dunn
  12. 12.
    I, Claudius: Classic Collection
    by Robert Graves
  13. 13.
    ?
    Ill Seen Ill Said
    by Samuel Beckett
  14. 14.
    JR (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by William Gaddis
  15. 15.
    The Golden Argosy

  16. 16.
    L'Assommoir (The Dram Shop) (Penguin Classics)
    by Émile Zola
  17. 17.
    Love Medicine : A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Louise Erdrich
  18. 18.
    Nana (Penguin Classics)
    by Émile Zola
  19. 19.
    The Screwtape Letters: With Screwtape Proposes a Toast
    by C. S. Lewis
  20. 20.
    Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
    by T.E. Lawrence
  21. 21.
    The outward room
    by Millen Brand
  22. 22.
    Things Fall Apart: A Novel
    by Chinua Achebe
  23. 23.
    The Time of the Doves (La Plaza del Diamante)
    by Mercè Rodoreda
  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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