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

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. Answered Prayers (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Truman Capote
  
2. The Tragedy of Anthony and Cleopatra (Oxford World's Classics)
by William Shakespeare
  
3. The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
  
4. Bhagavadgita
by S. Radhakrishnan
  
5. The Birthday Party (Pinter Plays)
by Harold Pinter
  
6. The Homecoming: A Play By Harold Pinter
by Harold Pinter
  
7. The Book of Leviathan
by Peter Blegvad
  
8.
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 Casa Guidi Window: A Poem (Collected Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  
9. The Confidence Man, Second Edition (Norton Critical Edition)
by Herman Melville
  
10. Embers
by Sandor Marai
  
11. Geek Love: A Novel
by Katherine Dunn
  
12. I, Claudius: Classic Collection
by Robert Graves
  
13.
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 Ill Seen Ill Said
by Samuel Beckett
  
14. JR (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by William Gaddis
  
15. The Golden Argosy  
16. L'Assommoir (The Dram Shop) (Penguin Classics)
by Émile Zola
  
17. Love Medicine : A Novel (Perennial Classics)
by Louise Erdrich
  
18. Nana (Penguin Classics)
by Emile Zola
  
19. The Screwtape Letters (Gift Edition)
by C. S. Lewis
  
20. Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
by T.E. Lawrence
  
21. The outward room
by Millen Brand
  
22. Things Fall Apart: A Novel
by Chinua Achebe
  
23. The Time of the Doves (La Plaza del Diamante)
by Merce Rodoreda
  
24. The Woman in the Dunes
by Kobo Abe
  
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Created by Perlle on Feb 29, 2008.