The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favourite Books: David Mitchell

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The top ten books picked by Norman Mailer, author of Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas, for the book The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favourite Books.

Note: Mitchell added an 11th book as a ‘wild card’.

  1. 1.
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    The Duel
    by Anton Chekhov

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  2. 2.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four
    by George Orwell

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  3. 3.
    Heart of Darkness
    by Joseph Conrad

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  4. 4.
    Sense and Sensibility
    by Jane Austen

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  5. 5.
    The Master and Margarita
    by Mikhail Bulgakov

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  6. 6.
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    As I Lay Dying
    by William Faulkner

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  7. 7.
    Tom Jones (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

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  8. 8.
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    Labyrinths
    by Jorge Luis Borges

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  9. 9.
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    W, or The Memory of Childhood
    by Georges Perec

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  10. 10.
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    The Makioka Sisters
    by Junichiro Tanizaki

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  11. 11.
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    Lolly Willowes or the Loving Huntsman
    by Sylvia Townsend Warner

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Created by apartmentcat on May 27, 2009.
 

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