The website and corresponding book, “The Top Ten,” tackles that very question, asking celebrated writers to list their favorite 10 books. It’s so simple yet incredibly fascinating to see which authors select which books and what genres they love.
A few of our own Anisfield-Wolf authors have been featured on the site—Joyce Carol Oates and Edwidge Danticat. Check out their picks below:
Top Ten List for Edwidge Danticat
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- Germinal by Emile Zola
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- The Trial by Franz Kafka
- Masters of the Dew by Jacques Roumain
Top Ten List for Joyce Carol Oates
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- The Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
- The Stories of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka
- The Red and the Black by Stendhal
- The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
- Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Are any of these books on your top 10 list? Share your favorites in the comments below!
