My top 10 by Yiyun Li

My top 10

Yiyun Li

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Obviously I have run out of space! But the first nine on the list are the ones I have taught and reread all the time. And the last one is a representative of the young(er) generation.

1Middlemarch (#1)

by George Eliot

2Persuasion (#18)

by Jane Austen

3Moby-Dick (#15)

by Herman Melville

4War and Peace (#7)

by Leo Tolstoy

5To the Lighthouse (#4)

by Virginia Woolf

6A Farewell to Arms (#85)

by Ernest Hemingway

7The Story of Lucy Gault

by William Trevor

8The Transit of Venus (#53)

by Shirley Hazzard

9Housekeeping (#43)

by Marilynne Robinson

10White Teeth (#63)

by Zadie Smith

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