The overall top ten list, based on combined results across all writers who offered their top ten favorite books for The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books:

01. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

02. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

03. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

04. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

05. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

06. Hamlet by William Shakespeare

07. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

08. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

09. The stories of Anton Chekhov

10. Middlemarch by George Eliot

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