“Anna Karenina” was declared the best book of the 19th century, and “Lolita” the best book of the 20th century.
Famous American writers, or more precisely 125 of them, recently compiled a list of “the best books in the world”, and the ranking was divided into two parts – the 19th and 20th centuries.
Among the writers who participated in the ranking are names such as Normal Mailer, Anne Pechit, Jonathan Franzen, Claire Meshud and Joyce Carol Oates. However, the lists are dominated by European authors such as Tolstoy, Nabokov, Chekhov and Dostoyevsky.
“Anna Karenina” was declared the best book of the 19th century, and “Lolita” the best book of the 20th century.
The top ranking of the best books of the 19th century is completed by: 1. Anna Karenina (Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy) 2. Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert) 3. War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy) 4. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) 5. A Collection of Stories (Anton Chekhov) 6. Middlemarch (George Eliot) 7. Moby Dick (Herman Melville) 8. Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) 9. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) and 10. Emma (Jane Austen)
The top ranking of the best books of the 20th century consists of: 1. Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov) 2. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) 3. In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust) 4. Ulysses (James Joyce) 5. The Dubliners (James Joyce) 6. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez) 7. The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner) 8. The Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf) 9. A Collection of Stories (Flaneria O Connor) and 10. Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov ).
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