A blog post by onlinedegrees.net has a list of 50 Famous Authors and Their All-Time Favorite Books.
Joyce Carol Oates chose Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
George Pelecanos listed All the King's Men by Robert Penn
Sue Monk Kidd's favorite was The Awakening by Kate Chopin.
Ha Jin chose War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Robert B. Parker listed the short novel, The Bear by William Faulkner
Alice Hoffman's favorite was Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
For the entire list of authors and their favorite books, see 50 Famous Authors
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I'll have to read this list! Thanks for stopping by today.
ReplyDeleteI see Peter Carey liked MADAME BOVARY. I really did, too. The only PC I've read was the Ned Kelly story, which I really enjoyed, having lived as an exchange student in Australia.
ReplyDeletei like this post, thank you. I'm going with Anita Shreve recommendation: The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard: Check out this book about the lives of two orphaned sisters, a favorite of popular author Shreve.
ReplyDeleteI like to see what authors read and love!
ReplyDeleteReally interesting - thanks for the link :)
ReplyDeleteReally interesting. I'm going to check this out over the weekend.
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