Writers’ Top Ten
Caroline:
February 23rd, 2007
Have you ever wondered who is your favourite writer’s favourite writer – if that makes sense! Distinguished authors from Britain, America and Australia have been asked to name their top ten books and some of the results are published in the Times today. There are no real surprises with the classics scoring heavily. Of the top twenty, almost half are by foreign authors and four of these are Russian. In fact Tolstoy takes first and third places and Nabokov, fourth. There is only one woman author in the top twenty, George Eliot and the highest scoring British writer is Shakespeare, with Hamlet taking sixth place. If you want to know the rest of the findings the book “The Top Ten” will be published by W W Norton on March 1st.