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The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books

Edited by J. Peder Zane

Norton, 352 pages, $14.95 paper

More than 100 famous writers–from Norman Mailer, David Foster Wallace and Scott Turow to Ann Patchett and Joyce Carol Oates–provide J. Peder Zane, an admired fellow board member of the National Book Critics Circle, lists of their most-loved books. All the lists, summaries of the books and a slew of smart essays about them make this volume a perfect response to the question: What should I read?