WASHINGTON – What if you asked some of America’s and Britain’s greatest writers to pick the ten greatest works of fiction?

The results are collected in a book “The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books.”

Writers such as Norman Mailer, Annie Proulx, Stephen King and Claire Messud named the ten literary works that influenced them the most.

The compilation book, which was released several years ago, includes summaries of 544 books.

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The Top 10 works of the 20th Centrury:

1. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. The Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
4. Ulysses* by James Joyce
5. Dubliners by James Joyce
6. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
7. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
8. To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
9. The complete stories of Flannery O’Connor
10. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

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