Best Novels

In 2007, Time Magazine had 125 authors poll their Top Ten Novels of All Time, and from those lists, these were deemed the Top-Top Ten:

1. Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
2. Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
3. War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
4. Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
6. Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
7. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust
9. The Stories of Anton Chekhov, by Anton Chekhov
10. Middlemarch, by George Elliot

So my friend Emily posted this and asked for input. I am personally surprised that authors listed plays and short story collections as their favorite "novels." I am also going to risk writing a list of my favorites, which is of course ridiculous because I could never narrow it down to ten--or even twenty for that matter. But here are my "ten favorite novels" (not in order):

1. Absalom, Absalom--Faulkner
2. Infinite Jest --David Foster Wallace
3. Lord of the Rings--Tolkien
4. Dune--Frank Herbert
5. The Sun Also Rises--Hem
6. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn--Twain
7. The Crying of Lot 49--Thomas Pynchon
8. Jitterbug Perfume--Tom Robbins
9. One Hundred Years of Solitude--Gabriel Garcia Marquez
10. American Pastoral--Phillip Roth
11. A Confederacy of Dunces--John Kennedy Toole
12. Moby Dick--Herman Melville
13. Ender's Game--Orson Scott Card

Ok so thirteen... sorry.