by Maria Popova
Why Tolstoy is 11.6% better than Shakespeare.
“Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work,†Jennifer Egan once said. This intersection of reading and writing is both a necessary bi-directional life skill for us mere mortals and a secret of iconic writers’ success, as bespoken by their personal libraries. The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books asks 125 of modernity’s greatest British and American writers — including Norman Mailer, Ann Patchett, Jonathan Franzen, Claire Messud, and Joyce Carol Oates — “to provide a list, ranked, in order, of what [they] consider the ten greatest works of fiction of all time– novels, story collections, plays, or poems.â€Â                                     >>>
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/01/30/writers-top-ten-favorite-books/
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