Will pressed Joe, asking him to name his top ten favorite books. Joe pressed back, saying such lists were ridiculous, but still, sometime later he emailed with the following:
Okay, here are the books that got to me at certain points in my life. Not sure I would view them all the same now, but this is a list of sorts.
I found this an interesting challenge, and of course impossible…I have more lists but I stuck to novels…
Top ten novels by female authors
- The Golden Notebook
- Cross Creek
- We Took to the Woods
- Pride and Prejudice
- Member of the Wedding
- Secret History
- Middlemarch
- Song of the Lark
- The Fountainhead
- The Good Earth
Top ten novels by male authors