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These represent, for the contributors, the finest works of fiction that have been written. Martin Seymour Smith and Editors. Ronald Schwartz polled 1. For the Love of Books. For The Love of Books. In the early 1. 95. Raymond Queneau asked several dozen French authors and critics to list the hundred books they would choose if they had to limit themselves to that number. He reproduced all their responses in the book Pour une Bibliothque Idale Gallimard, 1. Raymond Queneau. Tlrama, a weekly French magazine, asked 1. The following list is a tally of every book that received at least 2 votes. Clifton Paul Kip Fadiman May 1. June 2. 0, 1. 99. American intellectual, author, editor, radio and television personality. The New Lifetime Reading Plan provides readers with brief, informative and entertaining introductions to more than 1. From Homer to Hawthorne, Plato to Pascal, and Shakespeare to Solzhenitsyn, the great writers of Western civilization can be found in its pages. In addition, this new edition offers a much broader representation of women authors, such as Charlotte Bront, Emily Dickinson and Edith Wharton, as well as non Western writers such as Confucius, Sun Tzu, Chinua Achebe, Mishima Yukio and many others. This fourth edition also features a simpler format that arranges the works chronologically in five sections The Ancient World 3. The 2. 0th Century, making them easier to look up than ever before. It deserves a place in the libraries of all lovers of literature. The New Lifetime Reading Plan. The Top 1. 0 book chosen by 1. The Top 1. 0 edited by J. Peder Zane. The Top 1. Book. The 1. 00 best non fiction books of all time judged by a panel of historians, authors, publishers, and experts for the National Review Magazine. National Review. BBC Culture polled book critics outside the UK, to give an outsiders perspective on the best in British literature. National Book Award winning authors got together to select what was, in their opinions, 1. 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