Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Listă de romane considerate cele mai bune" in Romanian language version.
If you've been reading our current SAS Book Club choice, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, you are certainly aware that famous authors such as Russian writers Fyodr Dostoevsky and Vladimir Nabokov named this sweeping, Russian classic as the best book ever written.
'They've [women] produced the greatest writer in the English language ever, George Eliot, and arguably the third greatest, Jane Austen, and certainly the greatest novel, Middlemarch [...]'
Each individual top 10 list is like its own steeplechase through the international canon. Look at Michael Chabon's. He heads it up with Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths. (Nice: an undersung masterpiece by a writer's writer.) He follows that up with by Pale Fire by Nabokov at #2. (Hm. Does he really think it's better than Lolita? Really?) [...] Douglas Coupland puts Capote's unfinished Answered Prayers at number one [...] (At times one reads in the knowledge that one is being messed with. There's an outside, screwball chance that David Foster Wallace really reveres C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters above all other books, but I feel comfortable asserting—having read Infinite Jesttwice —that Wallace does not feel that way about Stephen King's The Stand (at #2) or The Sum of All Fears, by Tom Clancy (#10).)
