From The Top Ten: Writers Pick their Favourite Books, J. Peder Zane, editor, reprinted in the London Times.1 The Golden Argosy edited by Van H. Cartmell and Charles Grayson
2 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
3 The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie
4 McTeague Frank Norris
5 Lord of the Flies William Golding
6 Bleak House Charles Dickens
7 1984 George Orwell
8 The Raj Quartet Paul Scott
9 Light in August William Faulkner
10 Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy