While this blog is generally geared towards gaming and the wonderful world of IT, I did get my BA in English and have a love of literature. I stumbled on this 2007 article a while back from Time magazine (
here) and do agree that it is absolutely impossible to come up with the ten greatest books ever written - but their list was rather impressive. That being said, I did find that the day and age of sitting down with a book (especially an encyclopedia sized Tolstoy) is a fading thing. Below is where you can find 6 of the 10 in mp3 format for download (for free) so you can listen to them in your car/mp3 player.
Top 10 from 2007 Time Magazine ArticleAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov - N/A
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Hamlet by William Shakespeare - N/A
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald - N/A
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust - N/A
The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
Middlemarch by George Eliot
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