Michael Chabon's 10 Favorite Books

Michael Chabon was kind enough to provide his 10 favorite books to the authors of The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books.

onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/Labyrinths_Selected_Stories__Other_Writings');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0811216993'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/Labyrinths_Selected_Stories__Other_Writings');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0811216993'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges Amazon readers say: "Hypnotically hyper-real." "Rod Sterling on steroids." "The ideal fusion of poetry and science, beauty and paradox.." "Satisfying estrangement for restless, unsold minds." onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/Labyrinths_Selected_Stories__Other_Writings');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/Labyrinths_Selected_Stories__Other_Writings');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0811216993'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 240 page paperback \|$12.55 \|39 reviews


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/Pale_Fire');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0679723420'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/Pale_Fire');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0679723420'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov Amazon readers say: "Sheer joy... a verbal jigsaw puzzle." "The strangest and most beautiful of mysteries." "Better than Lolita." "Dead-accurate parody of academic critics." onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/Pale_Fire');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/Pale_Fire');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0679723420'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 320 page paperback \|$11.16 \|84 reviews This book also appears on The Modern Library's 100 Greatest Novels of the 20th Century


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/Scaramouche');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0451527976'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/Scaramouche');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0451527976'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini Amazon readers say: "Superb romantic fiction." "He was born with the gift of laughter ..." "An excellent edition of a swashbuckling classic!" "A wonderful pot-boiler." onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/Scaramouche');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/Scaramouche');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0451527976'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 384 page paperback \|$5.95 \|36 reviews


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/MobyDick_or_The_Whale');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0142437247'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/MobyDick_or_The_Whale');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0142437247'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville Amazon readers say: "The greatest American literature ever." "One of the greatest American novels." "The greatest American novel." "Quite simply, the greatest American novel, ever." onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/MobyDick_or_The_Whale');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/MobyDick_or_The_Whale');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0142437247'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 720 page paperback \|$10.40 \|318 reviews This book also appears on: John Irving's 10 Favorite Books Joyce Carol Oates' 10 Favorite Books Penguin Classics: The 100 Most Popular Titles What Barack Obama Reads and Recommends


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/Swanns_Way_In_Search_of_Lost_Time_Vol_1');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0142437964'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/Swanns_Way_In_Search_of_Lost_Time_Vol_1');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0142437964'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1 by Marcel Proust Amazon readers say: "The exquisite beauty of dull minutiae." "Immerse yourself in a rich, dense world of descriptive thought." "This book should cost a thousand dollars." "Gorgeous... lyrical... classic... and very easy to carry!" onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/Swanns_Way_In_Search_of_Lost_Time_Vol_1');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/Swanns_Way_In_Search_of_Lost_Time_Vol_1');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0142437964'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 496 page paperback \|$10.40 \|13 reviews This book also appears on: Penguin Classics: The 100 Most Popular Titles Penguin Classics: The Deluxe Editions


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/Paradise_Lost');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0140424393'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/Paradise_Lost');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0140424393'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Paradise Lost by John Milton Amazon readers say: "A humbling triumph of emotion, spirituality and despair." "A timeless classic of english literature." "Milton's art for eternity." "A crown jewel of literature." onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/Paradise_Lost');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/Paradise_Lost');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0140424393'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 512 page paperback \|$9.10 \|23 reviews This book also appears on Penguin Classics: The 100 Most Popular Titles


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/Love_in_the_Time_of_Cholera');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0307389731'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/Love_in_the_Time_of_Cholera');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0307389731'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Amazon readers say: "Love in the eye of the romantic magic realism master." "Touches your heart, mind, soul." "Marquez is the muse of love." "An exquisite balance of humor and drama: best of the best." onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/Love_in_the_Time_of_Cholera');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/Love_in_the_Time_of_Cholera');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0307389731'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 368 page paperback \|$10.17 \|437 reviews This book also appears on Oprah's Book Club


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/Tales_of_Mystery__Imagination');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0460873423'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/Tales_of_Mystery__Imagination');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0460873423'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe Amazon says: Locked doors, bricked-up alcoves and premature burial close in on Poe's narrators as they, like their victims, are cut off from light, air and human society. The "disordered chambers" of the author's mind resonate with archetypal, if extreme, psychological states; these 46 tales also present the incurable hoaxer and teller of excessively tall tales, a master of this difficult genre. onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/Tales_of_Mystery__Imagination');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/Tales_of_Mystery__Imagination');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0460873423'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 640 page paperback \|$7.95 \|5 reviews


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/The_Long_Goodbye');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0394757688'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/The_Long_Goodbye');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0394757688'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler Amazon readers say: "This book is fabulous. L.A. vintage crime at its best." "More than 50 years later, still entertaining and relevant." "Best freaking book ever written." "The most underrated novel in American literature." onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/The_Long_Goodbye');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/The_Long_Goodbye');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0394757688'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 384 page paperback \|$11.16 \|58 reviews


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/Pride_and_Prejudice');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0141439513'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/Pride_and_Prejudice');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0141439513'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/Pride_and_Prejudice');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Michael_Chabons_10_Favorite_Books/Pride_and_Prejudice');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0141439513'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 480 page paperback \|$8.00 \|904 reviews This book also appears on: 21 Great Books with Just-As-Great Movie Versions Penguin Classics: The 100 Most Popular Titles

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