The top 10 books of all time

8. "In Search of Lost Time," by Marcel Proust

This magnum opus of French novelist and critic Marcel Proust – in which an unnamed narrator grows up, falls in love, and struggles with relationships – weighs in at seven volumes and more than 3,000 pages. This work is considered so challenging that numerous guides have been published to help readers through it. But Proust enthusiasts quote the master who said that, "Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees."

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