Top Eleven: Hungarian critics' list, November 2009 World literature
1. Marcel Proust: Le temps retrouvé
2. Maurice Blanchot: Au moment voulu 3. Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm: Deutsche Sagen
4. Thomas Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow
5. Wolf Haas: Der Knochenmann 6. Andrzej Stasiuk: Dziewięć 7. Alice Munro: Lives of Girls and Women 8. Gustave Flaubert: La première "Éducation sentimentale" 9. Filip Florian: Zilele regelui 10. Donald Barthelme: The Dead Father 11. Daniel Kehlmann: Ruhm
"Top Eleven” is a Hungarian critics’ list published each month in the weekly Magyar Narancs. The jury, made up of prominent critics and writers, have to choose four out of all the books published this year in Hungary – this time only non-Hungarian literature – and put them in order of preference. Our list is based on the German Bestenliste, but it contains eleven rather than ten books, because we are extravagant and are all nuts for prime numbers.
