Charles Dickens

44 total votes across 6 books

Readers Also on the Guardian’s reader-voted top 100: Bleak House (=26), Great Expectations (=29), A Tale of Two Cities (=49), David Copperfield (=49).

Ranked on Both Lists Readers

This author’s 3 works on both the critics’ and readers’ lists, by rank on each (#1 at top-right). The dashed line is where the two agree; points above it are ranked higher by readers, below by critics.

In the Top 100

Rank	Title	Votes	Voters
#12	Bleak House	19	Adam Roberts, Charlotte Higgins, Charlotte Mendelson, David Nicholls, Ian Rankin, Jon Day, Jude Cook, Kathryn Hughes, Lara Feigel, Lisa Tuttle, Mark Haddon, Maya Jasanoff, Naoise Dolan, Olivia Laing, PD Smith, Sarah Waters, Siri Hustvedt, Susanna Rustin, Xan Brooks
#33	David Copperfield	10	Ali Smith, Charlotte Mendelson, Dinah Birch, Freya Johnston, John Boyne, Katharine Viner, Maggie O’Farrell, Marcel Theroux, Nina Stibbe, Sarah Churchwell
#35	Great Expectations	9	Ahdaf Soueif, Amanda Craig, Elizabeth Day, Geoff Dyer, John Mullan, Kit de Waal, Laura Wilson, Liese Spencer, Salman Rushdie
#72	Our Mutual Friend	4	Ian McEwan, Justine Jordan, Shahidha Bari, William Boyd

Voted For But Outside Top 100

Title	Votes	Voters
The Adventures of Oliver Twist	1	Joshua Cohen
Pickwick Papers	1	Tom Crewe

Closest Authors

Authors whose voters overlap most with this one.

Jane Austen (27 shared) George Eliot (19 shared) Charlotte Brontë (11 shared) Leo Tolstoy (14 shared) Toni Morrison (14 shared) Henry James (9 shared) Gustave Flaubert (8 shared) Muriel Spark (7 shared)

Taste Fault Lines

Authors with the most votes but zero voter overlap with this one.

William Faulkner (10 votes, 0 shared) Mary Shelley (10 votes, 0 shared) Zadie Smith (7 votes, 0 shared) Italo Calvino (6 votes, 0 shared) EL Doctorow (6 votes, 0 shared) Han Kang (6 votes, 0 shared) Philip Roth (5 votes, 0 shared) Iris Murdoch (5 votes, 0 shared)