Cormac McCarthy

8 total votes across 3 books

Readers Also on the Guardian’s reader-voted top 100: Blood Meridian (#28), The Road (=80).

Ranked on Both Lists Readers

This author’s 2 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
#68	Blood Meridian	4	Chigozie Obioma, Esi Edugyan, Joe Dunthorne, Xan Brooks
#98	The Road	3	Kit de Waal, Sarah Waters, Valeria Luiselli

Voted For But Outside Top 100

Title	Votes	Voters
Suttree	1	Jem Calder

Closest Authors

Authors whose voters overlap most with this one.

WG Sebald (2 shared) Marilynne Robinson (2 shared) Elizabeth Taylor (1 shared) John le Carré (1 shared) Knut Hamsun (1 shared) Peter Carey (1 shared) José Saramago (1 shared) John Bunyan (1 shared)

Taste Fault Lines

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

Marcel Proust (27 votes, 0 shared) Franz Kafka (18 votes, 0 shared) Herman Melville (18 votes, 0 shared) Laurence Sterne (18 votes, 0 shared) Hilary Mantel (17 votes, 0 shared) Fyodor Dostoevsky (17 votes, 0 shared) Emily Brontë (15 votes, 0 shared) Thomas Mann (14 votes, 0 shared)