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George Orwell

20 total votes across 2 books

Readers Also on the Guardian’s reader-voted top 100: Nineteen Eighty-Four (#7), Animal Farm (=93).

Ranked on Both Lists Readers

This author’s 1 work 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.

11252550507575100100Critics’ rankReaders’ rankNineteen Eighty-Four (#16 / #7)

In the Top 100

RankTitleVotesVoters
#16Nineteen Eighty-Four19Alberto Manguel, Arifa Akbar, Beejay Silcox, Blake Morrison, Candice Carty Williams, Catherine Taylor, Colum McCann, Dorian Lynskey, Eimear McBride, Esi Edugyan, Jack Edwards, Laura Wilson, Marcel Theroux, Meg Rosoff, Parinoush Saniee, Sara Collins, Sarah Bakewell, Sian Cain, Valeria Luiselli

Voted For But Outside Top 100

TitleVotesVoters
Animal Farm1Parinoush Saniee

Closest Authors

Authors whose voters overlap most with this one.

Margaret Atwood (4 shared) Mary Shelley (4 shared) Kazuo Ishiguro (5 shared) John Steinbeck (3 shared) Jane Austen (8 shared) Jonathan Swift (2 shared) Alexis Wright (2 shared) Thomas Mann (3 shared)

Taste Fault Lines

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

Vladimir Nabokov (27 votes, 0 shared) Muriel Spark (16 votes, 0 shared) Chinua Achebe (15 votes, 0 shared) James Baldwin (14 votes, 0 shared) Marilynne Robinson (10 votes, 0 shared) William Faulkner (10 votes, 0 shared) WG Sebald (9 votes, 0 shared) Thomas Hardy (9 votes, 0 shared)