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Gustave Flaubert

22 total votes across 2 books

Readers Also on the Guardian’s reader-voted top 100: Madame Bovary (=63).

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’ rankMadame Bovary (#10 / =63)

In the Top 100

RankTitleVotesVoters
#10Madame Bovary19Anne Enright, Claire Messud, Clare Clark, Elif Shafak, Freya Johnston, Houman Barekat, Ian McEwan, John Mullan, Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Kevin Power, Kit de Waal, Laura Wilson, Marcel Theroux, Melissa Broder, Michael Donkor, Rebecca Liu, Stephen King, Tessa Hadley, Yan Lianke
#92Sentimental Education3Christobel Kent, Lisa Tuttle, Maya Jasanoff

Closest Authors

Authors whose voters overlap most with this one.

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Taste Fault Lines

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

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