Herman Melville

18 total votes across 1 book

Readers Also on the Guardian’s reader-voted top 100: Moby-Dick (#12).

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.

In the Top 100

Rank	Title	Votes	Voters
#15	Moby-Dick	18	Alberto Manguel, Anne Enright, Ben Okri, Chloe Aridjis, Chris Power, Claire Armitstead, Eimear McBride, John Lanchester, Michael Chabon, Rachel Kushner, Sam Leith, Sarah Churchwell, Siri Hustvedt, Stephen King, Steven Poole, Stuart Kelly, Tanjll Rashid, Yiyun Li

Closest Authors

Authors whose voters overlap most with this one.

James Joyce (11 shared) Fyodor Dostoevsky (6 shared) Marcel Proust (7 shared) Miguel de Cervantes (4 shared) Ernest Hemingway (3 shared) Gabriel García Márquez (5 shared) George Eliot (9 shared) Mary Shelley (3 shared)

Taste Fault Lines

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

Kazuo Ishiguro (19 votes, 0 shared) Hilary Mantel (17 votes, 0 shared) James Baldwin (14 votes, 0 shared) Edith Wharton (13 votes, 0 shared) Arundhati Roy (10 votes, 0 shared) EM Forster (9 votes, 0 shared) WG Sebald (9 votes, 0 shared) Cormac McCarthy (8 votes, 0 shared)