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James Joyce

39 total votes across 2 books

Readers Also on the Guardian’s reader-voted top 100: Ulysses (#10).

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’ rankUlysses (#3 / #10)

In the Top 100

RankTitleVotesVoters
#3Ulysses36Alberto Manguel, Alex Clark, Alexandra Harris, Anne Enright, Ben Okri, Blake Morrison, Charlotte Higgins, Chris Power, Claire Armitstead, Colm Tóibín, Colum McCann, Eimear McBride, Elif Shafak, Guy Gunaratne, Houman Barekat, Ian McEwan, Jacqueline Rose, James Meek, Jeet Thayil, John Lanchester, John Mullan, Jon Day, Justine Jordan, Kevin Power, Kieran Goddard, Maggie O’Farrell, Melissa Harrison, Merve Emre, Salman Rushdie, Sinéad Gleeson, Siri Hustvedt, Stephen King, Stuart Kelly, Valeria Luiselli, William Boyd, Yan Lianke

Voted For But Outside Top 100

TitleVotesVoters
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man3Amit Chaudhuri, Chloe Aridjis, Maya Jaggi

Closest Authors

Authors whose voters overlap most with this one.

Marcel Proust (14 shared) George Eliot (19 shared) Herman Melville (11 shared) Virginia Woolf (16 shared) Gabriel García Márquez (9 shared) Fyodor Dostoevsky (8 shared) Franz Kafka (8 shared) Miguel de Cervantes (7 shared)

Taste Fault Lines

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

Arundhati Roy (10 votes, 0 shared) EM Forster (9 votes, 0 shared) Graham Greene (7 votes, 0 shared) Don DeLillo (7 votes, 0 shared) Elena Ferrante (7 votes, 0 shared) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (7 votes, 0 shared) Rohinton Mistry (6 votes, 0 shared) Shirley Hazzard (6 votes, 0 shared)