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J.R.R. Tolkien

4 total votes across 2 books

Readers Also on the Guardian’s reader-voted top 100: The Lord of the Rings (#1).

Voted For But Outside Top 100

TitleVotesVoters
The Lord of the Rings3Adam Roberts, Melissa Harrison, Michael Chabon
The Hobbit1Lucas Rijneveld

Closest Authors

Authors whose voters overlap most with this one.

Ursula K Le Guin (2 shared) Christopher Priest (1 shared) Thomas Pynchon (1 shared) Kurt Vonnegut (1 shared) Susanna Clarke (1 shared) Olga Tokarczuk (1 shared) James Salter (1 shared) Martin Amis (1 shared)

Taste Fault Lines

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

Marcel Proust (27 votes, 0 shared) Charlotte Brontë (24 votes, 0 shared) Gustave Flaubert (22 votes, 0 shared) F Scott Fitzgerald (21 votes, 0 shared) George Orwell (20 votes, 0 shared) Kazuo Ishiguro (19 votes, 0 shared) Franz Kafka (18 votes, 0 shared) Laurence Sterne (18 votes, 0 shared)