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Leo Tolstoy

47 total votes across 3 books

Readers Also on the Guardian’s reader-voted top 100: War and Peace (#6), Anna Karenina (#11).

Ranked on Both Lists Readers

This author’s 2 works 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’ rankAnna Karenina (#6 / #11)War and Peace (#7 / #6)

In the Top 100

RankTitleVotesVoters
#6Anna Karenina26Ahdaf Soueif, Amanda Craig, Arifa Akbar, Claire Messud, Clare Clark, Daniel Kehlmann, Diana Evans, Dinah Birch, Eimear McBride, Elif Batuman, Freya Johnston, Ian McEwan, Jo Hamya, John Mullan, Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Katharine Viner, Lara Feigel, Maya Jaggi, Maya Jasanoff, Melissa Harrison, Rebecca Liu, Rishi Dastidar, Sara Collins, Sarah Waters, Tahmima Anam, Tom Crewe
#7War and Peace20Adam Thirlwell, Andrew Solomon, Ben Okri, Charlotte Mendelson, Chigozie Obioma, Chris Power, Christobel Kent, Claire Armitstead, Daniel Kehlmann, Geoff Dyer, Jem Calder, John Lanchester, Lara Feigel, Maaza Mengiste, Marcel Theroux, Natasha Walter, Sarah Bakewell, Tessa Hadley, Yan Lianke, Yiyun Li

Voted For But Outside Top 100

TitleVotesVoters
Ivan Ilyitch1Melissa Broder

Closest Authors

Authors whose voters overlap most with this one.

George Eliot (24 shared) Gustave Flaubert (13 shared) Jane Austen (20 shared) Marcel Proust (13 shared) Charles Dickens (14 shared) Virginia Woolf (15 shared) Fyodor Dostoevsky (8 shared) James Joyce (10 shared)

Taste Fault Lines

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

JM Coetzee (8 votes, 0 shared) Graham Greene (7 votes, 0 shared) Italo Calvino (6 votes, 0 shared) Alan Hollinghurst (5 votes, 0 shared) Octavia E Butler (5 votes, 0 shared) Iris Murdoch (5 votes, 0 shared) Evelyn Waugh (5 votes, 0 shared) Joseph Heller (4 votes, 0 shared)