Margaret Atwood

9 total votes across 1 book

Readers Also on the Guardian’s reader-voted top 100: The Handmaid’s Tale (=41).

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
#36	The Handmaid's Tale	9	Anne Enright, Arifa Akbar, Beejay Silcox, Charlotte Northedge, Fiona Sturges, Lisa Allardice, Lisa Tuttle, Sara Collins, Sian Cain

Closest Authors

Authors whose voters overlap most with this one.

Alexis Wright (2 shared) Mary Shelley (3 shared) George Orwell (4 shared) Kazuo Ishiguro (4 shared) Octavia E Butler (2 shared) Jean Rhys (2 shared) Toni Morrison (6 shared) Ian McEwan (1 shared)

Taste Fault Lines

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

Vladimir Nabokov (27 votes, 0 shared) Franz Kafka (18 votes, 0 shared) Laurence Sterne (18 votes, 0 shared) Fyodor Dostoevsky (17 votes, 0 shared) Chinua Achebe (15 votes, 0 shared) James Baldwin (14 votes, 0 shared) Miguel de Cervantes (11 votes, 0 shared) Marilynne Robinson (10 votes, 0 shared)