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Mary Shelley

10 total votes across 1 book

Readers Also on the Guardian’s reader-voted top 100: Frankenstein (=39).

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’ rankFrankenstein (#30 / =39)

In the Top 100

RankTitleVotesVoters
#30Frankenstein10Alberto Manguel, Arifa Akbar, Beejay Silcox, Chloe Aridjis, Fiona Sampson, Kate Mosse, Katherine Rundell, Lucas Rijneveld, Sian Cain, Steven Poole

Closest Authors

Authors whose voters overlap most with this one.

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Taste Fault Lines

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

Charles Dickens (44 votes, 0 shared) Charlotte Brontë (24 votes, 0 shared) Gustave Flaubert (22 votes, 0 shared) F Scott Fitzgerald (21 votes, 0 shared) Laurence Sterne (18 votes, 0 shared) Muriel Spark (16 votes, 0 shared) Salman Rushdie (15 votes, 0 shared) Chinua Achebe (15 votes, 0 shared)