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Salman Rushdie

15 total votes across 3 books

Readers Also on the Guardian’s reader-voted top 100: Midnight’s Children (#62).

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’ rankMidnight's Children (#23 / #62)

In the Top 100

RankTitleVotesVoters
#23Midnight's Children13Dinah Birch, Jan Carson, Jeet Thayil, Justine Jordan, Kathryn Hughes, Rishi Dastidar, Sara Collins, Sarah Waters, Shahidha Bari, Sinéad Gleeson, Tahmima Anam, Tanjll Rashid, Yagnishsing Dawoor

Voted For But Outside Top 100

TitleVotesVoters
Haroun and the Sea of Stories1Imogen Russell Williams
The Satanic Verses1Stephen King

Closest Authors

Authors whose voters overlap most with this one.

Philip Pullman (2 shared) Anonymous (2 shared) Mark Twain (2 shared) Charlotte Brontë (4 shared) Toni Morrison (7 shared) Zadie Smith (2 shared) Charles Dickens (5 shared) Leo Tolstoy (5 shared)

Taste Fault Lines

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

Marcel Proust (27 votes, 0 shared) Fyodor Dostoevsky (17 votes, 0 shared) Edith Wharton (13 votes, 0 shared) Miguel de Cervantes (11 votes, 0 shared) Mary Shelley (10 votes, 0 shared) Joseph Conrad (9 votes, 0 shared) Thomas Hardy (9 votes, 0 shared) Doris Lessing (8 votes, 0 shared)