Toni Morrison

57 total votes across 5 books

Readers Also on the Guardian’s reader-voted top 100: Beloved (#20).

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
#2	Beloved	43	Adam Roberts, Aida Edemariam, Ali Smith, Anne Enright, Arifa Akbar, Bernardine Evaristo, Candice Carty Williams, Charlotte Northedge, Claire Messud, Daisy Johnson, Damian Barr, Douglas Stuart, Ella Creamer, Esi Edugyan, Fiona Sturges, Imogen Russell Williams, Jacqueline Rose, Jan Carson, Jude Cook, Julie Myerson, Justine Jordan, Katharine Viner, Katherine Rundell, Kit de Waal, Lauren Elkin, Liese Spencer, Lily King, Lisa Allardice, Lorrie Moore, Merve Emre, Nadifa Mohamed, Natasha Walter, Rebecca Liu, Roxane Gay, Salman Rushdie, Sara Collins, Siri Hustvedt, Sophie Mackintosh, Susanna Rustin, Tahmima Anam, Uzma Aslam Khan, Yael van der Wouden, Yagnishsing Dawoor
#40	Song of Solomon	7	Colum McCann, Diana Evans, Dinah Birch, Guy Gunaratne, Ian Rankin, Maaza Mengiste, Naoise Dolan
#75	The Bluest Eye	4	Jennifer Egan, Kate Mosse, Maya Jaggi, Michael Donkor

Voted For But Outside Top 100

Title	Votes	Voters
Sula	2	David Nicholls, Jack Edwards
Tar Baby	1	David Diop

Closest Authors

Authors whose voters overlap most with this one.

Virginia Woolf (23 shared) Jane Austen (22 shared) Charles Dickens (14 shared) George Eliot (16 shared) Muriel Spark (8 shared) Leo Tolstoy (11 shared) Arundhati Roy (7 shared) Gabriel García Márquez (8 shared)

Taste Fault Lines

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

Joseph Conrad (9 votes, 0 shared) Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (6 votes, 0 shared) Italo Calvino (6 votes, 0 shared) Ernest Hemingway (6 votes, 0 shared) Iris Murdoch (5 votes, 0 shared) Evelyn Waugh (5 votes, 0 shared) John Updike (5 votes, 0 shared) Patricia Highsmith (4 votes, 0 shared)