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Virginia Woolf

64 total votes across 6 books

Readers Also on the Guardian’s reader-voted top 100: To the Lighthouse (=70), Mrs Dalloway (=93).

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’ rankTo the Lighthouse (#4 / =70)Mrs Dalloway (#14 / =93)

In the Top 100

RankTitleVotesVoters
#4To the Lighthouse31Alex Clark, Alexandra Harris, Andrew Solomon, Ben Markovits, Catherine Taylor, Charlotte Northedge, Chris Power, Colm Tóibín, David Nicholls, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Eimear McBride, Ella Creamer, Fiona Sampson, Hermione Lee, Jack Edwards, Jennifer Egan, Jo Hamya, Jon Day, Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Julie Myerson, Kieran Goddard, Lara Feigel, Lily King, Lisa Allardice, Merve Emre, Natasha Walter, Saba Sams, Shahidha Bari, Sinéad Gleeson, Siri Hustvedt, Yiyun Li
#14Mrs Dalloway18Aida Edemariam, Claire Messud, Clare Clark, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Houman Barekat, John Self, Kevin Power, Lauren Elkin, Liese Spencer, Lily King, Lisa Allardice, Maya Jasanoff, Melissa Broder, Michael Donkor, Samantha Harvey, Sandra Newman, Sarah Moss, Susanna Rustin
#54Orlando5Adam Thirlwell, Elif Shafak, Katharine Viner, Kathryn Hughes, Michael Chabon
#55The Waves5Alexandra Harris, Chigozie Obioma, Guy Gunaratne, Jacqueline Rose, Jude Cook
#90Jacob's Room3Alexandra Harris, M. John Harrison, Mark Haddon

Voted For But Outside Top 100

TitleVotesVoters
A Room of One's Own2Colum McCann, Uzma Aslam Khan

Closest Authors

Authors whose voters overlap most with this one.

George Eliot (26 shared) Toni Morrison (23 shared) Henry James (15 shared) Jane Austen (20 shared) James Joyce (16 shared) Leo Tolstoy (15 shared) Marcel Proust (11 shared) Charles Dickens (12 shared)

Taste Fault Lines

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

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (6 votes, 0 shared) Han Kang (6 votes, 0 shared) Alice Walker (5 votes, 0 shared) Octavia E Butler (5 votes, 0 shared) Abdulrazak Gurnah (5 votes, 0 shared) Angela Carter (5 votes, 0 shared) Patricia Highsmith (4 votes, 0 shared) Daniel Defoe (4 votes, 0 shared)