author · 4/10 picks in the top 100
| # | Title | Author | Critics | Readers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | #1 | |
| 2 | Middlemarch | George Eliot | #1 | #2 |
| 3 | Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe | #22 | — |
| 4 | Earthsea | Ursula K Le Guin | — | |
| 5 | Pnin | Vladimir Nabokov | — | |
| 6 | Bleak House | Charles Dickens | #12 | =26 |
| 7 | The Heart of Midlothian | Walter Scott | — | |
| 8 | The War of the Worlds | H. G. Wells | — | |
| 9 | Beloved | Toni Morrison | #2 | #20 |
| 10 | The Inverted World | Christopher Priest | — |
This voter’s picks that didn’t make the critics’ 100 but made the Guardian’s reader-voted 100.
| Readers | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| #1 | The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien |
Voters with the most books in common.