author/journalist · 7/10 picks in the top 100
| # | Title | Author | Critics | Readers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middlemarch | George Eliot | #1 | #2 |
| 2 | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | #6 | #11 |
| 3 | The Leopard | Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa | #46 | — |
| 4 | A Sentimental Journey | Laurence Sterne | — | |
| 5 | Sudden Death | Álvaro Enrigue | — | |
| 6 | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | #35 | =29 |
| 7 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | #9 | #3 |
| 8 | The Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger | =37 | |
| 9 | A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway | #83 | — |
| 10 | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | #17 | =8 |
This voter’s picks that didn’t make the critics’ 100 but made the Guardian’s reader-voted 100.
| Readers | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| =37 | The Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger |
Voters with the most books in common.