author/academic · 3/10 picks in the top 100
| # | Title | Author | Critics | Readers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe | #22 | — |
| 2 | Palm-Wine Drinkard | Amos Tutuola | — | |
| 3 | Too Loud a Solitude | Bohumil Hrabal | — | |
| 4 | Pedro Páramo | Juan Rulfo | #96 | — |
| 5 | The Trial | Franz Kafka | #27 | — |
| 6 | The Name of the Rose | Umberto Eco | =80 | |
| 7 | The Tartar Steppe | Dino Buzzati | — | |
| 8 | If This Is a Man / the Truce | Primo Levi | — | |
| 9 | On the Road | Jack Kerouac | =73 | |
| 10 | The Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger | =37 |
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 |
| =73 | On the Road | Jack Kerouac |
| =80 | The Name of the Rose | Umberto Eco |
Voters with the most books in common.