author · 7/10 picks in the top 100
"I've chosen English-language novels that have stood the test of time for a very long period, which has (alas) meant omitting titles from the past 70-plus years such as Lord of the Flies, Catch-22, The Bell Jar, A Clockwork Orange and JM Coetzee's Disgrace, not to mention numerous winners of the Booker and International Booker prize and some tremendous novels in translation. "
| # | Title | Author | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middlemarch | George Eliot | #1 |
| 2 | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontèˆ | #8 |
| 3 | The Great Gatsby | F Scott Fitzgerald | #11 |
| 4 | Ulysses | James Joyce | #3 |
| 5 | Sons and Lovers | D. H. Lawrence | |
| 6 | Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell | #16 |
| 7 | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | Laurence Sterne | #19 |
| 8 | Emma | Jane Austen | #13 |
| 9 | Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift | |
| 10 | Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
Voters with the most books in common.