journalist · 10/10 picks in the top 100
"In order to tackle this impossible task, I decided to choose books that stayed with me long after reading them and that have meant something important to me at various stages of my life."
| # | Title | Author | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middlemarch | George Eliot | #1 |
| 2 | Persuasion | Jane Austen | #18 |
| 3 | To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf | #4 |
| 4 | The Great Gatsby | F Scott Fitzgerald | #11 |
| 5 | Beloved | Toni Morrison | #2 |
| 6 | Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | #59 |
| 7 | The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood | #36 |
| 8 | My Brilliant Friend | Elena Ferrante | #51 |
| 9 | Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | #62 |
| 10 | The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy | #32 |
Voters with the most books in common.