author · 8/10 picks in the top 100
| # | Title | Author | Critics | Readers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moby-Dick | Herman Melville | #15 | #12 |
| 2 | Middlemarch | George Eliot | #1 | #2 |
| 3 | The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | #28 | =21 |
| 4 | Ulysses | James Joyce | #3 | #10 |
| 5 | 2666 | Roberto Bolaño | =57 | |
| 6 | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | #7 | #6 |
| 7 | To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf | #4 | =70 |
| 8 | In Search of Lost Time | Marcel Proust | #5 | #15 |
| 9 | Jude the Obscure | Thomas Hardy | #70 | — |
| 10 | Septology | Jon Fosse | — |
This voter’s picks that didn’t make the critics’ 100 but made the Guardian’s reader-voted 100.
| Readers | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| =57 | 2666 | Roberto Bolaño |
Voters with the most books in common.