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Colm Tóibín

author · 8/10 picks in the top 100

Ballot

#TitleAuthorCriticsReaders
1UlyssesJames Joyce#3#10
2The Golden BowlHenry James#52
3In Search of Lost TimeMarcel Proust#5#15
4The TrialFranz Kafka#27
5BuddenbrooksThomas Mann#81
6The OutsiderAlbert Camus=63
7To the LighthouseVirginia Woolf#4=70
8One Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel García Márquez#17=8
9The Sun Also RisesErnest Hemingway=75
10The Age of InnocenceEdith Wharton#38

Backed by Readers, Missed by Critics Readers

This voter’s picks that didn’t make the critics’ 100 but made the Guardian’s reader-voted 100.

ReadersTitleAuthor
=63The OutsiderAlbert Camus
=75The Sun Also RisesErnest Hemingway

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