author · 3/10 picks in the top 100
| # | Title | Author | Critics | Readers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow | Peter Høeg | — | |
| 2 | The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy | #32 | =52 |
| 3 | The Shipping News | Annie Proulx | — | |
| 4 | The Bone People | Keri Hulme | — | |
| 5 | Beloved | Toni Morrison | #2 | #20 |
| 6 | Women Talking | Miriam Toews | — | |
| 7 | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | #17 | =8 |
| 8 | Watership Down | Richard Adams | =46 | |
| 9 | Territory of Light | Yuko Tsushima | — | |
| 10 | Freshwater | Akwaeke Emezi | — |
This voter’s picks that didn’t make the critics’ 100 but made the Guardian’s reader-voted 100.
| Readers | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| =46 | Watership Down | Richard Adams |
Voters with the most books in common.