author · 9/10 picks in the top 100
"More a list of favourites – there are some scandalous omissions that I know others will pick – and definitely skewed towards the books that I read at an impressionable age, but everything here has engaged, affected and influenced me and I love them all. "
| # | Title | Author | Critics | Readers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Persuasion | Jane Austen | #18 | =16 |
| 2 | Bleak House | Charles Dickens | #12 | =26 |
| 3 | The Great Gatsby | F Scott Fitzgerald | #11 | =16 |
| 4 | The Portrait of a Lady | Henry James | #21 | — |
| 5 | Housekeeping | Marilynne Robinson | #43 | — |
| 6 | To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf | #4 | =70 |
| 7 | Howards End | EM Forster | #60 | — |
| 8 | Sula | Toni Morrison | — | |
| 9 | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Muriel Spark | #31 | — |
| 10 | The Transit of Venus | Shirley Hazzard | #53 | — |
Voters with the most books in common.