author · 6/10 picks in the top 100
| # | Title | Author | Critics | Readers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison | #37 | — |
| 2 | The Real Life of Sebastian Knight | Vladimir Nabokov | — | |
| 3 | The Great Gatsby | F Scott Fitzgerald | #11 | =16 |
| 4 | Go Tell It on the Mountain | James Baldwin | #79 | — |
| 5 | Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe | #22 | — |
| 6 | White Teeth | Zadie Smith | #63 | — |
| 7 | Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | #41 | =41 |
| 8 | The Grass Is Singing | Doris Lessing | — | |
| 9 | The Coming Bad Days | Sarah Bernstein | — | |
| 10 | Kafka on the Shore | Haruki Murakami | — |
Voters with the most books in common.