author · 7/10 picks in the top 100
| # | Title | Author | Critics | Readers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beloved | Toni Morrison | #2 | #20 |
| 2 | Jude the Obscure | Thomas Hardy | #70 | — |
| 3 | The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | #28 | =21 |
| 4 | Disgrace | JM Coetzee | #58 | — |
| 5 | A Kestrel for a Knave | Barry Hines | — | |
| 6 | The Line of Beauty | Alan Hollinghurst | #87 | — |
| 7 | Trainspotting | Irvine Welsh | — | |
| 8 | My Brilliant Friend | Elena Ferrante | #51 | — |
| 9 | How Late It Was, How Late | James Kelman | — | |
| 10 | Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | #25 | =46 |
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