author · 8/10 picks in the top 100
| # | Title | Author | Critics | Readers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | #17 | =8 |
| 2 | Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes | #26 | #23 |
| 3 | Ulysses | James Joyce | #3 | #10 |
| 4 | The Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka | #48 | — |
| 5 | Orlando | Virginia Woolf | #54 | — |
| 6 | Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | #10 | =63 |
| 7 | The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath | — | |
| 8 | The Name of the Rose | Umberto Eco | =80 | |
| 9 | Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier | #80 | =63 |
| 10 | The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov | #66 | =31 |
This voter’s picks that didn’t make the critics’ 100 but made the Guardian’s reader-voted 100.
| Readers | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| =80 | The Name of the Rose | Umberto Eco |
Voters with the most books in common.