journalist · 9/10 picks in the top 100
| # | Title | Author | Critics | Readers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Color Purple | Alice Walker | #65 | — |
| 2 | Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | #62 | — |
| 3 | Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe | #22 | — |
| 4 | White Teeth | Zadie Smith | #63 | — |
| 5 | Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston | #39 | — |
| 6 | Emma | Jane Austen | #13 | =52 |
| 7 | The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy | #32 | =52 |
| 8 | The Vegetarian | Han Kang | #85 | — |
| 9 | Intermezzo | Sally Rooney | — | |
| 10 | The Great Gatsby | F Scott Fitzgerald | #11 | =16 |
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