author · 6/10 picks in the top 100
| # | Title | Author | Critics | Readers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | #9 | #3 |
| 2 | Middlemarch | George Eliot | #1 | #2 |
| 3 | Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell | #16 | #7 |
| 4 | The Plague | Albert Camus | =80 | |
| 5 | Beloved | Toni Morrison | #2 | #20 |
| 6 | A Bend in the River | VS Naipaul | — | |
| 7 | The English Patient | Michael Ondaatje | — | |
| 8 | Blood Meridian | Cormac McCarthy | #68 | #28 |
| 9 | The Transit of Venus | Shirley Hazzard | #53 | — |
| 10 | Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay | Elena Ferrante | — |
This voter’s picks that didn’t make the critics’ 100 but made the Guardian’s reader-voted 100.
| Readers | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| =80 | The Plague | Albert Camus |
Voters with the most books in common.