author · 5/10 picks in the top 100
"I have left out some obvious titles by American and British and Russian writers. I have little doubt that your other contributors will focus on them, perhaps exclusively. Ten is a tight list. If I had 20, I would have included the obvious and the inevitable."
| # | Title | Author | Critics | Readers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rig Veda | Anonymous | — | |
| 2 | The Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri | — | |
| 3 | Ulysses | James Joyce | #3 | #10 |
| 4 | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | #17 | =8 |
| 5 | 2666 | Roberto Bolaño | =57 | |
| 6 | Pale Fire | Vladimir Nabokov | #29 | — |
| 7 | Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie | #23 | #62 |
| 8 | White Teeth | Zadie Smith | #63 | — |
| 9 | All About H. Hatterr | G. V. Desani | — | |
| 10 | Silent Spring | Rachel Carson | — |
This voter’s picks that didn’t make the critics’ 100 but made the Guardian’s reader-voted 100.
| Readers | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| =57 | 2666 | Roberto Bolaño |
Voters with the most books in common.