author · 4/10 picks in the top 100
| # | Title | Author | Critics | Readers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middlemarch | George Eliot | #1 | #2 |
| 2 | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | #7 | #6 |
| 3 | The Portrait of a Lady | Henry James | #21 | — |
| 4 | Suttree | Cormac McCarthy | — | |
| 5 | The Easter Parade | Richard Yates | — | |
| 6 | Persuasion | Jane Austen | #18 | =16 |
| 7 | The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen | — | |
| 8 | Angel | Elizabeth Taylor | — | |
| 9 | Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace | =31 | |
| 10 | The Tunnel | William H. Gass | — |
This voter’s picks that didn’t make the critics’ 100 but made the Guardian’s reader-voted 100.
| Readers | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| =31 | Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace |
Voters with the most books in common.