author/academic/journalist · 5/10 picks in the top 100
"This is of course an impossible task, but here are 10 novels that invariably bring pleasure no matter how often I read them, and seem to grow with me. On another day, a totally different 10. "
| # | Title | Author | Critics | Readers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ulysses | James Joyce | #3 | #10 |
| 2 | The Blue Flower | Penelope Fitzgerald | — | |
| 3 | The Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro | #24 | =31 |
| 4 | The Last Samurai | Helen Dewitt | — | |
| 5 | Nervous Conditions | Tsitsi Dangarembga | #74 | — |
| 6 | The Third Policeman | Flann O'Brien | — | |
| 7 | Bleak House | Charles Dickens | #12 | =26 |
| 8 | To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf | #4 | =70 |
| 9 | Tamarisk Row | Gerald Murnane | — | |
| 10 | The Swimming-Pool Library | Alan Hollinghurst | — |
Voters with the most books in common.