author · 8/10 picks in the top 100
| # | Title | Author | Critics | Readers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes | #26 | #23 |
| 2 | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | #17 | =8 |
| 3 | Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | #10 | =63 |
| 4 | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | #6 | #11 |
| 5 | Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | #41 | =41 |
| 6 | In Search of Lost Time | Marcel Proust | #5 | #15 |
| 7 | To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf | #4 | =70 |
| 8 | Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky | #69 | #25 |
| 9 | Conversation in the Cathedral | Mario Vargas Llosa | — | |
| 10 | Light in August | William Faulkner | — |
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