journalist · 9/10 picks in the top 100
| # | Title | Author | Critics | Readers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ulysses | James Joyce | #3 | #10 |
| 2 | Middlemarch | George Eliot | #1 | #2 |
| 3 | Persuasion | Jane Austen | #18 | =16 |
| 4 | Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie | #23 | #62 |
| 5 | Our Mutual Friend | Charles Dickens | #72 | — |
| 6 | Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | #25 | =46 |
| 7 | Samuel Beckett Trilogy Molloy; Malone Dies; the Unnamable | Samuel Beckett | — | |
| 8 | Beloved | Toni Morrison | #2 | #20 |
| 9 | Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel | #34 | =14 |
| 10 | Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | #97 | =8 |
Voters with the most books in common.