academic · 7/10 picks in the top 100
| # | Title | Author | Critics | Readers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middlemarch | George Eliot | #1 | #2 |
| 2 | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë | #8 | =26 |
| 3 | Bleak House | Charles Dickens | #12 | =26 |
| 4 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | #9 | #3 |
| 5 | Orlando | Virginia Woolf | #54 | — |
| 6 | Cranford | Elizabeth Gaskell | — | |
| 7 | Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh | =75 | |
| 8 | Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie | #23 | #62 |
| 9 | Flaubert's Parrot | Julian Barnes | — | |
| 10 | The Turn of the Screw | Henry James | #86 | — |
This voter’s picks that didn’t make the critics’ 100 but made the Guardian’s reader-voted 100.
| Readers | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| =75 | Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh |
Voters with the most books in common.