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Lauren Elkin

author · 3/10 picks in the top 100

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#TitleAuthorCriticsReaders
1Mrs DallowayVirginia Woolf#14=93
2NightwoodDjuna Barnes
3BelovedToni Morrison#2#20
4The YearsAnnie Ernaux
5Life, a User's ManualGeorges Perec
6MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot#1#2
7GerminalÉmile Zola=63
8Notre Dame De ParisVictor Hugo
9Heat of the DayElizabeth Bowen
10La Princesse De ClevesMadame de La Fayette

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This voter’s picks that didn’t make the critics’ 100 but made the Guardian’s reader-voted 100.

ReadersTitleAuthor
=63GerminalÉmile Zola

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