author · 9/10 picks in the top 100
| # | Title | Author | Critics | Readers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf | #4 | =70 |
| 2 | Mrs Dalloway | Virginia Woolf | #14 | =93 |
| 3 | The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner | #57 | — |
| 4 | Beloved | Toni Morrison | #2 | #20 |
| 5 | Persuasion | Jane Austen | #18 | =16 |
| 6 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | #9 | #3 |
| 7 | Middlemarch | George Eliot | #1 | #2 |
| 8 | Independant People | Halldór Laxness | — | |
| 9 | In Search of Lost Time | Marcel Proust | #5 | #15 |
| 10 | The Transit of Venus | Shirley Hazzard | #53 | — |
Voters with the most books in common.