author · 6/10 picks in the top 100
| # | Title | Author | Critics | Readers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Song of Solomon | Toni Morrison | #40 | — |
| 2 | The Book of Daniel | E. L. Doctorow | — | |
| 3 | Afterlives | Abdulrazak Gurnah | — | |
| 4 | Nervous Conditions | Tsitsi Dangarembga | #74 | — |
| 5 | Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel | #34 | =14 |
| 6 | Visitation | Jenny Erpenbeck | — | |
| 7 | The Known World | Edward P Jones | #94 | — |
| 8 | Human Acts | Han Kang | — | |
| 9 | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | #7 | #6 |
| 10 | Go Tell It on the Mountain | James Baldwin | #79 | — |
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