journalist · 2/10 picks in the top 100
"These are my top 10 novels of all time – today. Utterly impossible task."
| # | Title | Author | Critics | Readers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | #6 | #11 |
| 2 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce | — | |
| 3 | The Tin Drum | Günter Grass | =63 | |
| 4 | The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison | #75 | — |
| 5 | In the Skin of a Lion | Michael Ondaatje | — | |
| 6 | Maps | Nuruddin Farah | — | |
| 7 | A Mind at Peace | Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar | — | |
| 8 | On the Edge of Reason | Miroslav Krleža | — | |
| 9 | The Dew Breaker | Edwidge Danticat | — | |
| 10 | Eighth Life | Nino Haratischvili | — |
This voter’s picks that didn’t make the critics’ 100 but made the Guardian’s reader-voted 100.
| Readers | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| =63 | The Tin Drum | Günter Grass |
Voters with the most books in common.