author · 6/10 picks in the top 100
| # | Title | Author | Critics | Readers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In Search of Lost Time | Marcel Proust | #5 | #15 |
| 2 | The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | Giorgio Bassani | — | |
| 3 | The Leopard | Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa | #46 | — |
| 4 | Persuasion | Jane Austen | #18 | =16 |
| 5 | Bleak House | Charles Dickens | #12 | =26 |
| 6 | Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | — | |
| 7 | The Girls of Slender Means | Muriel Spark | — | |
| 8 | Riddley Walker | Russell Hoban | — | |
| 9 | The Rings of Saturn | WG Sebald | #61 | — |
| 10 | The Talented Mr Ripley | Patricia Highsmith | #84 | — |
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