academic · 3/10 picks in the top 100
| # | Title | Author | Critics | Readers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In Search of Lost Time | Marcel Proust | #5 | #15 |
| 2 | A Dance to the Music of Time | Anthony Powell | #100 | |
| 3 | A Severed Head | Iris Murdoch | — | |
| 4 | Gravity's Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon | #19 | |
| 5 | The Portrait of a Lady | Henry James | #21 | — |
| 6 | The Magic Mountain | Thomas Mann | #42 | =52 |
| 7 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Milan Kundera | =73 | |
| 8 | Oblomov | Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov | — | |
| 9 | Boredom | Alberto Moravia | — | |
| 10 | Aunt Julia and the Script-Writer | Mario Vargas Llosa | — |
This voter’s picks that didn’t make the critics’ 100 but made the Guardian’s reader-voted 100.
| Readers | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| #19 | Gravity's Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon |
| =73 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Milan Kundera |
| #100 | A Dance to the Music of Time | Anthony Powell |
Voters with the most books in common.