journalist · 4/10 picks in the top 100
| # | Title | Author | Critics | Readers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | #6 | #11 |
| 2 | Beloved | Toni Morrison | #2 | #20 |
| 3 | Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | #10 | =63 |
| 4 | The Golden Notebook | Doris Lessing | #45 | — |
| 5 | Notes From the Underground | Fyodor Dostoevsky | — | |
| 6 | The Lonely Londoners | Samuel Selvon | — | |
| 7 | Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace | =31 | |
| 8 | Golden Age | Wang Xiaobo | — | |
| 9 | The Dispossessed | Ursula K Le Guin | =70 | |
| 10 | The Stranger | Albert Camus | — |
This voter’s picks that didn’t make the critics’ 100 but made the Guardian’s reader-voted 100.
| Readers | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| =31 | Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace |
| =70 | The Dispossessed | Ursula K Le Guin |
Voters with the most books in common.