author · 8/10 picks in the top 100
| # | Title | Author | Critics | Readers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Magic Mountain | Thomas Mann | #42 | =52 |
| 2 | In Search of Lost Time | Marcel Proust | #5 | #15 |
| 3 | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | Laurence Sterne | #19 | =80 |
| 4 | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | #7 | #6 |
| 5 | Life and Fate | Vasily Grossman | #91 | — |
| 6 | Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell | #16 | #7 |
| 7 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | — | |
| 8 | Middlemarch | George Eliot | #1 | #2 |
| 9 | Howards End | EM Forster | #60 | — |
| 10 | The Gormenghast Novels | Mervyn Peake | — |
Voters with the most books in common.