author · 3/10 picks in the top 100
| # | Title | Author | Critics | Readers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moby-Dick | Herman Melville | #15 | #12 |
| 2 | Ulysses | James Joyce | #3 | #10 |
| 3 | Light in August | William Faulkner | — | |
| 4 | The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter | Carson McCullers | — | |
| 5 | The Satanic Verses | Salman Rushdie | — | |
| 6 | Wise Blood | Flannery O'Connor | — | |
| 7 | Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | — | |
| 8 | Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | #10 | =63 |
| 9 | Nana | Émile Zola | — | |
| 10 | McTeague | Frank Norris | — |
Voters with the most books in common.