author/academic · 4/10 picks in the top 100
| # | Title | Author | Critics | Readers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three Men in a Boat | Jerome K. Jerome | — | |
| 2 | Berlin Alexanderplatz | Alfred Döblin | — | |
| 3 | Jude the Obscure | Thomas Hardy | #70 | — |
| 4 | Germinal | Émile Zola | =63 | |
| 5 | A House for Mr Biswas | VS Naipaul | #78 | — |
| 6 | The Man Without Qualities | Robert Musil | #67 | — |
| 7 | Swami and Friends | R. K. Narayan | — | |
| 8 | Too Loud a Solitude | Bohumil Hrabal | — | |
| 9 | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | Laurence Sterne | #19 | =80 |
| 10 | The Fish Can Sing | Halldór Laxness | — |
This voter’s picks that didn’t make the critics’ 100 but made the Guardian’s reader-voted 100.
| Readers | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| =63 | Germinal | Émile Zola |
Voters with the most books in common.