author · 9/10 picks in the top 100
| # | Title | Author | Critics | Readers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie | #23 | #62 |
| 2 | Beloved | Toni Morrison | #2 | #20 |
| 3 | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | #6 | #11 |
| 4 | Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe | #22 | — |
| 5 | Persuasion | Jane Austen | #18 | =16 |
| 6 | The Great Gatsby | F Scott Fitzgerald | #11 | =16 |
| 7 | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë | #8 | =26 |
| 8 | Sultana's Dream | Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain | — | |
| 9 | The Vegetarian | Han Kang | #85 | — |
| 10 | My Ántonia | Willa Cather | #100 | — |
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