author/journalist · 7/10 picks in the top 100
"The obvious disclaimers. These are my favourite novels, not the best. They are also my favourite novels today. Tomorrow the list would be 50% different. I'm already regretting leaving out Moby-Dick, Slaughterhouse 5 & The Day of the Locust. Damn."
| # | Title | Author | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cannery Row | John Steinbeck | |
| 2 | The Great Gatsby | F Scott Fitzgerald | #11 |
| 3 | Pale Fire | Vladimir Nabokov | #29 |
| 4 | Middlemarch | George Eliot | #1 |
| 5 | My Ántonia | Willa Cather | #100 |
| 6 | Bleak House | Charles Dickens | #12 |
| 7 | Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison | #37 |
| 8 | A New Life | Bernard Malamud | |
| 9 | Blood Meridian | Cormac McCarthy | #68 |
| 10 | A Wizard of Earthsea | Ursula K Le Guin |
Voters with the most books in common.