A sold-out panel at London’s Conway Hall brought together 400 Guardian readers to discuss the Guardian’s 100 best novels of all time, compiled from votes by more than 170 authors, critics, and academics worldwide. About 1,000 additional readers joined via livestream. Matt Freeman, 46, planned to read Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, which he had kept as a clothbound edition on his shelf for years. Kiaran Weil, 74, attended with her daughter and granddaughter; her granddaughter’s pick, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, ranked 16th, while To Kill a Mockingbird was absent. The interactive list has exceeded 4 million page views, and a follow-up poll has collected over 3,000 readers’ top three novels for publication next week.
"The result has been an online sensation."
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