Gaudy Night
1935★ 4.7
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Matilda
1988★ 4.8
Three Men in a Boat
1889★ 4.9
The Inimitable Jeeves
1923★ 5.1
The Pursuit of Love
1945★ 5.2
And Then There Were None
1939★ 5.3
Black Beauty
1877★ 5.3
Twenty Years After
1845★ 5.3
Coleridge
1989★ 5.4
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1889★ 5.5
Ivanhoe
1819★ 5.6
The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
1914★ 5.7
The World Turned Upside Down
1972★ 5.8
Churchill
1991★ 5.9
Watership Down
1972★ 6.0
The Innocence of Father Brown
1911★ 6.1
A Clockwork Orange
1962★ 6.3
Lucky Jim
1954★ 6.3
The Code of the Woosters
1938★ 6.3
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1902★ 6.4