The Tiger in the Smoke
1952★ 4.6
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The Daughter of Time
1951★ 4.7
Gaudy Night
1935★ 4.7
Matilda
1988★ 4.8
The Thirty-Nine Steps
1915★ 4.8
The Diary of a Nobody
1892★ 4.8
Three Men in a Boat
1889★ 4.9
Rebecca
1938★ 5.0
The Inimitable Jeeves
1923★ 5.1
The Pursuit of Love
1945★ 5.2
White Teeth
2000★ 5.2
And Then There Were None
1939★ 5.3
Black Beauty
1877★ 5.3
Twenty Years After
1845★ 5.3
Virginia Woolf
1996★ 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 Way of All Flesh
1903★ 5.7