The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
2007★ 4.8
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This Boy's Life
1989★ 5.1
Middlesex
2002★ 5.2
White Teeth
2000★ 5.2
The Famished Road
1991★ 5.7
Portnoy's Complaint
1969★ 6.1
The Woman Warrior
1976★ 6.2
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1969★ 6.2
The Bell Jar
1963★ 6.3
The Talented Mr. Ripley
1955★ 6.3
Fierce Attachments
1987★ 6.4
Season of Migration to the North
1966★ 6.4
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
1966★ 6.4
The Labyrinth of Solitude
1950★ 6.5
Black Boy
1945★ 6.7
The Rings of Saturn
1995★ 6.7
The Left Hand of Darkness
1969★ 6.8
The Catcher in the Rye
1951★ 8.4
Song of Solomon
1977★ 8.4
Invisible Man
1952★ 9.0