Gaudy Night
1935★ 4.7
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Rebecca
1938★ 5.0
The Blind Assassin
2000★ 5.2
Crossing to Safety
1987★ 5.5
Therese Desqueyroux
1927★ 6.0
The Miser and Other Plays
1668★ 6.0
Angle of Repose
1971★ 6.0
So Long a Letter
1981★ 6.1
Interpreter of Maladies
2000★ 6.3
A Heart So White
1992★ 6.4
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1962★ 6.5
A Handful of Dust
1934★ 6.5
The Kreutzer Sonata
1889★ 6.5
Fortress Besieged
1947★ 6.6
Zeno's Conscience
1923★ 6.6
Effi Briest
1895★ 6.6
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
1848★ 6.6
Love in a Fallen City
1943★ 6.8
Rabbit, Run
1960★ 6.8
Revolutionary Road
1961★ 6.8