The Odyssey
700 BC★ 9.9
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Don Quixote
1605★ 9.7
Moby Dick
1851★ 9.6
Aeneid
19 BC★ 9.5
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1884★ 9.3
The Lord of the Rings
1954★ 8.9
Gulliver's Travels
1726★ 8.2
Lord of the Flies
1954★ 7.8
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Author unknown
1375★ 7.4
Le Morte d'Arthur
1485★ 7.4
The Conquest of New Spain
1568★ 7.3
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
1922★ 7.2
The Worst Journey in the World
1922★ 7.1
The Persian Expedition (Anabasis)
370 BC★ 7.0
Robinson Crusoe
1719★ 7.0
Billy Budd, Sailor
1924★ 7.0
The Count of Monte Cristo
1844★ 7.0
White Fang (includes Call of the Wild and To Build a Fire)
1906★ 7.0
Into Thin Air
1997★ 6.8
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1876★ 6.7
The Three Musketeers
1844★ 6.6
Kim
1901★ 6.6
The Tain Bo Cuailnge
Author unknown
750★ 6.6
Wind, Sand and Stars
1939★ 6.6
Treasure Island
1883★ 6.6
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
1870★ 6.5
Arabian Sands
1959★ 6.5
Annapurna
1951★ 6.4
Memed, My Hawk
1955★ 6.2
Watership Down
1972★ 6.0
The Right Stuff
1979★ 5.9
The Journals
1768★ 5.8
Sailing Alone Around the World
1900★ 5.7
Endurance
1959★ 5.6
West with the Night
1942★ 5.6
The Last of the Mohicans
1826★ 5.5
The Extraordinary Journeys
1872★ 5.5
King Solomon's Mines
1885★ 5.3
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
1958★ 5.0
Magellan
1938★ 4.9