Pride and Prejudice
1813★ 9.5
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Emma
1815★ 8.1
The Importance of Being Earnest
1895★ 8.0
The Remains of the Day
1989★ 7.7
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1596★ 7.4
The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling
1749★ 7.3
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
1759★ 7.3
Sense and Sensibility
1811★ 7.2
The Merchant of Venice
1598★ 7.2
As You Like It
1600★ 7.2
Much Ado About Nothing
1599★ 7.2
The Ambassadors
1903★ 7.1
Lysistrata and Other Plays
411 BC★ 7.1
Don Juan and Other Plays
1665★ 7.1
The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays
1666★ 7.0
Four Comedies
200 BC★ 7.0
Cannery Row
1945★ 6.9
A Confederacy of Dunces
1980★ 6.8
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
1966★ 6.4
Money
1984★ 6.4
The Code of the Woosters
1938★ 6.3
Lucky Jim
1954★ 6.3
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1979★ 6.3
The Alchemist
1610★ 6.1
Flaubert's Parrot
1984★ 5.4
The Pursuit of Love
1945★ 5.2
The Inimitable Jeeves
1923★ 5.1
Three Men in a Boat
1889★ 4.9
The Diary of a Nobody
1892★ 4.8
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1925★ 4.8
A Good Man in Africa
1981★ 4.7