Ulysses
1922★ 9.7
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In Search of Lost Time (set of 6)
1922★ 9.7
The Great Gatsby
1925★ 9.4
The Waste Land
1922★ 9.4
To the Lighthouse
1927★ 9.2
The Sound and the Fury
1929★ 9.2
The Magic Mountain
1924★ 9.1
Mrs. Dalloway
1925★ 9.0
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
1916★ 8.7
The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka
1924★ 8.7
The Collected Poems
1954★ 8.6
The Collected Poems
1963★ 8.6
A Doll's House
1879★ 8.0
As I Lay Dying
1930★ 8.0
The Sun Also Rises
1926★ 8.0
Poems
1979★ 7.8
Herzog
1964★ 7.8
Light in August
1932★ 7.2
Hunger
1890★ 7.0
Red Cavalry
1926★ 7.0
Selected Verse
1936★ 6.9
Selected Poems
1938★ 6.9
Zeno's Conscience
1923★ 6.6
The Foundation Pit
1930★ 6.6
The Counterfeiters
1925★ 6.6
The Street of Crocodiles
1934★ 6.5
Season of Migration to the North
1966★ 6.4
A Heart So White
1992★ 6.4
Ask the Dust
1939★ 6.2
Housekeeping
1980★ 6.0
Dark Elderberry Branch
2012★ 5.5
Too Loud a Solitude
1976★ 5.5
Virginia Woolf
1996★ 5.3
The Blind Owl
1937★ 5.3