Don Quixote
1605★ 9.7
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Pride and Prejudice
1813★ 9.5
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1884★ 9.3
Animal Farm
1945★ 8.9
The Master and Margarita
1967★ 8.7
Catch-22
1961★ 8.7
Gulliver's Travels
1726★ 8.2
Candide
1759★ 8.2
Dead Souls
1842★ 8.1
The Importance of Being Earnest
1895★ 8.0
Infinite Jest
1996★ 7.7
Gargantua and Pantagruel
1564★ 7.4
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
1886★ 7.3
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
1759★ 7.3
Vanity Fair
1848★ 7.2
Babbitt
1922★ 7.1
The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China
1922★ 7.0
The Satires
100★ 7.0
The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays
1666★ 7.0
A Modest Proposal
1729★ 7.0