War and Peace
1869★ 9.8
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Don Quixote
1605★ 9.7
Ulysses
1922★ 9.7
In Search of Lost Time (set of 6)
1922★ 9.7
The Brothers Karamazov
1880★ 9.7
Anna Karenina
1877★ 9.6
Crime and Punishment
1866★ 9.6
Moby Dick
1851★ 9.6
Middlemarch
1872★ 9.6
One Hundred Years of Solitude
1967★ 9.5
Pride and Prejudice
1813★ 9.5
Madame Bovary
1857★ 9.4
The Great Gatsby
1925★ 9.4
Beloved
1987★ 9.4
The Tale of Genji
1021★ 9.3
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1884★ 9.3
The Trial
1915★ 9.2
To the Lighthouse
1927★ 9.2
The Sound and the Fury
1929★ 9.2
1984
1949★ 9.1
Lolita
1955★ 9.1
The Magic Mountain
1924★ 9.1
Blood Meridian
1985★ 9.1
Absalom, Absalom!
1936★ 9.0
Mrs. Dalloway
1925★ 9.0
Invisible Man
1952★ 9.0
The Grapes of Wrath
1939★ 9.0
The Stranger
1942★ 8.9
Things Fall Apart
1958★ 8.9
Animal Farm
1945★ 8.9
Eugene Onegin
1832★ 8.8
Great Expectations
1861★ 8.8
Wuthering Heights
1847★ 8.8
Bleak House
1853★ 8.8
Jane Eyre
1847★ 8.8
Les Miserables
1862★ 8.8
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
1916★ 8.7
The Master and Margarita
1967★ 8.7
Life and Fate
1980★ 8.7
Gravity's Rainbow
1973★ 8.7