The Tale of Genji
1021★ 9.3
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Midnight's Children
1981★ 8.7
A Passage to India
1924★ 8.5
The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 1
1764★ 8.2
Hiroshima
1946★ 8.0
The Things They Carried
1990★ 7.8
The Wisdom Books
Author unknown
400 BC★ 7.6
The Bhagavad Gita
Author unknown
150 BC★ 7.6
The Complete Writings
300 BC★ 7.5
Records of the Grand Historian
94 BC★ 7.5
Gilgamesh
Author unknown
1700 BC★ 7.5
Mahabharata
400 BC★ 7.5
The Journey to the West
1592★ 7.4
The Pillow Book
1002★ 7.4
The Upanishads
Author unknown
500 BC★ 7.4
The Art of War
500 BC★ 7.3
The Recognition of Sakuntala
400★ 7.3
Mencius
300 BC★ 7.3
Siddhartha
1922★ 7.2
The Book of Songs
Author unknown
600 BC★ 7.2
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
1922★ 7.2
The Story of My Experiments with Truth
1929★ 7.2
Snow Country
1948★ 7.2
Shahnameh
977★ 7.1
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
1702★ 7.1
In Praise of Shadows
1933★ 7.1
Lord Jim
1900★ 7.1
The Persian Expedition (Anabasis)
370 BC★ 7.0
Essays in Idleness
1330★ 7.0
The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China
1922★ 7.0
Hojoki
1212★ 7.0
Kokoro
1914★ 7.0
Selected Poems of Rabindranath Tagore
1941★ 6.9
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
1940★ 6.9
A History of the Crusades
1951★ 6.9
The Color Purple
1982★ 6.8
The Road to Oxiana
1937★ 6.8
The Lover
1984★ 6.8
Love in a Fallen City
1943★ 6.8
Red Sorghum
1986★ 6.8