King Lear
1607★ 9.8
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Middlemarch
1872★ 9.6
Pride and Prejudice
1813★ 9.5
The Canterbury Tales
1390★ 8.9
Wuthering Heights
1847★ 8.8
Emma
1815★ 8.1
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
1891★ 8.1
The Making of the English Working Class
1963★ 7.9
The Remains of the Day
1989★ 7.7
Capital
1867★ 7.5
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Author unknown
1375★ 7.4
Le Morte d'Arthur
1485★ 7.4
Ecclesiastical History of the English People
731★ 7.3
The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling
1749★ 7.3
The Life of Samuel Johnson
1791★ 7.3
Sense and Sensibility
1811★ 7.2
Vanity Fair
1848★ 7.2
A Room with a View
1908★ 7.0
Eminent Victorians
1918★ 7.0
Parade's End
1928★ 7.0
Brideshead Revisited
1945★ 7.0
Howards End
1910★ 7.0
The Rainbow
1915★ 7.0
Orlando
1928★ 7.0
The Turn of the Screw
1898★ 7.0
Brighton Rock
1938★ 6.9
The Secret Garden
1911★ 6.9
Atonement
2001★ 6.7
Silas Marner
1861★ 6.7
The Moonstone
1868★ 6.6
The Three Musketeers
1844★ 6.6
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
1848★ 6.6
The Time Machine
1895★ 6.6
North and South
1855★ 6.6
Of Human Bondage
1915★ 6.6
The Uses of Literacy
1957★ 6.6
Goodbye to All That
1929★ 6.6
The War of the Worlds
1897★ 6.6
A Handful of Dust
1934★ 6.5
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1902★ 6.4