In Search of Lost Time (set of 6)
1922★ 9.7
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Madame Bovary
1857★ 9.4
Essays
1580★ 9.3
Les Miserables
1862★ 8.8
The Red and the Black
1830★ 8.5
Germinal
1885★ 7.3
The Autumn of the Middle Ages
1919★ 7.2
As You Like It
1600★ 7.2
Old Man Goriot
1835★ 7.2
Cousin Bette
1846★ 7.1
The Ambassadors
1903★ 7.1
The Gallic War
50 BC★ 7.1
Confessions
1782★ 7.1
Reflections on the Revolution in France
1790★ 7.1
Lost Illusions
1843★ 7.0
A Tale of Two Cities
1859★ 7.0
Sentimental Education
1869★ 7.0
The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays
1666★ 7.0
Parade's End
1928★ 7.0
Down and Out in Paris and London
1933★ 7.0
The Count of Monte Cristo
1844★ 7.0
Tender is the Night
1934★ 6.9
Hopscotch
1963★ 6.9
The French Revolution
1837★ 6.9
The Face of Battle
1976★ 6.9
The Ancien Regime and the Revolution
1856★ 6.8
A Moveable Feast
1964★ 6.8
Life
1978★ 6.8
Atonement
2001★ 6.7
Against Nature
1884★ 6.7
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1831★ 6.6
The Song of Roland
Author unknown
1115★ 6.6
Dangerous Liaisons
1782★ 6.6
The Three Musketeers
1844★ 6.6
Of Human Bondage
1915★ 6.6
The Counterfeiters
1925★ 6.6
Tropic of Cancer
1934★ 6.5
The Book of the City of Ladies
1405★ 6.5
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
1135★ 6.5
A Simple Heart
1877★ 6.5