In Search of Lost Time (set of 6)
1922★ 9.7
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
1916★ 8.7
Buddenbrooks
1901★ 8.0
The Savage Detectives
1998★ 7.7
The Lives of the Artists
1550★ 7.3
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
1860★ 7.3
The Story of Art
1950★ 7.2
Ways of Seeing
1972★ 7.2
Letters to a Young Poet
1908★ 6.9
Against Interpretation
1966★ 6.8
James Joyce
1959★ 6.8
The Loser
1983★ 6.8
My Name Is Red
1998★ 6.7
Against Nature
1884★ 6.7
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
1910★ 6.5
Art as Experience
1934★ 6.4
Narcissus and Goldmund
1930★ 6.3
The Shock of the New
1980★ 5.9
The Field of Cultural Production
1993★ 5.5
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
2000★ 5.5
The Painted Word
1975★ 5.1
The Map and the Territory
2010★ 5.0
Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees
Lawrence Weschler
2009★ 4.9
Thoughts on Design
1947★ 4.5
Japanese Woodblock Prints
2019★ 4.3