The Waste Land
1922★ 9.4
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The Magic Mountain
1924★ 9.1
Love in the Time of Cholera
1985★ 8.4
The Idiot
1869★ 8.1
As I Lay Dying
1930★ 8.0
Pedro Paramo
1955★ 8.0
Charlotte's Web
1952★ 7.8
Gilead
2004★ 7.7
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
1886★ 7.3
The Autumn of the Middle Ages
1919★ 7.2
The Portable Edgar Allan Poe
1849★ 7.2
Lonesome Dove
1985★ 6.9
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Author unknown
1386★ 6.7
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Author unknown
1550 BC★ 6.7
The Labyrinth of Solitude
1950★ 6.5
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1927★ 6.5
Young Men and Fire
1992★ 6.4
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
1985★ 6.4
A Death in the Family
1957★ 6.3
How We Die
1993★ 5.7
The Blind Owl
1937★ 5.3
This Republic of Suffering
2008★ 5.3
The Year of Magical Thinking
2005★ 5.3
My Struggle
2009★ 5.1
Bridge to Terabithia
1977★ 4.8