Pride and Prejudice
1813★ 9.5
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Othello
1603★ 9.0
Eugene Onegin
1832★ 8.8
Jane Eyre
1847★ 8.8
Metamorphoses
8★ 8.6
Love in the Time of Cholera
1985★ 8.4
Romeo and Juliet
1597★ 8.1
Emma
1815★ 8.1
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1984★ 7.7
The Odes of Horace
23 BC★ 7.5
The Poems of Catullus
54 BC★ 7.4
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1596★ 7.4
The Essential Rumi
1273★ 7.4
Iphigenia; Phaedra; Athaliah
1691★ 7.2
The Betrothed
1827★ 7.2
Siddhartha
1922★ 7.2
The Book of Songs
Author unknown
600 BC★ 7.2
The Merchant of Venice
1598★ 7.2
As You Like It
1600★ 7.2
Much Ado About Nothing
1599★ 7.2
Clarissa
1748★ 7.1
A Christmas Carol
1843★ 7.1
The Charterhouse of Parma
1839★ 7.0
A Room with a View
1908★ 7.0
The Adventures of Augie March
1953★ 7.0
Anne of Green Gables
1908★ 7.0
The Invention of Morel
1940★ 6.8
Love in a Fallen City
1943★ 6.8
All the Pretty Horses
1992★ 6.8
The God of Small Things
1997★ 6.7
The Ramayana
Valmiki and Arshia Sattar
500 BC★ 6.7
Gone with the Wind
1936★ 6.7
If Not, Winter
600 BC★ 6.7
The Symposium
380 BC★ 6.7
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1831★ 6.6
A Hero of Our Time
1840★ 6.6
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
1848★ 6.6
We
1924★ 6.6
A Simple Heart
1877★ 6.5
Thousand Cranes
1952★ 6.5