Animal Farm
1945★ 8.9
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The Power Broker
1974★ 8.9
The Tempest
1611★ 8.6
Democracy in America
1840★ 8.6
The Red and the Black
1830★ 8.5
The Prince
1532★ 8.5
Pale Fire
1962★ 8.4
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
1961★ 8.3
Leviathan
1651★ 8.2
Dead Souls
1842★ 8.1
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1984★ 7.7
Postwar
2005★ 7.6
The Annals
117★ 7.6
Two Treatises of Government
1689★ 7.4
The Poems of Catullus
54 BC★ 7.4
On the Social Contract
1762★ 7.3
Henry V
1599★ 7.3
Demons
1872★ 7.3
Henry IV, Part One
1597★ 7.2
Nostromo
1904★ 7.2
The Story of My Experiments with Truth
1929★ 7.2
The Twelve Caesars
121★ 7.2
The Gallic War
50 BC★ 7.1
Reflections on the Revolution in France
1790★ 7.1
The Charterhouse of Parma
1839★ 7.0
A Tale of Two Cities
1859★ 7.0
I, Claudius
1934★ 7.0
Henry IV, Part Two
1599★ 7.0
The Secret Agent
1907★ 6.9
The French Revolution
1837★ 6.9
Parting the Waters
1988★ 6.9
Julius Caesar
1599★ 6.8
All the President's Men
1974★ 6.8
Richard III
1592★ 6.8
All The King's Men
1946★ 6.8
Augustus
1972★ 6.8
Embracing Defeat
1999★ 6.7
The Jungle
1906★ 6.7
The Vocation Lectures
1919★ 6.7
The Analects
221 BC★ 6.7