The Iliad
750 BC★ 9.9
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
1603★ 9.9
The Odyssey
700 BC★ 9.9
The Divine Comedy
1321★ 9.8
War and Peace
1869★ 9.8
The Holy Bible (King James Version)
Various
1611★ 9.8
King Lear
1607★ 9.8
Don Quixote
1605★ 9.7
Ulysses
1922★ 9.7
In Search of Lost Time (set of 6)
1922★ 9.7
The Brothers Karamazov
1880★ 9.7
Anna Karenina
1877★ 9.6
Crime and Punishment
1866★ 9.6
Moby Dick
1851★ 9.6
Middlemarch
1872★ 9.6
One Hundred Years of Solitude
1967★ 9.5
Aeneid
19 BC★ 9.5
Paradise Lost
1667★ 9.5
Pride and Prejudice
1813★ 9.5
Madame Bovary
1857★ 9.4
The Great Gatsby
1925★ 9.4
Beloved
1987★ 9.4
The Waste Land
1922★ 9.4
Macbeth
1606★ 9.4
Confessions
398★ 9.3
The Tale of Genji
1021★ 9.3
Essays
1580★ 9.3
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1884★ 9.3
Leaves of Grass
1855★ 9.3
The Trial
1915★ 9.2
To the Lighthouse
1927★ 9.2
The Sound and the Fury
1929★ 9.2
Faust, Part One
1808★ 9.2
On The Origin of Species
1859★ 9.2
Plays
1904★ 9.2
The Collected Poems
1939★ 9.1
1984
1949★ 9.1
Collected Fictions
1951★ 9.1
Lolita
1955★ 9.1
The Magic Mountain
1924★ 9.1