King Lear
1607★ 9.8
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The Brothers Karamazov
1880★ 9.7
Anna Karenina
1877★ 9.6
Beloved
1987★ 9.4
To the Lighthouse
1927★ 9.2
The Sound and the Fury
1929★ 9.2
The Grapes of Wrath
1939★ 9.0
Bleak House
1853★ 8.8
Midnight's Children
1981★ 8.7
Death of a Salesman
1949★ 8.7
A Streetcar Named Desire
1947★ 8.7
Romeo and Juliet
1597★ 8.1
David Copperfield
1850★ 8.1
Buddenbrooks
1901★ 8.0
As I Lay Dying
1930★ 8.0
In Cold Blood
1966★ 8.0
The Cairo Trilogy
1957★ 7.8
A House for Mr. Biswas
1961★ 7.8
Infinite Jest
1996★ 7.7
Mahabharata
400 BC★ 7.5
Henry V
1599★ 7.3
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
1759★ 7.3
Henry IV, Part One
1597★ 7.2
Old Man Goriot
1835★ 7.2
Clarissa
1748★ 7.1
Speak, Memory
1951★ 7.1
The Glass Menagerie
1944★ 7.0
Brideshead Revisited
1945★ 7.0
Life is a Dream
1635★ 7.0
The Turn of the Screw
1898★ 7.0
Henry IV, Part Two
1599★ 7.0
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
1976★ 6.9
East of Eden
1952★ 6.7
Hadji Murat
1912★ 6.6
The Wapshot Chronicle
1957★ 6.5
A Raisin in the Sun
1959★ 6.4
Fierce Attachments
1987★ 6.4
Angela's Ashes
1996★ 6.3
The Assistant
1957★ 6.3
The Woman Warrior
1976★ 6.2
Clear Light of Day
1980★ 6.1
Angle of Repose
1971★ 6.0
Housekeeping
1980★ 6.0
The Way of All Flesh
1903★ 5.7
The House of the Spirits
1982★ 5.7
The Snows of Yesteryear
1989★ 5.7
A Man's Place
1983★ 5.4
Middlesex
2002★ 5.2
The Pursuit of Love
1945★ 5.2
This Boy's Life
1989★ 5.1
My Family and Other Animals
1956★ 5.0
The Fishermen
2015★ 5.0
A Manual for Cleaning Women
2015★ 4.8
Like Water for Chocolate
1989★ 4.7
The Chill
1964★ 4.6