The Iliad
750 BC★ 9.9
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
1603★ 9.9
The Odyssey
700 BC★ 9.9
War and Peace
1869★ 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
Middlemarch
1872★ 9.6
Pride and Prejudice
1813★ 9.5
Madame Bovary
1857★ 9.4
Macbeth
1606★ 9.4
Essays
1580★ 9.3
To the Lighthouse
1927★ 9.2
Plays
1904★ 9.2
The Magic Mountain
1924★ 9.1
Othello
1603★ 9.0