In Search of Lost Time (set of 6)
1922★ 9.7
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Madame Bovary
1857★ 9.4
Essays
1580★ 9.3
Les Miserables
1862★ 8.8
The Red and the Black
1830★ 8.5
Germinal
1885★ 7.3
The Autumn of the Middle Ages
1919★ 7.2
As You Like It
1600★ 7.2
Old Man Goriot
1835★ 7.2
Cousin Bette
1846★ 7.1
The Ambassadors
1903★ 7.1
The Gallic War
50 BC★ 7.1
Confessions
1782★ 7.1
Reflections on the Revolution in France
1790★ 7.1
Lost Illusions
1843★ 7.0
A Tale of Two Cities
1859★ 7.0
Sentimental Education
1869★ 7.0
The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays
1666★ 7.0
Parade's End
1928★ 7.0
Down and Out in Paris and London
1933★ 7.0