In Search of Lost Time (set of 6)
1922★ 9.7
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Les Miserables
1862★ 8.8
The Red and the Black
1830★ 8.5
Old Man Goriot
1835★ 7.2
Cousin Bette
1846★ 7.1
The Ambassadors
1903★ 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
Down and Out in Paris and London
1933★ 7.0
Hopscotch
1963★ 6.9
The French Revolution
1837★ 6.9
A Moveable Feast
1964★ 6.8
Life
1978★ 6.8
Against Nature
1884★ 6.7
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1831★ 6.6
Of Human Bondage
1915★ 6.6
The Counterfeiters
1925★ 6.6
Tropic of Cancer
1934★ 6.5