Animal Farm
1945★ 8.9
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The Power Broker
1974★ 8.9
The Tempest
1611★ 8.6
Democracy in America
1840★ 8.6
The Red and the Black
1830★ 8.5
The Prince
1532★ 8.5
Pale Fire
1962★ 8.4
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
1961★ 8.3
Leviathan
1651★ 8.2
Dead Souls
1842★ 8.1
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1984★ 7.7
Postwar
2005★ 7.6
The Annals
117★ 7.6
Two Treatises of Government
1689★ 7.4
The Poems of Catullus
54 BC★ 7.4
On the Social Contract
1762★ 7.3
Henry V
1599★ 7.3
Demons
1872★ 7.3
Henry IV, Part One
1597★ 7.2
Nostromo
1904★ 7.2