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LITERATURE

BEST NOVELS

9.2/10

The Trial (1915) - Franz Kafka

8.7/10

The Brothers Karamazov (1879) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

8.6/10

The Golden Bowl (1904) - Henry James

The Red and the Black (1830) - Stendhal

Zeno's Conscience (1923) - Italo Svevo

Wilhelm Meister (1795) - Johann Goethe

8.5/10

Ulysses (1920) - James Joyce

Wuthering Heights (1846) - Emily Bronte

Elective Affinities (1809) - Johann Goethe

The Idiot (1869) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Don Quixote (1615) - Miguel de Cervantes

Gravity's Rainbow (1973) - Thomas Pynchon

8.3/10

Gargantua et Pantagruel (1552) - Francois Rabelais

The Master and Margarita (1940) - Michail Bulgakov

8.2/10

The Portrait of a Lady (1881) - Henry James

The Man Without Qualities (1933) - Robert Musil

8/10

Madame Bovary (1856) - Gustave Flaubert

7.8/10

Journey to the End of the Night (1932) - Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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