| Century | Title | Author | Ratings | Score |
| 21st | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7) | J.K. Rowling | 4.61 — 1,760,197 ratings | 363,014 |
| The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) | Suzanne Collins | 4.35 — 4,700,100 ratings | 272,613 | |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | 4.25 — 1,794,915 ratings | 238,248 | |
| The Book Thief | Markus Zusak | 4.36 — 1,205,038 ratings | 226,718 | |
| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6) | J.K. Rowling | 4.53 — 1,703,431 ratings | 201,583 | |
| Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5) | J.K. Rowling | 4.46 — 1,767,108 ratings | 182,198 | |
| The Help | Kathryn Stockett | 4.45 — 1,521,497 ratings | 150,545 | |
| A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini | 4.33 — 825,635 ratings | 148,584 | |
| Life of Pi | Yann Martel | 3.88 — 1,053,540 ratings | 140,285 | |
| Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) | Suzanne Collins | 4.30 — 1,931,003 ratings | 136,173 | |
| The Time Traveler's Wife | Audrey Niffenegger | 3.94 — 1,264,280 ratings | 131,513 | |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) | Stieg Larsson | 4.10 — 1,834,439 ratings | 130,694 | |
| The Fault in Our Stars | John Green | 4.28 — 2,311,917 ratings | 119,098 | |
| The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2) | Dan Brown | 3.78 — 1,512,129 ratings | 114,438 | |
| The Road | Cormac McCarthy | 3.95 — 537,613 ratings | 109,875 | |
| Water for Elephants | Sara Gruen | 4.06 — 1,070,867 ratings | 105,337 | |
| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon | 3.85 — 886,042 ratings | 100,581 | |
| Harry Potter Boxset (Harry Potter, #1-7) | J.K. Rowling | 4.74 — 196,024 ratings | 94,834 | |
| Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3) | Suzanne Collins | 4.03 — 1,811,586 ratings | 94,706 | |
| The Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold | 3.77 — 1,605,006 ratings | 80,191 | |
| Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides | 3.97 — 493,763 ratings | 79,731 | |
| Twilight (Twilight, #1) | Stephenie Meyer | 3.57 — 3,756,083 ratings | 78,379 | |
| Atonement | Ian McEwan | 3.87 — 355,539 ratings | 74,088 | |
| Divergent (Divergent, #1) | Veronica Roth | 4.25 — 2,093,879 ratings | 73,865 | |
| The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1) | Rick Riordan | 4.22 — 1,328,903 ratings | 69,373 | |
| City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1) | Cassandra Clare | 4.12 — 1,181,093 ratings | 68,261 | |
| The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1) | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | 4.24 — 302,846 ratings | 67,907 | |
| Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | Jonathan Safran Foer | 3.97 — 307,094 ratings | 66,98 | |
| The Secret Life of Bees | Sue Monk Kidd | 4.01 — 907,514 ratings | 65,877 | |
| American Gods (American Gods, #1) | Neil Gaiman | 4.11 — 459,088 ratings | 63,75 | |
| My Sister's Keeper | Jodi Picoult | 4.05 — 858,609 ratings | 63,145 | |
| The Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls | 4.23 — 612,047 ratings | 61,984 | |
| Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1) | Dan Brown | 3.85 — 1,979,340 ratings | 61,444 | |
| The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2) | Stieg Larsson | 4.22 — 619,747 ratings | 57,207 | |
| Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | 3.80 — 307,990 ratings | 53,719 | |
| Breaking Dawn (Twilight, #4) | Stephenie Meyer | 3.70 — 1,087,376 ratings | 48,721 | |
| The Host (The Host, #1) | Stephenie Meyer | 3.84 — 760,934 ratings | 48,543 | |
| Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell | 4.01 — 165,420 ratings | 48,123 | |
| Eclipse (Twilight, #3) | Stephenie Meyer | 3.70 — 1,148,357 ratings | 46,93 | |
| The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | Mary Ann Shaffer | 4.11 — 408,534 ratings | 45,336 | |
| The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3) | Stieg Larsson | 4.20 — 508,349 ratings | 44,381 | |
| New Moon (Twilight, #2) | Stephenie Meyer | 3.52 — 1,169,424 ratings | 43,677 | |
| Eat, Pray, Love | Elizabeth Gilbert | 3.50 — 1,165,261 ratings | 43,184 | |
| City of Glass (The Mortal Instruments, #3) | Cassandra Clare | 4.34 — 598,163 ratings | 38,603 | |
| Kafka on the Shore | Haruki Murakami | 4.13 — 181,228 ratings | 37,336 | |
| The Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman | 4.11 — 307,811 ratings | 35,175 | |
| City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments, #2) | Cassandra Clare | 4.21 — 562,913 ratings | 34,845 | |
| Room | Emma Donoghue | 4.02 — 525,272 ratings | 34,09 | |
| Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart | Tim Butcher | 4.04 — 5,162 ratings | 33,774 | |
| Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Every | Steven D. Levitt | 3.93 — 534,898 ratings | 32,969 | |
| The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1) | Patrick Rothfuss | 4.55 — 409,731 ratings | 32,564 | |
| The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen | 3.77 — 126,478 ratings | 32,445 | |
| The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Díaz | 3.88 — 172,363 ratings | 32,115 | |
| Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog | John Grogan | 4.11 — 363,671 ratings | 30,53 | |
| The Thirteenth Tale | Diane Setterfield | 3.95 — 221,250 ratings | 30,341 | |
| The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9) | Philippa Gregory | 4.04 — 389,591 ratings | 30,172 | |
| Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1) | Richelle Mead | 4.14 — 434,326 ratings | 30,128 | |
| The Historian | Elizabeth Kostova | 3.76 — 201,593 ratings | 29,697 | |
| The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair | Erik Larson | 3.98 — 334,071 ratings | 29,524 | |
| The Namesake | Jhumpa Lahiri | 3.96 — 186,948 ratings | 28,93 | |
| Bel Canto | Ann Patchett | 3.92 — 193,168 ratings | 28,813 | |
| No Country for Old Men | Cormac McCarthy | 4.12 — 105,320 ratings | 28,678 | |
| Snow Flower and the Secret Fan | Lisa See | 4.05 — 280,921 ratings | 27,9 | |
| The Art of Racing in the Rain | Garth Stein | 4.19 — 339,649 ratings | 27,871 | |
| Oryx and Crake | Margaret Atwood | 3.99 — 158,200 ratings | 27,528 | |
| The Complete Persepolis | Marjane Satrapi | 4.35 — 70,854 ratings | 27,281 | |
| A Short History of Nearly Everything | Bill Bryson | 4.19 — 196,699 ratings | 27,185 | |
| The Night Circus | Erin Morgenstern | 4.03 — 445,165 ratings | 25,882 | |
| The Memory Keeper's Daughter | Kim Edwards | 3.64 — 504,115 ratings | 25,392 | |
| Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell | Susanna Clarke | 3.80 — 146,522 ratings | 24,447 | |
| Everything is Illuminated | Jonathan Safran Foer | 3.90 — 140,303 ratings | 22,743 | |
| Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal | Christopher Moore | 4.26 — 121,876 ratings | 22,722 | |
| Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One Scho | Greg Mortenson | 3.64 — 280,743 ratings | 22,564 | |
| The God Delusion | Richard Dawkins | 3.89 — 168,000 ratings | 22,424 | |
| Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn | 4.02 — 1,531,608 ratings | 22,115 | |
| The Shack | Wm. Paul Young | 3.72 — 406,521 ratings | 21,839 | |
| Sarah's Key | Tatiana de Rosnay | 4.13 — 337,787 ratings | 20,887 | |
| Nineteen Minutes | Jodi Picoult | 4.09 — 242,049 ratings | 20,221 | |
| The History of Love | Nicole Krauss | 3.91 — 100,324 ratings | 19,695 | |
| The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals | Michael Pollan | 4.17 — 144,510 ratings | 19,607 | |
| What Is the What | Dave Eggers | 4.15 — 62,989 ratings | 19,262 | |
| Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redempt | Laura Hillenbrand | 4.41 — 487,238 ratings | 19,173 | |
| Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking | Malcolm Gladwell | 3.88 — 340,018 ratings | 19,131 | |
| The White Tiger | Aravind Adiga | 3.71 — 120,723 ratings | 18,434 | |
| Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim | David Sedaris | 4.08 — 197,295 ratings | 17,527 | |
| The Story of Edgar Sawtelle | David Wroblewski | 3.60 — 77,820 ratings | 17,117 | |
| Empire Falls | Richard Russo | 3.90 — 90,569 ratings | 16,842 | |
| John Adams | David McCullough | 4.06 — 205,707 ratings | 16,686 | |
| Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation | Lynne Truss | 3.86 — 81,553 ratings | 16,613 | |
| Gilead (Gilead, #1) | Marilynne Robinson | 3.84 — 55,356 ratings | 16,23 | |
| A Million Little Pieces | James J. Frey | 3.62 — 186,123 ratings | 16,208 | |
| The Year of Magical Thinking | Joan Didion | 3.85 — 94,348 ratings | 16,118 | |
| God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything | Christopher Hitchens | 3.95 — 66,939 ratings | 15,057 | |
| Anansi Boys (American Gods, #2) | Neil Gaiman | 3.99 — 144,443 ratings | 14,754 | |
| People of the Book | Geraldine Brooks | 4.00 — 97,559 ratings | 14,314 | |
| Looking for Alaska | John Green | 4.10 — 783,627 ratings | 14,283 | |
| The Secret Magdalene | Ki Longfellow | 4.21 — 3,021 ratings | 13,98 | |
| Unaccustomed Earth | Jhumpa Lahiri | 4.11 — 65,663 ratings | 13,802 | |
| The Boy in the Striped Pajamas | John Boyne | 4.09 — 303,394 ratings | 13,076 | |
| Insurgent (Divergent, #2) | Veronica Roth | 4.08 — 915,583 ratings | 13 | |
| 20th | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 4.25 — 3,215,475 ratings | 1,225,828 |
| 1984 | George Orwell | 4.13 — 1,926,216 ratings | 806,188 | |
| The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3) | J.R.R. Tolkien | 4.47 — 417,828 ratings | 704,455 | |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 3.88 — 2,642,205 ratings | 651,896 | |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) | J.K. Rowling | 4.43 — 4,487,117 ratings | 618,731 | |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell | 3.86 — 1,907,394 ratings | 430,649 | |
| The Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank | 4.09 — 1,961,650 ratings | 418,49 | |
| The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien | 4.24 — 2,114,691 ratings | 416,257 | |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger | 3.79 — 2,024,955 ratings | 367,457 | |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | 3.97 — 1,116,102 ratings | 363,651 | |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | 3.92 — 527,968 ratings | 340,531 | |
| The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1) | C.S. Lewis | 4.19 — 1,497,512 ratings | 333,95 | |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | 4.03 — 554,968 ratings | 324,226 | |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 3.96 — 1,026,378 ratings | 313,858 | |
| The Little Prince & Letter to a Hostage | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | 4.28 — 798,322 ratings | 312,625 | |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger | 3.79 — 2,024,955 ratings | 297,576 | |
| Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | 4.28 — 866,431 ratings | 291,706 | |
| Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | 3.83 — 1,465,757 ratings | 281,436 | |
| Il signore delle mosche | William Golding | 3.64 — 1,600,572 ratings | 268,782 | |
| The Giver (The Giver, #1) | Lois Lowry | 4.12 — 1,316,732 ratings | 267,481 | |
| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3) | J.K. Rowling | 4.52 — 1,870,819 ratings | 259,491 | |
| Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut | 4.05 — 854,637 ratings | 247,543 | |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | 3.88 — 479,651 ratings | 246,517 | |
| East of Eden | John Steinbeck | 4.34 — 323,998 ratings | 222,992 | |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Ken Kesey | 4.18 — 496,773 ratings | 211,207 | |
| The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to t | Douglas Adams | 4.37 — 232,082 ratings | 206,2 | |
| Memoirs of a Geisha | Arthur Golden | 4.07 — 1,371,914 ratings | 201,553 | |
| The Stranger | Albert Camus | 3.95 — 453,316 ratings | 194,05 | |
| The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood | 4.03 — 548,425 ratings | 191,764 | |
| The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1) | J.R.R. Tolkien | 4.33 — 1,739,737 ratings | 189,497 | |
| Charlotte's Web | E.B. White | 4.14 — 1,029,374 ratings | 188,682 | |
| A Wrinkle in Time (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #1) | Madeleine L'Engle | 4.04 — 616,709 ratings | 185,313 | |
| The Chronicles of Narnia (Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7) | C.S. Lewis | 4.24 — 390,425 ratings | 183,239 | |
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2) | J.K. Rowling | 4.36 — 1,808,401 ratings | 180,333 | |
| The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway | 3.72 — 536,334 ratings | 177,539 | |
| Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1) | Orson Scott Card | 4.29 — 835,985 ratings | 169,396 | |
| The Giving Tree | Shel Silverstein | 4.38 — 678,172 ratings | 165,381 | |
| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith | 4.23 — 300,025 ratings | 157,815 | |
| The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3) | J.R.R. Tolkien | 4.50 — 489,064 ratings | 155,363 | |
| Night | Elie Wiesel | 4.29 — 670,429 ratings | 152,498 | |
| The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2) | J.R.R. Tolkien | 4.41 — 509,385 ratings | 152,261 | |
| The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath | 3.97 — 426,147 ratings | 149,127 | |
| Watership Down (Watership Down #1) | Richard Adams | 4.05 — 297,504 ratings | 146,047 | |
| In Cold Blood | Truman Capote | 4.04 — 390,600 ratings | 139,702 | |
| Green Eggs and Ham | Dr. Seuss | 4.29 — 453,372 ratings | 138,477 | |
| The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho | 3.81 — 1,307,610 ratings | 138,101 | |
| Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand | 3.68 — 286,270 ratings | 136,685 | |
| The Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver | 4.02 — 548,368 ratings | 133,173 | |
| Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1) | L.M. Montgomery | 4.22 — 510,497 ratings | 132,301 | |
| Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel García Márquez | 3.89 — 313,298 ratings | 131,708 | |
| The Color Purple | Alice Walker | 4.16 — 390,230 ratings | 129,492 | |
| The Complete Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle | 4.50 — 120,174 ratings | 126,798 | |
| A Prayer for Owen Meany | John Irving | 4.22 — 239,557 ratings | 125,342 | |
| The Stand | Stephen King | 4.34 — 449,459 ratings | 125,128 | |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Milan Kundera | 4.08 — 235,217 ratings | 125,019 | |
| Where the Wild Things Are | Maurice Sendak | 4.22 — 610,659 ratings | 123,56 | |
| Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse | 3.98 — 397,302 ratings | 123,397 | |
| The Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka | 3.77 — 385,496 ratings | 122,833 | |
| The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett | 4.11 — 661,628 ratings | 120,471 | |
| The Lorax | Dr. Seuss | 4.35 — 224,546 ratings | 120,446 | |
| The Name of the Rose | Umberto Eco | 4.11 — 213,560 ratings | 119,965 | |
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1) | Roald Dahl | 4.10 — 485,036 ratings | 117,658 | |
| The Pillars of the Earth (The Pillars of the Earth, #1) | Ken Follett | 4.29 — 475,197 ratings | 114,659 | |
| On the Road | Jack Kerouac | 3.65 — 268,259 ratings | 113,034 | |
| Dune | Frank Herbert | 4.18 — 501,902 ratings | 111,957 | |
| The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway | 3.83 — 290,897 ratings | 110,69 | |
| Ulysses | James Joyce | 3.73 — 82,932 ratings | 108,625 | |
| The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov | 4.32 — 145,665 ratings | 106,395 | |
| The Outsiders | S.E. Hinton | 4.05 — 651,869 ratings | 103,691 | |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galax | Douglas Adams | 4.20 — 974,746 ratings | 101,699 | |
| The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1) | Pearl S. Buck | 3.97 — 188,782 ratings | 101,12 | |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque | 3.91 — 249,951 ratings | 99,547 | |
| Beloved (The Trilogy, #1) | Toni Morrison | 3.76 — 235,251 ratings | 99,49 | |
| A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole | 3.89 — 178,702 ratings | 96,28 | |
| The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | 4.28 — 798,322 ratings | 92,461 | |
| The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand | 3.84 — 247,381 ratings | 91,089 | |
| The Joy Luck Club | Amy Tan | 3.89 — 513,974 ratings | 90,12 | |
| Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1) | Frank McCourt | 4.07 — 401,648 ratings | 89,88 | |
| Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier | 4.20 — 314,380 ratings | 89,877 | |
| The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner | 3.86 — 128,801 ratings | 89,531 | |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway | 3.95 — 198,607 ratings | 89,065 | |
| The World According to Garp | John Irving | 4.07 — 174,645 ratings | 86,08 | |
| Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #2) | Laura Ingalls Wilder | 4.19 — 190,320 ratings | 83,27 | |
| A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway | 3.78 — 199,119 ratings | 81,995 | |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison | 3.83 — 122,358 ratings | 81,021 | |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston | 3.86 — 189,940 ratings | 80,517 | |
| A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess | 3.97 — 436,026 ratings | 78,773 | |
| Where the Red Fern Grows | Wilson Rawls | 4.04 — 273,035 ratings | 76,95 | |
| Mere Christianity | C.S. Lewis | 4.31 — 183,441 ratings | 72,404 | |
| Waiting for Godot | Samuel Beckett | 3.81 — 105,973 ratings | 71,553 | |
| Lonesome Dove | Larry McMurtry | 4.47 — 112,147 ratings | 66,388 | |
| Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes | 4.05 — 316,353 ratings | 66,159 | |
| Sophie's Choice | William Styron | 4.18 — 69,215 ratings | 66,049 | |
| The Red Tent | Anita Diamant | 4.15 — 439,437 ratings | 65,86 | |
| The Things They Carried | Tim O'Brien | 4.12 — 167,783 ratings | 65,461 | |
| Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Hunter S. Thompson | 4.08 — 231,460 ratings | 65,34 | |
| Franny and Zooey | J.D. Salinger | 3.98 — 158,852 ratings | 64,236 | |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce | 3.60 — 99,708 ratings | 63,203 | |
| Blindness | José Saramago | 4.07 — 125,688 ratings | 61,148 | |
| To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf | 3.76 — 90,947 ratings | 60,53 | |
| 19th | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | 4.24 — 2,078,674 ratings | 196,974 |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë | 4.10 — 1,260,314 ratings | 153,966 | |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | 4.05 — 636,524 ratings | 100,737 | |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | 3.82 — 946,641 ratings | 100,542 | |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 4.18 — 421,487 ratings | 80,6 | |
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | 3.74 — 847,290 ratings | 76,597 | |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass | Lewis Carroll | 4.06 — 366,695 ratings | 73,012 | |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas | 4.21 — 579,496 ratings | 72,265 | |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker | 3.97 — 654,990 ratings | 64,332 | |
| Les Misérables | Victor Hugo | 4.14 — 553,307 ratings | 63,629 | |
| Emma | Jane Austen | 3.98 — 474,148 ratings | 63,53 | |
| Little Women (Little Women, #1) | Louisa May Alcott | 4.03 — 1,268,691 ratings | 62,421 | |
| Persuasion | Jane Austen | 4.13 — 384,306 ratings | 61,673 | |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | 3.80 — 973,588 ratings | 60,958 | |
| Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen | 4.05 — 751,777 ratings | 59,329 | |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | 4.02 — 448,529 ratings | 58,809 | |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | 3.80 — 655,528 ratings | 55,759 | |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | 3.74 — 483,766 ratings | 53,406 | |
| A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | 4.02 — 423,033 ratings | 50,58 | |
| The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 4.30 — 170,777 ratings | 41,271 | |
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | 4.10 — 181,838 ratings | 39,278 | |
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3) | Arthur Conan Doyle | 4.29 — 177,492 ratings | 39,049 | |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Oscar Wilde | 4.17 — 219,759 ratings | 37,603 | |
| Moby-Dick; or, The Whale | Herman Melville | 3.46 — 384,945 ratings | 34,718 | |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | 3.89 — 572,473 ratings | 34,136 | |
| The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne | 3.37 — 542,835 ratings | 31,65 | |
| Tess of the D'Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy | 3.75 — 180,511 ratings | 31,026 | |
| Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | 3.82 — 297,774 ratings | 30,814 | |
| The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas | 4.05 — 213,541 ratings | 29,958 | |
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | 3.64 — 176,775 ratings | 29,54 | |
| Mansfield Park | Jane Austen | 3.83 — 212,175 ratings | 28,168 | |
| The Time Machine | H.G. Wells | 3.86 — 287,546 ratings | 27,97 | |
| North and South | Elizabeth Gaskell | 4.13 — 98,798 ratings | 27,746 | |
| Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen | 3.79 — 221,721 ratings | 27,006 | |
| The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales | Jacob Grimm | 4.31 — 125,149 ratings | 26,652 | |
| Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | 3.84 — 242,564 ratings | 26,042 | |
| Alice in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1) | Lewis Carroll | 4.02 — 398,372 ratings | 25,193 | |
| The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings | Edgar Allan Poe | 4.15 — 195,998 ratings | 24,708 | |
| A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1) | Arthur Conan Doyle | 4.14 — 204,989 ratings | 24,364 | |
| Middlemarch | George Eliot | 3.93 — 102,053 ratings | 23,826 | |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1) | L. Frank Baum | 3.98 — 267,623 ratings | 22,645 | |
| The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson | 3.79 — 242,905 ratings | 22,424 | |
| The Hunchback of Notre-Dame | Victor Hugo | 3.96 — 126,092 ratings | 21,223 | |
| Bleak House | Charles Dickens | 3.99 — 71,688 ratings | 20,888 | |
| David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | 3.96 — 158,732 ratings | 19,529 | |
| The Origin of Species | Charles Darwin | 3.96 — 69,881 ratings | 19,455 | |
| The Idiot | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 4.18 — 86,780 ratings | 18,878 | |
| The War of the Worlds | H.G. Wells | 3.79 — 172,375 ratings | 18,463 | |
| The Woman in White | Wilkie Collins | 3.98 — 99,452 ratings | 18,043 | |
| Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thacke | 3.76 — 94,605 ratings | 17,504 | |
| Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Extraordinary Voyages, #6) | Jules Verne | 3.86 — 142,319 ratings | 17,313 | |
| Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous M | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 4.17 — 65,641 ratings | 17,289 | |
| The Complete Fairy Tales | Hans Christian Andersen | 4.28 — 92,788 ratings | 17,251 | |
| Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman | 4.12 — 62,511 ratings | 17,24 | |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 3.82 — 149,503 ratings | 16,748 | |
| Faust: First Part | Johann Wolfgang von Goet | 3.93 — 47,582 ratings | 15,398 | |
| Around the World in Eighty Days (Extraordinary Voyages, #11) | Jules Verne | 3.90 — 135,499 ratings | 14,839 | |
| Heidi | Johanna Spyri | 3.97 — 152,429 ratings | 13,662 | |
| A Doll's House | Henrik Ibsen | 3.68 — 74,704 ratings | 13,571 | |
| Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy | 3.91 — 93,031 ratings | 13,379 | |
| Black Beauty | Anna Sewell | 3.94 — 188,954 ratings | 13,201 | |
| The Jungle Books | Rudyard Kipling | really liked it 4.00 — 68,116 ratings | 12,932 | |
| The Awakening | Kate Chopin | 3.62 — 130,358 ratings | 12,922 | |
| The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Anne Brontë | 3.90 — 60,927 ratings | 12,752 | |
| Villette | Charlotte Brontë | 3.74 — 45,987 ratings | 12,595 | |
| The Communist Manifesto | Karl Marx | 3.50 — 65,788 ratings | 11,997 | |
| The Moonstone | Wilkie Collins | 3.90 — 55,570 ratings | 11,896 | |
| Walden | Henry David Thoreau | 3.79 — 115,330 ratings | 11,847 | |
| The Red and the Black | Stendhal | 3.87 — 39,764 ratings | 11,542 | |
| The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2) | Arthur Conan Doyle | 3.96 — 67,474 ratings | 11,413 | |
| Poems | Emily Dickinson | 4.23 — 3,568 ratings | 11,216 | |
| Les Fleurs du Mal | Charles Baudelaire | 4.27 — 32,761 ratings | 11,068 | |
| Ivanhoe | Walter Scott | 3.74 — 69,055 ratings | 10,563 | |
| Dead Souls | Nikolai Gogol | 3.98 — 45,330 ratings | 10,484 | |
| The Prince and the Pauper | Mark Twain | 3.83 — 87,450 ratings | 10,368 | |
| Journey to the Center of the Earth (Extraordinary Voyages, #3) | Jules Verne | 3.84 — 107,678 ratings | 10,166 | |
| The Turn of the Screw | Henry James | 3.45 — 63,088 ratings | 9,387 | |
| Wives and Daughters | Elizabeth Gaskell | 4.07 — 33,229 ratings | 9,301 | |
| A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Mark Twain | 3.75 — 71,883 ratings | 9,256 | |
| The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | 4.01 — 62,606 ratings | 9,139 | |
| The Portrait of a Lady | Henry James | 3.76 — 57,339 ratings | 9,038 | |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | 3.41 — 293,582 ratings | 8,171 | |
| The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde & Weir of Hermiston | Robert Louis Stevenson | 3.74 — 1,397 ratings | 8,085 | |
| The Mayor of Casterbridge | Thomas Hardy | 3.79 — 42,316 ratings | 8,033 | |
| Fathers and Sons | Ivan Turgenev | 3.94 — 46,830 ratings | 7,862 | |
| Père Goriot | Honoré de Balzac | 3.82 — 31,944 ratings | 7,785 | |
| David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | 3.96 — 158,732 ratings | 7,676 | |
| Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1) | Jerome K. Jerome | 3.91 — 36,262 ratings | 7,46 | |
| Little Dorrit | Charles Dickens | 3.96 — 34,944 ratings | 7,456 | |
| The Island of Dr. Moreau | H.G. Wells | 3.72 — 67,774 ratings | 7,292 | |
| Our Mutual Friend | Charles Dickens | 4.07 — 19,666 ratings | 6,859 | |
| Eugene Onegin | Alexander Pushkin | 4.08 — 35,831 ratings | 6,842 | |
| Pinocchio | Carlo Collodi | 3.85 — 53,494 ratings | 6,748 | |
| The Little Mermaid | Hans Christian Andersen | 4.02 — 15,858 ratings | 6,558 | |
| The Mill on the Floss | George Eliot | 3.77 — 37,210 ratings | 6,53 | |
| The Invisible Man | H.G. Wells | 3.62 — 89,954 ratings | 6,487 | |
| Agnes Grey | Anne Brontë | 3.64 — 36,471 ratings | 6,052 | |
| The Return of the Native | Thomas Hardy | 3.84 — 26,338 ratings | 6,047 | |
| Germinal (Les Rougon-Macquart, #13) | Émile Zola | 4.09 — 20,906 ratings | 5,974 | |
| Cranford | Elizabeth Gaskell | 3.84 — 27,730 ratings | 5,863 | |
| 18th | Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift | 3.55 — 180,962 ratings | 21,355 |
| Candide | Voltaire | 3.75 — 164,213 ratings | 19,776 | |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | 3.66 — 189,414 ratings | 19,078 | |
| The Sorrows of Young Werther | Johann Wolfgang von Goet | 3.63 — 51,888 ratings | 11,525 | |
| Les Liaisons dangereuses | Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos | 4.07 — 32,608 ratings | 8,982 | |
| Songs of Innocence and of Experience | William Blake | 4.11 — 28,005 ratings | 7,833 | |
| The Constitution of the United States of America | Founding Fathers | 4.54 — 19,031 ratings | 7,807 | |
| The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 3.92 — 37,755 ratings | 7,569 | |
| The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling | Henry Fielding | 3.73 — 25,970 ratings | 6,54 | |
| Moll Flanders | Daniel Defoe | 3.49 — 32,542 ratings | 5,934 | |
| Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings | Thomas Paine | 4.12 — 12,921 ratings | 5,871 | |
| The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Edward Gibbon | 3.96 — 9,417 ratings | 5,853 | |
| A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Mary Wollstonecraft | 3.89 — 11,210 ratings | 5,734 | |
| The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United S | Founding Fathers | 4.44 — 16,657 ratings | 5,182 | |
| The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | Laurence Sterne | 3.74 — 15,323 ratings | 5,052 | |
| The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Benjamin Franklin | 3.82 — 39,421 ratings | 4,81 | |
| A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works | Jonathan Swift | 4.04 — 12,679 ratings | 4,578 | |
| Jacques the Fatalist | Denis Diderot | 3.85 — 5,179 ratings | 4,57 | |
| The Wealth of Nations | Adam Smith | 3.86 — 19,414 ratings | 4,208 | |
| Confessions | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 3.62 — 5,273 ratings | 4,159 | |
| The Federalist Papers | Alexander Hamilton | 4.04 — 26,853 ratings | 4,118 | |
| The Marriage of Heaven and Hell | William Blake | 4.26 — 6,520 ratings | 3,866 | |
| Critique of Pure Reason | Immanuel Kant | 3.90 — 20,410 ratings | 3,671 | |
| The Castle of Otranto | Horace Walpole | 3.18 — 15,181 ratings | 3,648 | |
| The Social Contract | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 3.75 — 26,058 ratings | 3,605 | |
| The Monk | Matthew Lewis | 3.80 — 15,849 ratings | 3,53 | |
| Evelina | Fanny Burney | 3.64 — 10,880 ratings | 3,296 | |
| The Rape of the Lock | Alexander Pope | 3.56 — 10,472 ratings | 3,028 | |
| The Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Radcliffe | 3.37 — 10,483 ratings | 2,892 | |
| Common Sense | Thomas Paine | 3.96 — 21,502 ratings | 2,754 | |
| Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady | Samuel Richardson | 3.33 — 6,463 ratings | 2,591 | |
| Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure | John Cleland | 3.32 — 8,223 ratings | 2,373 | |
| Emile or On Education | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 3.61 — 2,818 ratings | 2,329 | |
| Zadig | Voltaire | 3.77 — 3,762 ratings | 2,32 | |
| Lyrical Ballads | William Wordsworth | 3.93 — 8,723 ratings | 2,317 | |
| Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship | Johann Wolfgang von Goet | 3.78 — 1,795 ratings | 2,282 | |
| The Age of Reason | Thomas Paine | 4.12 — 6,040 ratings | 2,246 | |
| Rights of Man | Thomas Paine | 4.02 — 7,412 ratings | 2,213 | |
| Die Räuber | Friedrich Schiller | 3.58 — 5,024 ratings | 2,033 | |
| Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded | Samuel Richardson | 2.76 — 7,443 ratings | 1,959 | |
| An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding | David Hume | 3.90 — 12,485 ratings | 1,942 | |
| The Vicar of Wakefield | Oliver Goldsmith | 3.46 — 7,158 ratings | 1,91 | |
| A Journal of the Plague Year | Daniel Defoe | 3.53 — 4,051 ratings | 1,869 | |
| The Life of Samuel Johnson | James Boswell | 3.91 — 2,571 ratings | 1,861 | |
| The Adventures of Baron Münchausen | Rudolf Erich Raspe | 3.87 — 5,889 ratings | 1,857 | |
| Reveries of the Solitary Walker | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 3.70 — 2,446 ratings | 1,537 | |
| New Science | Giambattista Vico | 3.97 — 487 ratings | 1,482 | |
| Persian Letters | Montesquieu | 3.71 — 4,236 ratings | 1,402 | |
| She Stoops to Conquer | Oliver Goldsmith | 3.65 — 7,544 ratings | 1,375 | |
| Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals | Immanuel Kant | 3.78 — 10,152 ratings | 1,367 | |
| Critique of Judgment | Immanuel Kant | 4.05 — 5,912 ratings | 1,342 | |
| Cecilia | Fanny Burney | 3.73 — 2,771 ratings | 1,326 | |
| Roxana | Daniel Defoe | 3.43 — 3,114 ratings | 1,315 | |
| A Dictionary of the English Language: an Anthology | Samuel Johnson | 4.25 — 80 ratings | 1,264 | |
| Reflections on the Revolution in France | Edmund Burke | 3.71 — 3,777 ratings | 1,258 | |
| L'Ingénu | Voltaire | 3.59 — 1,496 ratings | 1,199 | |
| Don Karlos: Infant von Spanien | Friedrich Schiller | 3.45 — 1,059 ratings | 1,179 | |
| Equiano's Travels: The Interesting Narrative Of The Life Of Olaudah | Olaudah Equiano | 3.69 — 7,542 ratings | 1,151 | |
| Kabale und Liebe | Friedrich Schiller | 3.25 — 4,238 ratings | 1,087 | |
| Hymns to the Night | Novalis | 4.17 — 856 ratings | 1,056 | |
| The Nun | Denis Diderot | 3.67 — 3,829 ratings | 1,031 | |
| School for Scandal | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | 3.63 — 4,473 ratings | 1,028 | |
| Vathek | William Beckford | 3.29 — 3,875 ratings | 1,017 | |
| Manon Lescaut | Abbé Prévost | 3.51 — 6,938 ratings | 984 | |
| A Sentimental Journey | Laurence Sterne | 3.35 — 3,842 ratings | 983 | |
| The Beggar's Opera | John Gay | 3.43 — 2,222 ratings | 974 | |
| The Novices of Sais | Novalis | 4.11 — 202 ratings | 942 | |
| Hyperion oder Der Eremit in Griechenland | Friedrich Hölderlin | 3.99 — 989 ratings | 933 | |
| Camilla | Fanny Burney | 3.71 — 2,036 ratings | 924 | |
| Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics | Immanuel Kant | 3.88 — 6,383 ratings | 922 | |
| Rameau's Nephew / D'Alembert's Dream | Denis Diderot | 3.66 — 1,016 ratings | 907 | |
| Critique of Practical Reason | Immanuel Kant | 3.88 — 7,232 ratings | 904 | |
| Joseph Andrews | Henry Fielding | 3.29 — 4,054 ratings | 893 | |
| Philosophy in the Boudoir or, The Immoral Mentors | Marquis de Sade | 3.49 — 3,605 ratings | 843 | |
| Notes on the State of Virginia | Thomas Jefferson | 3.50 — 356 ratings | 839 | |
| Encyclopedie 1 | Denis Diderot | 4.08 — 39 ratings | 816 | |
| Micromegas | Voltaire | 3.68 — 2,056 ratings | 813 | |
| The Female Quixote | Charlotte Lennox | 3.55 — 1,914 ratings | 812 | |
| Justine | Marquis de Sade | 3.42 — 7,624 ratings | 808 | |
| Le jeu de l'amour et du hasard | Pierre de Marivaux | 3.70 — 2,934 ratings | 801 | |
| Monadology | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | 3.79 — 622 ratings | 801 | |
| The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia | Samuel Johnson | 3.43 — 4,316 ratings | 760 | |
| Maria Stuart | Friedrich Schiller | 3.47 — 3,532 ratings | 756 | |
| An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard | Thomas Gray | 4.03 — 471 ratings | 753 | |
| The Servant of Two Masters | Carlo Goldoni | 3.84 — 910 ratings | 745 | |
| The Italian | Ann Radcliffe | 3.51 — 3,463 ratings | 682 | |
| The Dream of the Red Chamber | Cao Xueqin | 4.12 — 2,681 ratings | 680 | |
| The Rivals | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | 3.66 — 1,631 ratings | 678 | |
| Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God | Jonathan Edwards | 3.69 — 1,578 ratings | 670 | |
| Paul et Virginie | Jacques-Henri Bernardin de | 3.76 — 3,559 ratings | 650 | |
| Principles of Human Knowledge & Three Dialogues Between Hylas an | George Berkeley | 3.82 — 741 ratings | 626 | |
| The Spirit of the Laws | Montesquieu | 3.95 — 3,337 ratings | 598 | |
| Wallenstein II: Wallensteins Tod | Friedrich Schiller | 3.66 — 134 ratings | 564 | |
| Götz von Berlichingen | Johann Wolfgang von Goet | 3.30 — 977 ratings | 551 | |
| A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tou | Samuel Johnson | 3.52 — 464 ratings | 543 | |
| Philosophical Dictionary | Voltaire | 4.08 — 1,371 ratings | 543 | |
| An Essay on Criticism | Alexander Pope | 3.73 — 812 ratings | 537 | |
| A Treatise of Human Nature | David Hume | 3.90 — 8,787 ratings | 537 | |
| Four Comedies | Carlo Goldoni | 4.05 — 41 ratings | 535 | |
| The Expedition of Humphry Clinker | Tobias Smollett | 3.44 — 2,246 ratings | 514 | |
| 17th | Hamlet | William Shakespeare | really liked it 4.00 — 553,100 ratings | 24,733 |
| Macbeth | William Shakespeare | 3.88 — 507,446 ratings | 20,441 | |
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes Saave | 3.85 — 153,315 ratings | 16,89 | |
| Paradise Lost | John Milton | 3.79 — 101,575 ratings | 11,646 | |
| King Lear | William Shakespeare | 3.89 — 142,308 ratings | 10,625 | |
| Othello | William Shakespeare | 3.87 — 247,530 ratings | 9,457 | |
| The Tempest | William Shakespeare | 3.80 — 128,773 ratings | 7,616 | |
| Julius Caesar | William Shakespeare | 3.65 — 130,502 ratings | 6,225 | |
| Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare | 3.97 — 124,680 ratings | 5,479 | |
| The Pilgrim's Progress | John Bunyan | 3.97 — 72,195 ratings | 5,324 | |
| Tartuffe | Molière | 3.66 — 23,677 ratings | 4,258 | |
| Holy Bible: King James Version | Anonymous | 4.43 — 165,728 ratings | 4,217 | |
| As You Like It | William Shakespeare | 3.83 — 59,625 ratings | 4,148 | |
| Shakespeare's Sonnets | William Shakespeare | 4.24 — 60,541 ratings | 4,064 | |
| Dr. Faustus | Christopher Marlowe | 3.79 — 43,141 ratings | 3,58 | |
| The Misanthrope | Molière | 3.78 — 14,005 ratings | 3,534 | |
| Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy | René Descartes | 3.67 — 20,441 ratings | 2,991 | |
| Phèdre | Jean Racine | 3.70 — 10,059 ratings | 2,712 | |
| Le Malade imaginaire | Molière | 3.74 — 5,903 ratings | 2,661 | |
| Fables | Jean de La Fontaine | 4.02 — 9,644 ratings | 2,551 | |
| Pensées | Blaise Pascal | 3.96 — 8,350 ratings | 2,527 | |
| The Winter's Tale | William Shakespeare | 3.69 — 19,035 ratings | 2,2 | |
| Perrault's Fairy Tales | Charles Perrault | 4.20 — 8,253 ratings | 2,159 | |
| L'Avare | Molière | 3.67 — 8,793 ratings | 2,132 | |
| Don Juan | Molière | 3.67 — 6,514 ratings | 1,991 | |
| La vida es sueño | Pedro Calderón de la Barca | 3.97 — 9,533 ratings | 1,929 | |
| Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme | Molière | 3.75 — 7,192 ratings | 1,889 | |
| The Princesse de Clèves | Madame de La Fayette | 3.43 — 6,656 ratings | 1,886 | |
| Leviathan | Thomas Hobbes | 3.66 — 27,324 ratings | 1,736 | |
| Ethics | Baruch Spinoza | really liked it 4.00 — 9,485 ratings | 1,663 | |
| Henry VIII | William Shakespeare | 3.57 — 4,961 ratings | 1,554 | |
| An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | John Locke | 3.81 — 11,581 ratings | 1,511 | |
| John Donne's Poetry | John Donne | 4.11 — 6,763 ratings | 1,481 | |
| The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy | Isaac Newton | 4.19 — 3,660 ratings | 1,345 | |
| Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies: A Facs | William Shakespeare | 4.73 — 293 ratings | 1,328 | |
| The Anatomy of Melancholy | Robert Burton | 4.20 — 1,002 ratings | 1,208 | |
| Le Cid | Pierre Corneille | 3.62 — 8,025 ratings | 1,082 | |
| Andromaque | Jean Racine | 3.74 — 4,232 ratings | 1,071 | |
| The Duchess of Malfi | John Webster | 3.60 — 9,446 ratings | 1,043 | |
| The School for Wives | Molière | 3.69 — 4,333 ratings | 1,041 | |
| Second Treatise of Government | John Locke | 3.75 — 14,543 ratings | 1,02 | |
| Discourse on Metaphysics | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | 3.56 — 131 ratings | 987 | |
| Maxims | François de La Rochefouca | 4.04 — 2,081 ratings | 986 | |
| Fuenteovejuna | Lope de Vega | 3.53 — 4,108 ratings | 936 | |
| Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems | Galileo Galilei | 4.08 — 995 ratings | 883 | |
| Cymbeline | William Shakespeare | 3.56 — 5,156 ratings | 863 | |
| The Practice of the Presence of God | Brother Lawrence | 4.32 — 25,266 ratings | 854 | |
| Tis Pity She's a Whore | John Ford | 3.67 — 3,073 ratings | 843 | |
| Two Treatises of Government | John Locke | 3.80 — 12,784 ratings | 807 | |
| Historia de la vida del Buscón | Francisco de Quevedo | 3.68 — 1,220 ratings | 728 | |
| Coriolanus | William Shakespeare | 3.71 — 9,099 ratings | 716 | |
| Horace | Pierre Corneille | 3.56 — 593 ratings | 707 | |
| Areopagitica | John Milton | 3.85 — 1,404 ratings | 706 | |
| Measure for Measure | William Shakespeare | 3.67 — 16,873 ratings | 706 | |
| Volpone | Ben Jonson | 3.48 — 5,683 ratings | 664 | |
| The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches | Bash_ Matsuo | 4.15 — 2,189 ratings | 644 | |
| Simplicissimus | Hans Jakob Christoffel von | 3.69 — 1,345 ratings | 624 | |
| The Temple: The Poetry of George Herbert | George Herbert | 4.11 — 304 ratings | 619 | |
| El Burlador De Sevilla | Tirso de Molina | 3.64 — 2,196 ratings | 618 | |
| All's Well That Ends Well | William Shakespeare | 3.64 — 10,506 ratings | 612 | |
| Oroonoko | Aphra Behn | 2.96 — 6,457 ratings | 607 | |
| The Changeling | Thomas Middleton | 3.64 — 1,606 ratings | 569 | |
| The Way of the World | William Congreve | 3.35 — 2,478 ratings | 564 | |
| Los Sueños | Francisco de Quevedo | 3.79 — 185 ratings | 561 | |
| Samson Agonistes | John Milton | 3.73 — 1,622 ratings | 528 | |
| Antony and Cleopatra | William Shakespeare | 3.67 — 23,124 ratings | 526 | |
| The White Devil | John Webster | 3.60 — 1,138 ratings | 521 | |
| Troilus and Cressida | William Shakespeare | 3.36 — 5,597 ratings | 489 | |
| The Dog in the Manger | Lope de Vega | 3.75 — 555 ratings | 483 | |
| The Country Wife | William Wycherley | 3.37 — 2,870 ratings | 435 | |
| Every Man in His Humour: Quarto Version | Ben Jonson | 3.12 — 142 ratings | 404 | |
| Bartholomew Fair | Ben Jonson | 3.40 — 505 ratings | 402 | |
| The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation | Izaak Walton | 3.82 — 432 ratings | 378 | |
| Lucifer | Joost van den Vondel | 3.22 — 264 ratings | 374 | |
| Pericles | William Shakespeare | 3.40 — 3,185 ratings | 370 | |
| The New Organon | Francis Bacon | 3.71 — 985 ratings | 361 | |
| Timon of Athens | William Shakespeare | 3.38 — 2,790 ratings | 356 | |
| The Witch of Edmonton | Thomas Dekker | 3.35 — 273 ratings | 354 | |
| The New Atlantis | Francis Bacon | 3.16 — 1,525 ratings | 353 | |
| A Mad World, My Masters | Thomas Middleton | 3.52 — 61 ratings | 334 | |
| Cinna | Pierre Corneille | 3.42 — 299 ratings | 326 | |
| The Revenger's Tragedy | Thomas Middleton | 3.67 — 2,048 ratings | 325 | |
| Sejanus | Ben Jonson | 3.27 — 86 ratings | 319 | |
| The Alchemist | Ben Jonson | 3.59 — 2,256 ratings | 315 | |
| El caballero de Olmedo | Lope de Vega | 3.53 — 748 ratings | 289 | |
| Fables complètes | Jean de La Fontaine | 4.02 — 9,644 ratings | 289 | |
| Le Paradis perdu | John Milton | 3.79 — 101,575 ratings | 286 | |
| Bérénice | Jean Racine | 3.76 — 823 ratings | 277 | |
| Le Médecin Malgré Lui | Molière | 3.79 — 2,999 ratings | 274 | |
| Britannicus | Jean Racine | 3.64 — 1,310 ratings | 261 | |
| The Roaring Girl | Thomas Dekker | 3.44 — 593 ratings | 257 | |
| L'Astrée | Honoré d'Urfé | 3.76 — 21 ratings | 249 | |
| Histoire comique de Francion | Charles Sorel | 3.42 — 26 ratings | 240 | |
| Eastward Ho! | Ben Jonson | 3.21 — 62 ratings | 220 | |
| The Conquest of New Spain | Bernal Díaz del Castillo | 4.08 — 1,745 ratings | 193 | |
| Urne Burial | Thomas Browne | 4.10 — 185 ratings | 187 | |
| The City of the Sun | Tommaso Campanella | 3.24 — 897 ratings | 186 | |
| Religio Medici | Thomas Browne | 4.06 — 257 ratings | 185 | |
| Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or, Enquiries into Commonly Presumed Trut | Thomas Browne | 4.44 — 25 ratings | 182 | |
| The Garden of Cyrus | Thomas Browne | 4.21 — 14 ratings | 180 | |
| 16th | Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare | 3.73 — 1,607,737 ratings | 15,253 |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare | 3.94 — 346,492 ratings | 12,577 | |
| The Prince | Niccolò Machiavelli | 3.77 — 171,182 ratings | 10,338 | |
| Much Ado About Nothing | William Shakespeare | 4.06 — 180,962 ratings | 7,622 | |
| Utopia | Thomas More | 3.49 — 41,761 ratings | 6,809 | |
| Julius Caesar | William Shakespeare | 3.65 — 130,502 ratings | 6,802 | |
| The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare | 3.78 — 123,236 ratings | 6,76 | |
| The Taming of the Shrew | William Shakespeare | 3.82 — 130,667 ratings | 5,186 | |
| Dr. Faustus | Christopher Marlowe | 3.79 — 43,141 ratings | 5,016 | |
| Gargantua and Pantagruel | François Rabelais | 3.71 — 10,884 ratings | 3,979 | |
| Henry V | William Shakespeare | 3.86 — 31,335 ratings | 3,347 | |
| The Complete Essays | Michel de Montaigne | 4.23 — 10,872 ratings | 3,247 | |
| As You Like It | William Shakespeare | 3.83 — 59,625 ratings | 3,21 | |
| Richard III | William Shakespeare | 3.92 — 33,137 ratings | 2,751 | |
| The Faerie Queene | Edmund Spenser | 3.55 — 13,404 ratings | 2,745 | |
| Praise of Folly | Erasmus | 3.87 — 8,217 ratings | 2,241 | |
| King Henry IV, Part 1 (Wars of the Roses, #2) | William Shakespeare | 3.80 — 17,966 ratings | 2,037 | |
| Orlando Furioso | Ludovico Ariosto | 3.98 — 2,166 ratings | 1,678 | |
| Richard II | William Shakespeare | 3.75 — 13,433 ratings | 1,626 | |
| The Lusiads | Luís de Camões | 3.99 — 5,337 ratings | 1,559 | |
| Monkey: The Journey to the West | Wu Cheng'en | 4.06 — 4,770 ratings | 1,528 | |
| La vida del Lazarillo de Tormes | Anonymous | 3.49 — 11,948 ratings | 1,469 | |
| Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses | Martin Luther | 3.83 — 1,215 ratings | 1,36 | |
| On The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres | Nicolaus Copernicus | 4.09 — 598 ratings | 1,315 | |
| A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies | Bartolomé de las Casas | 3.71 — 1,666 ratings | 1,22 | |
| King Henry VI, Part 2 | William Shakespeare | 3.66 — 2,929 ratings | 1,169 | |
| The Comedy of Errors | William Shakespeare | 3.73 — 18,051 ratings | 1,085 | |
| Henry IV, Part 2 (Wars of the Roses, #3) | William Shakespeare | 3.79 — 11,408 ratings | 1,062 | |
| The Lives of the Artists | Giorgio Vasari | 3.78 — 17,555 ratings | 1,017 | |
| Tamburlaine | Christopher Marlowe | 3.66 — 1,733 ratings | 981 | |
| The Essays | Francis Bacon | 3.80 — 2,942 ratings | 959 | |
| The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself | Teresa of Ávila | 4.12 — 1,281 ratings | 912 | |
| Titus Andronicus | William Shakespeare | 3.71 — 17,580 ratings | 896 | |
| Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols | John Calvin | 4.15 — 6,922 ratings | 840 | |
| Edward II | Christopher Marlowe | 3.67 — 3,266 ratings | 804 | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | William Shakespeare | 3.53 — 7,825 ratings | 780 | |
| King Henry VI, Part 3 | William Shakespeare | 3.76 — 2,699 ratings | 775 | |
| The Heptameron | Marguerite de Navarre | 3.67 — 692 ratings | 754 | |
| Jerusalem Delivered | Torquato Tasso | 3.82 — 664 ratings | 737 | |
| Foxe's Book of Martyrs | John Foxe | 4.24 — 12,971 ratings | 674 | |
| Mandragola | Niccolò Machiavelli | 3.55 — 1,938 ratings | 655 | |
| Interior Castle | Teresa of Ávila | 4.19 — 3,733 ratings | 635 | |
| The Jew of Malta | Christopher Marlowe | 3.60 — 2,558 ratings | 626 | |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | William Shakespeare | 3.39 — 8,095 ratings | 567 | |
| The Poems of St John of the Cross | San Juan de la Cruz | 4.20 — 313 ratings | 563 | |
| Defence of Poesie, Astrophil and Stella, and Other Writings | Philip Sidney | 3.66 — 272 ratings | 541 | |
| The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility an | Moderata Fonte | 4.04 — 73 ratings | 495 | |
| The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage | Christopher Marlowe | 3.51 — 269 ratings | 479 | |
| The Book of the Courtier | Baldassare Castiglione | 3.61 — 1,755 ratings | 474 | |
| The Autobiography Of Benvenuto Cellini | Benvenuto Cellini | 3.97 — 1,960 ratings | 474 | |
| Die Luther-Bibel von 1534: Kolorierte Faksimileausgabe, 2 Bde. u. Be | Stephan Füssel | 4.20 — 5 ratings | 398 | |
| Auto da barca do Inferno | Gil Vicente | 3.63 — 5,890 ratings | 389 | |
| The Discourses | Niccolò Machiavelli | 4.02 — 5,915 ratings | 385 | |
| Mariken van Nieumeghen: Een mirakelspel | Unknown | 2.85 — 429 ratings | 384 | |
| Henry VI, Part 1 | William Shakespeare | 3.59 — 3,405 ratings | 337 | |
| The Spanish Tragedy | Thomas Kyd | 3.53 — 3,584 ratings | 329 | |
| King Edward III | William Shakespeare | 3.23 — 313 ratings | 324 | |
| The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor | Zahirud-din Muhammad Ba | 3.92 — 283 ratings | 295 | |
| Commentary on Galatians | Martin Luther | 4.27 — 718 ratings | 285 | |
| The First Book of Common Prayer of Edward VI and the Ordinal of 15 | Henry Baskerville Walton | 3.80 — 5 ratings | 276 | |
| Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America | Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vac | 3.63 — 1,390 ratings | 267 | |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | William Shakespeare | 3.55 — 6,786 ratings | 242 | |
| Floridoro: A Chivalric Romance | Moderata Fonte | 4.67 — 3 ratings | 193 | |
| Dark Night of the Soul: A Masterpiece in the Literature of Mysticism b | San Juan de la Cruz | 4.21 — 6,802 ratings | 193 | |
| The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross | San Juan de la Cruz | 4.48 — 957 ratings | 193 | |
| Leonardo's Notebooks | Leonardo da Vinci | 3.97 — 26,274 ratings | 182 | |
| Euphues the Anatomy of Wit: Euphues & His England | John Lyly | 3.15 — 131 ratings | 177 | |
| The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia | Philip Sidney | 3.62 — 479 ratings | 176 | |
| Planine | Petar Zorani_ | 2.66 — 96 ratings | 176 | |
| King John | William Shakespeare | 3.30 — 2,608 ratings | 175 | |
| The Archidoxes of Magic | Paracelsus | 4.11 — 38 ratings | 175 | |
| The Spiritual Exercises | Ignatius of Loyola | 4.20 — 1,846 ratings | 169 | |
| Colloquies | Erasmus | really liked it 4.00 — 19 ratings | 164 | |
| The Art of War | Niccolò Machiavelli | 4.03 — 5,369 ratings | 163 | |
| Zes dagen : gesprekken over het hoerenbestaan | Pietro Aretino | 3.54 — 135 ratings | 100 | |
| Venus and Adonis | William Shakespeare | 3.68 — 1,352 ratings | 100 | |
| The Bondage of the Will | Martin Luther | 4.17 — 5,322 ratings | 99 | |
| On Christian Liberty | Martin Luther | 3.90 — 1,322 ratings | 98 | |
| Small Catechism, with Explanation | Martin Luther | 4.28 — 859 ratings | 98 | |
| Laments | Jan Kochanowski | 3.40 — 472 ratings | 98 | |
| Aminta | Torquato Tasso | 3.64 — 96 ratings | 96 | |
| The Autobiography of St. Ignatius | Ignatius of Loyola | 3.72 — 439 ratings | 96 | |
| Candelaio | Giordano Bruno | 3.94 — 18 ratings | 94 | |
| Hero and Leander | Christopher Marlowe | 3.74 — 627 ratings | 94 | |
| The Massacre At Paris: With The Death Of The Duke Of Guise | Christopher Marlowe | 3.04 — 126 ratings | 94 | |
| Three Books of Occult Philosophy | Cornelius Agrippa | 4.11 — 1,120 ratings | 82 | |
| Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy | Cornelius Agrippa | 4.13 — 111 ratings | 81 | |
| Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex | Cornelius Agrippa | 3.84 — 25 ratings | 80 | |
| The Way of Perfection | Teresa of Ávila | 4.32 — 1,674 ratings | 79 | |
| Astronomia Magna: Oder Die Ganze Philosophia Sagax Der Grossen | Paracelsus | really liked it 4.00 — 1 rating | 77 | |
| Myles Coverdale Bible (Student's Edition) | First Gospel Publications | really liked it 4.00 — 2 ratings | 75 | |
| The Complete Writings of Menno Simons | J.C. Wenger | 4.50 — 4 ratings | 74 | |
| History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy | Niccolò Machiavelli | 3.90 — 263 ratings | 72 | |
| 15th | Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table | Thomas Malory | 3.92 — 28,922 ratings | 6,794 |
| The Imitation of Christ | Thomas à Kempis | 4.19 — 14,233 ratings | 2,091 | |
| The Mabinogion | Unknown | 3.96 — 4,988 ratings | 1,688 | |
| Everyman and Other Miracle and Morality Plays | Anonymous | 3.30 — 632 ratings | 1,381 | |
| The Book of the City of Ladies | Christine de Pizan | 3.74 — 1,701 ratings | 992 | |
| Poems of François Villon | François Villon | 4.16 — 1,118 ratings | 598 | |
| The Book of Margery Kempe | Margery Kempe | 3.25 — 2,429 ratings | 590 | |
| The Treasure of the City of Ladies | Christine de Pizan | 3.53 — 330 ratings | 586 | |
| Everyman | Anonymous | 3.19 — 1,352 ratings | 394 | |
| Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc (Medium Aevum monographs) | Christine de Pizan | 3.70 — 10 ratings | 287 | |
| Dives And Pauper | Anonymous | 2.67 — 3 ratings | 280 | |
| Orlando Innamorato | Matteo Maria Boiardo | 3.90 — 139 ratings | 200 | |
| Caxton: The Description of Britain: A Modern Rendering | William Caxton | 3.17 — 6 ratings | 196 | |
| The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry | Christine de Pizan | 3.53 — 395 ratings | 195 | |
| Blind Harry's Wallace | Blind Harry | 3.63 — 38 ratings | 192 | |
| Het boek van Dede Korkoet | Anonymous | 3.78 — 243 ratings | 192 | |
| Wittenwiler's Ring and Colkelbie Sow: Two Comic-Didactic Works Fr | Heinrich Wittenwiler | really liked it 4.00 — 4 ratings | 100 | |
| La Celestina | Fernando de Rojas | 3.38 — 7,993 ratings | 100 | |
| The History of Reynard the Fox | Edward Arber | 4.06 — 17 ratings | 99 | |
| Caxton’s Book of Curtesye (E-Book) | William Caxton | 3.60 — 5 ratings | 97 | |
| 14th | The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer | 3.48 — 154,808 ratings | 13,642 |
| The Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri | 4.06 — 86,102 ratings | 12,539 | |
| Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1) | Dante Alighieri | 3.98 — 104,252 ratings | 7,239 | |
| Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | Unknown | 3.68 — 41,329 ratings | 6,606 | |
| The Decameron | Giovanni Boccaccio | 3.86 — 25,413 ratings | 6,293 | |
| Paradiso (The Divine Comedy, #3) | Dante Alighieri | 3.94 — 11,970 ratings | 2,433 | |
| The Romance of Tristan and Iseult | Joseph Bédier | 3.69 — 8,009 ratings | 2,336 | |
| Purgatorio (The Divine Comedy, #2) | Dante Alighieri | 4.01 — 16,884 ratings | 2,135 | |
| Troilus and Criseyde | Geoffrey Chaucer | 3.78 — 4,945 ratings | 1,258 | |
| Canzoniere: Selected Poems | Francesco Petrarca | 3.90 — 718 ratings | 969 | |
| The Divan | Hafez | 4.63 — 6,201 ratings | 677 | |
| The Travels of Ibn Battutah | Ibn Battuta | 3.88 — 1,144 ratings | 588 | |
| Piers Plowman | William Langland | 3.39 — 2,225 ratings | 577 | |
| Libro de Buen Amor | Juan Ruiz (Arcipreste de Hi | 3.55 — 1,374 ratings | 491 | |
| The Tale of the Heike | Anonymous | 3.96 — 808 ratings | 491 | |
| The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki | Anonymous | 4.07 — 607 ratings | 487 | |
| Revelations of Divine Love | Julian of Norwich | 3.97 — 3,482 ratings | 479 | |
| Essays in Idleness - The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko | Yoshida Kenk_ | 3.89 — 628 ratings | 395 | |
| Outlaws of the Marsh (Vol. 1-4) | Shi Nai'an | 4.11 — 1,147 ratings | 383 | |
| Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness, Patience | Unknown | 4.06 — 5,490 ratings | 379 | |
| A Treatise On God As First Principle | John Duns Scotus | 4.15 — 13 ratings | 299 | |
| Three Kingdoms: Classic Novel in Four Volumes | Luo Guanzhong | 4.38 — 2,665 ratings | 293 | |
| Petrarch's Lyric Poems: The "Rime Sparse" and Other Lyrics | Francesco Petrarca | 4.12 — 177 ratings | 282 | |
| Confessio Amantis | John Gower | 3.60 — 109 ratings | 276 | |
| ____ ________ ___ 4 _____ __ | _________ ________ ______ | 3.43 — 14 ratings | 100 | |
| The Spirit of Noh: A New Translation of the Classic Noh Treatise the | Zeami | 4.14 — 56 ratings | 100 | |
| The Saga of Grettir the Strong | Anonymous | 3.90 — 564 ratings | 100 | |
| The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi | Francis of Assisi | 4.10 — 912 ratings | 99 | |
| Trionfi, Rime Estravaganti, Codice Degli Abbozzi | Francesco Petrarca | 4.75 — 4 ratings | 90 | |
| Vie de Saint Louis | Jean de Joinville | 3.73 — 37 ratings | 87 | |
| 13th | The Prose Edda | Snorri Sturluson | 4.16 — 7,537 ratings | 3,481 |
| The Nibelungenlied | Unknown | 3.87 — 4,711 ratings | 2,875 | |
| The Travels | Marco Polo | 3.56 — 3,589 ratings | 2,587 | |
| Summa Theologica, 5 Vols | Thomas Aquinas | 4.08 — 2,689 ratings | 2,286 | |
| Parzival | Wolfram von Eschenbach | 3.82 — 2,425 ratings | 1,581 | |
| Teachings of Rumi the Masnavi: The Spiritual Couplets of Maulana Ja | Jalaluddin Rumi | 4.13 — 278 ratings | 1,481 | |
| The Essential Rumi | Jalaluddin Rumi | 4.44 — 27,673 ratings | 1,386 | |
| Vita Nuova | Dante Alighieri | 3.86 — 3,539 ratings | 1,38 | |
| Egil's Saga | Anonymous | 4.09 — 1,653 ratings | 1,274 | |
| Njal's Saga | Anonymous | 3.98 — 2,979 ratings | 982 | |
| The Saga of the Volsungs | Anonymous | 4.02 — 3,900 ratings | 872 | |
| ______ ____ | Saadi | 4.48 — 1,863 ratings | 787 | |
| The Romance of the Rose | Guillaume de Lorris | 3.66 — 1,762 ratings | 779 | |
| Tristan: With the Tristran of Thomas | Gottfried von Straßburg | 3.82 — 1,310 ratings | 593 | |
| Laxdæla Saga | Anonymous | 3.97 — 768 ratings | 567 | |
| Life of St. Francis of Assisi | Tan Books | 3.96 — 49 ratings | 491 | |
| Classics of World Spirituality: Rumi's Divan of Shems of Tabriz | Jalaluddin Rumi | 4.55 — 1,840 ratings | 477 | |
| Canticle of the Sun (Calligrapher's Notebooks) | Francis of Assisi | 4.09 — 45 ratings | 392 | |
| The Masnavi: Book Two | Jalaluddin Rumi | 4.56 — 141 ratings | 386 | |
| Van den vos Reynaerde | Willem die Madocke maect | 3.19 — 1,177 ratings | 299 | |
| Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Cons | Geoffrey de Villehardouin | 3.85 — 91 ratings | 291 | |
| Reynard the Fox | Unknown | 3.45 — 264 ratings | 289 | |
| The Knight in the Panther's Skin | Shota Rustaveli | 4.63 — 1,038 ratings | 199 | |
| Heimskringla: or, The Lives of the Norse Kings | Snorri Sturluson | 4.16 — 918 ratings | 196 | |
| La Suite Du Roman de Merlin | Unknown | really liked it 4.00 — 3 ratings | 189 | |
| The Danish History | Saxo Grammaticus | 3.72 — 53 ratings | 184 | |
| The Southern Passion | Anonymous | 4.50 — 2 ratings | 175 | |
| Saga di Hrafnkell | Anonymous | 3.77 — 13 ratings | 100 | |
| Tristan Band 1 | Gottfried von Straßburg | 3.90 — 71 ratings | 99 | |
| Eyrbyggja Saga | Unknown | 3.97 — 263 ratings | 99 | |
| La Queste Del Saint Graalroman Du Xii Ie Siècle | Albert Pauphilet | really liked it 4.00 — 12 ratings | 98 | |
| The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald | Unknown | 3.04 — 25 ratings | 98 | |
| 12th | The History of the Kings of Britain | Geoffrey of Monmouth | 3.73 — 4,523 ratings | 2,177 |
| Perceval, or, The Story of the Grail | Chrétien de Troyes | 3.71 — 1,278 ratings | 2,087 | |
| Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart | Chrétien de Troyes | 3.69 — 1,361 ratings | 1,787 | |
| The Lais of Marie de France | Marie de France | 3.85 — 4,921 ratings | 1,771 | |
| The Guide for the Perplexed | Maimonides | 4.11 — 793 ratings | 1,388 | |
| Yvain, or The Knight with the Lion | Chrétien de Troyes | 3.72 — 1,752 ratings | 1,382 | |
| Hildegard von Bingen's Physica: The Complete English Translation of | Hildegard of Bingen | 4.28 — 113 ratings | 1,378 | |
| La Chanson de Roland | Unknown | 3.54 — 10,969 ratings | 1,285 | |
| Arthurian Romances | Chrétien de Troyes | 3.97 — 6,330 ratings | 1,074 | |
| The Alexiad | Anna Comnena | 3.95 — 595 ratings | 985 | |
| The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse | Héloïse d'Argenteuil | 3.74 — 3,305 ratings | 876 | |
| The Conference of the Birds | Farid al-Din Attar | 4.20 — 2,797 ratings | 782 | |
| __ __ _____ | ___ ____ | 3.78 — 2,164 ratings | 591 | |
| Erec and Enide | Chrétien de Troyes | 3.72 — 584 ratings | 387 | |
| The Story of My Misfortunes | Pierre Abélard | 3.57 — 269 ratings | 384 | |
| The Song of Igor's Campaign, An Epic of the Twelfth Century | Anonymous | 3.26 — 205 ratings | 384 | |
| The History and Topography of Ireland | Gerald of Wales | 3.47 — 287 ratings | 297 | |
| ______ _______ | ______ __ ___ _______ | 4.51 — 80 ratings | 292 | |
| Sic Et Non: A Critical Edition | Pierre Abélard | 3.81 — 31 ratings | 287 | |
| Scivias | Hildegard of Bingen | 4.09 — 205 ratings | 283 | |
| The Saga of Gisli the Outlaw | Anonymous | 3.54 — 249 ratings | 281 | |
| Erec | Hartmann von Aue | 3.48 — 216 ratings | 200 | |
| Gesta Francorum Et Aliorum Hierosolimitanorum: The Deeds of the Fr | Rosalind M.T. Hill | 3.91 — 33 ratings | 188 | |
| The Murder of Charles the Good, Count of Flanders. | Galbert De Bruges | 3.63 — 62 ratings | 100 | |
| Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney | Anonymous | 3.94 — 377 ratings | 100 | |
| The Sentences Book 1: The Mystery of the Trinity | Peter Lombard | 4.15 — 20 ratings | 89 | |
| The Sentences: Book 2: On Creation | Peter Lombard | 4.30 — 10 ratings | 88 | |
| The Sentences: Book 3: On the Incarnation of the Word | Peter Lombard | 4.08 — 13 ratings | 87 | |
| Sentences Book 4: On The Doctrine Of Signs | Peter Lombard | 4.33 — 9 ratings | 86 | |
| 11th | The Tale of Genji | Murasaki Shikibu | 3.71 — 7,547 ratings | 3,298 |
| The Pillow Book | Sei Sh_nagon | 4.02 — 4,119 ratings | 2,488 | |
| Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | Omar Khayyám | 4.18 — 13,227 ratings | 2,288 | |
| The Battle of Maldon | Anonymous | 3.83 — 200 ratings | 892 | |
| Canon of Medicine | Avicenna | 4.20 — 164 ratings | 884 | |
| Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings | Abolqasem Ferdowsi | 4.51 — 3,050 ratings | 686 | |
| The Metaphysics of The Healing | Avicenna | 4.18 — 65 ratings | 590 | |
| Hay bin Yakzan | _bn Tufeyl | 3.78 — 2,164 ratings | 482 | |
| El collar de la paloma | Ibn Hazm | 3.90 — 3,328 ratings | 286 | |
| As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleven | Lady Sarashina | 3.72 — 469 ratings | 195 | |
| Tales from the Kathasaritsagara | Somadeva Bha__a | 4.24 — 66 ratings | 188 | |
| The Diary of Lady Murasaki | Murasaki Shikibu | 3.83 — 953 ratings | 100 | |
| Cur Deus Homo | Anselm of Canterbury | 4.00 — 176 ratings | 100 | |
| Monologion | Anselm of Canterbury | 3.59 — 17 ratings | 100 | |
| 10th | Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings | Abolqasem Ferdowsi | 4.51 — 3,050 ratings | 1,6 |
| The Plays Of Hrotswitha Of Gandersheim | Hrotsvitha | 3.29 — 24 ratings | 498 | |
| From The Meadows of Gold | Al-Mas'udi | 3.79 — 66 ratings | 297 | |
| Ibn Fadl_n and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North | ____ __ _____ | 3.83 — 563 ratings | 297 |