| 01 | Hamlet | 38.4 |
| 02 | The Odyssey | 34.7 |
| 03 | The Scarlet Letter | 29.5 |
| 04 | Pride and Prejudice | 23.5 |
| 05 | The Iliad | 23.1 |
| 06 | Jane Eyre | 22.1 |
| 07 | Wuthering Heights | 21.0 |
| 08 | Great Expectations | 20.9 |
| 09 | Oedipus Rex | 20.3 |
| 10 | Moby-Dick | 19.2 |
| 11 | oup.com | 19.2 |
| 12 | The Great Gatsby | 19.2 |
| 13 | The Aeneid | 18.7 |
| 14 | 1984 | 18.6 |
| 15 | The Divine Comedy | 17.7 |
| 16 | King Lear | 16.3 |
| 17 | wikipedia.org | 15.6 |
| 18 | War and Peace | 14.7 |
| 19 | Crime and Punishment | 14.4 |
| 20 | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | 14.2 |
| 21 | BBC Culture | 14.1 |
| 22 | One Hundred Years of Solitude | 13.5 |
| 23 | Beloved | 13.3 |
| 24 | Don Quixote | 10.0 |
| 25 | A Christmas Carol | 5.6 |
| 26 | To Kill a Mockingbird | 5.1 |
| 27 | The Catcher in the Rye | 4.9 |
| 28 | Frankenstein | 4.8 |
| 29 | The Picture of Dorian Gray | 4.7 |
| 30 | short list of the 10 most essential timeless classics | 4.5 |