Here are the works that have scored a rating of 10:
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1952)
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937)
- Last Orders by Graham Swift (1996)
- Waterland by Graham Swift (1983)
- Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949)
- Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945)
- Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey (1988)
- Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey (2006)
- Gould’s Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan (2001)
- Wanting by Richard Flanagan (2008)
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy (1886)
- The Turning by Tim Winton (2005)
- Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami (2000)
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
- The Spare Room by Helen Garner (2008)
- Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje (1976)
