Author

E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster — 5 titles in the rankings, first published between 1908 and 1971. They average 7.6, below the 7.8 the whole catalogue averages.

Editor’s note English novelist of manners, class and the struggle to “only connect”, as the motto of Howards End puts it. A Room with a View, his sunny Florentine comedy, is the most read but the lowest rated here, just below A Passage to India. The surprise is that his highest rated book is The Machine Stops, a 1909 science fiction story about people living alone in cells, served by a global machine, that eerily foresees our screen-bound lives. Maurice, a gay love story with a happy ending, was published only after his death.

Ranked titles: 5 books
Average score: 7.6
Total ratings: 804
First published: 1908–1971