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Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life

Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1848

McTeague: A Story of San Francisco

Frank Norris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1899

Metamorphoses

Ovid

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 8

Middlemarch

George Eliot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1871

Moby Dick

Herman Melville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1851

Moll Flanders

Daniel Defoe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1722

Monkey: A Folk Novel of China

Wu Cheng'en, Transl. Arthur Waley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1592

Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

My Antonia

Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1918

Nana

Émile Zola, Transl. Gerhard Krüger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1880

News from Nowhere

William Morris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1890

Nibelungenlied

Anonymous

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1200

Nicholas Nickleby

Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1839

Njals Saga

Anonymous

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1280

Noli Me Tángere (Touch Me Not)

José Rizal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1887

North and South

Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1854

Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1817

Notes from Underground

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1864

Of Human Bondage

W. Somerset Maugham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

Of One Blood: Or, the Hidden Self

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1902

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1838

One Of Ours

Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

O Pioneers!

Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

Orlando

Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Orlando Furioso

Ludovico Ariosto

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1532

Oroonoko

Aphra Behn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1688

Ourika

Claire de Duras

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1823

Our Mutual Friend

Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1865

Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black

Harriet E. Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1859

Pamela

Samuel Richardson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1740

Parade's End

Ford Madox Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Paradise Lost

John Milton

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1667

Paradise Regained

John Milton

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1671

Paradiso

Dante Alighieri

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1320

Parzival

Wolfram Von Eschenbach

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1215

Passing

Nella Larsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

Perceval, the Story of the Grail

Chrétien De Troyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1181

Persian Letters

Montesquieu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1721

Persuasion

Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1817

Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women

George MacDonald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1858

Pickwick Papers

Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1836

Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral

Jessie Redmon Fauset

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1813

Purgatorio

Dante Alighieri

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1316

Quicksand

Nella Larsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Riders of the Purple Sage

Zane Grey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1912

Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1719

Roughing It

Mark Twain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1872

Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress

Daniel Defoe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1724

Ruth

Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1853

Sanditon

Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1811

Shirley

Charlotte Brontë

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1849

Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

Silas Marner

George Eliot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1861

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Anonymous

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1397

Sister Carrie

Theodore Dreiser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1900

Sons and Lovers

D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali (Sunjata)

Djibril Tamsir Niane (D.T. Niane), Transl. G. D. Pickett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1200

Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Volume One

Marcel Proust

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

Tarzan of the Apes

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1912

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1891

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

The Art of Love

Ovid

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2

The Aspern Papers

Henry James

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1888

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

James Weldon Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1912

The Awakening

Kate Chopin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1899

Thebaid

Statius, Transl. Jane Wilson Joyce

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 92

The Beast in the Jungle

Henry James

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1903

The Betrothed: I Promessi Sposi

Alessandro Manzoni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1827

The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life

Wallace Thurman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

The Blazing World

Margaret Cavendish

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1666

The Blithedale Romance

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1851

The Bostonians

Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1886

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1879

The Call of the Wild

Jack London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1903

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1400

The Canterville Ghost

Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1887

The Castle

Franz Kafka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1926

The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1764

The Charterhouse of Parma

Marie-Henri Beyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1839

The Coquette

Hannah Webster Foster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1797

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1844

The Custom of the Country

Edith Wharton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

The Dead

James Joyce

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1914

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1886

The Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend

Thomas Malory, Peter Ackroyd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1485

The Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1353

The Devils (The Possessed)

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1871

The Duel

Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1891

The Dunciad

Alexander Pope

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1743

The Dunwich Horror

H. P. Lovecraft

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1929

The Eclogues

Virgil

Fiction | Novel | Adult | BCE

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

Tobias Smollett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1771

The Gambler

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1866

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today

Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1873

The Golden Ass

Apuleius

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 159

The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams

Henry Fielding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1742

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Henry Fielding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1749

The Home and the World

Rabindranath Tagore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1916