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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1902

The House Behind the Cedars
Charles W. Chesnutt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1900

The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1905

The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1851

The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1869

The Iliad
Homer, Transl. Robert Fagles

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | BCE

The Immoralist
Andre Gide

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1902

The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1897

The Island of Doctor Moreau
H. G. Wells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1896

The Journey to the West: Volume I
Wu Cheng'en, Transl. Anthony C. Yu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1592

The Jungle
Upton Sinclair

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1905

The Kreutzer Sonata
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1889

The Ladies' Paradise
Émile Zola

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1883

The Lais of Marie de France
Marie De France

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1100

The Last Man
Mary Shelley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1826

The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1826

The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta
John Rollin Ridge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1854

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Laurence Sterne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1759

The Lifted Veil
George Eliot

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1859

The Lost World
Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1912

The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1924

The Man In The Iron Mask
Alexandre Dumas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1850

The Man Who Was Thursday
G. K. Chesterton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1908

The Marble Faun
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1860

The Marrow of Tradition
Charles W. Chesnutt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1901

The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1886

The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1915

The Mill on the Floss
George Eliot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1860

The Monk: A Romance
Matthew Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1796

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1926

The Mysteries of Udolpho
Ann Radcliffe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1794

The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

The Mysterious Island
Jules Verne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1875

The Mysterious Stranger
Mark Twain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1916

The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1870

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1838

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Rainer Maria Rilke

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1910

The Octopus: A Story of California
Frank Norris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1901

The Odyssey
Homer, Transl. Emily Wilson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | BCE

The Old Curiosity Shop
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1840

The Old Wives' Tale
Arnold Bennett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1908

The Painted Veil
W. Somerset Maugham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1910

The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1890

The Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1678

The Pioneers
James Fenimore Cooper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1823

The Poem of the Cid (The Song of the Cid)
Anonymous

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | BCE

The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1881

The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Transl. Gregory Rabassa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1881

The Princesse de Clèves (The Princess of Cleves)
Madame de La Fayette

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1678

The Rainbow
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1878

The Rise of David Levinsky
Abraham Cahan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1917

The Rise of Silas Lapham
William Dean Howells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1885

The Satyricon
Petronius, Transl. Piero Chiara, Transl. P.G. Walsh

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 60

The Scarlet Pimpernel
Emma Orczy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1905

The Sea-Wolf
Jack London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1904

The Seven Tablets of Creation: The Enuma Elish
Leonard William King, ed.

Fiction | Scripture | Adult | BCE

The Sign of the Four
Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1890

The Song of Hiawatha
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1855

The Song of the Lark
Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1774

The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

The Story of Hong Gildong
Anonymous, Transl. Minsoo Kang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1600

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1886

The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1926

The Tale Of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1008

The Tale of Sinuhe: and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940-1640 B.C.
Sinuhe, R.B. Parkinson (Translator)

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | BCE

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anne Brontë

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1848

The Thirty Nine Steps
John Buchan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1844

The Time Machine
H. G. Wells

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1895

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
Mark Twain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1893

The Trial
Franz Kafka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

The Turn of the Screw
Henry James

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1898

The Underdogs: A novel of the Mexican Revolution
Mariano Azuela

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

The Virginian
Owen Wister

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1902

The Voyage Out
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1898

The Way of All Flesh
Samuel Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1903

The Well of Loneliness
Radclyffe Hall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

The Woman of Colour: A Tale
Ed. Lyndon J. Dominique, Anonymous

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1808

The Woodlanders
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1887

The Wreath: Kristin Lavransdatter #1
Sigrid Undset

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
Friedrich Nietzsche

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1883

To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

Tristan
Gottfried von Strassburg

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1209

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1870

Ulysses
James Joyce

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1851

Utopia
Thomas More

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1516

Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
William Makepeace Thackeray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1847

Vathek
William Beckford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1786

Villette
Charlotte Brontë

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1853

War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1867

Washington Square
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1880

Waverley
Sir Walter Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1814

We
Yevgeny Zamyatin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1921

Wieland
Charles Brockden Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1798