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Aeneid
Virgil

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | BCE

A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

Agnes Grey
Anne Brontë

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1847

A Hero Of Our Time
Mikhail Lermontov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1838

A Journal Of The Plague Year
Daniel Defoe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1722

All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

A Lost Lady
Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1923

Amerika: The Missing Person
Franz Kafka, Transl. Willa Muir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1879

A Passage to India
E. M. Forster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1924

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1916

A Room with a View
E. M. Forster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1908

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
Laurence Sterne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1768

A Simple Heart
Gustave Flaubert

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1877

A Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1887

A Tale Of A Tub
Jonathan Swift

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1704

A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1859

Aurora Leigh
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1856

Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1841

Belinda
Maria Edgeworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1801

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Lew Wallace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1880

Benito Cereno
Herman Melville

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1855

Beowulf
Transl. Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1000

Billy Budd, Sailor
Herman Melville

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1924

Bleak House
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1853

Bread Givers
Anzia Yezierska

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1901

Caleb Williams
William Godwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1794

Candide
Voltaire

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1759

Cane
Jean Toomer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1923

Captain Blood: His Odyssey
Rafael Sabatini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

Carmen
Prosper Merimee

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1840

Castle Rackrent
Maria Edgeworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1800

Charlotte Temple: A Tale of Truth
Susanna Rowson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1791

Clotel
William Wells Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1853

Cranford
Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1853

Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1866

Crome Yellow
Aldous Huxley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1921

Daisy Miller
Henry James

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1878

Dangerous Liaisons
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1782

Daniel Deronda
George Eliot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1876

Dante's Inferno
Dante Alighieri

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1307

David Copperfield
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1850

Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1842

Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

Death in Venice
Thomas Mann

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1912

Demian
Hermann Hesse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1919

Diary of a Nobody
Weedon Grossmith, George Grossmith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1892

Dom Casmurro
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1899

Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1605

Dracula
Bram Stoker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1897

Dream of the Red Chamber, Volume 1
Cao Xueqin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1760

East Lynne
Henry Wood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1861

Edgar Huntly: Or, Memoirs of a Sleepwalker
Charles Brockden Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1799

El Filibusterismo
José Rizal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1891

Emma
Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1815

Erec and Enide
Chrétien De Troyes

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1170

Erewhon
Samuel Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1872

Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1911

Eugene Onegin
Alexander Pushkin

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1832

Fanny Hill
John Cleland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1748

Fantomina
Eliza Haywood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1725

Far From The Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1874

Fathers And Sons
Ivan Turgenev

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1862

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Edwin A. Abbott

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1884

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Mary Shelley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1818

Gargantua And Pantagruel
François Rabelais, Transl. Thomas Urquhart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1564

Germinal
Émile Zola

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1885

Great Expectations
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1861

Gulliver's Travels: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
Jonathan Swift

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1726

Hadji Murat
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1912

Hard Times
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1854

Hayy Ibn Yaqzan: A Philosophical Tale
Ibn Tufayl

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1177

Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1899

Heptameron
Marguerite De Navarre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1558

Herland
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

Home To Harlem
Claude McKay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Hope Leslie, or Early Times in the Massachusetts
Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1827

Howards End
E. M. Forster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1910

Imperium in Imperio
Sutton E. Griggs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1899

In His Steps
Charles Sheldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1896

Ivanhoe
Walter Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1819

Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1847

Journey To The Center Of The Earth
Jules Verne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1864

Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1895

Kim
Rudyard Kipling

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1901

Kokoro
Natsume Sōseki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1914

Kristin Lavransdatter
Sigrid Undset

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

Lady Audley's Secret
Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1862

Lady Chatterley's Lover
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Lady Susan
Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1871

Lazarillo De Tormes
Anonymous

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1554

Le Père Goriot
Honoré de Balzac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1835

Les Misérables
Victor Hugo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1862

Little Dorrit
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1857

Look Homeward, Angel
Thomas Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

Looking Backward
Edward Bellamy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1888

Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1900

Lorna Doone
R. D. Blackmore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1869