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The Awakening
Kate Chopin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1899

Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
Harriet E. Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1859

Castle Rackrent
Maria Edgeworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1800

The Coquette
Hannah Webster Foster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1797

A Journal Of The Plague Year
Daniel Defoe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1722

A Tale Of A Tub
Jonathan Swift

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1704

Ourika
Claire de Duras

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1823

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
Laurence Sterne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1768

Dream of the Red Chamber, Volume 1
Cao Xueqin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1760

The Marrow of Tradition
Charles W. Chesnutt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1901

Manon Lescaut
Abbe Prevost

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1731

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

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1678

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Lew Wallace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1880

A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1859

Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress
Daniel Defoe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1724

Germinal
Émile Zola

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1885

Clotel
William Wells Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1853

A Lost Lady
Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1923

Fantomina
Eliza Haywood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1725

Lady Susan
Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1871

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

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1592

Purgatorio
Dante Alighieri

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

Great Expectations
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1861

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

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1799

The Underdogs: A novel of the Mexican Revolution
Mariano Azuela

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

The Pioneers
James Fenimore Cooper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1823

Persian Letters
Montesquieu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1721

The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1926

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Mary Shelley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1818

The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1890

Paradise Regained
John Milton

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

Far From The Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1874

The Well of Loneliness
Radclyffe Hall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Quicksand
Nella Larsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Marianela
Benito Perez Galdos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1878

The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1924

Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1851

Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1847

The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1915

Home To Harlem
Claude McKay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1844

Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1813

The Tale Of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1008

Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1719

Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Aurora Leigh
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1838

A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

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

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1742

The House Behind the Cedars
Charles W. Chesnutt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1900

Look Homeward, Angel
Thomas Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

The Bostonians
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1886

Beowulf
Transl. Seamus Heaney

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

Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1899

Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1847

David Copperfield
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1850

The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1910

We
Yevgeny Zamyatin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1921

The Sea-Wolf
Jack London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1904

Journey To The Center Of The Earth
Jules Verne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1864

A Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1887

Lazarillo De Tormes
Anonymous

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1554

The Castle of Otranto
Horace Walpole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1764

The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1774

The Scarlet Pimpernel
Emma Orczy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1905

Villette
Charlotte Brontë

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1853

Nibelungenlied
Anonymous

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

Troilus and Criseyde
Geoffrey Chaucer

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1385

Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali (Sunjata)
Djibril Tamsir Niane (D.T. Niane), Transl. G. D. Pickett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1200

The Home and the World
Rabindranath Tagore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1916

Dracula
Bram Stoker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1897

Les Misérables
Victor Hugo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1862

Moby Dick
Herman Melville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1851

Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1811

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Anonymous

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

Aeneid
Virgil

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | BCE

Candide
Voltaire

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1759

Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1605

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Samuel Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1759

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

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1886

Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1891

Paradise Lost
John Milton

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

Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1866

The Time Machine
H. G. Wells

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1895

The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1844

War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1867

To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1879

The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Edwin A. Abbott

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1884

The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1902

The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1898

A Hero Of Our Time
Mikhail Lermontov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1838

Agnes Grey
Anne Brontë

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1847

Charlotte Temple: A Tale of Truth
Susanna Rowson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1791

Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1911

The Island of Doctor Moreau
H. G. Wells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1896

Le Père Goriot
Honoré de Balzac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1835