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Lorna Doone
R. D. Blackmore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1869

Love in Excess
Eliza Haywood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1719

Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1856

Manon Lescaut
Abbe Prevost

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1731

Mansfield Park
Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1814

Maria Chapdelaine
Louis Hémon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

Marianela
Benito Perez Galdos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1878

Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1798

Martin Eden
Jack London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1909

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

Red Harvest
Dashiell Hammett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

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

So Big
Edna Ferber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1924

Sons and Lovers
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

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

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
Transl. Jane Wilson Joyce, Statius

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 Captain's Daughter
Alexander Pushkin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1836

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
Peter Ackroyd, Thomas Malory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1485