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Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1839

Caleb Williams
William Godwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1794

Gargantua And Pantagruel
François Rabelais, Transl. Thomas Urquhart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1564

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
James Weldon Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1912

Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life
Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1848

Eugene Onegin
Alexander Pushkin

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

The Man In The Iron Mask
Alexandre Dumas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1850

The Painted Veil
W. Somerset Maugham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

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

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1883

The Mysterious Stranger
Mark Twain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1916

The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1860

Washington Square
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1880

Women In Love
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Victor Hugo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1831

Dante's Inferno
Dante Alighieri

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

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 Rainbow
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

The Thirty Nine Steps
John Buchan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Pamela
Samuel Richardson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1740

Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
William Makepeace Thackeray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1847

Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1842

Kim
Rudyard Kipling

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1901

Persuasion
Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1817

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1870

Tarzan of the Apes
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1912

The Beast in the Jungle
Henry James

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1903

The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1881

Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1865

Fathers And Sons
Ivan Turgenev

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1862

Little Dorrit
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1857

Demian
Hermann Hesse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1919

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1838

North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1854

Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1722

Bread Givers
Anzia Yezierska

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Wieland
Charles Brockden Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1798

Kokoro
Natsume Sōseki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1914

Middlemarch
George Eliot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1871

Ulysses
James Joyce

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

The Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1353

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

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

In His Steps
Charles Sheldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1896

Njals Saga
Anonymous

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1280

The Custom of the Country
Edith Wharton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

The Iron Heel
Jack London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1908

Paradiso
Dante Alighieri

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

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anne Brontë

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1848

Belinda
Maria Edgeworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1801

Venus in Furs
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1870

Waverley
Sir Walter Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1814

The Song of the Lark
Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

Roughing It
Mark Twain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1872

Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1901

The Professor's House
Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

The Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1678

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Laurence Sterne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1759

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Henry Fielding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1749

Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women
George MacDonald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1858

The Enchanted April
Elizabeth von Arnim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

The Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend
Thomas Malory, Peter Ackroyd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1485

Shirley
Charlotte Brontë

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1849

Daisy Miller
Henry James

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1878

Hard Times
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1854

The Castle
Franz Kafka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1926

The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

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

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1726

Silas Marner
George Eliot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1861

The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1856

The Jungle
Upton Sinclair

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1905

Emma
Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1815

My Antonia
Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1918

Sons and Lovers
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

A Passage to India
E. M. Forster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1924

The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1826

The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1886

Utopia
Thomas More

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1516

Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral
Jessie Redmon Fauset

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1895

The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

Ivanhoe
Walter Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1819

The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1879

The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1869

The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1886

The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1905

The Trial
Franz Kafka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

Bleak House
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1853

News from Nowhere
William Morris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1890

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1916

Metamorphoses
Ovid

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

Billy Budd, Sailor
Herman Melville

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1924

The Rise of Silas Lapham
William Dean Howells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1885

The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1897

Red Harvest
Dashiell Hammett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

The Sign of the Four
Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1890