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The Devils (The Possessed)
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1871

The Double
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1846

The Duel
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1891

The Dunciad
Alexander Pope

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1743

The Dunwich Horror
H. P. Lovecraft

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1929

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Tobias Smollett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1771

The Female Quixote
Charlotte Lennox

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1752

The Gambler
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1866

The Garies and Their Friends
Frank J. Webb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1857

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1873

The Golden Ass
Apuleius

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 159

The Golden Bowl
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1904

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Samuel Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1759

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

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1742

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Henry Fielding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1749

The Home and the World
Rabindranath Tagore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1916

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 Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Victor Hugo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1831

The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1869

The Immoralist
Andre Gide

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1902

The Innocence of Father Brown
G. K. Chesterton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1911

The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1897

The Iron Heel
Jack London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1908

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 Moonstone
Wilkie Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1868

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 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 Portrait of a Lady
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1881

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

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 Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
James Hogg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1824

The Professor's House
Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

The Rainbow
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

The Red and the Black
Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1830

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 Romance of the Forest
Ann Radcliffe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1791

The Romance of the Rose
Guillaume De Lorris

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1230

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

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

The Scarlet Pimpernel
Emma Orczy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1905

The Scarlet Plague
Jack London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1912

The Sea-Wolf
Jack London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1904

The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1907

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 Squatter and the Don
María Amparo Ruiz De Burton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1885

The Story of an African Farm
Olive Schreiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1883

The Story of Hong Gildong
Transl. Minsoo Kang, Anonymous

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.
R.B. Parkinson (Translator), Sinuhe

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