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Imperium in Imperio
Sutton E. Griggs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1899

Erewhon
Samuel Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1872

A Room with a View
E. M. Forster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1908

Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1900

Mansfield Park
Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1814

Erec and Enide
Chrétien De Troyes

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

Riders of the Purple Sage
Zane Grey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1912

The Aspern Papers
Henry James

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1888

Cane
Jean Toomer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1923

Jacob's Room
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

The Wings of the Dove
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1902

The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1868

The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1907

Death in Venice
Thomas Mann

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1912

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

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1830

Dangerous Liaisons
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1782

Main Street
Sinclair Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1817

Herland
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1878

A Simple Heart
Gustave Flaubert

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1877

Orlando
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Benito Cereno
Herman Melville

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1855

The Dead
James Joyce

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1914

Daniel Deronda
George Eliot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1876

The Romance of the Forest
Ann Radcliffe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1791

Howards End
E. M. Forster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1910

Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1864

Parzival
Wolfram Von Eschenbach

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1215

Looking Backward
Edward Bellamy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1888

The Lifted Veil
George Eliot

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1859

Martin Eden
Jack London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1909

Noli Me Tángere (Touch Me Not)
José Rizal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1887

The Betrothed: I Promessi Sposi
Alessandro Manzoni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1827

The Captain's Daughter
Alexander Pushkin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1836

The Charterhouse of Parma
Marie-Henri Beyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1839

Kristin Lavransdatter
Sigrid Undset

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1836

The Lais of Marie de France
Marie De France

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1100

The Golden Bowl
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1904

Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1900

The Romance of the Rose
Guillaume De Lorris

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

Yvain, or the Knight With the Lion
Chrétien De Troyes

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1176

Lady Chatterley's Lover
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1870

The Canterville Ghost
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1887

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

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1827

Heptameron
Marguerite De Navarre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1558

Oroonoko
Aphra Behn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1688

Lady Audley's Secret
Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1862

Passing
Nella Larsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

Lorna Doone
R. D. Blackmore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1869

One Of Ours
Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

Maria Chapdelaine
Louis Hémon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

Fanny Hill
John Cleland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1748

The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1851

McTeague: A Story of San Francisco
Frank Norris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1899

The Man Who Was Thursday
G. K. Chesterton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1908

Monkey: A Folk Novel of China
Wu Cheng'en, Transl. Arthur Waley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1592

The Virginian
Owen Wister

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1902

The Seven Tablets of Creation: The Enuma Elish
Leonard William King, ed.

Fiction | Scripture | Adult | BCE

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
Mark Twain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1893

The Turn of the Screw
Henry James

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1898

Thebaid
Statius, Transl. Jane Wilson Joyce

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 92

The Golden Ass
Apuleius

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 159

The Woodlanders
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1887

Orlando Furioso
Ludovico Ariosto

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1532

Nana
Émile Zola, Transl. Gerhard Krüger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1880

The Marble Faun
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1860

The Immoralist
Andre Gide

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1902

The Old Curiosity Shop
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1840

The Octopus: A Story of California
Frank Norris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1901

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

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

Cranford
Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1853

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

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

Ruth
Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1853

Zadig
Voltaire

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1747

The Lost World
Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1912

The Way of All Flesh
Samuel Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1903

The Old Wives' Tale
Arnold Bennett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1908

O Pioneers!
Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

The Song of Hiawatha
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1855

The Duel
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1891

The Wreath: Kristin Lavransdatter #1
Sigrid Undset

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

The Mill on the Floss
George Eliot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1860

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Rainer Maria Rilke

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1910

Parade's End
Ford Madox Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1798

The Story of Hong Gildong
Anonymous, Transl. Minsoo Kang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1600

The Blazing World
Margaret Cavendish

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1666

The Mysteries of Udolpho
Ann Radcliffe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1794

The Devils (The Possessed)
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1871

El Filibusterismo
José Rizal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1891

The Blithedale Romance
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1851

The Voyage Out
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

The Dunwich Horror
H. P. Lovecraft

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1929

Perceval, the Story of the Grail
Chrétien De Troyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1181

The Woman of Colour: A Tale
Ed. Lyndon J. Dominique, Anonymous

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1808

The Art of Love
Ovid

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2