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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

Crome Yellow
Aldous Huxley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1921

Vathek
William Beckford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1786

The Kreutzer Sonata
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1889

Sanditon
Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

The Mysterious Island
Jules Verne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1875

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Tobias Smollett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1771

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

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1873

The Gambler
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1866

The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life
Wallace Thurman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1841

The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta
John Rollin Ridge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1854

The Rise of David Levinsky
Abraham Cahan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1917

Dom Casmurro
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1899

The Last Man
Mary Shelley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1826

The Dunciad
Alexander Pope

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

Carmen
Prosper Merimee

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1840

Captain Blood: His Odyssey
Rafael Sabatini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

Tristan
Gottfried von Strassburg

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1209

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

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1881

Love in Excess
Eliza Haywood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1719

The Ladies' Paradise
Émile Zola

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1883

Of One Blood: Or, the Hidden Self
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1902

The Tale of Sinuhe: and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940-1640 B.C.
Sinuhe, R.B. Parkinson (Translator)

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | BCE

Hadji Murat
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1912

The Female Quixote
Charlotte Lennox

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1752

Hayy Ibn Yaqzan: A Philosophical Tale
Ibn Tufayl

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1177

The Story of an African Farm
Olive Schreiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1883

East Lynne
Henry Wood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1861

The Garies and Their Friends
Frank J. Webb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1857

The Double
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1846

Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life
Herman Melville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1846

The Squatter and the Don
María Amparo Ruiz De Burton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1885

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
James Hogg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1824

Diary of a Nobody
George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1892

The Innocence of Father Brown
G. K. Chesterton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1911

The Scarlet Plague
Jack London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1912

So Big
Edna Ferber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1924