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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
Mark Twain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1893

The Trial
Franz Kafka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

The Turn of the Screw
Henry James

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1898

The Underdogs: A novel of the Mexican Revolution
Mariano Azuela

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

The Virginian
Owen Wister

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1902

The Voyage Out
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1898

The Way of All Flesh
Samuel Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1903

The Well of Loneliness
Radclyffe Hall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1860

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

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1808

The Woodlanders
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1887

The Wreath: Kristin Lavransdatter #1
Sigrid Undset

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

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

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1883

To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

Tristan
Gottfried von Strassburg

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

Troilus and Criseyde
Geoffrey Chaucer

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1385

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1870

Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life
Herman Melville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1846

Ulysses
James Joyce

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1851

Utopia
Thomas More

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1516

Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
William Makepeace Thackeray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1847

Vathek
William Beckford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1786

Venus in Furs
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1870

Villette
Charlotte Brontë

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1853

War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1867

Washington Square
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1880

Waverley
Sir Walter Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1814

We
Yevgeny Zamyatin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1921

Wieland
Charles Brockden Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1798

Women In Love
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1847

Yvain, or the Knight With the Lion
Chrétien De Troyes

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

Zadig
Voltaire

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1747