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Evelina
Fanny Burney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1778

The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1308

The Beautiful and Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

Piers Plowman
William Langland

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1377

Three Men in a Boat
Jerome K. Jerome

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1889

The Moon and Sixpence
W. Somerset Maugham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1919

The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

The Vicar of Wakefield
Oliver Goldsmith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1766

What Maisie Knew
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1897

Le Morte d'Arthur
Thomas Malory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1485

The Good Soldier
Ford Madox Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

The Valley of Fear
Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

Pather Panchali
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

Cousin Bette
Honoré de Balzac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1846

Oblomov
Ivan Goncharov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1859

The Bride of Lammermoor
Sir Walter Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1819

The Heart of Midlothian
Walter Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1818

Effi Briest
Theodor Fontane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1895

Mario And The Magician
Thomas Mann

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1929

Manhattan Transfer
John Dos Passos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Barchester Towers
Anthony Trollope

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1857

Michael Kohlhaas
Heinrich von Kleist

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1810

Metropolis
Thea von Harbou

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Sartor Resartus
Thomas Carlyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1836

Shamela
Henry Fielding

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1741

Letters from the Earth
Mark Twain

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1909

Behind a Mask
Louisa May Alcott

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1866

Melanctha
Gertrude Stein

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1909

The Lost Girl
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

A Hazard of New Fortunes
William Dean Howells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1890

King Solomon’s Mines
H. Rider Haggard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1885

Rameau's Nephew
Denis Diderot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1805

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
Tobias Smollett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1751

Nadja
Andre Breton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Henry David Thoreau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1849

The Adventures of Roderick Random
Tobias Smollett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1748

The Deerslayer
James Fenimore Cooper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1841

Decline and Fall
Evelyn Waugh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Elmer Gantry
Sinclair Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

Martin Chuzzlewit
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1844

Gil Blas
Alain Rene Lesage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1715

You Know Me Al
Ring Lardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1914

Eugenie Grandet
Honoré de Balzac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1833

The Good Soldier Svejk
Jaroslav Hašek

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1923

She: A History of Adventure
H. Rider Haggard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1887

Tonio Kroger
Thomas Mann

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1903

La Regenta
Leopoldo Alas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1884

The Power of Sympathy
William Hill Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1789

Berlin Alexanderplatz
Alfred Doblin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

The King of Elfland's Daughter
Lord Dunsany

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1924

The Curse of Capistrano
Johnston McCulley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1919

Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero
Henryk Sienkiewicz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1895

The Sport of the Gods
Paul Laurence Dunbar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1902

A Sentimental Education
Gustave Flaubert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1869

Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
Denis Diderot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1796

Elective Affinities
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1809

Pantagruel
François Rabelais

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1532

Victory
Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

The Gods Will Have Blood
Anatole France

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1912

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Edwin Lefevre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1923

The Horse Dealer's Daughter
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

Three Lives
Gertrude Stein

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1909

Remembrance of Things Past
Marcel Proust

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

A Girl of the Limberlost
Gene Stratton Porter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1909

The Lusiads
Luís de Camões

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1572

A Princess of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1912

The Ambassadors
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1903

The Belly of Paris
Émile Zola

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1873

Esther Waters
George Augustus Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1894

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Philip Sidney

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1590

The Late Mattia Pascal
Luigi Pirandello

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1904

The Legend of Good Women
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

The Odd Women
George Gissing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1893

Arrowsmith
Sinclair Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

The Ball and the Cross
G. K. Chesterton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1909

Adam Bede
George Eliot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1859

Under Western Eyes
Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1911

The American
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1877

Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady
Samuel Richardson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1748

Thérèse Raquin
Émile Zola

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1867

Giants in the Earth
Ole Edvard Rölvaag

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1924

Tristan
Thomas Mann

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1903

A High Wind in Jamaica
Richard Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

The Damnation of Theron Ware
Harold Frederic

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1896

The Return of the Soldier
Rebecca West

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1918

Adam and Eve: Though He Knew Better
John Erskine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

Jennie Gerhardt
Theodore Dreiser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1911

Botchan
Natsume Sōseki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1906

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1795

The Country of the Pointed Firs
Sarah Orne Jewett

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1896

Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story
Oliver La Farge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

The Warden
Anthony Trollope

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1855

The Cossacks
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1863

Wives and Daughters
Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1865

Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1889

Rob Roy
Sir Walter Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1817

Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted
Frances Harper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1892

The Magnificent Ambersons
Booth Tarkington

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1918

The Romance of Tristan
Béroul

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1150