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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Mark Twain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1889

Adam and Eve: Though He Knew Better

John Erskine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

Adam Bede

George Eliot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1859

A Girl of the Limberlost

Gene Stratton Porter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1909

A Hazard of New Fortunes

William Dean Howells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1890

A High Wind in Jamaica

Richard Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

Amelia

Henry Fielding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1751

A Princess of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1912

Arrowsmith

Sinclair Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

A Sentimental Education

Gustave Flaubert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1869

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Henry David Thoreau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1849

Babbitt

Sinclair Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

Barchester Towers

Anthony Trollope

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1857

Behind a Mask

Louisa May Alcott

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1866

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Alfred Doblin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

Botchan

Natsume Sōseki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1906

Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady

Samuel Richardson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1748

Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s

Leslie S. Klinger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

Cometh Up as a Flower

Rhoda Broughton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1867

Comus

John Milton

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1634

Cousin Bette

Honoré de Balzac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1846

Dark Laughter

Sherwood Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Decline and Fall

Evelyn Waugh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Dombey and Son

Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1848

Effi Briest

Theodor Fontane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1895

Elective Affinities

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1809

Elmer Gantry

Sinclair Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

Esther Waters

George Augustus Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1894

Eugenie Grandet

Honoré de Balzac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1833

Evelina

Fanny Burney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1778

Five Women Who Loved Love

Hirayama Tōgo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1926

Giants in the Earth

Ole Edvard Rölvaag

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1924

Gil Blas

Alain Rene Lesage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1715

God's Trombones

James Weldon Johnson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1927

Heart of a Dog

Mikhail Bulgakov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Infants of the Spring

Wallace Thurman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted

Frances Harper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1892

Jacob's Room

Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

Jacques the Fatalist and His Master

Denis Diderot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1796

Jennie Gerhardt

Theodore Dreiser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1911

King Solomon’s Mines

H. Rider Haggard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1885

La Regenta

Leopoldo Alas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1884

Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story

Oliver La Farge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

Le Morte d'Arthur

Thomas Malory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1485

Letters from the Earth

Mark Twain

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1909

Main Street

Sinclair Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

Manhattan Transfer

John Dos Passos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Mario And The Magician

Thomas Mann

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1929

Martin Chuzzlewit

Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1844

Max Havelaar

Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1860

Melanctha

Gertrude Stein

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1909

Metropolis

Thea von Harbou

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Michael Kohlhaas

Heinrich von Kleist

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1810

Nadja

Andre Breton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

New Grub Street

George Gissing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1891

Nostromo

Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1904

Oblomov

Ivan Goncharov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1859

Pantagruel

François Rabelais

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1532

Pather Panchali

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

Piers Plowman

William Langland

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

Poor Folk

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1846

Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1895

Rameau's Nephew

Denis Diderot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1805

Remembrance of Things Past

Marcel Proust

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Edwin Lefevre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1923

Rob Roy

Sir Walter Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1817

Roderick Hudson

Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1875

Sarrasine

Honoré de Balzac

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1830

Sartor Resartus

Thomas Carlyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1836

Shamela

Henry Fielding

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1741

She: A History of Adventure

H. Rider Haggard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1887

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle

Tobias Smollett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1751

The Adventures of Roderick Random

Tobias Smollett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1748

The Ambassadors

Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1903

The American

Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1877

The Ball and the Cross

G. K. Chesterton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1909

The Beautiful and Damned

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

The Belly of Paris

Émile Zola

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1873

The Bride of Lammermoor

Sir Walter Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1819

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Thornton Wilder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

The Coming Race

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1871

The Cossacks

Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1863

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

Philip Sidney

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

The Country of the Pointed Firs

Sarah Orne Jewett

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1896

The Curse of Capistrano

Johnston McCulley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1919

The Damnation of Theron Ware

Harold Frederic

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1896

The Deerslayer

James Fenimore Cooper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1841

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1922

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri

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

The Gods Will Have Blood

Anatole France

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1912

The Good Soldier

Ford Madox Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

The Good Soldier Svejk

Jaroslav Hašek

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1923

The Heart of Midlothian

Walter Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1818

The Horse Dealer's Daughter

D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

The King of Elfland's Daughter

Lord Dunsany

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1924

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 Lost Girl

D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

The Lusiads

Luís de Camões

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

The Magnificent Ambersons

Booth Tarkington

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1918