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Five Women Who Loved Love
Hirayama Tōgo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1926

When the Sleeper Wakes
H. G. Wells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1899

Cometh Up as a Flower
Rhoda Broughton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1867

Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s
Leslie S. Klinger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

Roderick Hudson
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1875

Dark Laughter
Sherwood Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Max Havelaar
Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1860

God's Trombones
James Weldon Johnson

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

Amelia
Henry Fielding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1751

The Way We Live Now
Anthony Trollope

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1875

Liza of Lambeth
W. Somerset Maugham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1897

Oil!
Upton Sinclair

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1926

Ann Veronica
H. G. Wells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1909

Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
Herman Melville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1852

Taras Bulba
Nikolai Gogol

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1835

The Diaries of Adam and Eve
Mark Twain

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1906

The Man of Feeling
Henry MacKenzie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1771

Therese
François Mauriac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

Under Fire
Henri Barbusse, Transl. Robin Buss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1916

Zuleika Dobson
Max Beerbohm

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1911

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady
Anita Loos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Childhood
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1852

The Lamplighter
Maria Susanna Cummins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1854

The Magician
W. Somerset Maugham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1908

Sentimental Education
Gustave Flaubert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1869

Ramona
Helen Hunt Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1884

William Shakespeare
Victor Hugo

Fiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1864

The Man in the Brown Suit
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1924

The Water Margin
Shi Nai'an, Transl. J. H. Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1369

The Secret Adversary
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

Either/or
Søren Kierkegaard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1843

Night and Day
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1919

Sartoris
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

Misericordia
Benito Pérez Galdós

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1897

No Name
Wilkie Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1862

The Professor
Charlotte Brontë

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1857

The Tale
Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1917

Fortunata and Jacinta
Benito Pérez Galdós

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1887

Chance
Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue
Marquis de Sade

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1791

The Europeans
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1878

The Blue Castle
L.M. Montgomery

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1926

To Let
John Galsworthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1921

Anne's House of Dreams
Lucy Maud Montgomery

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1917

In Chancery
John Galsworthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

Democracy: An American Novel
Henry Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1880

At Fault
Kate Chopin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1890

Lucy Temple
Susanna Rowson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1828

Petersburg
Andrei Bely

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

The Man of Property
John Galsworthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1906

The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1890

The Beach of Falesá
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1892

The Cattle Raid of Cooley
Anonymous

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 750

Titus Comrade of the Cross
Florence M. Kingsley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1894

Growth of the Soil
Knut Hamsun

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1917

The Unfortunate Traveller
Thomas Nashe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1594

A Pair of Blue Eyes
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1873

Scarlet and Black
Stendhal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1830

The Quest of the Silver Fleece
W.E.B. Du Bois

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1911

The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life
George Washington Cable

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1880

The Napoleon of Notting Hill
G.K. Chesterton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1904

Whose Body?
Dorothy L. Sayers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1923

The Masterpiece
Émile Zola

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1886