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Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen · 1813 Editor's Choice Get it on Amazon →
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen · 1811 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte · 1847 Essential Read See details →
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte · 1847 Essential Read See details →
Great Expectations Charles Dickens · 1861 Essential Read See details →
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens · 1859 Essential Read See details →
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy · 1869 Essential Read See details →
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy · 1877 Essential Read See details →
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866 Essential Read See details →
Frankenstein Mary Shelley · 1818 Essential Read See details →
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925 Essential Read See details →
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck · 1939 Essential Read See details →
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee · 1960 Essential Read See details →
Little Women Louisa May Alcott · 1868 Essential Read See details →
Hamlet William Shakespeare · 1603 Essential Read See details →
Macbeth William Shakespeare · 1606 Essential Read See details →
Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare · 1597 Essential Read See details →
King Lear William Shakespeare · 1608 Essential Read See details →
Othello William Shakespeare · 1603 Essential Read See details →
The Tempest William Shakespeare · 1611 Essential Read See details →
Julius Caesar William Shakespeare · 1599 Essential Read See details →
A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare · 1600 Essential Read See details →
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston · 1937 Essential Read See details →
Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller · 1949 Essential Read See details →
A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams · 1947 Essential Read See details →
The Crucible Arthur Miller · 1953 Essential Read See details →
Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett · 1953 Essential Read See details →
Antigone Sophocles · -441 Essential Read See details →
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad · 1899 Essential Read See details →
The Awakening Kate Chopin · 1899 Essential Read See details →
Persuasion Jane Austen · 1817 Essential Read See details →
The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy · 1886 Essential Read See details →
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens · 1843 Essential Read See details →
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886 Essential Read See details →
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain · 1884 Essential Read See details →
Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh · 1945 Essential Read See details →
A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry · 1959 Essential Read See details →
The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare · 1600 Essential Read See details →
Twelfth Night William Shakespeare · 1602 Essential Read See details →
An Inspector Calls J.B. Priestley · 1945 Essential Read See details →
Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy · 1891 Essential Read See details →
North and South Elizabeth Gaskell · 1855 Essential Read See details →
Howards End E.M. Forster · 1910 Essential Read See details →
A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen · 1879 Essential Read See details →
Passing Nella Larsen · 1929 Essential Read See details →
My Ántonia Willa Cather · 1918 Essential Read See details →
The Bookshop Penelope Fitzgerald · 1978 Essential Read See details →
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton · 1905 Essential Read See details →
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas · 1844 Essential Read See details →
The Red and the Black Stendhal · 1830 Essential Read See details →
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee · 1962 Essential Read See details →
Fences August Wilson · 1985 Essential Read See details →
My Antonia Willa Cather · 1918 Essential Read See details →
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Tom Stoppard · 1966 Essential Read See details →
Long Day's Journey Into Night Eugene O'Neill · 1956 Essential Read See details →
Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham · 1915 Essential Read See details →
Kokoro Natsume Soseki · 1914 Essential Read See details →
Pedro Paramo Juan Rulfo · 1955 Essential Read See details →
Maurice E.M. Forster · 1971 Essential Read See details →
War Horse Michael Morpurgo · 1982 Essential Read See details →
The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov · 1967 Essential Read See details →
Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy · 1895 Essential Read See details →
Invisible Cities Italo Calvino · 1972 Essential Read See details →
As I Lay Dying William Faulkner · 1930 Essential Read See details →
Swann's Way Marcel Proust · 1913 Essential Read See details →
Our Town Thornton Wilder · 1938 Essential Read See details →
The Call of the Wild Jack London · 1903 Essential Read See details →
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway · 1929 Essential Read See details →
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway · 1926 Essential Read See details →
The Odyssey Homer · -800 Essential Read See details →
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes · 1605 Essential Read See details →
Hard Times Charles Dickens · 1854 Essential Read See details →
Bleak House Charles Dickens · 1852 Essential Read See details →
The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1892 Essential Read See details →
The Death of Ivan Ilyich Leo Tolstoy · 1886 Essential Read See details →
The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka · 1915 Essential Read See details →
The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekhov · 1904 Essential Read See details →
Paradise Lost John Milton · 1667 Essential Read See details →
Ficciones Jorge Luis Borges · 1944 Essential Read See details →
Fanny Hill John Cleland · 1748 Essential Read See details →
Chess Story Stefan Zweig · 1942 Essential Read See details →

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Emma Jane Austen · 1815 Recommended Get it on Amazon →
The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880 Recommended Get it on Amazon →
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The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde · 1890 Recommended See details →
Les Miserables Victor Hugo · 1862 Recommended See details →
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert · 1856 Recommended See details →
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway · 1952 Recommended See details →
Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf · 1925 Recommended See details →
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf · 1927 Recommended See details →
Ulysses James Joyce · 1922 Recommended See details →
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck · 1937 Recommended See details →
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger · 1951 Recommended See details →
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1850 Recommended See details →
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll · 1865 Recommended See details →
Middlemarch George Eliot · 1871 Recommended See details →
A Passage to India E.M. Forster · 1924 Recommended See details →
A Room with a View E. M. Forster · 1905 Recommended See details →
Adam Bede George Eliot · 1800 Recommended See details →
Aeneis Publius Vergilius Maro · 1592 Recommended See details →
Agnes Grey Anne Brontë · 1847 Recommended See details →
Also sprach Zarathustra Friedrich Nietzsche · 1883 Recommended See details →
Anne of Avonlea Lucy Maud Montgomery · 1909 Recommended See details →
As You Like It William Shakespeare · 1734 Recommended See details →
Babbitt Sinclair Lewis · 1922 Recommended See details →
Confessions Augustine of Hippo · 1482 Recommended See details →
Cranford Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell · 1853 Recommended See details →
David Copperfield Charles Dickens · 1800 Recommended See details →
De rerum natura Titus Lucretius Carus · 1486 Recommended See details →
Decamerone Giovanni Boccaccio · 1516 Recommended See details →
Eight cousins Louisa May Alcott · 1874 Recommended See details →
Ethan Frome Edith Wharton · 1910 Recommended See details →
Inferno Dante Alighieri · 1767 Recommended See details →
Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott · 1800 Recommended See details →
Jo's Boys Louisa May Alcott · 1886 Recommended See details →
Kim Rudyard Kipling · 1901 Recommended See details →
Lady Chatterley's Lover D. H. Lawrence · 1900 Recommended See details →
Little men Louisa May Alcott · 1885 Recommended See details →
Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei Karl Marx · 1848 Recommended See details →
Meditations Marcus Aurelius · 1626 Recommended See details →
Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe · 1722 Recommended See details →
Mr. Standfast John Buchan · 1918 Recommended See details →
Pollyanna Eleanor Hodgman Porter · 1912 Recommended See details →
Richard III William Shakespeare · 1597 Recommended See details →
Riders of the Purple Sage Zane Grey · 1912 Recommended See details →
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin · 1791 Recommended See details →
The Battle of Life Charles Dickens · 1846 Recommended See details →
The Blithedale Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1852 Recommended See details →
The Book of Tea Okakura Kakuzō · 1900 Recommended See details →
The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer · 1478 Recommended See details →
The Chimes Charles Dickens · 1800 Recommended See details →
The Comedy of Errors William Shakespeare · 1734 Recommended See details →
The Coral Island Robert Michael Ballantyne · 1858 Recommended See details →
The Heritage of the Desert Zane Grey · 1910 Recommended See details →
The History of Tom Jones Henry Fielding · 1749 Recommended See details →
The Jungle Upton Sinclair · 1707 Recommended See details →
The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling · 1893 Recommended See details →
The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper · 1826 Recommended See details →
The Mill on the Floss George Eliot · 1800 Recommended See details →
The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens · 1800 Recommended See details →
The Pathfinder James Fenimore Cooper · 1800 Recommended See details →
The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens · 1800 Recommended See details →
The Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan · 1678 Recommended See details →
The Portrait of a Lady Henry James · 1881 Recommended See details →
The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain · 1881 Recommended See details →
The Prisoner of Zenda Anthony Hope · 1800 Recommended See details →
The Prophet Kahlil Gibran · 1900 Recommended See details →
The Railway Children Edith Nesbit · 1900 Recommended See details →
The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane · 1855 Recommended See details →
The Scarlet Pimpernel Emma Orczy · 1900 Recommended See details →
The Second Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling · 1887 Recommended See details →
The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle · 1890 Recommended See details →
This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1920 Recommended See details →
Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog) Jerome Klapka Jérôme · 1889 Recommended See details →
Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe · 1850 Recommended See details →
Voyage Out Virginia Woolf · 1915 Recommended See details →

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