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Beach Read Emily Henry · 2020 Editor's Choice Get it on Amazon →
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It Ends with Us Colleen Hoover · 2016 Recommended See details →
Red, White & Royal Blue Casey McQuiston · 2019 Recommended See details →
Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding · 1996 Recommended See details →
The Flatshare Beth O'Leary · 2019 Recommended See details →
The Hating Game Sally Thorne · 2016 Recommended See details →
Aaron's Rod D. H. Lawrence · 1922 Recommended See details →
Age of chivalry; or, King Arthur and his knights Thomas Bulfinch · 1858 Recommended See details →
Anne of the Island Lucy Maud Montgomery · 1915 Recommended See details →
At Fault Kate Chopin · 1890 Recommended See details →
Beatrice H. Rider Haggard · 1890 Recommended See details →
Betty Zane Zane Grey · 1903 Recommended See details →
Corinne Germaine de Staël · 1786 Recommended See details →
Daddy-Long-Legs Jean Webster · 1912 Recommended See details →
Desert Gold Zane Grey · 1913 Recommended See details →
Eva Luna Isabel Allende · 1987 Recommended See details →
Evelina Fanny Burney · 1778 Recommended See details →
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy · 1874 Recommended See details →
Fifty Shades of Grey E. L. James · 2000 Recommended See details →
Framley Parsonage Anthony Trollope · 1861 Recommended See details →
Germinal Émile Zola · 1885 Recommended See details →
Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell · 1936 Recommended See details →
Green Mansions W. H. Hudson · 1900 Recommended See details →
Guess How Much I Love You Sam McBratney · 1994 Recommended See details →
Heidi Johanna Spyri · 1885 Recommended See details →
I Will Repay Emma Orczy · 1900 Recommended See details →
I promessi sposi Alessandro Manzoni · 1800 Recommended See details →
Jennie Gerhardt Theodore Dreiser · 1911 Recommended See details →
Lady Susan Jane Austen · 1925 Recommended See details →
Loving Danielle Steel · 1980 Recommended See details →
Lucy Gayheart Willa Cather · 1935 Recommended See details →
Mademoiselle Fifi Guy de Maupassant · 1882 Recommended See details →
Mademoiselle de Maupin Théophile Gautier · 1834 Recommended See details →
Marie H. Rider Haggard · 1912 Recommended See details →
Mathilda Mary Shelley · 1959 Recommended See details →
Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas Machado de Assis · 1881 Recommended See details →
Night and Day Virginia Woolf · 1919 Recommended See details →
Platero y yo Juan Ramón Jiménez · 1914 Recommended See details →
Ragged Dick Jr. Horatio Alger · 1868 Recommended See details →
Rose in Bloom Louisa May Alcott · 1876 Recommended See details →
Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini · 1900 Recommended See details →
Seventeen Booth Tarkington · 1915 Recommended See details →
Sybil, or, The Two Nations Benjamin Disraeli · 1830 Recommended See details →
The "genius" Theodore Dreiser · 1915 Recommended See details →
The Crisis Winston Churchill · 1901 Recommended See details →
The Enchanted April Elizabeth von Arnim · 1922 Recommended See details →
The Free Fishers John Buchan · 1934 Recommended See details →
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens · 1800 Recommended See details →
The Lone Star Ranger Zane Grey · 1914 Recommended See details →
The Longest Journey E. M. Forster · 1907 Recommended See details →
The Marble Faun Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1800 Recommended See details →
The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy · 1878 Recommended See details →
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather · 1915 Recommended See details →
The Street of Seven Stars Mary Roberts Rinehart · 1914 Recommended See details →
The U.P. Trail Zane Grey · 1918 Recommended See details →
The ghost Arnold Bennett · 1907 Recommended See details →
The half-hearted John Buchan · 1900 Recommended See details →
The little minister J. M. Barrie · 1890 Recommended See details →
The spy who loved me Ian Fleming · 1960 Recommended See details →
The story girl Lucy Maud Montgomery · 1911 Recommended See details →
The three clerks Anthony Trollope · 1858 Recommended See details →
To the Last Man Zane Grey · 1921 Recommended See details →
Trilby George du Maurier · 1894 Recommended See details →
Typee Herman Melville · 1840 Recommended See details →
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray · 1800 Recommended See details →
Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford love story Sir Max Beerbohm · 1911 Recommended See details →

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