Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
1813 · 61 sections
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RomanceLiterary fiction
The Bennet sisters navigate wit, first impressions, family pressure, and unexpected love.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
1844 · 117 sections
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AdventureHistorical fiction
Edmond Dantès returns after a wrongful imprisonment in an epic of justice, revenge and forgiveness.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
1865 · 13 sections
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AdventureLiterary fiction
Alice follows the White Rabbit into a dreamlike world of riddles, curious creatures and absurd logic.
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
1851 · 138 sections
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AdventureLiterary fiction
Captain Ahab's obsessive pursuit of a white whale unfolds as an epic of the sea, knowledge and fate.
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
1878 · 239 sections
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Literary fictionRomance
A landmark portrait of love, marriage and society, moving between Anna's life and Levin's search for meaning.
Middlemarch
George Eliot
1871 · 88 sections
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Literary fictionRomance
An intricate portrait of reform, marriage and ambition in a changing English provincial town.
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
1868 · 48 sections
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Literary fictionRomance
The March sisters grow up through friendship, ambition, loss, and the bonds of family.
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
1847 · 34 sections
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GothicRomance
An unforgettable story of passion, obsession and revenge on the Yorkshire moors.
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1925 · 10 sections
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Literary fictionRomance
Longing, wealth and reinvention in the American Jazz Age.
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
1857 · 35 sections
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Literary fictionPsychological fiction
Emma Bovary's romantic aspirations collide with provincial life in a defining work of literary realism.
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
1880 · 97 sections
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Psychological fictionLiterary fiction
The Karamazov brothers confront family rivalries, faith, doubt, and moral responsibility in Dostoevsky’s philosophical final novel.
Notre-Dame de Paris
Victor Hugo
1831 · 61 sections
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GothicHistorical fiction
Against the shadow of medieval Paris and its cathedral, Esmeralda and Quasimodo face obsession, injustice, and tragic love.
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1774 · 4 sections
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RomanceLiterary fiction
Through letters and a final account, Werther’s unrequited love and turbulent emotions shape a landmark of European Romanticism.
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
1838 · 53 sections
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Literary fiction
A Victorian orphan's struggle for dignity and a home amid poverty and crime.
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
1850 · 67 sections
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Literary fiction
David recounts his journey from difficult childhood to love and vocation.
The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux
1910 · 28 sections
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MysteryGothic
A hidden figure haunts the Paris Opera in a tale of music, mystery and obsession.
The Lost World
Arthur Conan Doyle
1912 · 18 sections
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AdventureScience fiction
A scientific expedition ventures into a lost world where prehistoric life survives.
The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
1895 · 24 sections
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Historical fictionLiterary fiction
A young soldier confronts fear, bravery and disillusionment in the American Civil War.
Anne of Green Gables
L. M. Montgomery
1908 · 38 sections
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Literary fictionAdventure
Imaginative orphan Anne Shirley finds a home and a place to belong at Green Gables.
The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas
1844 · 69 sections
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AdventureHistorical fiction
D’Artagnan joins Athos, Porthos and Aramis in a tale of loyalty, intrigue and daring in seventeenth-century France.
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
1847 · 39 sections
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RomanceGothic
A governess seeks independence and love amid the mysteries of Thornfield Hall.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
1884 · 45 sections
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AdventureLiterary fiction
Huck Finn and Jim travel the Mississippi, confronting the meaning of freedom, friendship and injustice.
Dracula
Bram Stoker
1897 · 29 sections
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Gothic
An epistolary Gothic mystery tracing the count’s shadow from Transylvania to England.
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
1818 · 28 sections
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GothicScience fiction
A scientist’s creation confronts the human desire for connection, and the cost of rejection.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
1886 · 10 sections
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GothicPsychological fiction
A London lawyer investigates the disturbing link between the respectable Dr. Jekyll and the sinister Mr. Hyde.
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1850 · 26 sections
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Historical fictionPsychological fiction
Hester Prynne confronts shame, judgment and conscience in Puritan New England.
The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells
1898 · 29 sections
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Science fictionAdventure
A Martian invasion upends Victorian England and humanity's assumptions about its place in the universe.
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
1866 · 41 sections
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Psychological fictionLiterary fiction
Raskolnikov’s crime becomes a fierce inquiry into guilt, conscience and redemption.
The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins
1868 · 53 sections
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MysteryLiterary fiction
A stolen diamond, competing testimonies and a pioneering detective mystery told through multiple narrators.
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
1920 · 34 sections
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Literary fictionRomance
Love and obligation collide within the rigid social world of 1870s New York.
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
1719 · 20 sections
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AdventureLiterary fiction
A shipwrecked sailor struggles to survive and remake his life on a remote island.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
1876 · 37 sections
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AdventureLiterary fiction
Tom Sawyer navigates childhood mischief, friendship and danger along the Mississippi.
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
1883 · 35 sections
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Adventure
Jim Hawkins sets sail with a treasure map, pirates and one of fiction's most memorable sea captains.
The Call of the Wild
Jack London
1903 · 8 sections
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AdventureLiterary fiction
Buck's struggle for survival in the Yukon wilderness and the pull of his wild instincts.
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
1861 · 59 sections
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Literary fiction
Pip’s journey from childhood to adulthood reveals the complicated price of ambition, class and loyalty.
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
1859 · 46 sections
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Historical fictionLiterary fiction
Revolutionary Paris and London intertwine in a story of sacrifice, love and political upheaval.
Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis
1922 · 34 sections
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Literary fiction
A sharply observed satire of middle-class conformity, commerce and discontent in 1920s America.
O Pioneers!
Willa Cather
1913 · 30 sections
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Literary fiction
Alexandra Bergson shapes her family's future on the Nebraska prairie in an American frontier classic.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
1902 · 15 sections
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MysteryGothic
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate a death and a sinister legend on Dartmoor.
The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper
1826 · 34 sections
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Historical fictionAdventure
Hawkeye and his companions face danger amid the French and Indian War in a formative American adventure novel.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
1900 · 25 sections
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AdventureLiterary fiction
Dorothy travels through Oz with unforgettable companions in search of home, courage, heart and wisdom.
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo
1862 · 365 sections
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Historical fictionLiterary fiction
Jean Valjean’s life unfolds across a vast portrait of justice, poverty, love and Paris.
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
1605 · 126 sections
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AdventureLiterary fiction
A dreaming knight and his squire travel through a world that resists his imagination.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
1891 · 21 sections
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GothicPsychological fiction
A portrait bears the cost of a young man’s pursuit of eternal beauty and pleasure.
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
1726 · 41 sections
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AdventureLiterary fiction
Lemuel Gulliver encounters four extraordinary societies in a sharp satire of power and human nature.
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
1911 · 27 sections
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Literary fictionAdventure
Mary Lennox discovers an abandoned garden and an unexpected path to friendship and healing.
The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells
1897 · 29 sections
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Science fictionAdventure
A scientist's experiment in invisibility turns into a chilling study of isolation and unchecked power.
The Time Machine
H. G. Wells
1895 · 13 sections
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Science fictionAdventure
A journey through the far future reveals the fragility of civilization and time.
A Princess of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs
1912 · 29 sections
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Science fictionAdventure
John Carter journeys to Mars in a foundational planetary adventure of science fiction.
Quo Vadis
Henryk Sienkiewicz
1896 · 74 sections
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Historical fictionRomance
A Roman love story set against Nero's reign and the persecution of early Christians.