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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
72 days •
ⓘ 1847 • Follow the life of Jane Eyre as she navigates an abusive family, trying schooling, and the pitfalls of love. Charlotte Brontë has been called the "first historian of the private consciousness."
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
79 days •
ⓘ 1866 • Impoverished student Raskolnikov coolly contemplates the murder of his pawnbroker as his intellect and morals clash in this classic psychological study.
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
152 days •
ⓘ 1880 • Enter the Karamazovs: the buffoon father, fiery Dmitri, intellectual Ivan, angelic Alexei, and sneaking Pavel. This epic tale juggles faith, reason, judgement, and murder.
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
208 days •
ⓘ 1844 • During turbulent times in France, Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned for years. He plots his revenge but is doomed to hurt the innocent as well as the guilty.
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
79 days •
ⓘ 1851 • Ishmael narrates the unforgettable tale of Ahab and his obsessive quest for revenge against the white whale.
Emma
Jane Austen
67 days •
ⓘ 1815 • Spoiled Emma Woodhouse sets out to be matchmaker extraordinaire. What results instead is a mess of meddling and misconstrued romance.
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
84 days •
ⓘ 1868 • The unforgettable tale of four sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March - as they grow from childhood to womanhood and find their place in the world.
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
159 days •
ⓘ 1877 • Unhappily married Anna Karenina finds love with the handsome Count Vronsky, but also scorn and tragedy in this unforgettable story.
Middlemarch
George Eliot
146 days •
ⓘ 1871 • Crafted by Eliot in hopes of portraying an entire community, this acclaimed novel winds in and out of several stories and large cast of rich and unforgettable characters.
North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell
83 days •
ⓘ 1854 • Uprooted from her former life, Margaret is thrown in to a rough industrial town and finds herself pulled between the plight of local mill workers and the man she loves.
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
168 days •
ⓘ 1605 • In love with the romance of days past, Alonso Quixano seeks to revive justice and chivalry in the modern world. Together with his "squire" Sancho Panza, the misguided knight spars with windmills and enchantments.
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
235 days •
ⓘ 1869 • Follow the fates and fortunes of five Russian families as they live through the violence and upheaval of Napoleon's invasion in this epic masterpiece.
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
152 days •
ⓘ 1850 • Follow a young man’s journey to becoming a successful novelist amidst an unforgettable cast of characters in this semi-autobiographical work.
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo
233 days •
ⓘ 1862 • Dive into the underworld of Paris alongside some of the most memorable characters in literature including the relentless Inspector Javert and the noble ex-convict Jean who strives to escape his past and seek redemption.
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
74 days •
ⓘ 1861 • Orphaned forge worker Pip dreams of rising to be a gentleman - and one day, his dreams seem to come true. Arguably Dickens’ best novel, jam-packed with unforgettable characters.
Ulysses
James Joyce
109 days •
ⓘ 1922 • Called both a modernist masterpiece and unreadable blasphemy, Joyce follows a day in the life of Leopold Bloom in a story filled with allusions, humor, suspense, and commentary on the human experience.
Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray
117 days •
ⓘ 1847 • Follow the exploits of Amelia Sedley and Becky Sharp as they rise and fall through society in this sharp attack of a hypocritical and money-mad society.
Ben-Hur
Lew Wallace
80 days •
ⓘ 1880 • Interweaved with the life and times of Jesus, Judah of the House of Hur - a Jewish prince - is wrongfully enslaved by the Romans, becomes a charioteer, and seeks revenge.
King James Bible
Various
287 days •
ⓘ 1611 • An English translation of the Christian Bible, including the retelling of creation, Moses, and the Israelites in the Old Testament as well as the story of Jesus Christ and his apostles in the New Testament.
Le Morte d'Arthur
Thomas Malory
118 days •
ⓘ 1485 • A reworking of the traditional tales of King Arthur, Guinevere, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table. Malory's version is the best-known version of Arthurian literature and most influential on modern retellings.
Tom Jones
Henry Fielding
113 days •
ⓘ 1749 • Tom Jones, a foundling with a mysterious past, is banished to London to find love, adventure, danger, and more in this classic comic novel of 18th century life.
The Histories
Herodotus
95 days •
ⓘ 440 BC • One of the founding works of western history, it contains an often biased record of ancient cultures and events in Western Asia, Northern Africa and Greece.
Orley Farm
Anthony Trollope
101 days •
ⓘ 1861 • When Joseph Mason dies, he mysteriously leaves his farm near London to his second wife and her son. Years later, mysterious details come to light sparking a complex fight among the family.
Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Dickens
108 days •
ⓘ 1838 • Left penniless after his father's death, Nicholas Nickleby sets out to make his own way in the world. His adventures take him through a parade of eccentric, memorable characters.
Clarissa
Samuel Richardson
294 days •
ⓘ 1748 • An epistolary novel of Clarissa's quest for virtue in spite of her family's machinations and the dangerous Robert Lovelace.
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
251 days •
ⓘ 1927 • All the stories of the famous "consulting detective" Sherlock Holmes and his loyal friend Dr. John Watson.
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon
300 days •
ⓘ 1776 • The monumental six volume history of Rome, from its peak through the fall first of Western Rome and then of Byzantium.
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