501 Must-Read Books (Emma Beare, 2006)

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Little Women (1868) by Louisa May Alcott
Children's Fiction
The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales (1835) by Hans Christian Andersen
Children's Fiction
Peter Pan (1934) by J. M. Barrie
Children's Fiction
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) by L. Frank Baum
Children's Fiction
The Last Unicorn (1968) by Peter S. Beagle
Children's Fiction
The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) by John Bunyan
Children's Fiction
The Secret Garden (1911) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Children's Fiction
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll
Children's Fiction
Pinocchio (1883) by Carlo Collodi
Children's Fiction
Sophie's World (1991) by Jostein Gaarder
Children's Fiction
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (1960) by Alan Garner
Children's Fiction
The Wind in the Willows (1908) by Kenneth Grahame
Children's Fiction
Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales (1812) by Jacob Grimm
Children's Fiction
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003) by Mark Haddon
Children's Fiction
Just So Stories (1902) by Rudyard Kipling
Children's Fiction
Emil and the Detectives (1929) by Erich Kästner
Children's Fiction
The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear (1947) by Edward Lear
Children's Fiction
A Wrinkle in Time (1962) by Madeleine L'Engle
Children's Fiction
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) by C. S. Lewis
Children's Fiction
Pippi Longstocking (1945) by Astrid Lindgren
Children's Fiction
The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920) by Hugh Lofting
Children's Fiction
At the Back of the North Wind (1871) by George MacDonald
Children's Fiction
Nobody's Boy (1878) by Hector Malot
Children's Fiction
Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) by A. A. Milne
Children's Fiction
Anne of Green Gables (1908) by L. M. Montgomery
Children's Fiction
Five Children and It (1902) by E. Nesbit
Children's Fiction
Tom's Midnight Garden (1958) by Philippa Pearce
Children's Fiction
The War of the Buttons (1912) by Louis Pergaud
Children's Fiction
Perrault's Complete Fairy Tales (1697) by Charles Perrault
Children's Fiction
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902) by Beatrix Potter
Children's Fiction
The Colour of Magic (1983) by Terry Pratchett
Children's Fiction
Northern Lights (1995) by Philip Pullman
Children's Fiction
Swallows and Amazons (1930) by Arthur Ransome
Children's Fiction
Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang (1975) by Mordecai Richler
Children's Fiction
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (1997) by J. K. Rowling
Children's Fiction
The King of the Golden River (1850) by John Ruskin
Children's Fiction
The Human Comedy (1943) by William Saroyan
Children's Fiction
Where the Wild Things Are (1963) by Maurice Sendak
Children's Fiction
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (1937) by Dr. Seuss
Children's Fiction
Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse (1877) by Anna Sewell
Children's Fiction
Sophie's Misfortunes (1859) by Comtesse de Ségur
Children's Fiction
The Golem (1969) by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Children's Fiction
Heidi (1880) by Johanna Spyri
Children's Fiction
Treasure Island (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Children's Fiction
The Fellowship of the Ring (1954) by J. R. R. Tolkien
Children's Fiction
Mary Poppins (1934) by P. L. Travers
Children's Fiction
Charlotte's Web (1952) by E. B. White
Children's Fiction
The Sword in the Stone (1938) by T. H. White
Children's Fiction
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903) by Kate Douglas Wiggin
Children's Fiction
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888) by Oscar Wilde
Children's Fiction
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (Penguin Classics) (9) by Anonymous
Classic Fiction
Sense and Sensibility (1811) by Jane Austen
Classic Fiction
Vathek (1786) by William Beckford
Classic Fiction
Lady Audley's Secret (1862) by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Classic Fiction
Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë
Classic Fiction
Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë
Classic Fiction
The Canterbury Tales (14) by Geoffrey Chaucer
Classic Fiction
Stories (1889) by Anton Chekhov
Classic Fiction
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (1908) by G.K. Chesterton
Classic Fiction
Fanny Hill, or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748) by John Cleland
Classic Fiction
The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins
Classic Fiction
Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad
Classic Fiction
Robinson Crusoe (1719) by Daniel Defoe
Classic Fiction
A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens
Classic Fiction
Crime and Punishment (1866) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Classic Fiction
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) by Arthur Conan Doyle
Classic Fiction
Middlemarch (1871) by George Eliot
Classic Fiction
Tom Jones (1749) by Henry Fielding
Classic Fiction
Madame Bovary (1857) by Gustave Flaubert
Classic Fiction
Howards End (1910) by E. M. Forster
Classic Fiction
North and South (1855) by Elizabeth Gaskell
Classic Fiction
The Epic of Gilgamesh (1700 BCE) by Gilgamesh Poet
Classic Fiction
The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Classic Fiction
The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) by Oliver Goldsmith
Classic Fiction
The Power and the Glory (1940) by Graham Greene
Classic Fiction
King Solomon's Mines (1882) by H. Rider Haggard
Classic Fiction
Jude the Obscure (1895) by Thomas Hardy
Classic Fiction
The Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Classic Fiction
The Iliad (750 BCE) by Homer
Classic Fiction
Les Misérables (1862) by Victor Hugo
Classic Fiction
The Portrait of a Lady (1881) by Henry James
Classic Fiction
Kim (1901) by Rudyard Kipling
Classic Fiction
Bliss and Other Stories (1921) by Katherine Mansfield
Classic Fiction
Moby Dick (1851) by Herman Melville
Classic Fiction
Utopia (1553) by Thomas More
Classic Fiction
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (2017) by Edgar Allan Poe
Classic Fiction
In Search of Lost Time (1913) by Marcel Proust
Classic Fiction
A Sicilian Romance (1790) by Ann Radcliffe
Classic Fiction
Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady (1747) by Samuel Richardson
Classic Fiction
Waverley (1814) by Sir Walter Scott
Classic Fiction
Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley
Classic Fiction
The Red and the Black (1830) by Stendhal
Classic Fiction
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Classic Fiction
Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker
Classic Fiction
Gulliver's Travels (1727) by Jonathan Swift
Classic Fiction
Vanity Fair (1848) by William Makepeace Thackeray
Classic Fiction
War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy
Classic Fiction
Barchester Towers (1857) by Anthony Trollope
Classic Fiction
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain
Classic Fiction
Candide (1759) by Voltaire
Classic Fiction
The Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole
Classic Fiction
The House of Mirth (1905) by Edith Wharton
Classic Fiction
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) by Oscar Wilde
Classic Fiction
To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf
Classic Fiction
The Beast Within (1890) by Émile Zola
Classic Fiction
Old Goriot (1835) by Honoré de Balzac
Classics
Our Mutual Friend (1865) by Charles Dickens
Classics
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (1889) by Jerome K. Jerome
Classics
London: The Biography (2000) by Peter Ackroyd
History
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life (1998) by Jon Lee Anderson
History
The Hour of Our Death (1977) by Philippe Ariès
History
Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (2002) by Antony Beevor
History
The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (Set 3 Vol) (1949) by Fernand Braudel
History
The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century (1997) by John Brewer
History
Frozen Desire: The Meaning of Money (1997) by James Buchan
History
Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives (1991) by Alan Bullock
History
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (18) by Jacob Burckhardt
History
Daily Life in Ancient Rome (1940) by Jérôme Carcopino
History
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1552) by Bartolomé de las Casas
History
The Iron King (1955) by Maurice Druon
History
The Age of the Cathedrals : Art and Society, 980–1420 (1966) by Georges Duby
History
The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 (1993) by Eamon Duffy
History
Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age (1989) by Modris Eksteins
History
The Wretched of the Earth (1961) by Frantz Fanon
History
Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire (2004) by Niall Ferguson
History
Millennium : A History of the Last Thousand Years (1995) by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
History
Pagans and Christians (1986) by Robin Lane Fox
History
The End of History and the Last Man (1992) by Francis Fukuyama
History
The Naked Heart (1995) by Peter Gay
History
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1788) by Edward Gibbon
History
The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War (1985) by Martin Gilbert
History
The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller (1976) by Carlo Ginzburg
History
God's First Love: Christians and Jews Over Two Thousand Years (Phoenix Giants S.) (1967) by Friedrich Heer
History
The Histories (420 BCE) by Herodotus
History
Hiroshima (Expanded edition) (1946) by John Hersey
History
The Fatal Shore (1986) by Robert Hughes
History
Pandæmonium : 1660-1886 : The coming of the machine as seen by contemporary observers (1985) by Humphrey Jennings
History
A History of Warfare (1993) by John Keegan
History
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922) by T. E. Lawrence
History
Islam in History: Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East (1973) by Bernard Lewis
History
Chinese Shadows (1974) by Simon Leys
History
The Crusades through Arab Eyes (1983) by Amin Maalouf
History
The Armada (1959) by Garrett Mattingly
History
The Story of English (1986) by Robert McCrum
History
The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain (2002) by María Rosa Menocal
History
The Women's History of the World (1989) by Rosalind Miles
History
Pax Britannica: the Climax of an Empire (1968) by James Morris
History
Medieval Cities : Their Origins and the Revival of Trade (1925) by Henri Pirenne
History
Plutarch's Lives (100) by Plutarch
History
Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul (2003) by Roy Porter
History
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution (1989) by Simon Schama
History
Leviathan & the Air Pump: Hobbes, Boyle and the Experimental Life (1985) by Steven Shapin
History
The Decline of the West (1918) by Oswald Spengler
History
The Trial of Socrates (1988) by I. F. Stone
History
The Annals of Tacitus (117) by P. Cornelius Tacitus
History
The Origins of the Second World War: 1919-1939 (1961) by A. J. P. Taylor
History
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (1978) by Barbara W. Tuchman
History
A People's History of the United States (1980) by Howard Zinn
History
Paula (1994) by Isabel Allende
Memoirs
Amiel's Journal (Dodo Press) (1882) by Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Memoirs
Brief Lives (1898) by John Aubrey
Memoirs
Confessions (397) by Saint Augustine
Memoirs
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (1958) by Simone de Beauvoir
Memoirs
My Left Foot (1954) by Christy Brown
Memoirs
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (1728) by Benvenuto Cellini
Memoirs
Boy: Tales of Childhood (1984) by Roald Dahl
Memoirs
My Family and Other Animals (1953) by Gerald Durrell
Memoirs
An Angel at my Table (1984) by Janet Frame
Memoirs
The Diary of a Young Girl (1947) by Anne Frank
Memoirs
Journals: 1889-1949 (1956) by André Gide
Memoirs
The Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life (1949) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Memoirs
Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments (1965) by Edmund Gosse
Memoirs
Ways of Escape (1980) by Graham Greene
Memoirs
Black Like Me (1960) by John Howard Griffin
Memoirs
84, Charing Cross Road (1970) by Helene Hanff
Memoirs
Pentimento (1973) by Lillian Hellman
Memoirs
Childhood, Youth & Exile (1980) by Alexander Herzen
Memoirs
The Diary of Alice James (1964) by Alice James
Memoirs
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1962) by C. G. Jung
Memoirs
Diaries 1910 - 1923 (1935) by Franz Kafka
Memoirs
The Story of My Life (1903) by Helen Keller
Memoirs
The Book of Margery Kempe (1438) by Margery Kempe
Memoirs
I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1933-1941 (1995) by Victor Klemperer
Memoirs
In the Castle of My Skin (1953) by George Lamming
Memoirs
A Grief Observed (1961) by C. S. Lewis
Memoirs
The Towers of Trebizond (1956) by Rose Macaulay
Memoirs
Journal (1927) by Katherine Mansfield
Memoirs
The Seven Storey Mountain (1948) by Thomas Merton
Memoirs
The Pursuit of Love (1945) by Nancy Mitford
Memoirs
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir (1988) by Paul Monette
Memoirs
My Place (1987) by Sally Morgan
Memoirs
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (1947) by Vladimir Nabokov
Memoirs
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (2003) by Azar Nafisi
Memoirs
Memoirs (1973) by Pablo Neruda
Memoirs
Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson (1973) by Nigel Nicolson
Memoirs
Running in the Family (1982) by Michael Ondaatje
Memoirs
Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) by George Orwell
Memoirs
The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus (1945) by Cyril Connolly
Memoirs
The Diary of Samuel Pepys (1825) by Samuel Pepys
Memoirs
The Confessions (1784) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Memoirs
Journal of a Solitude (1973) by May Sarton
Memoirs
The Words (1963) by Jean-Paul Sartre
Memoirs
Walden (1854) by Henry David Thoreau
Memoirs
De Profundis (1905) by Oscar Wilde
Memoirs
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) by Jeanette Winterson
Memoirs
Autobiographies (1927) by William Butler Yeats
Memoirs
Autobiography of a Yogi (1946) by Paramahansa Yogananda
Memoirs
The Letters (1) by Pliny the Younger
Memoirs
Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe
Modern Fiction
Le Grand Meaulnes (1959) by Alain-Fournier
Modern Fiction
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1966) by Jorge Amado
Modern Fiction
Take a Girl Like You (1960) by Kingsley Amis
Modern Fiction
Winesburg, Ohio (1919) by Sherwood Anderson
Modern Fiction
Surfacing (1972) by Margaret Atwood
Modern Fiction
The New York Trilogy (1985) by Paul Auster
Modern Fiction
Collected Stories (1929) by Isaac Babel
Modern Fiction
Giovanni's Room (1956) by James Baldwin
Modern Fiction
The Sweet Hereafter (1991) by Russell Banks
Modern Fiction
The Regeneration Trilogy (1991) by Pat Barker
Modern Fiction
Herzog (1964) by Saul Bellow
Modern Fiction
Fictions (1944) by Jorge Luis Borges
Modern Fiction
Nadja (1928) by André Breton
Modern Fiction
The Master and Margarita (1966) by Mikhail Bulgakov
Modern Fiction
Naked Lunch (1962) by William S. Burroughs
Modern Fiction
Possession (1990) by A.S. Byatt
Modern Fiction
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979) by Italo Calvino
Modern Fiction
The Stranger (1942) by Albert Camus
Modern Fiction
Auto-da-Fé (1935) by Elias Canetti
Modern Fiction
Oscar and Lucinda (1988) by Peter Carey
Modern Fiction
The Kingdom of This World (1949) by Alejo Carpentier
Modern Fiction
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979) by Angela Carter
Modern Fiction
What We Talk about When We Talk about Love (1981) by Raymond Carver
Modern Fiction
The Horse's Mouth (1957) by Joyce Cary
Modern Fiction
Soldiers of Salamis (2001) by Javier Cercas
Modern Fiction
The Stories of John Cheever (1978) by John Cheever
Modern Fiction
Journey to the End of the Night (1983) by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Modern Fiction
Disgrace (1999) by J. M. Coetzee
Modern Fiction
Chéri (1920) by Colette
Modern Fiction
A House and Its Head (1935) by Ivy Compton-Burnett
Modern Fiction
Victory (1915) by Joseph Conrad
Modern Fiction
Fifth Business (1970) by Robertson Davies
Modern Fiction
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929) by Alfred Döblin
Modern Fiction
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (1993) by Louis De Bernières
Modern Fiction
Underworld (1997) by Don DeLillo
Modern Fiction
Seven Gothic Tales (1934) by Isak Dinesen
Modern Fiction
Once Were Warriors (1990) by Alan Duff
Modern Fiction
Rebecca (1938) by Daphne Du Maurier
Modern Fiction
The Lover (1984) by Marguerite Duras
Modern Fiction
The Alexandria Quartet (1957) by Lawrence Durrell
Modern Fiction
The Name of the Rose (1980) by Umberto Eco
Modern Fiction
The Neverending Story (1983) by Michael Ende
Modern Fiction
The Sound and the Fury (1929) by William Faulkner
Modern Fiction
Birdsong (1993) by Sebastian Faulks
Modern Fiction
The Wars (1977) by Timothy Findley
Modern Fiction
The Blue Flower (1995) by Penelope Fitzgerald
Modern Fiction
The Good Soldier (1915) by Ford Madox Ford
Modern Fiction
Wildlife (1990) by Richard Ford
Modern Fiction
A Passage to India (1924) by E. M. Forster
Modern Fiction
The Corrections (2001) by Jonathan Franzen
Modern Fiction
From the Fifteenth District (1979) by Mavis Gallant
Modern Fiction
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Modern Fiction
Our Lady of the Flowers (1943) by Jean Genet
Modern Fiction
Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding
Modern Fiction
Ferdydurke (1937) by Witold Gombrowicz
Modern Fiction
July's People (1981) by Nadine Gordimer
Modern Fiction
The Tin Drum (1959) by Günter Grass
Modern Fiction
Hunger (1890) by Knut Hamsun
Modern Fiction
Blind Owl (1937) by Ṣādiq Hidāyat
Modern Fiction
The Old Man and the Sea (1950) by Ernest Hemingway
Modern Fiction
The Glass Bead Game (1943) by Hermann Hesse
Modern Fiction
Lost Horizon (1933) by James Hilton
Modern Fiction
A High Wind in Jamaica (1929) by Richard Hughes
Modern Fiction
The World According to Garp (1978) by John Irving
Modern Fiction
The Berlin Stories (1945) by Christopher Isherwood
Modern Fiction
The Remains of the Day (1989) by Kazuo Ishiguro
Modern Fiction
Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce
Modern Fiction
The File on H. (1981) by Ismaîl Kadaré
Modern Fiction
The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka
Modern Fiction
It (1986) by Stephen King
Modern Fiction
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1983) by Milan Kundera
Modern Fiction
The Engineer of Human Souls (1984) by Josef Škvorecký
Modern Fiction
The Diviners (1974) by Margaret Laurence
Modern Fiction
Women in Love (1920) by D. H. Lawrence
Modern Fiction
The Golden Notebook (1962) by Doris Lessing
Modern Fiction
The Periodic Table (1975) by Primo Levi
Modern Fiction
Changing Places (1975) by David Lodge
Modern Fiction
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (1881) by Machado de Assis
Modern Fiction
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (1956) by Naguib Mahfouz
Modern Fiction
The Executioner's Song (1979) by Norman Mailer
Modern Fiction
God's Grace (1982) by Bernard Malamud
Modern Fiction
An Imaginary Life (1978) by David Malouf
Modern Fiction
The Magic Mountain (1924) by Thomas Mann
Modern Fiction
Life of Pi (2001) by Yann Martel
Modern Fiction
Cakes and Ale (1934) by W. Somerset Maugham
Modern Fiction
The Group (1963) by Mary McCarthy
Modern Fiction
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) by Carson McCullers
Modern Fiction
Enduring Love (1997) by Ian McEwan
Modern Fiction
The Sea of Fertility (1971) by Yukio Mishima
Modern Fiction
A Fine Balance (1995) by Rohinton Mistry
Modern Fiction
Cold Heaven (1983) by Brian Moore
Modern Fiction
Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison
Modern Fiction
Embers (1942) by Sándor Márai
Modern Fiction
The Progress of Love (1986) by Alice Munro
Modern Fiction
The Sea, the Sea (1978) by Iris Murdoch
Modern Fiction
Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov
Modern Fiction
A House for Mr Biswas (1961) by V. S. Naipaul
Modern Fiction
The Third Policeman (1967) by Flann O'Brien
Modern Fiction
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (1955) by Flannery O'Connor
Modern Fiction
The English Patient (1992) by Michael Ondaatje
Modern Fiction
Where The Jackals Howl and Other Stories (1981) by Amos Oz
Modern Fiction
The Messiah of Stockholm (1987) by Cynthia Ozick
Modern Fiction
Gormenghast (1950) by Mervyn Peake
Modern Fiction
Mr. Weston's Good Wine (1927) by T. F. Powys
Modern Fiction
The nephew (1960) by James Purdy
Modern Fiction
Interview with the Vampire (1976) by Anne Rice
Modern Fiction
Barney's Version (1997) by Mordecai Richler
Modern Fiction
Hadrian the Seventh (1904) by Frederick Rolfe
Modern Fiction
The Radetzky March (1932) by Joseph Roth
Modern Fiction
The Human Stain (2000) by Philip Roth
Modern Fiction
Pedro Páramo (1955) by Juan Rulfo
Modern Fiction
The Satanic Verses (1988) by Salman Rushdie
Modern Fiction
Bonjour Tristesse (1954) by Françoise Sagan
Modern Fiction
The Short Stories of Saki (1930) by Saki
Modern Fiction
The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J. D. Salinger
Modern Fiction
Staying On (1977) by Paul Scott
Modern Fiction
Austerlitz (2001) by W. G. Sebald
Modern Fiction
Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964) by Hubert Selby Jr.
Modern Fiction
Unless (2002) by Carol Shields
Modern Fiction
The Magician of Lublin (1960) by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Modern Fiction
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) by Muriel Spark
Modern Fiction
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (1985) by Patrick Süskind
Modern Fiction
The Man Who Loved Children (1940) by Christina Stead
Modern Fiction
The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck
Modern Fiction
Sophie's Choice (1979) by William Styron
Modern Fiction
Zeno's Conscience (1930) by Italo Svevo
Modern Fiction
Pereira Maintains (1994) by Antonio Tabucchi
Modern Fiction
The White Hotel (1981) by D. M. Thomas
Modern Fiction
The Master (2004) by Colm Tóibín
Modern Fiction
The Leopard (1958) by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Modern Fiction
Felicia's Journey (1994) by William Trevor
Modern Fiction
The Palm-Wine Drinkard and his Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads' Town (1952) by Amos Tutuola
Modern Fiction
The Accidental Tourist (1985) by Anne Tyler
Modern Fiction
Couples (1968) by John Updike
Modern Fiction
The Time of the Hero (1962) by Mario Vargas Llosa
Modern Fiction
In Praise of Older Women (1966) by Stephen Vizinczey
Modern Fiction
Brideshead Revisited (1945) by Evelyn Waugh
Modern Fiction
Voss (1957) by Patrick White
Modern Fiction
Memoirs of Hadrian (1950) by Marguerite Yourcenar
Modern Fiction
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) by Douglas Adams
Science Fiction
Hothouse (1962) by Brian W. Aldiss
Science Fiction
Brain Wave (1957) by Poul Anderson
Science Fiction
I, Robot (1940) by Isaac Asimov
Science Fiction
The Handmaid's Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood
Science Fiction
The Crystal World (1966) by J. G. Ballard
Science Fiction
The Demolished Man (1952) by Alfred Bester
Science Fiction
The Invention of Morel (1940) by Adolfo Bioy Casares
Science Fiction
Planet of the Apes (1963) by Pierre Boulle
Science Fiction
The Martian Chronicles (1950) by Ray Bradbury
Science Fiction
The Sheep Look Up (1972) by John Brunner
Science Fiction
A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess
Science Fiction
Erewhon (1872) by Samuel Butler
Science Fiction
Cosmicomics (1965) by Italo Calvino
Science Fiction
Who Goes There? - novella (1938) by John W. Campbell Jr
Science Fiction
Lest Darkness Fall (1939) by L. Sprague de Camp
Science Fiction
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) by Arthur C. Clarke
Science Fiction
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888) by James De Mille
Science Fiction
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1964) by Philip K. Dick
Science Fiction
To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971) by Philip José Farmer
Science Fiction
Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson
Science Fiction
Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) by Robert A. Heinlein
Science Fiction
Dune (1965) by Frank Herbert
Science Fiction
Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley
Science Fiction
Two Planets (1897) by Kurd Laßwitz
Science Fiction
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) by Ursula K. Le Guin
Science Fiction
Solaris (1961) by Stanisław Lem
Science Fiction
Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta (1979) by Doris Lessing
Science Fiction
The Stepford Wives (1972) by Ira Levin
Science Fiction
Out of the Silent Planet (1938) by C. S. Lewis
Science Fiction
I Am Legend (1954) by Richard Matheson
Science Fiction
Dwellers in the Mirage (1932) by A. Merritt
Science Fiction
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1955) by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Science Fiction
Ringworld (1970) by Larry Niven
Science Fiction
The Time Traders (1958) by Andre Norton
Science Fiction
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1833) by Edgar Allan Poe
Science Fiction
Inverted World (1974) by Christopher Priest
Science Fiction
The Green Child (1935) by Herbert Read
Science Fiction
The People Trap (1968) by Robert Sheckley
Science Fiction
City (1952) by Clifford D. Simak
Science Fiction
Donovan's Brain (1942) by Curt Siodmak
Science Fiction
Last and First Men (1930) by Olaf Stapledon
Science Fiction
More Than Human (1953) by Theodore Sturgeon
Science Fiction
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864) by Jules Verne
Science Fiction
Slan (1946) by A. E. Van Vogt
Science Fiction
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut
Science Fiction
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896) by H. G. Wells
Science Fiction
Islandia (1942) by Austin Tappan Wright
Science Fiction
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Thrillers
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Thrillers
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Thrillers
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Thrillers
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Thrillers
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Thrillers
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Thrillers
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Thrillers
The Big Clock (1946) by Kenneth Fearing
Thrillers
Blood Sport (1967) by Dick Francis
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The Sunday Woman (1972) by Carlo Fruttero
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Death in the Wrong Room (1947) by Anthony Gilbert
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Red Harvest (1929) by Dashiell Hammett
Thrillers
Suicide Excepted (1939) by Cyril Hare
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Bones and Silence (1990) by Reginald Hill
Thrillers
A Rage in Harlem (1957) by Chester Himes
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Malice Aforethought (1931) by Francis Iles
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Hamlet, Revenge! (1937) by Michael Innes
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Thrillers
The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1907) by Gaston Leroux
Thrillers
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Final Curtain (1947) by Ngaio Marsh
Thrillers
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Thrillers
The Steam Pig (1971) by James McClure
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Thrillers
How Like an Angel (1962) by Margaret Millar
Thrillers
The Red House Mystery (1922) by A. A. Milne
Thrillers
A Red Death (1991) by Walter Mosley
Thrillers
Deadlock (1984) by Sara Paretsky
Thrillers
Dover One (1964) by Joyce Porter
Thrillers
The Chinese Orange Mystery (1934) by Ellery Queen
Thrillers
The Man in the Net (1956) by Patrick Quentin
Thrillers
A Judgement in Stone (1977) by Ruth Rendell
Thrillers
Gaudy Night (1935) by Dorothy L. Sayers
Thrillers
The Engagement (1933) by Georges Simenon
Thrillers
The Laughing Policeman (1970) by Maj Sjöwall
Thrillers
The Red Box (1937) by Rex Stout
Thrillers
The Man Who Killed Himself (1967) by Julian Symons
Thrillers
The Daughter of Time (1951) by Josephine Tey
Thrillers
Above the Dark Circus (1931) by Hugh Walpole
Thrillers
Born Victim (1962) by Hillary Waugh
Thrillers
The Bride Wore Black (1940) by Cornell Woolrich
Thrillers
The Travels of Ibn Battutah (1355) by Ibn Battuta
Travel Writing
Le poisson-scorpion (1982) by Nicolas Bouvier
Travel Writing
The Road to Oxiana (1937) by Robert Byron
Travel Writing
In Patagonia (1977) by Bruce Chatwin
Travel Writing
The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) by Charles Darwin
Travel Writing
My Journey to Lhasa (1927) by Alexandra David-Néel
Travel Writing
On the Narrow Road: A Journey into Lost Japan (1989) by Lesley Downer
Travel Writing
Seven Years in Tibet (1952) by Heinrich Harrer
Travel Writing
Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft (1948) by Thor Heyerdahl
Travel Writing
The Purple Land (1885) by W. H. Hudson
Travel Writing
The Last Place on Earth (Modern Library Exploration) (1979) by Roland Huntford
Travel Writing
Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East (1989) by Pico Iyer
Travel Writing
Journals of the Western Islands (1775) by Samuel Johnson
Travel Writing
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Travel Writing
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Travel Writing
A Rose for Winter (1970) by Laurie Lee
Travel Writing
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Travel Writing
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Travel Writing
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Travel Writing
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Travel Writing
Danube (1989) by Claudio Magris
Travel Writing
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Travel Writing
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Travel Writing
Never Cry Wolf (1963) by Farley Mowat
Travel Writing
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Travel Writing
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Travel Writing
Roads to Santiago (1992) by Cees Nooteboom
Travel Writing
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Travel Writing
La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West (1907) by Francis Parkman
Travel Writing
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Travel Writing
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Travel Writing
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Travel Writing
Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile (1863) by John Hanning Speke
Travel Writing
The Valleys of the Assassins: and Other Persian Travels (1934) by Freya Stark
Travel Writing
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Travel Writing
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Travel Writing
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Travel Writing
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Travel Writing
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Travel Writing
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