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Foundation Isaac Asimov 1951 · Science fiction
Foundation and Empire Isaac Asimov 2000 · Science fiction
Frankenstein Mary Shelley 1818 · Classics
God Emperor of Dune Frank Herbert 1981 · Science fiction
Great Expectations Charles Dickens 1861 · Classics
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1726 · Classics
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 1899 · Classics
I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith 1948 · Classics
I, Claudius Robert Graves 1934 · Historical
I, Robot Isaac Asimov 1950 · Science fiction
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 1952 · Classics
Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott 1819 · Classics
Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë 1847 · Classics
Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy 1895 · Classics
Kim Rudyard Kipling 1901 · Classics
King Lear William Shakespeare 1605 · Plays and drama
Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition Walt Whitman 1855 · Poetry
Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1862 · Classics
Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1868 · Classics
Lord of the Flies William Golding 1954 · Classics
Macbeth William Shakespeare 1590 · Plays and drama
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 1856 · Classics
Mansfield Park Jane Austen 1814 · Classics
Martin Eden Jack London 1909 · Classics
Middlemarch George Eliot 1871 · Classics
Moby-Dick Herman Melville 1851 · Classics
Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf 1925 · Classics
Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie 1934 · Mystery
My Ántonia Willa Cather 1918 · Classics
My Year of Rest and Relaxation Ottessa Moshfegh 2013 · Literary
Native Son Richard Wright 1940 · Classics
Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell 1949 · Dystopian
North and South Elizabeth Gaskell 1854 · Classics
Northanger Abbey Jane Austen 1817 · Classics
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck 1937 · Classics
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 1838 · Classics
On the Road Jack Kerouac 1957 · Classics
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey 1962 · Classics
Paradise Lost John Milton 1667 · Classics
Persuasion Jane Austen 1817 · Classics
Peter Pan J. M. Barrie 1911 · Fantasy
Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe 1719 · Adventure
Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare 1590 · Plays and drama
Rosemary's Baby Ira Levin 1967 · Horror
Second Foundation Isaac Asimov 1952 · Science fiction
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 1811 · Classics
Siddhartha Hermann Hesse 1922 · Classics
Silas Marner George Eliot 1861 · Classics
Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut 1969 · Science fiction
Solaris Stanisław Lem 1961 · Science fiction
Speaker for the Dead Orson Scott Card 1986 · Science fiction
Starship Troopers Robert A. Heinlein 1959 · Science fiction
Steppenwolf Hermann Hesse 1927 · Classics
Stoner John Williams 1965 · Classics
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 · Horror
Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A. Heinlein 1961 · Science fiction
Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1891 · Classics
The ABC Murders Agatha Christie 1936 · Mystery
The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow 1953 · Literary
The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton 1920 · Classics

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