1384 titles · curated
All-time Classics
The shelf that everything else leans on.
Canon and counter-canon. Books that have survived being misread for a hundred years.
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Every era of Classics
From this year all the way back.
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Spring Snow
Yukio Mishima
Spring Snow
Yukio Mishima
4.2·1969·402p
The Aeneid
Virgil
The Aeneid
Virgil
3.9·20·465p
The Book of Five Rings
Miyamoto Musashi
The Book of Five Rings
Miyamoto Musashi
3.9·1645·0p
Nine Stories
J. D. Salinger
Nine Stories
J. D. Salinger
4.0·1950·302p
Ghost World
Daniel Clowes
Ghost World
Daniel Clowes
3.8·1997·82p
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain
3.7·19·534p
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.4·1921·132p
Musashi
Eiji Yoshikawa
Musashi
Eiji Yoshikawa
4.5·1935·970p
The Power of Myth
Joseph Campbell
The Power of Myth
Joseph Campbell
4.3·1961·276p
Pippi Longstocking
Astrid Lindgren
Pippi Longstocking
Astrid Lindgren
4.2·1945·124p
Symposion
Plato
Symposion
Plato
4.1·381·174p
Till We Have Faces
C. S. Lewis
Till We Have Faces
C. S. Lewis
4.7·1901·320p
Autobiography of Red
Anne Carson
Autobiography of Red
Anne Carson
4.3·1998·0p
The Glass Bead Game
Hermann Hesse
The Glass Bead Game
Hermann Hesse
4.1·1943·580p
The Little Friend
Donna Tartt
The Little Friend
Donna Tartt
3.5·2000·644p
The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton
4.0·1905·286p
The Setting Sun
Osamu Dazai
The Setting Sun
Osamu Dazai
4.0·1947·128p
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
4.3·1948·528p
The Beach
Alex Garland
The Beach
Alex Garland
4.0·1996·438p
Tipping the Velvet
Sarah Waters
Tipping the Velvet
Sarah Waters
3.9·1998·480p
The Arabian Nights
Anonymous
The Arabian Nights
Anonymous
4.0·800·972p
Ariel
Sylvia Plath
Ariel
Sylvia Plath
4.2·1965·240p
Hopscotch
Julio Cortázar
Hopscotch
Julio Cortázar
4.2·1963·577p
The Dharma Bums
Jack Kerouac
The Dharma Bums
Jack Kerouac
3.9·1958·187p
On the Shortness of Life
Seneca
On the Shortness of Life
Seneca
4.2·49·52p
The Hours
Michael Cunningham
The Hours
Michael Cunningham
4.0·1998·244p
Hunger
Knut Hamsun
Hunger
Knut Hamsun
4.0·1890·150p
Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
4.2·1932·468p
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Paulo Freire
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Paulo Freire
4.3·1968·192p
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Scott O'Dell
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Scott O'Dell
3.9·1960·222p
On Beauty
Zadie Smith
On Beauty
Zadie Smith
3.8·2005·445p
A Passage to India
E. M. Forster
A Passage to India
E. M. Forster
3.7·1924·376p
The Lost World
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lost World
Arthur Conan Doyle
3.9·1900·224p
Ivanhoe
Sir Walter Scott
Ivanhoe
Sir Walter Scott
3.8·1820·528p
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
3.6·1992·301p
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Judith Butler
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Judith Butler
4.0·1989·272p
Possession
A.S. Byatt
Possession
A.S. Byatt
3.9·1990·555p
2061: Odyssey Three
Arthur C. Clarke
2061: Odyssey Three
Arthur C. Clarke
3.7·1987·0p
The Fall of Gondolin
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fall of Gondolin
J.R.R. Tolkien
4.1·1985·304p
Villette
Charlotte Brontë
Villette
Charlotte Brontë
3.8·1852·626p
