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All-time Classics
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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
4.3·180·256p
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
3.4·1898·96p
The Plague
Albert Camus
The Plague
Albert Camus
4.0·1947·152p
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
3.8·1532·140p
The Histories
Herodotus
The Histories
Herodotus
4.0·0·716p
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam
4.2·1120·132p
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
3.6·1726·612p
One Thousand and One Nights
Anonymous
One Thousand and One Nights
Anonymous
3.8·800·592p
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez
4.0·1985·348p
Essays
Michel de Montaigne
Essays
Michel de Montaigne
3.8·1580·1344p
The Aleph and Other Stories
Jorge Luis Borges
The Aleph and Other Stories
Jorge Luis Borges
4.3·1949·224p
A Room with a View
E.M. Forster
A Room with a View
E.M. Forster
3.9·1908·228p
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
4.0·1932·82p
Women in Love
D.H. Lawrence
Women in Love
D.H. Lawrence
4.0·1920·1076p
Tenth of December
George Saunders
Tenth of December
George Saunders
4.1·2013·460p
On the Nature of Things
John Mason Good
On the Nature of Things
John Mason Good
4.0·0·534p
Don Juan
Lord Byron
Don Juan
Lord Byron
3.8·1824·752p
The Kreutzer Sonata
Leo Tolstoy
The Kreutzer Sonata
Leo Tolstoy
4.0·1889·2412p
The Masnavi
Rumi
The Masnavi
Rumi
4.5·1258·720p
The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft
The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft
4.3·1928·1098p
The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas
4.4·1844·62p
Lady Chatterley's Lover
D.H. Lawrence
Lady Chatterley's Lover
D.H. Lawrence
3.8·1928·849p
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
3.8·1873·252p
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
4.5·1855·400p
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust
4.2·1913·4215p
The Poems of Hafez
Hafez
The Poems of Hafez
Hafez
4.1·1368·320p
The Faerie Queene
Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene
Edmund Spenser
3.5·1590·264p
Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart
Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart
4.3·2020·430p
Small Gods
Terry Pratchett
Small Gods
Terry Pratchett
4.3·1992·389p
The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus
4.2·1942·212p
The Confessions
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Confessions
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
3.6·1782·704p
The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron
The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron
4.0·1967·2262p
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
4.0·1908·117p
Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
4.3·1890·190p
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
4.0·1798·80p
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
4.2·1963·398p
The Phantom Carriage
Selma Lagerlöf
The Phantom Carriage
Selma Lagerlöf
3.8·1912·180p
Uncle Vanya
Anton Chekhov
Uncle Vanya
Anton Chekhov
3.9·1899·80p
The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan
The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan
3.6·1915·160p
Watchmen
Alan Moore
Watchmen
Alan Moore
4.4·1986·416p
