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
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
4.3·1969·309p
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
4.1·1900·389p
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
4.0·1940·484p
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
4.3·1918·432p
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
3.9·1838·554p
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
4.2·1903·93p
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
3.7·1856·256p
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
4.0·1937·260p
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
3.9·1924·258p
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
4.2·1893·84p
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
4.0·1997·344p
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
3.9·1952·610p
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Haruki Murakami
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Haruki Murakami
3.5·1985·416p
The Virgin Suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides
The Virgin Suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides
3.8·1993·249p
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
3.9·2009·559p
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
3.9·1817·322p
The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver
4.2·1998·576p
The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene
The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene
4.1·1998·452p
Candide
Voltaire
Candide
Voltaire
3.8·1738·208p
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
4.1·1970·205p
Paradise Lost
John Milton
Paradise Lost
John Milton
3.9·1667·512p
Maus
Art Spiegelman
Maus
Art Spiegelman
4.4·1986·295p
Inferno
Dante Alighieri
Inferno
Dante Alighieri
4.0·1320·258p
Ariadne
Jennifer Saint
Ariadne
Jennifer Saint
3.8·1991·304p
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
4.0·1973·760p
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon
4.2·2000·706p
Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse
Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse
4.1·1927·256p
Middlemarch
George Eliot
Middlemarch
George Eliot
4.0·1831·853p
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith
4.3·1943·509p
Othello
William Shakespeare
Othello
William Shakespeare
3.6·1603·319p
Beowulf
Seamus Heaney
Beowulf
Seamus Heaney
3.5·900·213p
There There
Tommy Orange
There There
Tommy Orange
4.0·2018·292p
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
4.5·1800·974p
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
3.9·1929·274p
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Italo Calvino
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Italo Calvino
4.7·1979·272p
Tigana
Guy Gavriel Kay
Tigana
Guy Gavriel Kay
4.1·1990·692p
The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien
The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien
4.1·1990·236p
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
4.1·1719·656p
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan
3.7·2010·289p
Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson
Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson
4.1·1977·128p
