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All-time Classics
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The Hostile Hospital
Lemony Snicket
The Hostile Hospital
Lemony Snicket
3.9·2001·255p
The Slippery Slope
Lemony Snicket
The Slippery Slope
Lemony Snicket
3.9·1999·337p
Sula
Toni Morrison
Sula
Toni Morrison
4.1·1973·198p
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
4.0·1947·107p
A Room With a View
Elizabeth Klett
A Room With a View
Elizabeth Klett
3.9·1908·130p
Casino Royale
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale
Ian Fleming
3.7·1953·0p
Titus Groan
Mervyn Peake
Titus Groan
Mervyn Peake
3.9·1946·496p
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson
3.9·2004·289p
The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir
The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir
4.0·1949·746p
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie
3.7·2007·301p
The Grim Grotto
Lemony Snicket
The Grim Grotto
Lemony Snicket
3.9·1999·323p
Demian
Hermann Hesse
Demian
Hermann Hesse
4.1·1919·176p
Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited
Aldous Huxley
Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited
Aldous Huxley
4.0·1932·184p
Out of the Silent Planet
C. S. Lewis
Out of the Silent Planet
C. S. Lewis
3.9·1938·155p
The Elements of Style: With Revisions, an Introduction, and a Chapter on Writing
William Strunk Jr.
The Elements of Style: With Revisions, an Introduction, and a Chapter on Writing
William Strunk Jr.
4.2·1918·178p
The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe
4.3·1845·46p
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
3.9·19·450p
The Gambler
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Gambler
Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.9·1862·160p
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Ryan Holiday
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Ryan Holiday
4.4·2016·416p
Rosemary's Baby
Ira Levin
Rosemary's Baby
Ira Levin
4.1·1900·238p
Elektra
Jennifer Saint
Elektra
Jennifer Saint
3.7·2022·320p
The Penultimate Peril
Lemony Snicket
The Penultimate Peril
Lemony Snicket
4.0·2000·353p
Shards of Honour
Lois McMaster Bujold
Shards of Honour
Lois McMaster Bujold
4.1·1986·253p
The World According to Garp
John Irving
The World According to Garp
John Irving
4.1·1978·610p
Pedro Páramo
Juan Rulfo
Pedro Páramo
Juan Rulfo
4.0·1955·144p
The Sufferings of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Sufferings of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
3.7·1774·0p
The Fall of the House of Usher
Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher
Edgar Allan Poe
3.8·1839·368p
Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.8·1933·446p
North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell
North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell
4.2·1854·540p
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys
3.6·1966·189p
Cannery Row
John Steinbeck
Cannery Row
John Steinbeck
3.8·1943·208p
Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol
Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol
4.0·1842·520p
The Waves
Virginia Woolf
The Waves
Virginia Woolf
4.1·1931·297p
Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition
Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition
Walt Whitman
4.5·1855·196p
Everything is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer
Everything is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer
3.9·2002·426p
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
3.9·1930·368p
Ender in Exile
Orson Scott Card
Ender in Exile
Orson Scott Card
3.9·2007·380p
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
4.0·1957·594p
Flowers in the Attic
V.C. Andrews
Flowers in the Attic
V.C. Andrews
3.9·1979·399p
The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann
4.1·1924·920p
