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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1889

Adam and Eve: Though He Knew Better
John Erskine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

Adam Bede
George Eliot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1859

A Girl of the Limberlost
Gene Stratton Porter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1909

A Hazard of New Fortunes
William Dean Howells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1890

A High Wind in Jamaica
Richard Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

Amelia
Henry Fielding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1751

A Princess of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1912

Arrowsmith
Sinclair Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

A Sentimental Education
Gustave Flaubert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1869

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Henry David Thoreau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1849

Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

Barchester Towers
Anthony Trollope

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1857

Behind a Mask
Louisa May Alcott

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1866

Berlin Alexanderplatz
Alfred Doblin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

Botchan
Natsume Sōseki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1906

Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady
Samuel Richardson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1748

Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s
Leslie S. Klinger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

Cometh Up as a Flower
Rhoda Broughton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1867

Comus
John Milton

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1634

Cousin Bette
Honoré de Balzac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1846

Dark Laughter
Sherwood Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Decline and Fall
Evelyn Waugh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Dombey and Son
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1848

Effi Briest
Theodor Fontane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1895

Elective Affinities
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1809

Elmer Gantry
Sinclair Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

Esther Waters
George Augustus Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1894

Eugenie Grandet
Honoré de Balzac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1833

Evelina
Fanny Burney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1778

Five Women Who Loved Love
Hirayama Tōgo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1926

Giants in the Earth
Ole Edvard Rölvaag

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1924

Gil Blas
Alain Rene Lesage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1715

God's Trombones
James Weldon Johnson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1927

Heart of a Dog
Mikhail Bulgakov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Infants of the Spring
Wallace Thurman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted
Frances Harper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1892

Jacob's Room
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
Denis Diderot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1796

Jennie Gerhardt
Theodore Dreiser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1911

King Solomon’s Mines
H. Rider Haggard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1885

La Regenta
Leopoldo Alas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1884

Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story
Oliver La Farge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

Le Morte d'Arthur
Thomas Malory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1485

Letters from the Earth
Mark Twain

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1909

Main Street
Sinclair Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

Manhattan Transfer
John Dos Passos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Mario And The Magician
Thomas Mann

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1929

Martin Chuzzlewit
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1844

Max Havelaar
Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1860

Melanctha
Gertrude Stein

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1909

Metropolis
Thea von Harbou

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Michael Kohlhaas
Heinrich von Kleist

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1810

Nadja
Andre Breton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

New Grub Street
George Gissing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1891

Nostromo
Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1904

Oblomov
Ivan Goncharov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1859

Pantagruel
François Rabelais

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1532

Pather Panchali
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

Piers Plowman
William Langland

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1377

Poor Folk
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1846

Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero
Henryk Sienkiewicz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1895

Rameau's Nephew
Denis Diderot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1805

Remembrance of Things Past
Marcel Proust

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Edwin Lefevre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1923

Rob Roy
Sir Walter Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1817

Roderick Hudson
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1875

Sarrasine
Honoré de Balzac

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1830

Sartor Resartus
Thomas Carlyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1836

Shamela
Henry Fielding

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1741

She: A History of Adventure
H. Rider Haggard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1887

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
Tobias Smollett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1751

The Adventures of Roderick Random
Tobias Smollett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1748

The Ambassadors
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1903

The American
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1877

The Ball and the Cross
G. K. Chesterton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1909

The Beautiful and Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

The Belly of Paris
Émile Zola

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1873

The Bride of Lammermoor
Sir Walter Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1819

The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

The Coming Race
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1871

The Cossacks
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1863

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Philip Sidney

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1590

The Country of the Pointed Firs
Sarah Orne Jewett

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1896

The Curse of Capistrano
Johnston McCulley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1919

The Damnation of Theron Ware
Harold Frederic

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1896

The Deerslayer
James Fenimore Cooper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1841

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1922

The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1308

The Enchanted April
Elizabeth von Arnim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

The Gods Will Have Blood
Anatole France

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1912

The Good Soldier
Ford Madox Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

The Good Soldier Svejk
Jaroslav Hašek

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1923

The Heart of Midlothian
Walter Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1818

The Horse Dealer's Daughter
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

The Iron Heel
Jack London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1908

The King of Elfland's Daughter
Lord Dunsany

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1924

The Late Mattia Pascal
Luigi Pirandello

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1904

The Legend of Good Women
Geoffrey Chaucer

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1385

The Lost Girl
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920