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Four Great Tragedies

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by William Shakespeare 1606 592 pages

4.42

17.9K ratings

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Saturday

by Ian McEwan 2005 289 pages

3.64

72.2K ratings

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Inferno

by Dante Alighieri 1320 490 pages

4.03

198.0K ratings

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Palm Sunday

An Autobiographical Collage

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 1981 300 pages

3.78

6.7K ratings

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For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway 1940 471 pages

3.98

308.5K ratings

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The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton 1920 293 pages

3.97

187.5K ratings

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Romance

The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories

The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka

by Franz Kafka 1915 352 pages

4.09

20.4K ratings

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David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens 1850 882 pages

4.04

251.2K ratings

Literature

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The Namesake

by Jhumpa Lahiri 2003 304 pages

4.02

278.4K ratings

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Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts

by Sylvia Plath 1977 336 pages

3.92

6.5K ratings

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The Counterfeiters

by André Gide 1925 451 pages

3.83

10.0K ratings

France

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Imaginary Homelands

Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

by Salman Rushdie 1991 448 pages

3.98

1.5K ratings

Essays

India

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Dialogues and Essays

by Seneca 304 pages

4.31

1.2K ratings

Philosophy

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Essays

White Noise

by Don DeLillo 1985 320 pages

3.86

122.5K ratings

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J.R.R. Tolkien

A Biography

by Humphrey Carpenter 1977 288 pages

4.05

16.1K ratings

Biography

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Biography Memoir

The Good Earth

by Pearl S. Buck 1931 418 pages

4.01

256.5K ratings

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China

Classics

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

by Salman Rushdie 1990 224 pages

3.98

36.9K ratings

Fantasy

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Young Adult

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf 1927 209 pages

3.81

203.7K ratings

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Novels

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

by Dave Eggers 2000 530 pages

3.69

182.3K ratings

Contemporary

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1984

by Michael Dean 1949 71 pages

4.41

33.6K ratings

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Science Fiction

Dystopia

The Life of a Stupid Man

by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa 1927 55 pages

3.69

9.2K ratings

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Japanese Literature

Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel García Márquez 1985 348 pages

3.94

530.9K ratings

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Silence

by Shūsaku Endō 1966 219 pages

4.09

37.2K ratings

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Japan

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The Double

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1846 144 pages

3.67

39.1K ratings

Classics

Russian Literature

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Life Lessons from Russian Literature

by Viv Groskop 2019 224 pages

3.96

1.6K ratings

Russia

Books About Books

Memoir

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert 1856 329 pages

3.71

358.4K ratings

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France

Literature

Nostalgia

by Mircea Cărtărescu 1989 361 pages

4.22

4.6K ratings

Romania

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The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1877 32 pages

4.03

35.8K ratings

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The Tartar Steppe

by Dino Buzzati 1940 198 pages

4.21

37.2K ratings

Classics

Italian Literature

Italy

The Lonely Voice

A Study of the Short Story

by Frank O'Connor 1961 224 pages

3.90

233 ratings

Writing

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The Razor’s Edge

by W. Somerset Maugham 1944 314 pages

4.19

51.8K ratings

Literature

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Philosophy

A Room with a View

by E.M. Forster 1908 119 pages

3.90

195.0K ratings

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Romance

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Allah Is Not Obliged

by Ahmadou Kourouma 2000 215 pages

3.68

2.3K ratings

Ivory Coast

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The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer 1400 504 pages

3.52

233.3K ratings

Classics

Poetry

Literature

Why Read Moby-Dick?

by Nathaniel Philbrick 2010 131 pages

3.76

4.3K ratings

Literary Criticism

Books About Books

Classics

On Writing

by Ernest Hemingway 1984 160 pages

4.03

4.6K ratings

Writing

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Literature

Disgrace

by J.M. Coetzee 1999 220 pages

3.86

113.0K ratings

Africa

South Africa

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Wait Until Spring, Bandini

by John Fante 1938 266 pages

4.09

14.2K ratings

Classics

Novels

American

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain 1884 327 pages

3.83

1.3M ratings

Classics

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Literature

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 139 pages

3.83

633.6K ratings

Horror

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The Iliad / The Odyssey

by Homer 1556 pages

4.07

81.4K ratings

Classics

Poetry

Mythology

Women in Love

by D.H. Lawrence 1920 416 pages

3.66

33.0K ratings

Literature

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Romance

The Magic Mountain

by Thomas Mann 1924 706 pages

4.13

55.4K ratings

German Literature

Literature

Philosophy

Of Love and Other Demons

by Gabriel García Márquez 1994 160 pages

3.96

82.8K ratings

Classics

Magical Realism

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The Sheltering Sky

by Paul Bowles 1949 342 pages

3.89

29.8K ratings

Classics

Africa

Travel

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison 1977 338 pages

4.15

122.1K ratings

Classics

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Magical Realism

Shakespeare

The Invention of the Human

by Harold Bloom 1998 745 pages

4.03

3.6K ratings

Literary Criticism

Criticism

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Benito Cereno

by Herman Melville 1855 160 pages

3.53

9.6K ratings

Classics

Short Stories

School

Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1864 136 pages

4.17

201.5K ratings

Philosophy

Russia

Russian Literature

Villette

by Charlotte Brontë 1853 573 pages

3.78

77.6K ratings

Classics

Romance

19th Century