Literature

Flatland

A Romance of Many Dimensions

by Edwin A. Abbott 1884 96 pages

3.81

74.9K ratings

Science Fiction

Classics

Mathematics

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

by David Foster Wallace 2005 343 pages

4.18

52.5K ratings

Essays

Philosophy

Humor

The Palace of Dreams

by Ismail Kadare 1981 208 pages

3.96

5.8K ratings

Fantasy

Dystopia

Classics

A Tale of Two Cities / Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens 1859 834 pages

4.02

17.4K ratings

Classics

Historical Fiction

Literature

The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes

The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

by Andrew Lycett 2007 576 pages

3.92

295 ratings

Biography

History

Mystery

The Return of the Native

by Thomas Hardy 1878 426 pages

3.88

39.7K ratings

Classics

Literature

19th Century

Interventions 2020

by Michel Houellebecq 2020 371 pages

3.58

515 ratings

Essays

Politics

France

The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories

by Leo Tolstoy 1886 304 pages

4.12

16.3K ratings

Classics

Short Stories

Russia

The Iliad / The Odyssey

by Homer 1556 pages

4.07

81.4K ratings

Classics

Poetry

Mythology

Bartleby the Scrivener

by Herman Melville 1853 64 pages

3.93

71.0K ratings

Classics

Short Stories

Literature

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

by Mark Twain 1889 480 pages

3.77

106.3K ratings

Classics

Fantasy

Historical Fiction

Jitterbug Perfume

by Tom Robbins 1984 342 pages

4.23

79.2K ratings

Fantasy

Humor

Magical Realism

The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint

by William Shakespeare 1609 458 pages

4.19

2.8K ratings

Poetry

Classics

Romance

The Man Who Counted

A Collection of Mathematical Adventures

by Malba Tahan 1938 256 pages

4.11

6.5K ratings

Mathematics

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Novels

Preface to Shakespeare

by Samuel Johnson 1778 68 pages

3.61

356 ratings

Classics

Literary Criticism

Essays

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain 1876 244 pages

3.92

987.0K ratings

Classics

Adventure

Historical Fiction

Far From the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy 1874 433 pages

3.97

161.5K ratings

Classics

Romance

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Fuenteovejuna

by Lope de Vega 1618 181 pages

3.54

11.1K ratings

Plays

Spanish Literature

Drama

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

by Milan Kundera 1979 313 pages

3.95

52.5K ratings

Czech Literature

Classics

Literature

Cancer Ward

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1967 576 pages

4.26

17.4K ratings

Classics

Russia

Russian Literature

The War of the End of the World

by Mario Vargas Llosa 1981 568 pages

4.25

12.0K ratings

Historical Fiction

Literature

Novels

The Poetry of Robert Frost

by Robert Frost 1969 607 pages

4.24

48.8K ratings

Poetry

Classics

Literature

The Stoic

by Theodore Dreiser 1947 334 pages

4.35

2.9K ratings

Classics

Novels

American

Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us

by Simon Critchley 2019 336 pages

3.89

342 ratings

Philosophy

History

Literary Criticism

Marcovaldo

by Italo Calvino 1963 128 pages

3.84

15.9K ratings

Short Stories

Italian Literature

Classics

Naked Lunch

The Restored Text

by William S. Burroughs 1959 289 pages

3.46

96.2K ratings

Classics

Literature

Novels

Science Fiction

A Very Short Introduction

by David Seed 2011 147 pages

3.25

514 ratings

Literature

Literary Criticism

History

How to Read and Why

by Harold Bloom 2000 288 pages

3.60

3.8K ratings

Literary Criticism

Books About Books

Literature

Book Lust

Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason

by Nancy Pearl 2003 287 pages

3.77

3.6K ratings

Books About Books

Reference

Writing

The Death of Virgil

by Hermann Broch 1945 493 pages

4.14

1.7K ratings

Historical Fiction

Classics

German Literature

The Lover

by Marguerite Duras 1984 117 pages

3.71

66.2K ratings

France

Romance

French Literature

Lazarillo de Tormes and The Swindler

Two Spanish Picaresque Novels

by Francisco de Quevedo 1969 240 pages

3.62

1.2K ratings

Classics

Spanish Literature

Spain

Pedro Páramo

by Juan Rulfo 1955 124 pages

4.06

89.5K ratings

Classics

Magical Realism

Spanish Literature

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852 438 pages

3.91

237.8K ratings

Classics

Historical Fiction

Literature

Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller 1934 318 pages

3.66

76.0K ratings

Classics

Literature

Novels

Bulfinch's Mythology

by Thomas Bulfinch 1855 862 pages

4.14

12.1K ratings

Mythology

Classics

Fantasy

History of English literature

by Edward Albert 1923 544 pages

3.91

255 ratings

History

Literature

Literary Criticism

In the First Circle

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1968 742 pages

4.36

1.7K ratings

Russia

Classics

Literature

Benito Cereno

by Herman Melville 1855 160 pages

3.53

9.6K ratings

Classics

Short Stories

School

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

by William Shakespeare 1594 245 pages

3.39

16.6K ratings

Classics

Plays

Drama

Eugene Onegin

by Alexander Pushkin 1833 240 pages

4.10

68.4K ratings

Classics

Poetry

Russia

Less Than Zero

by Bret Easton Ellis 1985 208 pages

3.60

93.8K ratings

Contemporary

Novels

Classics

To Build a Fire

by Jack London 1902 32 pages

3.98

25.6K ratings

Short Stories

Classics

Adventure

The Double

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1846 144 pages

3.67

39.1K ratings

Classics

Russian Literature

Russia

The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing 1962 640 pages

3.77

24.0K ratings

Classics

Feminism

Literature

Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained

by John Milton 1667 400 pages

4.07

7.8K ratings

Classics

Poetry

Literature

Long Day’s Journey into Night

by Eugene O'Neill 1956 179 pages

4.05

42.2K ratings

Plays

Drama

Classics

The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

by Pablo Neruda 1951 1040 pages

4.44

20.2K ratings

Poetry

Classics

Romance

The Awakening

by Kate Chopin 1899 195 pages

3.68

220.6K ratings

Classics

Feminism

School

Gabriel García Márquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Michael Wood 1990 132 pages

4.54

5.9K ratings

Classics

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Literature