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Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy misread each other for most of a novel that invented the modern love story.
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Romance
by Jane Austen
Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy misread each other for most of a novel that invented the modern love story.
Science Fiction
by George Orwell
Winston Smith rewrites the past for a living, until he decides to keep one honest thought of his own.
Literary Fiction
by Harper Lee
A small-town Alabama childhood, a courtroom, and a father who tries to explain both to his daughter.
Fantasy
by J. R. R. Tolkien
A comfortable hobbit is talked into a dragon-sized adventure and turns out to be rather good at it.
Historical Fiction
by Markus Zusak
Narrated by Death, the story of a girl in Nazi Germany who steals books and reads them aloud in a basement.
Nonfiction
by Yuval Noah Harari
A single-volume argument about how shared fictions let one human species run the planet.
Biography & Memoir
by Tara Westover
A woman raised off-grid in Idaho, who first set foot in a classroom at seventeen and kept going to Cambridge.
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Literary Fiction
by Harper Lee
A small-town Alabama childhood, a courtroom, and a father who tries to explain both to his daughter.
Literary Fiction
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A bootlegger throws parties for a woman across the bay, and Nick Carraway watches the whole thing come apart.
Nonfiction
by Yuval Noah Harari
A single-volume argument about how shared fictions let one human species run the planet.
Nonfiction
by Rebecca Skloot
The woman whose cells were taken without consent, and the family who learned about it decades later.
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Romance
by Jane Austen
Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy misread each other for most of a novel that invented the modern love story.
Fantasy
by J. R. R. Tolkien
A comfortable hobbit is talked into a dragon-sized adventure and turns out to be rather good at it.
Young Adult
by J. K. Rowling
An eleven-year-old learns he is a wizard, and a generation learned to read on it.
Fiction
by Paulo Coelho
A shepherd leaves Andalusia for the pyramids, following a dream he is told to trust.
Biography & Memoir
by Stephen King
Half memoir, half toolkit, from a writer with strong views about adverbs.
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Romance
by Jane Austen
Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy misread each other for most of a novel that invented the modern love story.
Science Fiction
by George Orwell
Winston Smith rewrites the past for a living, until he decides to keep one honest thought of his own.
Literary Fiction
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A bootlegger throws parties for a woman across the bay, and Nick Carraway watches the whole thing come apart.
Literary Fiction
by Harper Lee
A small-town Alabama childhood, a courtroom, and a father who tries to explain both to his daughter.
Fantasy
by J. R. R. Tolkien
One ring, one long walk, and the book that built modern fantasy around it.
Historical Fiction
by Markus Zusak
Narrated by Death, the story of a girl in Nazi Germany who steals books and reads them aloud in a basement.
Fantasy
by J. R. R. Tolkien
A comfortable hobbit is talked into a dragon-sized adventure and turns out to be rather good at it.
Young Adult
by J. K. Rowling
An eleven-year-old learns he is a wizard, and a generation learned to read on it.
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Historical Fiction
by Khaled Hosseini
A childhood betrayal in Kabul that takes a lifetime, and a return journey, to answer for.
Fantasy
by Erin Morgenstern
A circus arrives without warning, opens at nightfall, and hosts a duel neither magician chose.
Biography & Memoir
by Tara Westover
A woman raised off-grid in Idaho, who first set foot in a classroom at seventeen and kept going to Cambridge.
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Classics
by Publius Vergilius Maro
Classics
by John Milton
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Classics
by William Shakespeare
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by Aeschylus
Classics
by William Faulkner
Classics
by Graham Greene
Classics
by Ayn Rand and Sophie Bastide-Foltz and Adrian Rand
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by William Shakespeare
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by Jelena O. Krstovic
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by Marion Mills Miller
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by Seneca the Younger
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by Όμηρος
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by John Edwin Sandys, Sir
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