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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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Science Fiction
1984
by George Orwell
Winston Smith rewrites the past for a living, until he decides to keep one honest thought of his own.
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Literary Fiction
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
A small-town Alabama childhood, a courtroom, and a father who tries to explain both to his daughter.
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Fantasy
The Hobbit
by J. R. R. Tolkien
A comfortable hobbit is talked into a dragon-sized adventure and turns out to be rather good at it.
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Historical Fiction
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
Narrated by Death, the story of a girl in Nazi Germany who steals books and reads them aloud in a basement.
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Nonfiction
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari
A single-volume argument about how shared fictions let one human species run the planet.
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Biography & Memoir
Educated
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
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
A small-town Alabama childhood, a courtroom, and a father who tries to explain both to his daughter.
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Literary Fiction
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A bootlegger throws parties for a woman across the bay, and Nick Carraway watches the whole thing come apart.
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Nonfiction
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari
A single-volume argument about how shared fictions let one human species run the planet.
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Nonfiction
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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
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.
- Featured
Fantasy
The Hobbit
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
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
by J. K. Rowling
An eleven-year-old learns he is a wizard, and a generation learned to read on it.
Fiction
The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho
A shepherd leaves Andalusia for the pyramids, following a dream he is told to trust.
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Biography & Memoir
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
by Stephen King
Half memoir, half toolkit, from a writer with strong views about adverbs.
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Adult, young adult, children's and all-ages reading, filtered by who tends to enjoy it most.
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Romance
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.
- Featured
- Reading Challenge Pick
Science Fiction
1984
by George Orwell
Winston Smith rewrites the past for a living, until he decides to keep one honest thought of his own.
- Editor's Pick
Literary Fiction
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A bootlegger throws parties for a woman across the bay, and Nick Carraway watches the whole thing come apart.
Adult · Young Adult
- Featured
- Editor's Pick
- Reading Challenge Pick
Literary Fiction
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
A small-town Alabama childhood, a courtroom, and a father who tries to explain both to his daughter.
Fantasy
The Lord of the Rings
by J. R. R. Tolkien
One ring, one long walk, and the book that built modern fantasy around it.
- Featured
- Reading Challenge Pick
Historical Fiction
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
Narrated by Death, the story of a girl in Nazi Germany who steals books and reads them aloud in a basement.
All ages
- Featured
Fantasy
The Hobbit
by J. R. R. Tolkien
A comfortable hobbit is talked into a dragon-sized adventure and turns out to be rather good at it.
Children · Young Adult
Young Adult
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
by J. K. Rowling
An eleven-year-old learns he is a wizard, and a generation learned to read on it.
Reader interest
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Books generating strong reader interest right now, selected by hand. Any bestseller or rating detail shown has been verified before publishing.
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Historical Fiction
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
A childhood betrayal in Kabul that takes a lifetime, and a return journey, to answer for.
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Fantasy
The Night Circus
by Erin Morgenstern
A circus arrives without warning, opens at nightfall, and hosts a duel neither magician chose.
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- Reading Challenge Pick
- TheBookBlurbs Selection
Biography & Memoir
Educated
by Tara Westover
A woman raised off-grid in Idaho, who first set foot in a classroom at seventeen and kept going to Cambridge.
Horror
Books in Horror
18 titles, each with a cover, a blurb and a reason to read it.
Showing 1–18 of 18 books
Horror
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
Horror
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
by Mary Shelley
Horror
The Mayor of Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy
Horror
The Jewel of Seven Stars
by Bram Stoker
Horror
Herland
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Horror
Bram Stoker's Dracula omnibus
by Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley and Robert Louis Stevenson and Danide and Núria Pradas and Carmen Gil and Bram Stoker and Juan Antonio Molina Foix and Mario Montalbán and Leonard Wolf and ClassyBookRead and BRAM STOCKER and BRAM STOKER and Anna Gasol Trullols and Destinyalready Creative Writing Ink and Bram Stroker and Fay Weldon and Bram Stoker. and Bess Georges and Alba Pagán and David Stuart Davies and David Rogers and A. R. S. BEL and Ferdinand Du Chevalier and Abraham Stoker and Sarah Prescott and Alex Rouse and Bram Stoke and A. Nessi and Bram Stoker
Horror
Carmilla
by Sheridan Le Fanu
Horror
The Great God Pan
by Arthur Machen
Horror
Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories
by Bram Stoker and Bram Stoker and Bram Bram Stoker
Horror
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Horror
The White People
by Arthur Machen
Horror
The Fall of the House of Usher
by Edgar Allan Poe
Horror
Brood of the Witch-Queen
by Sax Rohmer
Horror
Tales of Terror and Mystery
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Horror
The Vampyre
by John William Polidori
Horror
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
by Edgar Allan Poe
Horror
Carrie
by Stephen King
Horror
The Damned
by Algernon Blackwood
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