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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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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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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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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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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
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- 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.
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- 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
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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.
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.
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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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- 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.
Literary Fiction
Books in Literary Fiction
49 titles, each with a cover, a blurb and a reason to read it.
Showing 1–24 of 49 books
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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.
- 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.
- Reading Challenge Pick
Literary Fiction
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez
Seven generations of the Buendía family rise and repeat themselves in the invented town of Macondo.
- Reading Challenge Pick
Literary Fiction
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
Sethe escaped slavery years ago. The house she lives in has not let her leave it behind.
- Reading Challenge Pick
Literary Fiction
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
An orphaned governess refuses, repeatedly, to be made smaller than she is.
Literary Fiction
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
A father and son walk south through ash, carrying the fire between them.
Literary Fiction
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
Literary Fiction
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
Literary Fiction
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
Literary Fiction
The Sign of Four
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Literary Fiction
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
Literary Fiction
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
Literary Fiction
King Lear
by William Shakespeare
Literary Fiction
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
Literary Fiction
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by Washington Irving
Literary Fiction
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
Literary Fiction
Works (Awakening / Beyond the Bayou / Desiree's Baby / Kiss / Locket / Ma'ame Pelagie / Pair of Silk Stockings / Reflection / Respectable Woman)
by Kate Chopin
Literary Fiction
The Cricket on the Hearth
by Charles Dickens
Literary Fiction
The Taming of the Shrew
by William Shakespeare
Literary Fiction
Sult
by Knut Hamsun
Literary Fiction
Troilus and Cressida
by William Shakespeare
Literary Fiction
La Chute
by Albert Camus
Literary Fiction
The Book of Dragons
by Edith Nesbit
Literary Fiction
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
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