Literature

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

by Dave Eggers 2000 530 pages

3.69

182.3K ratings

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Book Club

Literature

Islands in the Stream

by Ernest Hemingway 1970 448 pages

3.88

16.5K ratings

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Literature

Novels

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston 1937 238 pages

3.99

372.8K ratings

Classics

Historical Fiction

School

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

The Lonely Voice

A Study of the Short Story

by Frank O'Connor 1961 224 pages

3.90

233 ratings

Writing

Short Stories

Literary Criticism

The Red and the Black

by Stendhal 1830 577 pages

3.86

81.5K ratings

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France

French Literature

Angle of Repose

by Wallace Stegner 1971 569 pages

4.24

61.0K ratings

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Classics

Book Club

From Here to Eternity

by James Jones 1951 816 pages

4.08

17.9K ratings

Classics

Historical Fiction

War

Kidnapped

by Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 288 pages

3.79

66.7K ratings

Classics

Adventure

Historical Fiction

Cathedral

by Raymond Carver 1983 230 pages

4.24

39.0K ratings

Short Stories

Classics

Literature

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

by John Fante 1938 266 pages

4.09

14.2K ratings

Classics

Novels

American

Unaccustomed Earth

by Jhumpa Lahiri 2008 352 pages

4.13

95.2K ratings

Short Stories

India

Book Club

We the Living

by Ayn Rand 1936 464 pages

3.96

30.3K ratings

Classics

Philosophy

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In the First Circle

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1968 742 pages

4.36

1.7K ratings

Russia

Classics

Literature

Long Day’s Journey into Night

by Eugene O'Neill 1956 179 pages

4.05

42.2K ratings

Plays

Drama

Classics

All the Pretty Horses

by Cormac McCarthy 1992 302 pages

4.05

137.7K ratings

Westerns

Historical Fiction

Classics

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

by Ernest Hemingway 1987 650 pages

4.29

37.4K ratings

Short Stories

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Literature

The Mysterious Island

by Jules Verne 1874 723 pages

4.13

57.2K ratings

Classics

Science Fiction

Adventure

J.R.R. Tolkien

A Biography

by Humphrey Carpenter 1977 288 pages

4.05

16.1K ratings

Biography

History

Biography Memoir

Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited

by Aldous Huxley 1958 340 pages

4.16

170.1K ratings

Science Fiction

Dystopia

Classics

Why Read Moby-Dick?

by Nathaniel Philbrick 2010 131 pages

3.76

4.3K ratings

Literary Criticism

Books About Books

Classics

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays

by Tennessee Williams 1955 329 pages

4.06

1.5K ratings

Plays

Classics

Drama

Anna Karenina Fix

Life Lessons from Russian Literature

by Viv Groskop 2019 224 pages

3.96

1.6K ratings

Russia

Books About Books

Memoir

Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained

by John Milton 1667 400 pages

4.07

7.8K ratings

Classics

Poetry

Literature

The Words You Should Know to Sound Smart

1200 Essential Words Every Sophisticated Person Should Be Able to Use

by Robert W. Bly 2009 256 pages

3.85

155 ratings

Self Help

Writing

Communication

Atlas Shrugged & The Fountainhead

by Ayn Rand 1995

4.10

5.0K ratings

Classics

Philosophy

Politics

Franny and Zooey

by J.D. Salinger 1957 201 pages

3.96

233.0K ratings

Short Stories

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Classics

Maldita Roma

La conquista del poder de Julio César

by Santiago Posteguillo 2023 896 pages

4.68

6.4K ratings

Historical Fiction

Historical

Literature

Life

A User's Manual

by Georges Perec 1978 581 pages

4.18

9.7K ratings

France

Classics

French Literature

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf 1927 209 pages

3.81

203.7K ratings

Classics

Literature

Novels

Invitation to a Beheading

by Vladimir Nabokov 1935 223 pages

3.92

19.2K ratings

Classics

Russia

Russian Literature

Too Loud a Solitude

by Bohumil Hrabal 1976 112 pages

3.98

24.9K ratings

Czech Literature

Classics

Novels

The Written World

The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization

by Martin Puchner 2014 537 pages

3.92

1.8K ratings

History

Books About Books

Literature

Sometimes a Great Notion

by Ken Kesey 1964 628 pages

4.26

23.4K ratings

Classics

Literature

Novels

Lady Chatterley’s Lover

by D.H. Lawrence 1928 376 pages

3.50

133.3K ratings

Romance

Classics

Literature

The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing 1962 640 pages

3.77

24.0K ratings

Classics

Feminism

Literature

Frankenstein

The 1818 Text

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1818 260 pages

3.89

1.7M ratings

Horror

Science Fiction

Gothic

Midnight’s Children

by Salman Rushdie 1981 647 pages

3.98

131.2K ratings

Magical Realism

Classics

India

You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

by Charles Bukowski 1986 320 pages

4.17

18.8K ratings

Classics

Poetry

Literature

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

Cancer Ward

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1967 576 pages

4.26

17.4K ratings

Classics

Russia

Russian Literature

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

by Mark Twain 1889 480 pages

3.77

106.3K ratings

Classics

Fantasy

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Mercure

by Amélie Nothomb 1998 188 pages

3.70

7.8K ratings

France

Contemporary

French Literature

The Library of Babel

by Jorge Luis Borges 2000 176 pages

4.3

11.6K ratings

Short Stories

Classics

Philosophy

History of English literature

by Edward Albert 1923 544 pages

3.91

255 ratings

History

Literature

Literary Criticism

The Baron in the Trees

by Italo Calvino 1957 217 pages

4.02

50.9K ratings

Classics

Italian Literature

Italy

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain 1884 327 pages

3.83

1.3M ratings

Classics

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Literature

Christ in Concrete

by Pietro Di Donato 1937 236 pages

3.76

1.1K ratings

Classics

Historical Fiction

Literature

Gravity’s Rainbow

by Thomas Pynchon 1973 776 pages

4.01

47.2K ratings

Classics

Literature

Science Fiction