Literature

Bulfinch's Mythology

by Thomas Bulfinch 1855 862 pages

4.14

12.1K ratings

Mythology

Classics

Fantasy

Gravity’s Rainbow

by Thomas Pynchon 1973 776 pages

4.01

47.2K ratings

Classics

Literature

Science Fiction

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

by Harold Bloom 2000 147 pages

4.17

1.2K ratings

Science Fiction

Classics

Literature

The Painted Bird

by Jerzy Kosiński 1965 234 pages

3.91

27.7K ratings

Historical Fiction

Classics

Horror

Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison 1977 338 pages

4.15

122.1K ratings

Classics

Historical Fiction

Magical Realism

One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand

by Luigi Pirandello 1925 174 pages

4.03

28.0K ratings

Classics

Italian Literature

Italy

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories

by Robert Louis Stevenson 1886 254 pages

4.00

35.8K ratings

Classics

Horror

Short Stories

The Return of the Native

by Thomas Hardy 1878 426 pages

3.88

39.7K ratings

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19th Century

Give War and Peace a Chance

Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times

by Andrew D. Kaufman 2014 288 pages

3.88

347 ratings

Books About Books

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Literature

The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories

by Leo Tolstoy 1886 304 pages

4.12

16.3K ratings

Classics

Short Stories

Russia

Early Socratic Dialogues

by Plato 399 pages

4.06

398 ratings

Philosophy

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Greece

The Stoic

by Theodore Dreiser 1947 334 pages

4.35

2.9K ratings

Classics

Novels

American

Shakespeare's Freedom

by Stephen Greenblatt 2010 160 pages

3.82

166 ratings

Literary Criticism

Literature

History

Prokleta avlija

by Ivo Andrić 1954 120 pages

4.25

10.8K ratings

Classics

Historical Fiction

School

Life and Fate

by Vasily Grossman 1960 864 pages

4.45

14.5K ratings

Classics

Russia

Historical Fiction

Darkness at Noon

by Arthur Koestler 1940 216 pages

4.12

32.7K ratings

Classics

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Politics

Faust, First Part

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1808 327 pages

3.86

130.1K ratings

Plays

Poetry

German Literature

Walden & Civil Disobedience

by Henry David Thoreau 1849 320 pages

3.94

38.5K ratings

Classics

Philosophy

Essays

The Call of the Wild / White Fang

by Jack London 1906 292 pages

4.12

78.4K ratings

Classics

Adventure

Animals

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

by Franz Kafka 1996 88 pages

3.85

4.9K ratings

Classics

Short Stories

Literature

Men Without Women

by Ernest Hemingway 1927 153 pages

3.59

14.9K ratings

Classics

Short Stories

Literature

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

by Edgar Allan Poe 1838 288 pages

3.50

14.0K ratings

Horror

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Gothic

How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read

by Pierre Bayard 2007 185 pages

3.44

4.8K ratings

Books About Books

Philosophy

Essays

Prometheus Bound

by Aeschylus 144 pages

3.94

20.9K ratings

Plays

Mythology

Poetry

The Aeneid

by Virgil 442 pages

3.87

138.5K ratings

Poetry

Mythology

Classics

Day of the Oprichnik

by Vladimir Sorokin 2006 191 pages

3.75

9.2K ratings

Russia

Dystopia

Russian Literature

Bleak House

by Charles Dickens 1853 1017 pages

4.02

112.5K ratings

Classics

Literature

19th Century

Mount Analogue

by René Daumal 1952 120 pages

4.10

2.9K ratings

Philosophy

France

Novels

Books v. Cigarettes

by George Orwell 1946 126 pages

3.83

8.2K ratings

Essays

Classics

Philosophy

The Old Capital

by Yasunari Kawabata 1962 160 pages

3.73

7.3K ratings

Japan

Japanese Literature

Classics

The Well-Educated Mind

A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had

by Susan Wise Bauer 2003 432 pages

3.99

3.8K ratings

Books About Books

Reference

Self Help

The Complete Stories

by Flannery O'Connor 1971 555 pages

4.39

40.2K ratings

Short Stories

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Literature

A Jane Austen Education

How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter

by William Deresiewicz 2011 255 pages

3.84

4.0K ratings

Memoir

Books About Books

Biography

To Build a Fire

by Jack London 1902 32 pages

3.98

25.6K ratings

Short Stories

Classics

Adventure

Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint

Techniques and Exercises for Crafting Dynamic Characters and Effective Viewpoints

by Nancy Kress 2005 232 pages

4.05

2.2K ratings

Writing

Reference

Crafts

Mexico

by James A. Michener 1992 672 pages

3.75

5.5K ratings

Historical Fiction

Historical

Travel

It Can't Happen Here

by Sinclair Lewis 1935 400 pages

3.80

23.0K ratings

Classics

Politics

Dystopia

From the Earth to the Moon

by Jules Verne 1865 136 pages

3.76

38.0K ratings

Science Fiction

Classics

Adventure

Die Physiker

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt 1962 95 pages

3.89

41.6K ratings

Classics

Plays

German Literature

Pudd'nhead Wilson

by Mark Twain 1893 160 pages

3.75

19.1K ratings

Classics

Literature

Humor

The Ministry of Truth

The Biography of George Orwell's 1984

by Dorian Lynskey 2019 368 pages

4.13

1.3K ratings

History

Biography

Politics

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens 1861 544 pages

3.80

850.5K ratings

Classics

Literature

Historical Fiction

The Pleasures of the Damned

by Charles Bukowski 2007 557 pages

4.35

6.8K ratings

Poetry

Classics

Short Stories

Far From the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy 1874 433 pages

3.97

161.5K ratings

Classics

Romance

Historical Fiction

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

by Henry David Thoreau 1866 188 pages

4.06

17.5K ratings

Philosophy

Classics

Politics

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

by Milan Kundera 1979 313 pages

3.95

52.5K ratings

Czech Literature

Classics

Literature

Lyrical and Critical Essays

by Albert Camus 1970 384 pages

4.30

1.1K ratings

Philosophy

Essays

Literature

Revolutionary Road

by Richard Yates 2001 355 pages

3.93

92.7K ratings

Classics

Historical Fiction

Book Club

Less Than Zero

by Bret Easton Ellis 1985 208 pages

3.60

93.8K ratings

Contemporary

Novels

Classics

Diary of a Superfluous Man

by Ivan Turgenev 1850 80 pages

3.85

3.8K ratings

Russian Literature

Russia

Classics