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Less by Andrew Sean Greer review - the Pulitzer Prize-winning comic novel following struggling novelist Arthur Less as he accepts a string of dubious literary...
Read Full ReviewOlive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout review - the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel-in-stories following a blunt, difficult retired schoolteacher in small-town Maine, seen sometimes centrally and sometimes...
Read Full ReviewLincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders review - the Booker Prize-winning experimental novel set over a single night in a Georgetown cemetery, where a...
Read Full ReviewDemon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver review - the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel reimagining Dickens's David Copperfield in contemporary Appalachia, following an orphaned boy through the foster...
Read Full ReviewHamnet by Maggie O'Farrell review - the Women's Prize-winning novel imagining the life and death of William Shakespeare's son Hamnet, centering his mother Agnes rather...
Read Full ReviewThe Trial by Franz Kafka review - the landmark novel following Josef K.'s arrest and prosecution by an inaccessible court for a crime that is...
Read Full ReviewSteppenwolf by Hermann Hesse review - the landmark 1927 novel following Harry Haller, an isolated intellectual convinced he is split between civilized man and savage...
Read Full ReviewDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes review - the landmark 1605 novel following an aging man who, having read too many chivalric romances, sets out...
Read Full ReviewSense and Sensibility by Jane Austen review - the landmark 1811 novel following sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood after their family's sudden financial ruin, contrasting...
Read Full ReviewDavid Copperfield by Charles Dickens review - the landmark 1850 bildungsroman following its narrator from a difficult childhood through hardship, resilience, and eventual maturity, drawing...
Read Full ReviewThe Woman in White by Wilkie Collins review - the landmark 1859 mystery novel told through multiple competing narrators, following a mysterious woman in white,...
Read Full ReviewSilas Marner by George Eliot review - the landmark 1861 novel following an embittered, isolated weaver whose hoarded gold is stolen and replaced by an...
Read Full ReviewFar from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy review - the landmark 1874 novel following independent farm owner Bathsheba Everdene as she navigates three very...
Read Full ReviewLord Jim by Joseph Conrad review - the landmark 1900 novel following a young sailor haunted by a single act of cowardice, told through the...
Read Full ReviewWhen the Body Says No by Gabor Mate review - the influential examination of the connection between chronic stress, suppressed emotion, and physical illness, drawing...
Read Full ReviewA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess review - the landmark dystopian novel narrated by a teenage gang leader in invented slang, examining free will, state...
Read Full ReviewFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway review - the landmark Spanish Civil War novel following American volunteer Robert Jordan's mission to destroy a...
Read Full ReviewNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy review - the landmark crime novel following a Texas welder who finds two million dollars at a...
Read Full ReviewNative Son by Richard Wright review - the landmark 1940 novel following Bigger Thomas, a young Black man in 1930s Chicago, whose accidental crime becomes...
Read Full ReviewEducated by Tara Westover review - the bestselling memoir of a woman raised by survivalist parents in rural Idaho who never attended school until seventeen,...
Read Full ReviewWild by Cheryl Strayed review - the bestselling memoir of a grieving, directionless woman who hiked over a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail...
Read Full ReviewThe Plague by Albert Camus review - the landmark 1947 novel following the residents of Oran as bubonic plague forces the city into total quarantine,...
Read Full ReviewNotes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky review - the landmark 1864 novella narrated by a bitter, self-sabotaging former civil servant, widely considered a foundational work...
Read Full ReviewTo the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf review - the landmark 1927 modernist novel following the Ramsay family across a single day and, in one devastating...
Read Full ReviewDemian by Hermann Hesse review - the landmark 1919 coming-of-age novel following young Emil Sinclair's psychological and spiritual awakening under the influence of the enigmatic...
Read Full ReviewThe Godfather by Mario Puzo review - the bestselling novel following the Corleone crime family, examining organized crime as a distorted mirror of American business...
Read Full ReviewJaws by Peter Benchley review - the bestselling novel behind the iconic film, following a small beach town's crisis when a great white shark begins...
Read Full ReviewThe Exorcist by William Peter Blatty review - the landmark horror novel following a young girl's demonic possession and the priests who attempt to save...
Read Full ReviewRosemary's Baby by Ira Levin review - the landmark horror novel following a young pregnant woman's growing suspicion that her neighbors and husband are involved...
Read Full ReviewThe Shining by Stephen King review - the landmark horror novel following a recovering alcoholic and his family isolated at a haunted hotel, examining addiction,...
Read Full ReviewInterview with the Vampire by Anne Rice review - the landmark gothic novel following a vampire's centuries-long crisis of conscience, told through his own recorded...
Read Full ReviewThe Firm by John Grisham review - the bestselling legal thriller following a young Harvard lawyer who discovers his seemingly perfect new firm is a...
Read Full ReviewThe Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris review - the landmark thriller following FBI trainee Clarice Starling's psychologically dangerous interviews with imprisoned cannibal Hannibal...
Read Full ReviewThe Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum review - the bestselling spy thriller following an amnesiac man who discovers he possesses extraordinary combat and intelligence skills...
Read Full ReviewPresumed Innocent by Scott Turow review - the landmark legal thriller following a prosecutor who becomes the prime suspect in his former mistress's murder investigation,...
Read Full ReviewThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin review - the landmark science fiction novel imagining a genderless human society, examining politics, trust,...
Read Full ReviewDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick review - the novel behind Blade Runner, following a bounty hunter tasked with retiring fugitive...
Read Full ReviewThe Time Machine by H.G. Wells review - the foundational science fiction novel introducing time travel, following a Victorian inventor's journey to a far future...
Read Full ReviewTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne review - the classic adventure novel following Captain Nemo's advanced submarine Nautilus, foundational to modern science...
Read Full ReviewStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein review - the influential science fiction novel following a human raised by Martians who returns to...
Read Full ReviewSolaris by Stanisław Lem review - the landmark Polish science fiction novel about a sentient alien ocean that manifests visitors' deepest guilt and grief, examining...
Read Full ReviewThe Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury review - the classic linked short story collection following humanity's colonization of Mars, examining colonialism, nostalgia, and the destructive...
Read Full ReviewThe Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut review - the darkly comic science fiction novel revealing all of human history as an elaborate scheme engineered...
Read Full ReviewA Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs review - the foundational pulp science fiction adventure following a Confederate veteran mysteriously transported to Mars, hugely...
Read Full ReviewThe War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells review - the foundational alien invasion novel following Martians' devastating assault on Victorian England, still shaping the...
Read Full ReviewThe BFG by Roald Dahl review - the beloved classic about a lonely orphan whisked away by a gentle, dream-catching giant who refuses to eat...
Read Full ReviewFrom the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg review - the beloved classic following two siblings who run away to secretly...
Read Full ReviewRamona the Pest by Beverly Cleary review - the beloved classic following a spirited, misunderstood kindergartner whose genuine logic makes perfect sense from the inside....
Read Full ReviewThe One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate review - the acclaimed novel narrated by a gorilla living in a shopping mall enclosure, inspired by...
Read Full ReviewThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson review - the bestselling Swedish crime thriller pairing a disgraced journalist with a brilliant, traumatized hacker...
Read Full ReviewMrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf review - the landmark modernist novel following a single day in post-World War I London through interweaving stream-of-consciousness perspectives.
Read Full ReviewThe House of Mirth by Edith Wharton review - the tragic novel following Lily Bart's gradual social and financial ruin within New York's rigid, hypocritical...
Read Full ReviewMy Ántonia by Willa Cather review - the classic American novel following an immigrant girl's life on the Nebraska prairie, narrated by a childhood friend...
Read Full ReviewThe Awakening by Kate Chopin review - the controversial 1899 novel following a woman's gradual rejection of conventional marriage and motherhood in pursuit of genuine...
Read Full ReviewSister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser review - the groundbreaking naturalist novel following a young woman's rise to stage success through morally ambiguous choices, refusing the...
Read Full ReviewHeidi by Johanna Spyri review - the beloved Swiss classic following an orphaned girl sent to live with her reclusive grandfather in the Alps, and...
Read Full ReviewThe Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi review - the original, considerably darker Italian novel behind the famous story of a wooden puppet who longs...
Read Full ReviewWinnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne review - the beloved classic inspired by the author's son's real stuffed animals, following a bear of very little brain and...
Read Full ReviewThe Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter review - the beloved miniature classic about a disobedient young rabbit's dangerous adventure in Mr. McGregor's garden,...
Read Full ReviewLittle House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder review - the semi-autobiographical classic following a pioneer family's westward settlement, rendered with remarkable specific detail...
Read Full ReviewThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis review - the beloved fantasy classic following four siblings who discover the magical land of...
Read Full ReviewHoles by Louis Sachar review - the acclaimed middle-grade novel weaving together a boy's wrongful punishment at a juvenile detention camp with a century-old family...
Read Full ReviewBossypants by Tina Fey review - the bestselling comedy memoir tracing the author's path from awkward childhood through Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock, with...
Read Full ReviewFuriously Happy by Jenny Lawson review - a darkly comic memoir about living with depression, anxiety, and chronic illness, and the author's philosophy of pursuing...
Read Full ReviewThe Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin review - a novel following four siblings across decades after a childhood visit to a fortune teller who predicted the...
Read Full ReviewThe Iliad by Homer review - the ancient Greek epic centered on Achilles's rage during the final weeks of the decade-long Trojan War, foundational to...
Read Full ReviewA Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens review - the historical novel set during the French Revolution, following resurrection, sacrifice, and one man's ultimate...
Read Full ReviewVanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray review - the satirical Victorian novel subtitled 'A Novel Without a Hero,' following the ruthlessly ambitious Becky Sharp through...
Read Full ReviewTess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy review - the controversial Victorian novel following a young woman's suffering under rigid social judgment, subtitled 'A Pure...
Read Full ReviewBeowulf review - the oldest surviving Old English epic poem, following the hero Beowulf across three monster battles spanning his youth to his death as...
Read Full ReviewParadise Lost by John Milton review - the epic poem retelling the biblical fall of humanity, famous for its complex, charismatic portrayal of Satan as...
Read Full ReviewAntigone by Sophocles review - the ancient Greek tragedy about a woman who defies royal decree to bury her brother, examining the conflict between state...
Read Full ReviewThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer review - the medieval frame narrative following pilgrims traveling to Canterbury who tell competing stories reflecting their distinct social...
Read Full ReviewNorth and South by Elizabeth Gaskell review - the Victorian novel following a young woman's relocation from genteel southern England to a harsh northern industrial...
Read Full ReviewThe Mill on the Floss by George Eliot review - the semi-autobiographical Victorian novel following Maggie Tulliver, a brilliant, passionate woman constrained by her provincial...
Read Full ReviewThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley review - a collaborative memoir tracing a life through hustling, imprisonment, religious conversion, and...
Read Full ReviewNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass review - the 1845 autobiography detailing Douglass's life in slavery, his self-taught literacy, and his eventual escape to...
Read Full ReviewTwelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup review - the true 1853 memoir of a free Black man from New York kidnapped and sold into...
Read Full ReviewPersuasion by Jane Austen review - the author's final completed novel, following a woman given a second chance with the man she was persuaded to...
Read Full ReviewWatchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons review - the landmark graphic novel that deconstructed the superhero genre through morally complex, psychologically damaged costumed vigilantes....
Read Full ReviewFun Home by Alison Bechdel review - an acclaimed graphic memoir exploring the author's relationship with her closeted father, her own coming out, and his...
Read Full ReviewMatilda by Roald Dahl review - the beloved classic novel about a brilliant, neglected young girl who discovers telekinetic powers and stands up to the...
Read Full ReviewThe Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame review - the beloved classic novel about the friendship between Mole, Rat, Badger, and the reckless Toad...
Read Full ReviewWhere the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak review - the beloved picture book about a boy sent to bed without supper who imagines a...
Read Full ReviewGo Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin review - the acclaimed debut novel following a young man's religious awakening in 1930s Harlem, and...
Read Full ReviewAnne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery review - the beloved classic novel about an imaginative orphan girl who transforms a rural Prince Edward Island...
Read Full ReviewLittle Women by Louisa May Alcott review - the beloved classic following the March sisters through childhood, ambition, love, and loss during and after the...
Read Full ReviewAlice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll review - the classic nonsense fantasy following a young girl through a bizarre underground world of logic, wordplay,...
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Read Full ReviewThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain review - a landmark American novel following a boy's raft journey down the Mississippi River alongside an...
Read Full ReviewPeter Pan by J.M. Barrie review - the classic novel behind the beloved character, following the Darling children to Neverland and examining the real cost...
Read Full ReviewThe Odyssey by Homer review - the ancient Greek epic following Odysseus's ten-year journey home after the Trojan War, foundational to the entire Western literary...
Read Full ReviewThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett review - the beloved classic novel about an orphaned girl who discovers a hidden, neglected garden and helps...
Read Full ReviewThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum review - the original classic novel behind the famous film, following Dorothy's journey through a strange...
Read Full ReviewThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne review - the classic American novel about a woman publicly shamed for adultery in Puritan New England, and the...
Read Full ReviewGone Girl by Gillian Flynn review - a psychological thriller about a marriage unraveling after a wife's disappearance, told through two dueling, unreliable perspectives.
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Read Full ReviewAnd Then There Were None by Agatha Christie review - the bestselling mystery novel of all time, following ten strangers trapped on an island and...
Read Full ReviewThe Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown review - the bestselling thriller following a Harvard symbologist unraveling a centuries-old conspiracy hidden in famous works of...
Read Full ReviewDune by Frank Herbert review - the landmark science fiction novel about political intrigue, ecology, and prophecy on the desert planet Arrakis, widely considered the...
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