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122 results found

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The Greek Plays
Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
pre-1900 · no rating
The Future
Naomi Alderman
★★★★☆
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
pre-1900 · no rating
Beowulf
Anonymous
pre-1900 · no rating
Gilgamesh
Anonymous
pre-1900 · no rating
Popol Vuh
Anonymous
pre-1900 · no rating
The Arabian Nights
Anonymous
pre-1900 · no rating
The Nibelungenlied
Anonymous
pre-1900 · no rating
The Poetic Edda
Anonymous
pre-1900 · no rating
The Conference of the Birds
Farid Attar
pre-1900 · no rating
The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood
★★★★★
Confessions
St. Augustine of Hippo
pre-1900 · no rating
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
pre-1900 · no rating
Emma
Jane Austen
pre-1900 · no rating
Persuasion
Jane Austen
pre-1900 · no rating
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
pre-1900 · no rating
The South
Tash Aw
★★★★☆
My Friends
Fredrik Backman
★★★☆☆
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
Kylie Lee Baker
★★★☆☆
The Sellout
Paul Beatty
★★★☆☆
The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles
★★★☆☆
Cursed Daughters
Oyinkan Braithwaite
★★★☆☆
The Collected Regrets of Clover
Mikki Brammer
★★★☆☆
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
no rating
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
pre-1900 · no rating
The Light Pirate
Lily Brooks-Dalton
★★★☆☆
Dhammapada
Siddhartha Gautama aka the Buddha
pre-1900 · no rating
Clytemnestra
Costanza Casati
★★★★☆
Lost Lambs
Madeline Cash
★★★★☆
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
pre-1900 · no rating
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
★★★★★
Disgrace
J.M. Coetzee
★★★★★
All in Her Head
Elizabeth Comen
★★★★☆
Analects
Confucius
pre-1900 · no rating
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
pre-1900 · no rating
This Story Might Save Your Life
Tiffany Crum
★★☆☆☆
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz
★★★★☆
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan
★★★★☆
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
★★★★★
I Cheerfully Refuse
Leif Enger
★★★★★
Parzival
Wolfram von Eschenbach
pre-1900 · no rating
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides
★★★★★
The Correspondent
Virginia Evans
★★★★☆
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner
★★★★★
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
★★★★★
My Husband’s Wife
Alice Feeney
★★★★☆
My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante
★★★★☆
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
★★★★★
The Reckless Oath We Made
Bryn Greenwood
★★★★☆
Annie Bot
Sierra Greer
★★★☆☆
Broken Country
Clare Leslie Hall
★★☆☆☆
The Road to Tender Hearts
Annie Hartnett
★★★☆☆
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
pre-1900 · no rating
Fever Beach
Carl Hiaasen
★★★★☆
The Iliad
Homer
pre-1900 · no rating
The Odyssey
Homer
pre-1900 · no rating
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
★★☆☆☆
Black Woods Blue Sky
Eowyn Ivey
★★☆☆☆
The Summer Book
Tove Jansson
★★★☆☆
A Quiet Life
Ethan Joella
★★★☆☆
Train Dreams
Denis Johnson
★★★★☆
Tree of Smoke
Denis Johnson
★★★★☆
The Recognition of Śakuntalā
Kālidāsa
pre-1900 · no rating
We Do Not Part
Han Kang
★★★★★
Happiness Falls
Angie Kim
★★★☆☆
Heart the Lover
Lily King
★★☆☆☆
Pet Sematary
Stephen King
★★★★☆
The Bones Beneath My Skin
T.J. Klune
★☆☆☆☆
The Names
Florence Knapp
★★☆☆☆
Angel Down
Daniel Kraus
★★★★★
Tao Te Ching
Laozi
pre-1900 · no rating
The Paradise Problem
Christina Lauren
★☆☆☆☆
Theo of Golden
Allen Levi
★☆☆☆☆
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
★★★★☆
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
DNF
Country People
Daniel Mason
★★★☆☆
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
★★★★★
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
★★★★☆
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
★★★★☆
Atonement
Ian McEwan
★★★★★
The Love Story of Missy Carmichael
Beth Morrey
★★★☆☆
Beloved
Toni Morrison
★★★★★
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
★★★★★
The Qur’an
Muhammad
pre-1900 · no rating
Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell
★★★☆☆
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
★★★☆☆
1984
George Orwell
★★★★★
Metamorphoses
Ovid
pre-1900 · no rating
The Moviegoer
Walker Percy
★★★☆☆
The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters
★★★☆☆
The Republic of Plato
Plato
pre-1900 · no rating
The Portable Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
pre-1900 · no rating
Gravity’s Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
★★★☆☆
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson
★★★☆☆
Paul Among the People: The Apostle Reinterpreted and Reimagined in His Own Time
Sarah Ruden
pre-1900 · no rating
The Essential Rumi
Rumi
pre-1900 · no rating
Midnight’s Children
Salman Rushdie
★★★★☆
Buckeye
Patrick Ryan
★★★☆☆
Blindness
José Saramago
★★★☆☆
Austerlitz
W.G. Sebald
★★☆☆☆
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
William Shakespeare
pre-1900 · no rating
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
pre-1900 · no rating
King Henry IV Part 1
William Shakespeare
pre-1900 · no rating
King Henry IV Part 2
William Shakespeare
pre-1900 · no rating
King Lear
William Shakespeare
pre-1900 · no rating
Othello
William Shakespeare
pre-1900 · no rating
The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare
pre-1900 · no rating
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
pre-1900 · no rating
The Tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu
pre-1900 · no rating
Ceremony
Leslie Marmon Silko
★★★★★
White Teeth
Zadie Smith
★★★★☆
Service Model
Adrian Tchaikovsky
★★★★☆
The Ramayana
Valmiki
pre-1900 · no rating
New Testament
Various
pre-1900 · no rating
Old Testament
Various
pre-1900 · no rating
The Aeneid
Virgil
pre-1900 · no rating
Bhagavad Gita
Maharishi Ved Vyasa
pre-1900 · no rating
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward
★★★★★
All the King’s Men
Robert Penn Warren
★★★★★
Last Christmas in Paris
Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb
★★★☆☆
Good Dirt
Charmaine Wilkerson
★★☆☆☆
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
★★★★★

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