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62 results found

1984

★★★★★
A Midsummer Night’s Dream

no rating
All the King’s Men

★★★★★
As I Lay Dying

★★★★★
Beowulf

no rating
Bhagavad Gita

no rating
Blood Meridian

★★★★☆
Brave New World

★★☆☆☆
Ceremony

★★★★★
Confessions

no rating
Disgrace

★★★★★
Dracula

★★★☆☆
Emma

★★★★★
Frankenstein

★★★★★
Gilgamesh

no rating
Gravity’s Rainbow

★★★☆☆
Hamlet

no rating
Heart of Darkness

★★★★☆
Invisible Man

★★★★★
Jane Eyre

★★★★★
King Henry IV Part 1

no rating
King Henry IV Part 2

no rating
King Lear

no rating
Metamorphoses

no rating
Midnight’s Children

★★★★☆
Mrs. Dalloway

★★★★★
New Testament

no rating
Old Testament

no rating
One Hundred Years of Solitude

★★★★★
Othello

no rating
Parzival

no rating
Persuasion

★★★★★
Pride and Prejudice

★★★★☆
Song of Solomon

★★★★★
The Aeneid

no rating
The Arabian Nights

no rating
The Canterbury Tales

no rating
The Complete Stories

no rating
The Divine Comedy

no rating
The Greek Plays

no rating
The Iliad

no rating
The Left Hand of Darkness

★★★★★
The Merchant of Venice

no rating
The Moviegoer

★★★☆☆
The Nibelungenlied

no rating
The Odyssey

no rating
The Picture of Dorian Gray

★★★★★
The Poetic Edda

no rating
The Portable Edgar Allan Poe

no rating
The Qur’an

no rating
The Ramayana

no rating
The Republic of Plato

no rating
The Scarlet Letter

★★★☆☆
The Sheltering Sky

★★★☆☆
The Sound and the Fury

★★★★★
The Summer Book

★★★☆☆
The Tale of Genji

no rating
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

★★★★★
The Turn of the Screw

★★★★☆
The Woman in White

★★★★☆
To the Lighthouse

★★★★☆
Wuthering Heights

★★★★★

55 books · Author · A–Z

The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
no rating
The Arabian Nights
Anonymous
no rating
Beowulf
Anonymous
no rating
Gilgamesh
Anonymous
no rating
The Nibelungenlied
Anonymous
no rating
The Poetic Edda
Anonymous
no rating
Emma
Jane Austen
★★★★★
Persuasion
Jane Austen
★★★★★
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
★★★★☆
The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles
★★★☆☆
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
★★★★★
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
★★★★★
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
no rating
Disgrace
J.M. Coetzee
★★★★★
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
★★★★☆
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
★★★★★
Parzival
Wolfram von Eschenbach
no rating
The Greek Plays
Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
no rating
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner
★★★★★
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
★★★★★
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
★★★☆☆
Confessions
St. Augustine of Hippo
no rating
The Iliad
Homer
no rating
The Odyssey
Homer
no rating
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
★★☆☆☆
The Summer Book
Tove Jansson
★★★☆☆
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
★★★★★
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
★★★★★
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
★★★★☆
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
★★★★★
The Qur’an
Muhammad
no rating
1984
George Orwell
★★★★★
Metamorphoses
Ovid
no rating
The Moviegoer
Walker Percy
★★★☆☆
The Republic of Plato
Plato
no rating
The Portable Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
no rating
Gravity’s Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
★★★☆☆
Midnight’s Children
Salman Rushdie
★★★★☆
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
no rating
King Henry IV Part 1
William Shakespeare
no rating
King Henry IV Part 2
William Shakespeare
no rating
King Lear
William Shakespeare
no rating
The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare
no rating
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
William Shakespeare
no rating
Othello
William Shakespeare
no rating
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
★★★★★
The Tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu
no rating
Ceremony
Leslie Marmon Silko
★★★★★
The Ramayana
Valmiki
no rating
New Testament
Various
no rating
Old Testament
Various
no rating
The Aeneid
Virgil
no rating
Bhagavad Gita
Maharishi Ved Vyasa
no rating
All the King’s Men
Robert Penn Warren
★★★★★
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
★★★★★

55 books · Published date · oldest first

Gilgamesh
Anonymous
no rating
The Iliad
Homer
no rating
The Odyssey
Homer
no rating
The Greek Plays
Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
no rating
The Ramayana
Valmiki
no rating
Old Testament
Various
no rating
The Republic of Plato
Plato
no rating
Bhagavad Gita
Maharishi Ved Vyasa
no rating
The Aeneid
Virgil
no rating
Metamorphoses
Ovid
no rating
New Testament
Various
no rating
Confessions
St. Augustine of Hippo
no rating
The Qur’an
Muhammad
no rating
Beowulf
Anonymous
no rating
The Arabian Nights
Anonymous
no rating
The Poetic Edda
Anonymous
no rating
The Tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu
no rating
Parzival
Wolfram von Eschenbach
no rating
The Nibelungenlied
Anonymous
no rating
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
no rating
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
no rating
King Henry IV Part 1
William Shakespeare
no rating
King Henry IV Part 2
William Shakespeare
no rating
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
William Shakespeare
no rating
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
no rating
The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare
no rating
Othello
William Shakespeare
no rating
King Lear
William Shakespeare
no rating
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
★★★★☆
Emma
Jane Austen
★★★★★
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
★★★★★
Persuasion
Jane Austen
★★★★★
The Portable Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
no rating
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
★★★★★
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
★★★★★
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
★★★☆☆
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
★★★★☆
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
★★★★★
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
★★★★★
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner
★★★★★
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
★★☆☆☆
All the King’s Men
Robert Penn Warren
★★★★★
1984
George Orwell
★★★★★
The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles
★★★☆☆
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
★★★★★
The Moviegoer
Walker Percy
★★★☆☆
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
★★★★★
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
★★★★★
The Summer Book
Tove Jansson
★★★☆☆
Gravity’s Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
★★★☆☆
Ceremony
Leslie Marmon Silko
★★★★★
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
★★★★★
Midnight’s Children
Salman Rushdie
★★★★☆
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
★★★★☆
Disgrace
J.M. Coetzee
★★★★★

55 books · Rating · highest first

1984
George Orwell
★★★★★
All the King’s Men
Robert Penn Warren
★★★★★
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner
★★★★★
Ceremony
Leslie Marmon Silko
★★★★★
Disgrace
J.M. Coetzee
★★★★★
Emma
Jane Austen
★★★★★
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
★★★★★
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
★★★★★
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
★★★★★
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
★★★★★
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
★★★★★
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
★★★★★
Persuasion
Jane Austen
★★★★★
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
★★★★★
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
★★★★★
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
★★★★★
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
★★★★☆
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
★★★★☆
Midnight’s Children
Salman Rushdie
★★★★☆
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
★★★★☆
Gravity’s Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
★★★☆☆
The Moviegoer
Walker Percy
★★★☆☆
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
★★★☆☆
The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles
★★★☆☆
The Summer Book
Tove Jansson
★★★☆☆
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
★★☆☆☆
The Aeneid
Virgil
no rating
The Arabian Nights
Anonymous
no rating
Beowulf
Anonymous
no rating
Bhagavad Gita
Maharishi Ved Vyasa
no rating
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
no rating
Confessions
St. Augustine of Hippo
no rating
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
no rating
Gilgamesh
Anonymous
no rating
The Greek Plays
Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
no rating
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
no rating
The Iliad
Homer
no rating
King Henry IV Part 1
William Shakespeare
no rating
King Henry IV Part 2
William Shakespeare
no rating
King Lear
William Shakespeare
no rating
The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare
no rating
Metamorphoses
Ovid
no rating
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
William Shakespeare
no rating
New Testament
Various
no rating
The Nibelungenlied
Anonymous
no rating
The Odyssey
Homer
no rating
Old Testament
Various
no rating
Othello
William Shakespeare
no rating
Parzival
Wolfram von Eschenbach
no rating
The Poetic Edda
Anonymous
no rating
The Portable Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
no rating
The Qur’an
Muhammad
no rating
The Ramayana
Valmiki
no rating
The Republic of Plato
Plato
no rating
The Tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu
no rating

Reading date · newest first

62 results found

Dracula

★★★☆☆
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

★★★★★
The Woman in White

★★★★☆
The Complete Stories

no rating
The Picture of Dorian Gray

★★★★★
The Turn of the Screw

★★★★☆
To the Lighthouse

★★★★☆
The Left Hand of Darkness

★★★★★
Jane Eyre

★★★★★
King Lear

no rating
Heart of Darkness

★★★★☆
The Sheltering Sky

★★★☆☆
The Canterbury Tales

no rating
Othello

no rating
The Moviegoer

★★★☆☆
The Divine Comedy

no rating
Hamlet

no rating
The Scarlet Letter

★★★☆☆
Persuasion

★★★★★
The Summer Book

★★★☆☆
Frankenstein

★★★★★
As I Lay Dying

★★★★★
King Henry IV Part 2

no rating
Pride and Prejudice

★★★★☆
Mrs. Dalloway

★★★★★
The Portable Edgar Allan Poe

no rating
King Henry IV Part 1

no rating
Parzival

no rating
The Sound and the Fury

★★★★★
The Merchant of Venice

no rating
The Nibelungenlied

no rating
Brave New World

★★☆☆☆
Invisible Man

★★★★★
Gravity’s Rainbow

★★★☆☆
A Midsummer Night’s Dream

no rating
One Hundred Years of Solitude

★★★★★
The Poetic Edda

no rating
Beowulf

no rating
The Tale of Genji

no rating
Ceremony

★★★★★
The Arabian Nights

no rating
New Testament

no rating
The Qur’an

no rating
Song of Solomon

★★★★★
Midnight’s Children

★★★★☆
Bhagavad Gita

no rating
The Ramayana

no rating
Confessions

no rating
Blood Meridian

★★★★☆
Old Testament

no rating
Disgrace

★★★★★
Gilgamesh

no rating
Metamorphoses

no rating
The Aeneid

no rating
The Republic of Plato

no rating
The Greek Plays

no rating
The Odyssey

no rating
The Iliad

no rating
Wuthering Heights

★★★★★
Emma

★★★★★
All the King’s Men

★★★★★
1984

★★★★★