1384 titles · curated
All-time Classics
The shelf that everything else leans on.
Canon and counter-canon. Books that have survived being misread for a hundred years.
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The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
4.1·1989·245p
Charlotte's Web
E.B. White
Charlotte's Web
E.B. White
4.2·1952·196p
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
3.4·1850·279p
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.3·1847·126p
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll
4.1·1865·239p
Anne of Green Gables
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables
Lucy Maud Montgomery
4.3·1908·308p
The Iliad
Homer
The Iliad
Homer
3.9·801·267p
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
3.6·1957·309p
Dune
Frank Herbert
Dune
Frank Herbert
4.3·1965·436p
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold
3.9·2002·352p
Persuasion
Jane Austen
Persuasion
Jane Austen
4.1·1789·289p
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
3.9·1882·352p
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoevsky
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.1·1848·128p
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.3·1867·692p
Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarke
Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarke
4.1·1953·212p
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin
4.3·1956·268p
Ulysses
James Joyce
Ulysses
James Joyce
3.8·1920·1068p
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
3.8·1926·264p
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
3.7·1957·946p
Blindness
José Saramago
Blindness
José Saramago
4.2·1995·328p
Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell
Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell
4.2·2020·372p
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
3.8·1923·282p
The Overstory
Richard Powers
The Overstory
Richard Powers
4.1·2018·502p
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
3.8·1958·185p
Carmilla
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Carmilla
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
3.3·1872·114p
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
4.3·196·976p
Contact
Carl Sagan
Contact
Carl Sagan
4.2·1985·453p
The Giving Tree
Shel Silverstein
The Giving Tree
Shel Silverstein
4.4·1964·64p
Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen
Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen
4.1·2006·350p
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
4.1·1320·798p
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
4.1·1892·24p
Atonement
Ian McEwan
Atonement
Ian McEwan
4.0·2001·144p
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides
4.0·2002·548p
The Godfather
Mario Puzo
The Godfather
Mario Puzo
4.4·1961·479p
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4.3·2013·477p
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
3.8·1925·260p
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
3.8·1929·352p
The Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut
The Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut
4.2·1959·322p
A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare
3.9·1596·298p
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
3.8·1854·384p
