The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Lyman Frank Baum

Dorothy and her dog Toto are swept in a dangerous cyclone…

Peter Pan

J. M. Barrie

A mischievous innocent little boy in Neverland.

The Kama Sutra

Mallanaga Vātsyāyana

An ancient Hindoo text on human sexual behavior.

Three Men in a Boat

Jerome K. Jerome

Three men decide to spend a week rowing up the river Thames.

Siddhartha

Hermann Karl Hesse

Self-discovery of a man during the time of Gautama Buddha.

Les Misérables—Volume I

Victor Marie Hugo

Fantine, a young grisette finds love and despair in Paris.

Les Misérables—Volume III

Victor Marie Hugo

Marius falls in love with Cosette and marries her.

Les Misérables—Volume IV

Victor Marie Hugo

Jean Valjean uses precarious freedom in anonymity of Paris.

Les Misérables—Volume V

Victor Marie Hugo

The story of Jean Valjean, a prisoner who breaks parole.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

Terrified of aging Dorian wishes to trade his soul for youth

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

Story of bachelors with alter egos to escape tiresome lives.

Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes

How big a monster should be a Government?

The Monk

M. G. Lewis

A Romance

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes, a notable detective, loves solving puzzles.

Ulysses

James Joyce

8:00 AM, Thursday June 16, 1904.

The Mysteries of Udolpho

Ann Ward Radcliffe

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche

The theory of “will to truth."—a note for philosophers.

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

Near the tombstones of his parents, Pip meets a convict.

We

Eugene Zamyatin

A 1921 blueprint for authoritarian dystopia

The Brothers Karamazov (Part-I)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A story of conflict between faith and doubt—of free will.

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

Oliver, an orphan runs away to London for a better life.

Phaedo

Plato

The immortality of the soul.

Emile

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Call of the Wild

Jack London

Buck is stolen from his home and sold as a sled dog…