Hard Times

Charles Dickens

Utilitarian ideas in pursuit of a profitable enterprise.

The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Trappings of postpartum depression without her voice.

The Trial

Franz Kafka

The Return of the Native

Thomas Hardy

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Mary is startled to find a boy living in a hidden bedroom.

The Road

Jack London

Collection of stories from my life as a hobo.

The Blue Fairy Book

Andrew Lang

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

Marlow Finds Employment in Congo!

Anne of Green Gables

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Story of a young orphan girl, Anne Shirley.

Chéri

Colette

Timaeus

Plato

Formation of the universe, its impressive order and beauty.

The Analects of Confucius

Confucius

Emma

Jane Austen

Ms. Woodhouse is content with life & sees no need for love.

Etiquette

Emily Post

Down and Out in Paris and London

George Orwell

The never-ending desperation of poor in Paris and London.

War and Peace Vol-I

Leo Tolstoy

Pierre is socially awkward and illegitimate.

Tender Buttons

Gertrude Stein

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens

David Copperfield tells the story of his youth.

The Story of Mankind

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Opticks

Isaac Newton

The Possessed

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Devils

Little Fuzzy

Henry Beam Piper

Jack Holloway lives a solitary life on planet Zarathustra

Meno

Plato

What is virtue, can it be taught?

The Odyssey

Homer