The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving

The Mysterious Headless Horseman

The Jungle

Upton Sinclair

An exposé of conditions in the Chicago meat stockyards.

Anthem

Ayn Rand

A critique of collectivism.

Hard Times

Charles Dickens

Utilitarian ideas in pursuit of a profitable enterprise.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Eliza escapes to the North with her five-year-old son Harry.

The Souls of Black Folk

William Edward B. Du Bois

The problem of the color-line.

Gatekeeper

TW Iain

A Dominions Prologue

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Silencing critics with compassion and dignity.

The Romance of Lust

Anonymous

A classic Victorian erotic novel.

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

Lucie Manette learns that her father is alive.

Candide

Voltaire

Optimism as an Ideal.

Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

Emma

Jane Austen

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

Down and Out in Paris and London

George Orwell

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

Tender Buttons

Gertrude Stein

War and Peace Vol-I

Leo Tolstoy

Pierre is socially awkward and illegitimate.

The Story of Mankind

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens

David Copperfield tells the story of his youth.

The Possessed

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Devils

Etiquette

Emily Post

Little Fuzzy

Henry Beam Piper

Jack Holloway lives a solitary life on planet Zarathustra

Opticks

Isaac Newton

Meno

Plato

What is virtue, can it be taught?

A Tale Of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

A 17 year old Lucie Manette learns that her father is alive.