Villette

Charlotte Brontë

English girl travels to teach at a girls' school in France.

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.

The Monk

M. G. Lewis

A Romance

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

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

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.

The Call of the Wild

Jack London

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

Phaedo

Plato

The immortality of the soul.

Emile

Jean-Jacques Rousseau