David Copperfield

Charles Dickens

David Copperfield tells the story of his youth.

The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran

De Re Coquinaria

Apicius

Ulysses

James Joyce

Ulysses starts at 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, June 16, 1904

English Literature

William J. Long

The Kama Sutra

Mallanaga Vātsyāyana

An ancient Hindoo text on human sexual behavior.

Villette

Charlotte Brontë

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

Palmistry for All

Cheiro

Siddhartha

Hermann Karl Hesse

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

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

An autobiography by Charlotte Brontë.

Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

The Big Trip Up Yonder

Kurt Vonnegut

Fisheye Placebo-An Introduction

Wenqing Yan

Living under an authoritarian regime is never too easy.

Three Men in a Boat

Jerome K. Jerome

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

Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

Herman Melville

Ishmael leaves Manhattan Island for a whaling expedition.

Anthem

Ayn Rand

A critique of collectivism.

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

An autobiography by Charlotte Brontë.

White Fang

Jack London

"The Blessed Wolf"

Autobiography of a Yogi

Paramahansa Yogananda

Life of a man who knew he would travel the mystic path.

Common Sense;

Thomas Paine

The pamphlet advocating independence from Great Britain.

The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla

Thomas Commerford Martin

Polyphase currents and high potential lighting

A Modest Proposal

Jonathan Swift

Preventing children of the poor from becoming a burden.

Symposium

Plato

A series of speeches on Love at a party in ancient Greece

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

Terrified of aging Dorian wishes to trade his soul for youth