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Classic

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell

Boswell’s London Journal

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Cask of the Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M.R. James

All the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

The Odyssey by Homer

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

She by H. Rider Haggard

King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

The Chthulu stories of H.P. Lovecraft

Modern

Science Fiction and Fantasy

The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov

Gateway and Beyond the Blue Event Horizon by Frederik Pohl

Timescape by Gregory Benford

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

Dune by Frank Herbert

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

Time and Again by Jack Finney

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

The Mote in God’s Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke

Thrillers and Mystery

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carre

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Perfume by Patrick Susskind

Red Dragon by Thomas Harris

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

Pet Sematary by Stephen King

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

Map of Bones by James Rollins

The Amber Room by Steve Berry

Murder as a Fine Art by David Morrell

First Blood by David Morrell

Deep Storm by Lincoln Child

Plum Island by Nelson DeMille

The Keep by F. Paul Wilson

The Medusa Stone by Jack Du Brul

Palindrome by Stuart Woods

Ghost Story by Peter Straub

Red Rain by R.L. Stine

Raise the Titanic by Clive Cussler

On the Beach by Nevil Shute

Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett

The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy

Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow

The Poet by Michael Connelly

The Killing Floor by Lee Child

Fail-Safe by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler

Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household

The Wreck of the Mary Deare by Hammond Innes

The Land God Gave to Cain by Hammond Innes

Absolute Power by David Baldacci

The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Literary

Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

The Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Hot Zone by Richard Preston

Light in August by William Faulkner

Howard’s End by E.M. Forster

Love Among the Ruins by Walker Percy

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth

The Aubrey-Maturin novels of Patrick O’Brian

Flying Solo by Roald Dahl

Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe

Atonement by Ian McEwan

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

Canada by Richard Ford

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

The Point of No Return by John P. Marquand

The Last Hurrah by Edwin O’Connor

When the Snows Come They Will Take You Away by Eric Newby

Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey

Centennial by James Michener

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

When She Was Good by Philip Roth

Children’s books

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

Sky Island by L. Frank Baum

The Curious Lobster’s Island by Richard Warren Hatch

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell