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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nick CarrawayThe narrator
Rents the cottage beside Gatsby’s mansion and becomes our way in.
Daisy BuchananNick’s cousin
Charming and restless, married to old money across the bay.
Jay GatsbyThe man next door
Throws dazzling parties, yet almost no one has actually met him.
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Middlemarch
by George Eliot
A complex ensemble novel set in provincial England, following the intertwined lives of multiple characters in the fictional town of Middlemarch as they navigate love, ambition, marriage, and moral choice during a period of social reform.
The Odyssey
by Homer
An ancient Greek epic poem recounting the ten-year journey home of Ulysses after the fall of Troy, featuring his encounters with mythical creatures, divine intervention, and his struggle to reclaim his household from suitors.
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
A dark, passionate novel set on the Yorkshire moors in which two orphaned foundlings—Heathcliff and Catherine—grow up amid class conflict, forbidden love, and brutal revenge at two isolated estates, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, across two generations.
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A Gothic epistolary novel about Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist whose obsessive quest to create life results in a terrible creature that becomes the instrument of his destruction and that of everyone he loves.
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
A psychological crime novel set in 1860s Saint Petersburg, following Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished former student who commits murder and grapples with guilt, redemption, and the moral foundations of his utilitarian philosophy.
The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
A spiritual and psychological epic following three brothers navigating faith, morality, and family trauma in 19th-century Russia, culminating in a murder investigation that forces each character to confront their deepest beliefs.
Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
Les Misérables is an epic novel of redemption, social injustice, and love set in 19th-century France, following the interconnected lives of Jean Valjean, a convict turned benefactor, and those whose fates become bound to his.
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
A sweeping tale of revenge and redemption set in early 19th-century Europe, following Edmond Dantès, who transforms from a wrongfully imprisoned sailor into the mysterious and fabulously wealthy Count of Monte Cristo, wielding his fortune to exact calculated vengeance on those who betrayed him while rewarding those who helped him.
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
A Gothic horror novel following Jonathan Harker's encounter with the vampire Count Dracula in Transylvania, and the count's subsequent pursuit across Europe, told through journal entries, letters, and newspaper clippings as a band of heroes works to destroy him.
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre is a Gothic romance following the coming-of-age and passionate journey of an orphaned governess who overcomes childhood hardship, finds purpose at a remote English estate, and navigates profound moral complexity when confronted with hidden secrets and forbidden love.
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
A bildungsroman following Pip from childhood in the Kent marshes through his education and social ascension, exploring themes of ambition, love, loyalty, and self-discovery in Victorian England.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
A collection of twelve detective stories featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson solving various mysteries in Victorian London and beyond, showcasing Holmes' extraordinary powers of deduction.
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
by Herman Melville
An epic maritime novel following the monomaniacal Captain Ahab's obsessive pursuit of Moby Dick, a legendary white whale, aboard the whaling ship Pequod during the early 19th-century American whaling industry.
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
A novel of manners set in Regency England following Elizabeth Bennet, a spirited young woman navigating marriage, social propriety, and her initial prejudice against the proud Mr. Darcy, exploring themes of first impressions, personal growth, and romantic love across the gentry families of Hertfordshire and Derbyshire.
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A story of decadence and excess, Gatsby explores the American Dream through the eyes of narrator Nick Carraway in the summer of 1922.
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
A complex ensemble novel set in provincial England, following the intertwined lives of multiple characters in the fictional town of Middlemarch as they navigate love, ambition, marriage, and moral choice during a period of social reform.
The Odyssey
by Homer
An ancient Greek epic poem recounting the ten-year journey home of Ulysses after the fall of Troy, featuring his encounters with mythical creatures, divine intervention, and his struggle to reclaim his household from suitors.
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
A dark, passionate novel set on the Yorkshire moors in which two orphaned foundlings—Heathcliff and Catherine—grow up amid class conflict, forbidden love, and brutal revenge at two isolated estates, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, across two generations.
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
East of Eden is John Steinbeck's epic novel spanning generations of two families—the Trask and Hamilton families—in California's Salinas Valley, exploring themes of good, evil, free will, and the struggle between opposing human natures.
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A Gothic epistolary novel about Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist whose obsessive quest to create life results in a terrible creature that becomes the instrument of his destruction and that of everyone he loves.
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
A psychological crime novel set in 1860s Saint Petersburg, following Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished former student who commits murder and grapples with guilt, redemption, and the moral foundations of his utilitarian philosophy.
The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
A spiritual and psychological epic following three brothers navigating faith, morality, and family trauma in 19th-century Russia, culminating in a murder investigation that forces each character to confront their deepest beliefs.
The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Sallinger
A first-person narrative following Holden Caulfield, a sixteen-year-old who has just been expelled from Pencey Prep and wanders New York City in a psychological and spiritual crisis, encountering various people who embody the alienation and phoniness he perceives in the adult world.
Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
Les Misérables is an epic novel of redemption, social injustice, and love set in 19th-century France, following the interconnected lives of Jean Valjean, a convict turned benefactor, and those whose fates become bound to his.
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
A sweeping tale of revenge and redemption set in early 19th-century Europe, following Edmond Dantès, who transforms from a wrongfully imprisoned sailor into the mysterious and fabulously wealthy Count of Monte Cristo, wielding his fortune to exact calculated vengeance on those who betrayed him while rewarding those who helped him.
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
A Gothic horror novel following Jonathan Harker's encounter with the vampire Count Dracula in Transylvania, and the count's subsequent pursuit across Europe, told through journal entries, letters, and newspaper clippings as a band of heroes works to destroy him.
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre is a Gothic romance following the coming-of-age and passionate journey of an orphaned governess who overcomes childhood hardship, finds purpose at a remote English estate, and navigates profound moral complexity when confronted with hidden secrets and forbidden love.
Farenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
A dystopian novel set in an unspecified American future where books are banned and 'firemen' burn any that are found. The story follows Guy Montag, a fireman who begins to question his role and society's anti-intellectual values.
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
A bildungsroman following Pip from childhood in the Kent marshes through his education and social ascension, exploring themes of ambition, love, loyalty, and self-discovery in Victorian England.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
A collection of twelve detective stories featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson solving various mysteries in Victorian London and beyond, showcasing Holmes' extraordinary powers of deduction.
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
by Herman Melville
An epic maritime novel following the monomaniacal Captain Ahab's obsessive pursuit of Moby Dick, a legendary white whale, aboard the whaling ship Pequod during the early 19th-century American whaling industry.
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
A novel of manners set in Regency England following Elizabeth Bennet, a spirited young woman navigating marriage, social propriety, and her initial prejudice against the proud Mr. Darcy, exploring themes of first impressions, personal growth, and romantic love across the gentry families of Hertfordshire and Derbyshire.