Reading lists
The lists readers look for most: the classics to read first, gothic tales, banned books, book club picks, series in order and more. Every book on them can be read, heard or taken in as a 15-minute summary.
By mood and kind
- Gothic novels and classic horrorHaunted castles, monsters and dread, from Otranto to Dracula.
- Dark academia classicsOld libraries, dangerous ideas and beautiful ruin.
- Victorian novelsDickens, the Brontës, Eliot, Hardy and Trollope.
- Classic romance: books like Jane AustenWit, pride and impossible choices.
- Short classics and novellasGreat books you can finish in an evening.
- Classic science fictionTime machines, invasions and voyages under the sea.
- Russian classicsTolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov and Gogol.
- American classicsFrom Hawthorne and Melville to Twain and Fitzgerald.
- Fairy tales and fablesGrimm, Andersen, Perrault, Aesop and the coloured fairy books.
- Classic Christmas storiesDickens, Andersen, Alcott and more for the darkest weeks of the year.
- Greek mythology booksGods, heroes and the war at Troy.
- Philosophy classicsPlato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant and Nietzsche.
For book clubs and classes
Series and complete works in order
- Sherlock Holmes books in orderAll the novels and stories, in the order they appeared.
- Anne of Green Gables books in orderAnne's life from Green Gables onward.
- Wizard of Oz books in orderEvery Oz book by L. Frank Baum.
- Tarzan books in orderEdgar Rice Burroughs' jungle adventures.
- Shakespeare's plays and poems in orderEvery play and poem we hold, in the order written.
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