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Dracula

Bram Stoker

Of the countless vampire movies, books, and plays out there, Bram Stoker's Dracula is still the OG of blood-sucking monsters. Told as a series of letters and journal entries, this classic follows a yo..

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 12 short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, the first in a series of 56 stories that essentially launched the genre of crime fiction. Like many works o..

The Call of the Wild

Jack London

Call of the Wild by Jack London is about a dog named Buck who was living a mellow life in California at the story's opening, but who's kidnapped and taken to Alaska to work as a sled dog in the Klondi..

Moby Dick

Herman Melville

Herman Melville's masterpiece Moby-Dick was published in 1851 to little critical acclaim. It is the story of the wandering sailor Ishmael's voyage on the whaling ship Pequod, which is commanded by Cap..

Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, is the classic gothic horror novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, who began writing the influential work at the age of 18. It features Dr. Victor Frankenstein,..

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

Treasure Island: the sensationally popular boys' tale by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is narrated by young Jim Hawkins, son of an innkeeper who sets sail on a schooner headed for a remote Caribbean isla..

The Secret Adversary

Agatha Christie

Sounds Like a 1930 s mystery including a humorous edge. Well written and easy to read. Neat to read about the tension and espionage between WWI and WWII. See outside view of US. Precisely what one wou..

A Princess of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Before many of the current genres were cemented, Edgar Rice Burroughs began putting out a seemingly endless blur of sci-fi/fantasy/pulp fiction books, starting with A Princess of Mars. He would later ..