Fiction Books

Two Years Before the Mast

Richard Henry Dana

Not an adventure or really a story. The life of a sailor on a tall ship. Well told and engaging if that interests you. A detailed and engaging narrative of a sailor aboard a merchant vessel in the 19t..

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens follows the life of Pip, an orphan who is a semi-autobiographical representation of Dickens himself. The novel is considered a bildungsroman, or a coming of age s..

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..

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden (1911) is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It is the story of little Mary Lennox, a girl who'd grown up in India spoiled by her servants, whose primary job it was to be seen and n..

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

The classic opening line "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." is familiar to most everyone, but not everyone has braved Dickens' masterpiece A Tale of Two Cities. If you haven't re..

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881), is the Russian author famous for exploring psychological and existential depths in his work, most notably in The Brothers Karamazov and this here Crime and Punishment. I..

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde's best-known work and only novel. Published as a novella first in 1890, it features a beautiful young man who is swept up in a Faustian bargain. Dorian Gray, ..

Les Miserables

Victor Hugo

Les Miserables is an unforgettable 19th century masterpiece of French literature by Victor Hugo, which was first published in 1862. Les Miserables (or "the Miserable Ones") is a story filled with adve..