Fiction Books
Little Women
Louisa May AlcottLittle Women by Louisa May Alcott is a beloved portrait of an American family during the latter half of the 19th century. The March family patriarch engaged in the Civil War as a chaplain in the Union..
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor DostoyevskyThe Brothers Karamazov (1880) is Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky's final, and perhaps most masterful novel. It is a deeply passionate and philosophical novel that delves into the difficult terrain o..
Anna Karenina
Leo Nikoleyevich TolstoyConsidered "the greatest novel of all time," Tolstoy's Anna Karenina was published in serial form between the years 1873 and 1877. It opens with the famous line "Happy families are all alike; every un..
War and Peace
Leo Nikoleyevich TolstoyLeo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) is one of the giants of literature, and his historical masterwork War and Peace is famous for its epic grandeur, psychological detail, and... let's face it: length. It vividl..
The Three Musketeers
Alexandre DumasThe Three Musketeers is the classic adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, set in the 17th century, about a young man named d'Artagnan who leaves home to become a guard of the musketeers. The titular cha..
Oliver Twist
Charles DickensThe second novel by Dickens, and considered one of his best, Oliver Twist is the story of an orphan boy who is essentially born into an English workhouse. There he must suffer the abject miseries of p..
Sense and Sensibility
Jane AustenJane Austen (1775-1817) is one of the best known and widely read English novelists out there, and her 1811 book Sense and Sensibility, which she signed anonymously "A Lady," was the book that kicked o..
Siddhartha
Herman HesseSiddhartha (1922) by Hermann Hesse is a novel whose title character is an exceedingly intelligent young Brahman, a member of Hindu's highest caste, who leads an ostensibly charmed and wealthy life, ye..