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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
Goodreads Rating: 3.91
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer revolves around the youthful adventures of the novel’s schoolboy protagonist, Thomas Sawyer, whose reputation precedes him for causing mischie...
Aug 28, 2020 Tags: Childrens, Adventure, Young Adult, Fiction, Historical, Literature
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
Goodreads Rating: 4.08
Little Women is one of the best loved books of all time. Lovely Meg, talented Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy: these are hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New England dur...
Aug 28, 2020 Tags: Childrens, Young Adult, Fiction, Historical, Romance
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
Goodreads Rating: 4.00
When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula purchase a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries in his client’s castle. Soon afterwards, disturbing...
Aug 28, 2020 Tags: Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal, Vampires
The Yellow Wallpaper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Goodreads Rating: 4.11
Based on the author’s own experiences, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ is the chilling tale of a woman driven to the brink of insanity by the ‘rest cure’ prescribed after the...
Aug 28, 2020 Tags: Classics, Horror, Gothic, Short Stories, Mental Health
The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
Goodreads Rating: 3.82
“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, b...
Aug 28, 2020 Tags: Philosophy, Academic, Fantasy, Literature, German
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
Goodreads Rating: 4.13
The Grimm brothers were early 19th-century writers best known for their fairy tales coming from Scandinavian, Icelandic and Germanic origins. By 1807 there was a growing interes...
Aug 28, 2020 Tags: Classics, Short Stories, Childrens, Fiction, Literature, Fairy Tales
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
Goodreads Rating: 3.85
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two ver...
Aug 28, 2020 Tags: Classics, Academic, Fiction, Novels, Historical, Literature
MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE
by Herman Melville
Goodreads Rating: 3.50
“It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships’ cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it.” So ...
Aug 26, 2020 Tags: American, Classics, Adventure, Novels, Historical
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Goodreads Rating: 4.30
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity fo...
Aug 26, 2020 Tags: Classics, Short Stories, Fiction, Crime, Detective
A Modest Proposal
by Jonathan Swift
Goodreads Rating: 4.04
Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to ...
May 08, 2020 Tags: England, Humor, Short Stories, Philosophy, Politics