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Through the Looking-Glass
by Lewis Carol
Goodreads Rating: 4.24
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (also known as Alice Through the Looking-Glass or simply Through the Looking-Glass) is an 1871 novel by Lewis Carroll and t...

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
Goodreads Rating: 3.83
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himsel...
Sep 17, 2020 Tags: American, Nonfiction, Autobiography, Biography, History

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
Goodreads Rating: 3.77
Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is presented as an autobiography of the ti...
Sep 15, 2020 Tags: Classics, Adventure, Fiction, Literature

Common Sense
by Thomas Paine
Goodreads Rating: 3.98
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. Writing in clear and persuasive pr...
Sep 15, 2020 Tags: Classics, Philosophy, Politics, Nonfiction, History

Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
Goodreads Rating: 4.05
Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878. Many writers consider Anna Karenina the greatest work of literature ever, and T...
Sep 15, 2020 Tags: Fiction, Historical, Romance, Russia

Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
Goodreads Rating: 4.07
Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, published in 1811. It tells the story of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor (age 19) and Marianne (age 16½) as they come of age. They ...
Sep 15, 2020 Tags: Classics, Fiction, Historical, Literature

The Elements of Style
by William Strunk Jr.
Goodreads Rating: 4.17
The Elements of Style is an American English writing style guide in numerous editions. The original was composed by William Strunk Jr. in 1918, and published by Harcourt in 1920...

The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
Goodreads Rating: 4.05
The Divine Comedy is a long Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321. It is widely considered to be the pr...
Sep 15, 2020 Tags: Poetry, Philosophy, Fiction, Literature, Religion

The Mysterious Affair at Styles
by Agatha Christie
Goodreads Rating: 3.99
The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie. It was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916. Styles was Christie’s...
Sep 15, 2020 Tags: Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Detective, Thriller

The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
Goodreads Rating: 3.74
The Jungle is a 1906 novel by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878–1968). The novel portrays the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the U...
Sep 15, 2020 Tags: Politics, Fiction, Historical, Literature