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A Study in Scarlet
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Goodreads Rating: 4.16
A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel written by Arthur Conan Doyle. The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most fa...
Sep 09, 2020 Tags: Classics, Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Detective
The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Goodreads Rating: 4.32
The Brothers Karamazov (Russian: Бра́тья Карама́зовы, Brat’ya Karamazovy, pronounced [ˈbratʲjə kərɐˈmazəvɨ]), also translated as The Karamazov Brothers, is the final novel...
Sep 09, 2020 Tags: Classics, Philosophy, Fiction, Russia
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
by Kate Chopin
Goodreads Rating: 3.87
The Awakening, novel by Kate Chopin, published in 1899. Originally titled A Solitary Soul, the novel depicts a young mother’s struggle to achieve sexual and personal emancipatio...
Sep 08, 2020 Tags: Classics, Short Stories, Feminism, Fiction
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
by Frederick Douglass
Goodreads Rating: 4.04
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Mas...
Sep 08, 2020 Tags: Classics, Historical, Biography, Memoir
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Goodreads Rating: 4.07
The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (widely abbreviated and cited as TLP) (Latin for Logical Philosophical Treatise or Treatise on Logic and Philosophy) is the only book-length p...
Sep 05, 2020 Tags: Philosophy, Nonfiction, Logic, Humanities, Theory
A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
by Charles Dickens
Goodreads Rating: 4.29
A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & H...
Sep 05, 2020 Tags: Classics, Short Stories, Fiction
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
Goodreads Rating: 3.78
Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel, which depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (the book is a bildungs...
Sep 05, 2020 Tags: Classics, Historical, Literature, School
The Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran
Goodreads Rating: 4.23
The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. It was originally published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf...
Sep 03, 2020 Tags: Poetry, Philosophy, Religion, Spirituality
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Goodreads Rating: 3.87
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitu...
Sep 03, 2020 Tags: American, Classics, Fiction, Historical
The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Goodreads Rating: 4.13
The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in book form in 1911, after serialization in The American Magazine (November 1910 – August 1911). Set in ...
Sep 02, 2020 Tags: Classics, Childrens, Young Adult, Historical