The Ultimate Book Club: 180 Books You Should Read (Vol.1): Leaves of Grass, Siddhartha, Middlemarch, The Jungle, Macbeth, Moby-Dick, A Study in Scarlet...

Jules Verne · Lewis Carroll · Selma Lagerlöf · Sigmund Freud · Charles Dickens · Plato · Mark Twain · Walt Whitman · Oscar Wilde · Robert Louis Stevenson · Edgar Allan Poe · William Shakespeare · Giovanni Boccaccio · Charlotte Brontë · Anne Brontë · Emily Brontë · Henry David Thoreau · Jack London · Henry James · Louisa May Alcott · Victor Hugo · Arthur Conan Doyle · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Joseph Conrad · Jane Austen · Edgar Rice Burroughs · Herman Melville · James Allen · Guy de Maupassant · George Eliot · Thomas Hardy · Benito Pérez Galdós · Daniel Defoe · Agatha Christie · Upton Sinclair · Anthony Trollope · Alexandre Dumas · Rudyard Kipling · Marcel Proust · Washington Irving · Juan Valera · Charles Baudelaire · William Makepeace Thackeray · Theodore Dreiser · Voltaire · Apuleius · Stephen Crane · Frederick Douglass · John Keats · James Joyce · Kahlil Gibran · Ernest Hemingway · Soseki Natsume · Princess Der Ling · L. Frank Baum · H. G. Wells · H. A. Lorentz · T. S. Eliot · D. H. Lawrence · E. M. Forster · H. P. Lovecraft · Marcus Aurelius · Hans Christian Andersen · Anton Chekhov · Leo Tolstoy · Fyodor Dostoevsky · Sir Walter Scott · George Bernard Shaw · Miguel de Cervantes · Mary Shelley · Wallace D. Wattles · R.D. Blackmore · Pierre Choderlos de Laclos · Johann Wolfgang Goethe · Margaret Cavendish · Herman Hesse · Sun Tzu · Gogol

Dec 2023 · Good Press

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