Don Quixote (1605)
It was conceived as a parody. Cervantes ridiculed the chivalric novels that Spain was obsessed with, and came up with an elderly nobleman who, from reading them, had become…
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Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Austen wrote about what she knew: several families in a village, visits, balls, conversations over tea — and marriage as the only means available to women for…
The Portrait of Dorian Gray (1890)
Wilde's only novel — and, in essence, a frightening tale of a contract that no one signed. A young man of rare beauty poses for an artist, and…
The Great Gatsby (1925)
A short novel in which almost nothing happens, yet it is remembered in its entirety. The narrator, Nick Carraway, rents a small house next to Gatsby's mansion, and…
The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
The main thing about this book is its voice. A teenager, Holden Caulfield, who has been expelled from another school, wanders around New York for several days and tells…
The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
A novella that proved it's possible to write something great using almost no words. An old Cuban fisherman, Santiago, who hasn't had a catch in a long time, goes out to sea alone, and…
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
Six generations of the Buendía family, the town of Macondo, which grew up in the swamps, and time, which behaves differently here: names repeat, and…
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
The narrator is an eight-year-old girl, and this decision defines the entire book. Scout lives in a sleepy Alabama town in the 1930s, where adults are polite, but…
Madame Bovary (1857)
Flaubert brought prose to a state where every word is in its place and cannot be replaced — he spent weeks searching for the right phrase and rewriting …
