🏛️ Classic Books
Curated Classic titles — reviews, authors and recommendations for readers
Explore our hand-picked selection of Classic books. Each title includes its author, year, page count and a real synopsis to help you decide what to read next — and a chat room to discuss them with other readers.
📚 All 18
📕 Fiction 75
🔍 Thriller 22
🚀 Science Fiction 21
🐉 Fantasy 17
🏰 Historical 16
🏛️ Classic 18
🕵️ Mystery 10
📊 Essay 13
❤️ Romance 8
👻 Horror 8
🌿 Magical Realism 5
💪 Self-help 5
🚓 Crime 5
🎒 Young Adult 5
✒️ Poetry 3
🎭 Drama 3
👤 Biography 7
🗺️ Adventure 8
📜 Short Stories 5
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dazzling parties, an impossible love and the dark side of the American dream in the 20s. Fitzgerald at his most perfect.
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The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann
A young man visits an Alpine sanatorium and stays seven years among the ill and debates on life. Mann and interwar Europe.
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Ulysses
James Joyce
One day in Dublin told with every technique imaginable. The most difficult and influential novel of the 20th century.
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In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust
A madeleine dipped in tea unleashes the memory of an entire life. Proust turned memory into the longest novel ever written.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
A young man stays beautiful while his portrait ages and bears his sins. Wilde and the price of vanity, with brilliant wit.
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Fortunata and Jacinta
Benito Pérez Galdós
Two women and the same man in 19th-century Madrid, one wealthy and one of the people. Galdós paints an entire city and era.
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The House of Ulloa
Emilia Pardo Bazán
A chaplain arrives at a decaying Galician manor full of violence and rural savagery. Pardo Bazán and Spanish naturalism.
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The Regent's Wife
Leopoldo Alas Clarín
Ana Ozores drowns in boredom between an old husband, an ambitious priest and a Don Juan in a provincial town. The great 19th-century Spanish novel.
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The Brothers Karamazov
Fiódor Dostoyevski
Three very different brothers and the murder of their father let Dostoyevsky question God, guilt and freedom. His testament and, for many, his masterpiece.
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Anna Karenina
León Tolstói
A woman risks everything for love in rigid Russian society. Tolstoy paints desire, guilt and an entire society.
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The Idiot
Fiódor Dostoyevski
Prince Myshkin is too good for a world that takes him for a fool, and his innocence unleashes tragedy around him. Dostoyevsky attempts to portray a truly good man.
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War and Peace
León Tolstói
Russian aristocracy facing Napoleon's invasion, with hundreds of characters who love, doubt and die as History sweeps them along. The most ambitious novel ever conceived.
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Crime and Punishment
Fiódor Dostoyevski
A student kills a pawnbroker convinced he's above morality, then guilt devours him. Dostoevsky dissects conscience.
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Les Misérables
Victor Hugo
Jean Valjean, hounded for life over stealing bread, seeks redemption in revolutionary France. A narrative cathedral on justice.
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Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
Emma dreams of the passion of novels and her provincial marriage suffocates her. Flaubert invented perfect prose.
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Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
A doctor is shipwrecked in lands of giants, dwarves and reasoning horses, and along the way Swift satirizes the whole Europe of his time. Adventure on the surface, fierce satire within.
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Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
The first modern novel in world literature. Alonso Quijano goes mad reading chivalry books and sets out to fight windmills as giants. The most influential work in the Spanish language.
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Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
A nobleman driven mad by chivalric novels sets out to right wrongs with Sancho. The first modern novel and, for many, the greatest ever written.
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