Literature | 121 books
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Erasmus
In Praise of Folly
3.8
5 min
Alain de Botton
How Proust Can Change Your Life
3.8
13 min
Francine Prose
Reading Like a Writer
3.8
8 min
William Golding
Lord of the Flies
3.7
11 min
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
3.7
16 min
Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
3.7
11 min
Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart
3.7
17 min
Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary
3.7
16 min
Sophocles
Oedipus Rex
3.7
14 min
William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying
3.7
5 min
Sophocles
Antigone
3.7
15 min
E. M. Forster
A Passage to India
3.7
10 min
Anton Chekhov
The Cherry Orchard
3.7
13 min
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Young Goodman Brown
3.7
9 min
Martin Amis
The Zone of Interest
3.7
16 min
Herman Melville
Moby Dick
3.6
16 min
Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman
3.6
12 min
James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
3.6
11 min
Thomas C. Foster
How To Read Literature Like A Professor
3.6
12 min
John Milton
Areopagitica
3.9
5 min
Unknown
Beowulf
3.5
10 min
Daniel Defoe
Moll Flanders
3.5
11 min
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
3.4
5 min
Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
3.4
13 min
Terry Eagleton
The Meaning of Life
3.5
10 min
Kate Kirkpatrick
Becoming Beauvoir
4.3
17 min
Jodie Archer
The Bestseller Code
3.8
12 min
A.O. Scott
Better Living Through Criticism
3.3
11 min
Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis
3.9
12 min
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
4.5
15 min