Excellent Literature--Should Be Required Reading

Discover a curated list of excellent literature that should be required reading. Explore timeless books that inspire, educate, and transform readers.

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The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Story of three sons of a drunkard: Ivan, a materialist, Alyosha, a mystic, and Mitya, tried and convicted for murdering their father.
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Madame Bovary

 

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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

by Victor Hugo

In the famed novel set against the backdrop of medieval Paris, Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre-Dame Cathedral, struggles to save the beautiful gypsy dancer …
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Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

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Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy's evocative tale of doomed love—one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century. Anna Karenina startled the world with its powerful portrayal of …
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Iliad and Odyssey Boxed Set

by Robert Fagles

This beautiful gift set of Robert Fagles' award-winning translations of Homer brings the energy of contemporary language to these enduring heroic epics.
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Waiting for the Barbarians

by J. M. Coetzee

Allegory of the war between oppressor and oppressed.
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Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of …
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Gravity's Rainbow

by Thomas Pynchon

Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth …