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Paine’s defense of revolution, natural rights, representative government, and social reform.

A revolutionary pamphlet arguing plainly for independence, republican government, and political self-determination.

A lyrical book of brief teachings on love, work, freedom, sorrow, children, and death.

An allegorical journey of faith, temptation, burden, perseverance, and spiritual destination.

A fantasy of childhood, flight, Neverland, play, danger, and the refusal to grow up.

A modernist novel of family, perception, art, grief, time, and the spaces between people.

A single-day modernist novel of memory, society, trauma, time, and inward life.

A glittering American tragedy of wealth, desire, reinvention, illusion, and loss.

A social novel of orphanhood, poverty, crime, innocence, and the harsh machinery of charity.

A deeply personal Bildungsroman of childhood, memory, work, love, friendship, and becoming a writer.

A moorland mystery where rational detection confronts legend, fear, inheritance, and a spectral hound.

The first Sherlock Holmes novel, introducing deduction, Watson, London mystery, and a transatlantic revenge plot.

A satirical voyage through strange societies that expose pride, politics, science, and human absurdity.

Thoreau’s experiment in simple living, attention, nature, labor, solitude, and moral independence.

A decadent novel of beauty, corruption, influence, secrecy, and the soul hidden in a portrait.

A revolutionary novel of sacrifice, doubles, vengeance, terror, and resurrection.

A storm-dark novel of passion, revenge, inheritance, violence, and haunted memory.

A river novel of freedom, friendship, conscience, satire, and the contradictions of America.

A compact Gothic tale of divided identity, repression, experiment, and moral horror.

A warm but unsentimental novel of sisters, work, imagination, growing up, and choosing a life.

A richly woven novel of marriage, vocation, reform, provincial life, and moral consequence.

A tragedy of young love caught between family hatred, speed, secrecy, chance, and fatal timing.

A powerful animal adventure about instinct, survival, violence, loyalty, and return to the wild.

Austen’s novel of sisters, feeling, restraint, money, marriage, and emotional education.