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Reading Lists
Where to start in a library of 79,000+ books. Each list is a short, opinionated path through the classics, and every title on it is free.
Start Here: 12 Classics Everyone Should Read
The most-loved novels in the library, all free.
12 titles
Gothic & Horror
Castles, creatures and things that knock at midnight.
12 titles
Sherlock Holmes, Complete
Every novel and story collection by Arthur Conan Doyle.
10 titles
Jane Austen: The Six Novels
Wit, marriage plots and the best sentences in English.
7 titles
The Russian Masters
Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Gogol, Turgenev and Chekhov.
12 titles
Stoic Philosophy
Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus and Seneca on how to live.
8 titles
Adventure & the Sea
Pirates, voyages, revenge and lost worlds.
12 titles
For Young Readers
Read-aloud classics for children and families.
14 titles
Dystopias & Early Science Fiction
Wells, Verne, Zamyatin and the birth of the future.
12 titles
Philosophy: The Foundations
Plato to Nietzsche in the original texts.
12 titles
Poetry Essentials
Whitman, Dickinson, Keats, Blake and the great epics.
12 titles
Women Who Wrote the Novel
Brontë, Eliot, Wharton, Gaskell, Chopin, Gilman.
12 titles
History & Memoir
Eyewitnesses, autobiographies and the fall of Rome.
12 titles