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16 books

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

The Big Sleep

Philip Marlowe #1

Raymond Chandler

230 pages • first pub 1939 (editions)

fiction classics crime mystery dark mysterious tense medium-paced
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole

125 pages • first pub 1764 (editions)

fiction classics horror dark mysterious medium-paced
The Counterfeiters by André Gide

The Counterfeiters

André Gide

467 pages • first pub 1925 (editions)

fiction classics lgbtqia+ challenging reflective slow-paced
De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

De Profundis

Oscar Wilde

160 pages • first pub 1905 (editions)

nonfiction classics essays lgbtqia+ emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

128 pages • first pub 1886 (editions)

fiction classics horror literary science fiction dark mysterious medium-paced
The Erl-King by Michel Tournier

The Erl-King

Michel Tournier

329 pages • first pub 1970 (editions)

fiction historical dark reflective slow-paced
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Sherlock Holmes #5

Arthur Conan Doyle

240 pages • first pub 1902 (editions)

fiction classics crime mystery adventurous mysterious medium-paced
The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler

The Lady in the Lake

Philip Marlowe #4

Raymond Chandler

272 pages • first pub 1943 (editions)

fiction crime mystery dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

384 pages • first pub 1857 (editions)

fiction classics literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Marguerite Yourcenar: Inventing a Life by Joan E. Howard, Josyane Savigneau

Marguerite Yourcenar: Inventing a Life

Joan E. Howard, Josyane Savigneau

503 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction biography informative reflective medium-paced