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Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing

William Shakespeare

212 pages • first pub 1612 (editions)

5.0crankylibrarian's review
fiction classics play funny lighthearted fast-paced
The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe

The Pit and the Pendulum

Edgar Allan Poe

56 pages • first pub 1842 (editions)

5.0crankylibrarian's review
fiction classics horror short stories dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Middlemarch by George Eliot

Middlemarch

George Eliot

904 pages • first pub 1871 (editions)

5.0crankylibrarian's review
fiction classics historical literary challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

8 hours, 8 minutes • first pub 1989 (editions)

5.0crankylibrarian's review
fiction classics historical literary emotional reflective slow-paced
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Mansfield Park

Jane Austen

393 pages • first pub 1814 (editions) user-added

5.0crankylibrarian's review
fiction classics literary romance emotional reflective slow-paced
The Hand of Oberon by Roger Zelazny

The Hand of Oberon

Roger Zelazny

188 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0crankylibrarian's review
fiction science science fiction adventurous dark fast-paced
Ulysses by James Joyce

Ulysses

James Joyce

42 hours, 19 minutes • first pub 1922 (editions)

5.0crankylibrarian's review
fiction classics literary challenging reflective slow-paced
Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months by Maurice Sendak

Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months

Nutshell Library

Maurice Sendak

32 pages • first pub 1962 (editions)

5.0crankylibrarian's review
fiction childrens poetry lighthearted medium-paced
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

The Chronicles of Narnia (Chronological Order) #2

C.S. Lewis

4 hours, 22 minutes • first pub 1950 (editions)

5.0crankylibrarian's review
fiction childrens classics fantasy adventurous lighthearted fast-paced
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

413 pages • first pub 1955 (editions)

5.0crankylibrarian's review
fiction classics literary challenging dark slow-paced