Novel↕ | Author↕ | Year↕ | Country↕ | Genre↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | 1813 | UK | Romance |
1984 | George Orwell | 1949 | UK | Dystopian |
To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 1960 | USA | Southern Gothic |
One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | 1967 | Colombia | Magical Realism |
The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1925 | USA | Tragedy |
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1866 | Russia | Psychological |
Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë | 1847 | UK | Gothic Romance |
The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger | 1951 | USA | Coming-of-age |
Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 1932 | UK | Dystopian |
Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes | 1605 | Spain | Satire |
Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | 1847 | UK | Gothic |
Moby-Dick | Herman Melville | 1851 | USA | Adventure |
Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | 1878 | Russia | Realist |
The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas | 1844 | France | Adventure |
Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | 1818 | UK | Gothic Sci-Fi |
Les Misérables | Victor Hugo | 1862 | France | Historical |
The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | 1890 | Ireland/UK | Philosophical |
War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | 1869 | Russia | Historical Epic |
Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | 1961 | USA | Satire |
The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho | 1988 | Brazil | Philosophical |
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