Timeless Novels

Novels are a literary genre characterized by their extended and fictional narrative prose. They are one of the most popular and enduring forms of storytelling. Novels come in various forms, styles, and genres, making them a versatile medium for exploring a wide range of themes, ideas, and human experiences.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller Jr.
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A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
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A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain
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A Hero of Our Time
Mikhail Lermontov
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A Recipe for Daphne: A Novel
Nektaria Anastasiadou
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A True Story
Lucian of Samosata
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
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Aethiopica
Heliodorus
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Amerika
Franz Kafka
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An Instance of the Fingerpost
Iain Pears
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Anastasius
Thomas Hope
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Animal Farm
George Orwell
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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
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Anton Reiser
Karl Phillip Moritz
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Auto-da-Fé
Elias Canetti
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Balthasar's Odyssey
Amin Maalouf
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Being There
Jerzy Kosinski
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Belle du Seigneur: A Novel
Albert Cohen
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Bird in a Cage
Frédéric Dard
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Butcher's Crossing
John Williams
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Callirhoe
Chariton
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Candide
Voltaire
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Cane
Jean Toomer
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Castle Rackrent
Maria Edgeworth
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Concrete Island: A Novel
J. G. Ballard
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Corto Maltese: The Ballad of the Salt Sea
Hugo Pratt
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Crash: A Novel
J. G. Ballard
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Daphnis and Chloe
Longus
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David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
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Day of the Oprichnik: A Novel
Vladimir Sorokin
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Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol
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Death in Venice
Thomas Mann
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Decline and Fall
Evelyn Waugh
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Demons
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Dom Casmurro
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
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Don Quixote
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
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Dune
Frank Herbert
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Effi Briest
Theodor Fontane
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Einstein's Dreams
Alan Lightman
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Fathers and Sons
Ivan Turgenev
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Ferdydurke
Witold Gombrowicz
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Flannery O'Connor's Why Do the Heathen Rage?: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress
Jessica Hooten Wilson
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Flaubert's Parrot
Julian Barnes
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
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Foucault's Pendulum
Umberto Eco
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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
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Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
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Hayy Ibn Yaqzan
Ibn Tufayl
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Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
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Heinrich von Ofterdingen
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High-Rise: A Novel
J. G. Ballard
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Horcynus Orca
Stefano d'Arrigo
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I Beati Paoli
Luigi Natoli
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I, Claudius
Robert Graves
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Italo Calvino
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Immortality
Milan Kundera
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Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
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Jaques le Fataliste et son Maitre
Denis Diderot
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Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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Journey to the West
Wu Cheng'en
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying
George Orwell
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Kim
Rudyard Kipling
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Late Fame
Arthur Schnitzler
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Leo Africanus
Amin Maalouf
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Leucippe and Clitophon
Achilles Tatius
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Lost Illusions
Honoré de Balzac
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Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
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Man's Fate
Andre Malraux
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Marshlands
André Gide
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Martin Chuzzlewit
Charles Dickens
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Micromegas
Voltaire
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Midaq Alley
Naguib Mahfouz
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Middlemarch
George Eliot
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Moby Dick
Herman Melville
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Nadja
Andre Breton
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On Heroes and Tombs
Ernesto Sabato
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Pedro Páramo
Juan Rulfo
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Patrick Süskind
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Phantastes
George MacDonald
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Pontius Pilate
Roger Caillois
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Quo Vadis
Henryk Sienkiewicz
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Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Luo Guanzhong
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Salammbô
Gustave Flaubert
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Samarkand
Amin Maalouf
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Swann's Way
Marcel Proust
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Terra Nostra
Carlos Fuentes
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That Hideous Strength
C.S. Lewis
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The Abyss
Marguerite Yourcenar
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The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus
Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
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The Alexandria Quartet
Lawrence Durrell
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The Betrothed: The Great Plague of Milan
Alessandro Manzoni
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The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The Castle
Franz Kafka
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
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The Diary of a Country Priest
Georges Bernanos
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The Diary of a Nobody
George Grossmith & Weedon Grossmith
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The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
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The Drowned World: A Novel
J. G. Ballard
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The Earth
Emile Zola
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The End of the Affair
Graham Greene
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The Fortunes of Richard Mahony
Henry Handel Richardson
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The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
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The Good Soldier
Ford Madox Ford
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The Good Soldier Švejk
Jaroslav Hašek
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The Haiduks
Panait Istrati
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The History of Rasselas: Prince of Abissinia
Samuel Johnson
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The Home and the World
Rabindranath Tagore
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The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The Island of the Day Before
Umberto Eco
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The Joke
Milan Kundera
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The Judge and His Hangman
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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The Last Day of a Condemned Man
Victor Hugo
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The Leopard
Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
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The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
E.T.A. Hoffmann
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The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann
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The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By
Georges Simenon
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The Manner Music
Charles Reznikoff
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The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
Jan Potocki
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The Master And Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Agatha Christie
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The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco
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The Night in Lisbon: A Novel
Erich Maria Remarque
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The Night of the Hunter
Davis Grubb
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The Nine Cloud Dream
Kim Manjung
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The Opposing Shore
Julien Gracq
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
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The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
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The Radetzky March
Joseph Roth
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The Razor's Edge
W. Somerset Maugham
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The Rock of Tanios
Amin Maalouf
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The Satyricon
Petronius
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Baroness Orczy
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The Secret of Fatima
Peter J. Tanous
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The Seventh Letter: A Philosophical Mystery at Plato's Academy
Mihai Iuliu Spariosu
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The Sleepwalkers
Hermann Broch
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The Soul of Lilith
Marie Corelli
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The Story of the Stone
Cao Xueqin
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The Sunday Philosophy Club
Alexander McCall Smith
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The Tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu
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The Tartar Steppe
Dino Buzzati
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The Tattered Cloak and Other Stories
Nina Berberova
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The Time Machine
H. G. Wells
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The Tin Drum
Günter Grass
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
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The War of the End of the World
Mario Vargas Llosa
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The Wicked Go To Hell
Frédéric Dard
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Ulysses
James Joyce
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Under Fire
Henri Barbusse
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Utz
Bruce Chatwin
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Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Villa Triste
Patrick Modiano
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Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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With Wolfe in Canada
G.A. Henty
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
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Yavana Rani
Sandilyan
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Timeless Novels

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

A Canticle for Leibowitz

A Clockwork Orange

A Confederacy of Dunces

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

A Hero of Our Time

A Recipe for Daphne: A Novel

A True Story

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Aethiopica

Amerika

An Instance of the Fingerpost

Anastasius

Animal Farm

Anna Karenina

Anton Reiser

Auto-da-Fé

Balthasar's Odyssey

Being There

Belle du Seigneur: A Novel

Bird in a Cage

Butcher's Crossing

Callirhoe

Candide

Cane

Castle Rackrent

Concrete Island: A Novel

Corto Maltese: The Ballad of the Salt Sea

Crash: A Novel

Crime and Punishment

Daphnis and Chloe

David Copperfield

Day of the Oprichnik: A Novel

Dead Souls

Death in Venice

Decline and Fall

Demons

Dom Casmurro

Don Quixote

Dune

Effi Briest

Einstein's Dreams

Fathers and Sons

Ferdydurke

Flannery O'Connor's Why Do the Heathen Rage?: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress

Flaubert's Parrot

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Foucault's Pendulum

Great Expectations

Gulliver's Travels

Hayy Ibn Yaqzan

Heart of Darkness

Heinrich von Ofterdingen

High-Rise: A Novel

Horcynus Orca

I Beati Paoli

I, Claudius

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Immortality

Invisible Cities

Jaques le Fataliste et son Maitre

Journey to the End of the Night

Journey to the West

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Kim

Late Fame

Leo Africanus

Leucippe and Clitophon

Lost Illusions

Madame Bovary

Man's Fate

Marshlands

Martin Chuzzlewit

Micromegas

Midaq Alley

Middlemarch

Moby Dick

Nadja

On Heroes and Tombs