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Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 epic novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book centers on the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage. A contribution to the literature of the American Renaissance, Moby-Dick was published to mixed reviews, was a commercial failure, and was out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891. Its reputation as a Great American Novel was established only in the 20th century, after the
Charlotte's Web
1952 children's novel by E. B. White
Jane Eyre
1847 novel by Charlotte Brontë
The War of the Worlds
1897 serialized novel by H. G. Wells
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
1880 novel by Lewis Wallace
The Art of Loving
essay by Erich Fromm
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
1838 novel by Edgar Allan Poe
Burmese Days
1934 novel by George Orwell
The Woman in White
novel by Wilkie Collins
The Doors of Perception
1954 essay by Aldous Huxley
Little House on the Prairie
series of children's books, primarily 9 novels 1932 to 1971; also the American media franchise based on it
Daisy Miller
novella by Henry James
Island
1962 novel by Aldous Huxley
Manhattan Transfer
1925 novel by John Dos Passos
The Intelligent Investor
non-fiction work by Benjamin Graham
The Mysterious Stranger
novel attempted by Mark Twain
A Clergyman's Daughter
novel by George Orwell
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
non-fiction work by Joseph Schumpeter
Little House on the Prairie
American children's novel, 1935, third in the Little House series and second of those featuring the Ingalls family
Washington Square
1880 romantic bildungsroman by Henry James
Stuart Little
1945 children's novel by E.B. White
Strangers on a Train
novel by Patricia Highsmith
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
novel by Mark Twain
The Other Wise Man
book by Henry van Dyke
Profiles in Courage
book by John F. Kennedy
Little House in the Big Woods
American children's novel, 1932, first in the Little House series
Jennie Gerhardt
novel by Theodore Dreiser
The Hollow Man
1935 novel by John Dickson Carr
The Perennial Philosophy
essay by Aldous Huxley
The Judge and His Hangman
1952 crime novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The Financier
novel by Theodore Dreiser
Eve's Diary
book by Mark Twain
Black Boy
novel by Richard Wright
The Ides of March
novel by Thornton Wilder
On the Banks of Plum Creek
American children's novel, 1937, fourth in the Little House series
An Economic Theory of Democracy
1957 book by Anthony Downs
Heaven and Hell
1956 essay by Aldous Huxley
The human phenomenon
essay by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Extracts from Adam’s Diary
1893 short story by Mark Twain
The True Believer
book by Eric Hoffer
Harold and the Purple Crayon
1950 book by Crockett Johnson
Economics in One Lesson
non-fiction work by Henry Hazlitt
Atlantis: The Antediluvian World
non-fiction work by Ignatius Loyola Donnelly
Farmer Boy
American children's novel, 1933, second in the Little House series
Ape and Essence
novel by Aldous Huxley
Goodnight Moon
1947 American children's picture book
Deep Water
novel by Patricia Highsmith
By the Shores of Silver Lake
American children's novel, 1939, fifth in the Little House series
The Long Winter
American children's novel, 1940, sixth in the Little House series
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
1909 short story by Mark Twain
The Night of the Hunter
novel by Davis Grubb
The Whole Family
collaborative novel told in twelve chapters, each by a different author
These Happy Golden Years
American children's novel, 1943, eighth in the Little House series
Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
novel by Herman Melville
A Personal Record
book by Joseph Conrad
Little Town on the Prairie
American children's novel, 1941, seventh in the Little House series
Native Son
1940 novel by Richard Wright
Riders of the Purple Sage
1912 western novel by Zane Grey
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1943 novel by Betty Smith
The Mad Hatter Mystery
1933 novel by John Dickson Carr