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Famous titles

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A deliberate stack of famous titles — the names that belong on every discovery shelf.

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Fantasy

4.3

A Discovery of Witches

Deborah Harkness · 2011

Challenging · 549 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.3

A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway · 1929

Challenging · 579 pp.

Historical Fiction

4.3

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr · 2014

Challenging · 369 pp.

Memoir

4.3

Born a Crime

Trevor Noah · 2016

Challenging · 621 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.3

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Anthony Doerr · 2021

Challenging · 513 pp.

Science

4.3

Cosmos

Carl Sagan · 1980

Challenging · 669 pp.

From the editor's desk

Deeply rewarding famous reads.

Recognizable books that reward a second look — curated for serious discovery.

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Classic Literature

4.3

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes · 1605

Challenging · 477 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.3

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway · 1940

Challenging · 303 pp.

Fantasy

4.3

Good Omens

Neil Gaiman · 1990

Challenging · 525 pp.

Dark Academia

4.3

If We Were Villains

M.L. Rio · 2017

Challenging · 387 pp.

Thriller

4.3

No Country for Old Men

Cormac McCarthy · 2005

Challenging · 633 pp.

Classic Literature

4.3

Paradise Lost

John Milton · 1667

Challenging · 333 pp.

Classic Literature

The canon, still reading well.

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Classic Literature

4.0

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens · 1861

Challenging · 516 pp.

Classic Literature

3.9

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë · 1847

Moderate · 401 pp.

Classic Literature

4.0

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo · 1862

Challenging · 414 pp.

Classic Literature

4.0

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott · 1868

Challenging · 366 pp.

Classic Literature

4.0

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain · 1884

Challenging · 624 pp.

Classic Literature

3.9

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain · 1876

Moderate · 341 pp.

Literary Fiction

Novels that reward close attention.

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Literary Fiction

4.0

12 Rules for Life

Jordan B. Peterson · 2018

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

1984

George Orwell · 1949

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.2

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara · 2015

Moderate · 572 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.1

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini · 2007

Accessible · 649 pp.

Literary Fiction

3.8

Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2013

Accessible · 580 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy · 1877

Moderate · 320 pp.

Fantasy

Epic worlds and impossible wonders.

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Fantasy

4.1

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Sarah J. Maas · 2015

Accessible · 283 pp.

Fantasy

4.0

American Gods

Neil Gaiman · 2001

Challenging · 366 pp.

Fantasy

4.0

Coraline

Neil Gaiman · 2002

Challenging · 474 pp.

Fantasy

3.9

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

J.K. Rowling · 1998

Moderate · 677 pp.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Fantasy

3.9

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

J.K. Rowling · 1999

Moderate · 521 pp.

Fantasy

4.2

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

J.K. Rowling · 1997

Moderate · 446 pp.

Science Fiction

Ideas at the scale of the cosmos.

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Science Fiction

3.8

2001: A Space Odyssey

Arthur C. Clarke · 1968

Accessible · 358 pp.

Science Fiction

4.1

Childhood's End

Arthur C. Clarke · 1953

Accessible · 487 pp.

Science Fiction

4.2

Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card · 1985

Moderate · 596 pp.

Science Fiction

3.9

Ender's Shadow

Orson Scott Card · 1999

Moderate · 653 pp.

Science Fiction

4.1

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Jules Verne · 1864

Accessible · 451 pp.

Science Fiction

3.8

Klara and the Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro · 2021

Accessible · 616 pp.

Thriller

Pace, pressure, and propulsion.

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Thriller

4.2

Angels & Demons

Dan Brown · 2000

Moderate · 512 pp.

Thriller

4.0

Before I Go to Sleep

S.J. Watson · 2011

Challenging · 474 pp.

Thriller

4.2

Behind Her Eyes

Sarah Pinborough · 2017

Moderate · 464 pp.

Thriller

4.0

Big Little Lies

Liane Moriarty · 2014

Challenging · 318 pp.

Thriller

3.8

Dark Places

Gillian Flynn · 2009

Accessible · 556 pp.

Thriller

4.1

Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn · 2012

Accessible · 529 pp.

Romance

Intimacy, longing, and connection.

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Romance

4.2

Conversations with Friends

Sally Rooney · 2017

Moderate · 656 pp.

Romance

3.9

Emma

Jane Austen · 1815

Moderate · 665 pp.

Romance

4.1

It Ends with Us

Colleen Hoover · 2016

Accessible · 373 pp.

Romance

3.8

Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel García Márquez · 1985

Accessible · 436 pp.

Romance

3.8

Me Before You

Jojo Moyes · 2012

Accessible · 538 pp.

Romance

4.1

Normal People

Sally Rooney · 2018

Accessible · 445 pp.

Horror

Dread that lingers after the last page.

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Horror

4.2

Dracula

Bram Stoker · 1897

Moderate · 614 pp.

Horror

3.8

It

Stephen King · 1986

Accessible · 544 pp.

Horror

3.8

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886

Accessible · 418 pp.

Horror

4.3

The Shining

Stephen King · 1977

Challenging · 423 pp.

Dystopian

Societies bent toward warning.

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Dystopian

4.0

Animal Farm

George Orwell · 1945

Challenging · 426 pp.

Dystopian

3.8

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro · 2005

Accessible · 292 pp.

Dystopian

3.9

Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel · 2014

Moderate · 311 pp.

Dark Academia

Libraries, longing, and moral weather.

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Dark Academia

3.9

The Secret History

Donna Tartt · 1992

Moderate · 485 pp.

Historical Fiction

Past lives rendered with precision.

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Historical Fiction

4.1

Half of a Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2006

Accessible · 565 pp.

Historical Fiction

4.0

Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi · 2016

Challenging · 396 pp.

Historical Fiction

3.9

Pachinko

Min Jin Lee · 2017

Moderate · 509 pp.

Historical Fiction

4.0

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak · 2005

Challenging · 300 pp.

Historical Fiction

3.8

The Nightingale

Kristin Hannah · 2015

Accessible · 460 pp.

Historical Fiction

4.0

The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead · 2016

Challenging · 438 pp.

Young Adult

Coming-of-age at full volume.

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Young Adult

4.2

Divergent

Veronica Roth · 2011

Moderate · 686 pp.

Young Adult

3.8

Looking for Alaska

John Green · 2005

Accessible · 688 pp.

Young Adult

4.2

The Fault in Our Stars

John Green · 2012

Moderate · 284 pp.

Young Adult

4.2

The Hate U Give

Angie Thomas · 2017

Moderate · 662 pp.

Young Adult

3.9

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins · 2008

Moderate · 593 pp.

Young Adult

3.8

The Maze Runner

James Dashner · 2009

Accessible · 574 pp.

Trending classics

The canon, still reading well.

Famous classics and modern staples readers return to.

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Science Fiction

4.3

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir · 2021

Challenging · 543 pp.

Science Fiction

4.3

Ready Player One

Ernest Cline · 2011

Challenging · 291 pp.

Science Fiction

4.3

Rendezvous with Rama

Arthur C. Clarke · 1973

Challenging · 573 pp.

Science Fiction

4.3

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut · 1969

Challenging · 699 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.3

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath · 1963

Challenging · 639 pp.

Adventure

4.3

The Call of the Wild

Jack London · 1903

Challenging · 621 pp.

Trending Fantasy

Beloved fantasy worlds readers return to.

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Fantasy

4.1

Mistborn: The Final Empire

Brandon Sanderson · 2006

Accessible · 565 pp.

Fantasy

3.9

Neverwhere

Neil Gaiman · 1996

Moderate · 467 pp.

Fantasy

4.2

Shadow and Bone

Leigh Bardugo · 2012

Moderate · 542 pp.

Fantasy

4.0

Six of Crows

Leigh Bardugo · 2015

Challenging · 408 pp.

Fantasy

4.0

Stardust

Neil Gaiman · 1999

Challenging · 474 pp.

Fantasy

4.2

The Buried Giant

Kazuo Ishiguro · 2015

Moderate · 482 pp.

Best Sci-Fi Books

Landmark science fiction for curious minds.

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Science Fiction

4.2

Leviathan Wakes

James S.A. Corey · 2011

Moderate · 596 pp.

Science Fiction

4.0

The Host

Stephenie Meyer · 2008

Challenging · 666 pp.

Science Fiction

4.0

The Invisible Man

H.G. Wells · 1897

Challenging · 594 pp.

Science Fiction

4.2

The Martian

Andy Weir · 2011

Moderate · 422 pp.

Science Fiction

4.2

The Time Machine

H.G. Wells · 1895

Moderate · 404 pp.

Science Fiction

4.2

The War of the Worlds

H.G. Wells · 1898

Moderate · 296 pp.

Cozy Reading

Warm, immersive books for unhurried evenings.

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Literary Fiction

4.0

Antifragile

Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2012

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Atomic Habits

James Clear · 2018

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Being and Time

Martin Heidegger · 1927

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Beloved

Toni Morrison · 1987

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Big Magic

Elizabeth Gilbert · 2015

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Bird by Bird

Anne Lamott · 1994

Moderate · 320 pp.

Mystery Essentials

The mysteries everyone recommends first.

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Thriller

3.9

Sharp Objects

Gillian Flynn · 2006

Moderate · 491 pp.

Thriller

3.9

The Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown · 2003

Moderate · 623 pp.

Thriller

4.0

The Girl on the Train

Paula Hawkins · 2015

Challenging · 624 pp.

Thriller

4.2

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson · 2005

Moderate · 368 pp.

Thriller

3.8

The Guest List

Lucy Foley · 2020

Accessible · 442 pp.

Thriller

4.2

The Silent Patient

Alex Michaelides · 2019

Moderate · 338 pp.

Literary Classics

Time-tested novels that still feel alive.

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Literary Fiction

4.0

Blink

Malcolm Gladwell · 2005

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley · 1932

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Built to Last

Jim Collins & Jerry I. Porras · 1994

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

3.9

Catch-22

Joseph Heller · 1961

Moderate · 509 pp.

Literary Fiction

3.8

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Gabriel García Márquez · 1981

Accessible · 424 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.1

Circe

Madeline Miller · 2018

Accessible · 535 pp.

Books Like Dune

Epic science fiction with political depth.

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Literary Fiction

4.0

Dune

Frank Herbert · 1965

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Company of One

Paul Jarvis · 2019

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Competing Against Luck

Clayton M. Christensen · 2016

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866

Moderate · 320 pp.

Dark Academia

Campus Gothic and scholarly obsession.

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Literary Fiction

4.0

Crossing the Chasm

Geoffrey A. Moore · 1991

Moderate · 320 pp.

Latest discoveries

Just added to the library.

Recent famous titles across genres.

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Literary Fiction

3.9

The Secret Life of Bees

Sue Monk Kidd · 2001

Moderate · 455 pp.

Science

4.0

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins · 1976

Challenging · 492 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2017

Challenging · 420 pp.

Literary Fiction

3.8

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller · 2011

Accessible · 466 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Stranger

Albert Camus · 1942

Moderate · 320 pp.

Literary Fiction

4.0

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

Mark Manson · 2016

Moderate · 320 pp.

Famous books,curated like cinema.

Six books readers search for first.

A Discovery of Witches

A Farewell to Arms

All the Light We Cannot See

Born a Crime

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Cosmos

Deeply rewarding famous reads.

Don Quixote

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Good Omens

If We Were Villains

No Country for Old Men

Paradise Lost

The canon, still reading well.

Great Expectations

Jane Eyre

Les Misérables

Little Women

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Novels that reward close attention.

12 Rules for Life

1984

A Little Life

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Americanah

Anna Karenina

Epic worlds and impossible wonders.

A Court of Thorns and Roses

American Gods

Coraline

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Ideas at the scale of the cosmos.

2001: A Space Odyssey

Childhood's End

Ender's Game

Ender's Shadow

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Klara and the Sun

Pace, pressure, and propulsion.

Angels & Demons

Before I Go to Sleep

Behind Her Eyes

Big Little Lies

Dark Places

Gone Girl

Intimacy, longing, and connection.

Conversations with Friends

Emma

It Ends with Us

Love in the Time of Cholera

Me Before You

Normal People

Dread that lingers after the last page.

Dracula

It

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

The Shining

Societies bent toward warning.

Animal Farm

Never Let Me Go

Station Eleven

Libraries, longing, and moral weather.

The Secret History

Past lives rendered with precision.

Half of a Yellow Sun

Homegoing

Pachinko

The Book Thief

The Nightingale

The Underground Railroad

Coming-of-age at full volume.

Divergent

Looking for Alaska

The Fault in Our Stars

The Hate U Give

Famous books,
curated like cinema.