The Iliad
The foundational epic of Western literature.
The Odyssey
Odysseus's journey home from Troy.
The Aeneid
Rome's national epic.
The Divine Comedy
Dante's journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise.
The Canterbury Tales
Tales told by pilgrims on the way to Canterbury.
Don Quixote
The first modern novel.
Hamlet
Shakespeare's greatest tragedy.
Othello
The tragedy of the Moor of Venice.
Macbeth
Ambition and its consequences.
King Lear
A king divides his kingdom.
Paradise Lost
Milton's epic on the Fall of Man.
Gulliver's Travels
Swift's satirical travels.
Pride and Prejudice
Austen's masterpiece of manners.
Frankenstein
The first science fiction novel.
Moby-Dick
Ahab's obsessive hunt for the white whale.
A Tale of Two Cities
Dickens on the French Revolution.
Crime and Punishment
Raskolnikov's crime and redemption.
The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky's philosophical masterpiece.
War and Peace
Tolstoy's epic of Russian society.
Anna Karenina
Anna's tragic love affair.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Huck's journey down the Mississippi.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Dorian's portrait ages while he doesn't.
Heart of Darkness
Marlow's journey into the Congo.
Ulysses
A day in the life of Leopold Bloom.
The Metamorphosis
Gregor Samsa wakes up as a bug.
The Great Gatsby
Gatsby's pursuit of the American Dream.
1984
Orwell's dystopian masterpiece.