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<h2>Fantasy</h2>
<h2>Fantasy</h2>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Additional epic fantasy'''
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Additional epic fantasy'''
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Coldfire Trilogy|The Coldfire Trilogy]]'' (1991&mdash;1995) by C.S. Friedman</small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Silmarillion|The Silmarillion]]'' (1977) by J. R. R. Tolkien</small>
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Silmarillion|The Silmarillion]]'' (1977) by J. R. R. Tolkien</small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Kingkiller Chronicle|The Kingkiller Chronicle]]'' (2007&mdash;) by Patrick Rothfuss</small>
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Kingkiller Chronicle|The Kingkiller Chronicle]]'' (2007&mdash;) by Patrick Rothfuss</small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Book of The New Sun|The Book of The New Sun]]'' (1980) by Gene Wolfe</small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Kraken (novel)|Kraken]]'' (2010) by China Miéville</small>
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Kraken (novel)|Kraken]]'' (2010) by China Miéville</small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Wasp Factory|The Wasp Factory]]'' (1984) by Iain Banks</small>
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<h2>Horror</h2>
<h2>Horror</h2>
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|colspan=5|<h3>Classic Horror</h3>
|colspan=5|<h3>Classic Horror</h3>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Frankenstein.png|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Frankenstein|Frankenstein]]''<br/>( )<br/> by Mary Shelley </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Frankenstein.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Frankenstein|Frankenstein]]''<br/>(1818)<br /> by Mary Shelley </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Dracula.png|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Dracula|Dracula]]''<br/>( )<br/> by Bram Stoker </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Dracula.png|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Dracula|Dracula]]''<br />(1897)<br /> by Bram Stoker </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Monk.png|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Monk|The Monk]]''<br/>( )<br/> by Matthew Lewis </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Monk.png|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Monk|The Monk]]''<br />(1796)<br /> by Matthew Lewis </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Turn_of_the_Screw.png|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Turn of the Screw|The Turn of the Screw]]''<br/>( )<br/> by Henry James </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Turn_of_the_Screw.png|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Turn of the Screw|The Turn of the Screw]]''<br />(1898)<br /> by Henry James </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Poe.png|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Edgar Allen Poe|The Complete Stories and Poems]]''<br/>( )<br/> by Edgar Allen Poe </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Poe.png|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Edgar Allen Poe|The Complete Stories and Poems]]'' by Edgar Allen Poe </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Additional Classic Horror'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Additional Classic Horror'''
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde|The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]'' () by Robert Stevenson </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde|The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]'' (1886) by Robert Stevenson </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Legend of Sleepy Hollow|The Legend of Sleepy Hollow]]'' () by Washington Irving </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Legend of Sleepy Hollow|The Legend of Sleepy Hollow]]'' (1820) by Washington Irving </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The King in Yellow|The King in Yellow]]'' () by Robert Chambers </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The King in Yellow|The King in Yellow]]'' (1895) by Robert Chambers </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Melmoth the Wanderer|Melmoth the Wanderer]]'' () by Charles Maturin </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Melmoth the Wanderer|Melmoth the Wanderer]]'' (1820) by Charles Maturin </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Ambrose Bierce|Ghost and Other Stories]]'' () by Ambrose Bierce </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Ambrose Bierce|Ghost and Horror Stories]]'' (1964) by Ambrose Bierce </small>
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| colspan="5" |<h3>20th Century Horror </h3>
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| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Collected_Stories_of_Lovecraft.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:H.P. Lovecraft|Collected Stories]]''<br />( )<br /> by H.P. Lovecraft </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Best_Ghost_Stories.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Algernon Blackwood|Best Ghost Stories]]''<br />( )<br /> by Algernon Blackwood </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Casting_the_Runes.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:M.R. James|Casting the Runes and Other Stories]]''<br />( )<br /> by M.R. James </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:It.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:It (novel)|It]]''<br />( )<br /> by Stephen King </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:House_on_the_Borderland.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The House on the Borderland|House on the Borderland]]''<br />( )<br /> by William Hope Hodgson </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Roland Topor|The Tenant]]'' () by Roland Topor </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Pet Sematary|Pet Sematary]]'' () by Stephen King </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Boy in Darkness|Boy in Darkness]]'' () by Mervyn Peake </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Haunting of Hill House|the Haunting of Hill House]]'' () by Shirley Jackson </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:I Am Legend|I Am Legend]]'' () by Richard Matheson </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Silence of the Lambs|The Silence of the Lambs]]'' () by Thomas Harris </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Song of Kali|Song of Kali]]'' () by Dan Simmons </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Something Wicked This Way Comes|Something Wicked This Way Comes]]'' () by Ray Bradbury </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Books of Blood|Books of Blood]]'' () by Clive Barker </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Horacio Quiroga|The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories]]'' () by Horacio Quiroga </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kyoka Izumi|Japanese Gothic Tales]]'' () by Kyoka Izumi </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kwaidan|Kwaidan]]'' () by Lafcadio Hearn </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Edogawa Ranpo|Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination]]'' () by Edogawa Ranpo </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Blind Owl|The Blind Owl]]'' () by Sadegh Hedayat </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Golem (novel)|The Golem]]'' () by Gustav Meyrink </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lucius Shepard|Beast of the Heartland and Other Stories]]'' () by  Lucius Shepard  </small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Edward Lucas White|Lukundoo]]'' () by Edward Lucas White </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Robert Aickman|Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories]]'' () by Robert Aickman </small>
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:.png|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br/>( )<br/> by  </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Virgilio Pinera|Cold Tales]]'' () by Virgilio Piñera </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:.png|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br/>( )<br/> by  </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:.png|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br/>( )<br/> by  </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:.png|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br/>( )<br/> by  </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:.png|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br/>( )<br/> by </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Additional 20th Century Horror'''
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Alfred Kubin|The Other Side]]'' () by Alfred Kubin </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' () by </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Carlos Fuentes|Aura]]'' () by Carlos Fuentes </small>
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| colspan="5" |<h3>New Horror </h3>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:.png|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br/>( )<br/> by  </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.png|80px]]<br /><small>''[wikipedia: ]''<br />( )<br /> by  </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:.png|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br/>( )<br/> by  </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.png|80px]]<br /><small>''[wikipedia: ]''<br />( )<br /> by  </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:.png|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br/>( )<br/> by  </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.png|80px]]<br /><small>''[wikipedia: ]''<br />( )<br /> by  </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:.png|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br/>( )<br/> by  </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.png|80px]]<br /><small>''[wikipedia: ]''<br />( )<br /> by  </small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:.png|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]''<br/>( )<br/> by  </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:.png|80px]]<br /><small>''[wikipedia: ]''<br />( )<br /> by  </small>
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|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Additional New Horror'''
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Additional New Horror'''
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia: | ]]'' () by  </small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[wikipedia: ]'' () by  </small>
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<h2>Mystery/Crime</h2>
<h2>Mystery/Crime</h2>
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| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Sherlock_Holmes.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Sherlock Holmes|The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes]]''<br />()<br /> by Arthur Conan Doyle</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Big_Sleep.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Big Sleep|The Big Sleep]]''<br />()<br /> by Raymond Chandler</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Complete_Father_Brown_Stories.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:G.K. Chesterton|The Complete Father Brown Stories]]''<br />()<br /> by G.K. Chesterton</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Maltese_Falcon.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Maltese Falcon|The Maltese Falcon]]''<br />()<br /> by Dashiell Hammett</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:That_Awful_Mess.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Carlo Emilio Gadda|That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana]]''<br />()<br /> by Carlo Emilio Gadda</small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirty-Nine_Steps The Thirty-Nine Steps]'' () by John Buchan</small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Name_of_the_Rose The Name of the Rose]'' () by Umberto Eco</small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Edgar Allen Poe|Tales of Mystery & Imagination]]'' () by Edgar Allen Poe</small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Karel Capek|Tales from Two Pockets]]'' () by Karel Capek</small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Spy Who Came in From the Cold|The Spy Who Came in From the Cold]]'' () by John le Carre</small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_(novel) Rebecca]'' () by Daphne du Maurier</small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Patrick_Manchette Fatale]'' () by Jean-Pierre Manchette</small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Patrick_Manchette Three to Kill]'' () by Jean-Pierre Manchette</small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Josef Skvorecky|The End of Lieutenant Boruvka]]'' () by Josef Svorecky</small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Edogawa Ranpo|Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination]]'' () by Edogawa Ranpo</small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Edogawa Ranpo|The Black Lizard and Beast in the Shadows]]'' () by Edogawa Ranpo</small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kido Okamoto|The Curious Casebook of Inspector Hanshichi]]'' () by Kido Okamoto</small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_a_Red_Heroine Death of a Red Heroine]'' () by Xiaolong Qui</small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrated_Cases_of_Judge_Dee Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee]'' () by Robert van Gulik</small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Spit_on_Your_Graves I Spit on Your Graves]'' () by Boris Vian</small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_All_Have_the_Same_Skin The Dead All Have the Same Skin]'' () by Boris Vian</small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The New York Trilogy|The New York Trilogy]]'' () by Paul Auster</small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun,_with_Occasional_Music Gun, With Occasional Music]'' () by Jonathan Lethem</small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Goodbye_(novel) The Long Goodbye]'' () by Raymond Chandler</small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Inherent Vice|Inherent Vice]]'' () by Thomas Pynchon</small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shooting_Party_(Chekhov_novel) The Shooting Party]'' () by Anton Chekhov</small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Yiddish Policemen's Union|The Yiddish Policemen's Union]]'' () by Michael Chabon</small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Postman_Always_Rings_Twice_(novel) The Postman Always Rings Twice]'' () by James M. Cain</small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Fantomas|Fantomas]]'' () by Marcel Allain</small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Georges Simenon|Dirty Snow]]'' () by Georges Simenon</small>
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|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Sherlock_Holmes.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Sherlock Holmes|The Collected Sherlock Holmes Short Stories]]''<br/>()<br/> by Arthur Conan Doyle</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_Male_(novel) Rogue Male]'' () by Geoffrey Household</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Big_Sleep.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Big Sleep|The Big Sleep ]]''<br/>()<br/> by Raymond Chandler</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Complete_Father_Brown_Stories.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:G.K. Chesterton|The Complete Father Brown Stories]]''<br/>()<br/> by G.K. Chesterton</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:the_Maltese_Falcon.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:The Maltese Falcon|The Maltese Falcon]]''<br/>()<br/> by Dashiell Hammett</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:That_Awful_Mess_on_via_Merualan.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Carlo Emilio Gadda|That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana]]''<br/>()<br/> by Carlo Emilio Gadda</small>
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| colspan="5" |<small>''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Clock The Big Clock]'' () by Kenneth Fearing</small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:John Buchan|The Thirty-Nine Steps]]'' () by John Buchan</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Young-ha Photo Shop Murder]'' () by Young-Ha Kim</small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Umberto Eco|The Name of the Rose]]'' () by Umberto Eco</small>
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<h2>Romance</h2>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Karel Capek|Tales from Two Pockets]]'' () by Karel Capek</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Daphnis_and_Chloe.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Daphnis and Chloe|Daphnhis and Chloe]]''<br />()<br /> by Longus </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:The_Song_of_Solomon.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Song of Songs|Song of Songs]]''<br />()<br /> by Solomon </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:the_Story_of_the_Stone.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:The Story of the Stone|The Story of the Stone]]''<br />()<br /> by Cao Xueqin </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Troilus_and_Criseyde.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Troilus and Criseyde|Troilus and Criseyde]]''<br />()<br /> by Geoffrey Chaucer </small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Anna_Karenina.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Anna Karenina|Anna Karenina]]''<br />()<br /> by Leo Tolstoy </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Spy Who Came in From the Cold|The Spy Who Came in From the Cold]]'' () by John le Carre</small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Daphne du Maurier|Rebecca]]'' () by Daphne du Maurier</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Love in The Time of Cholera|Love in The Time of Cholera]]'' () by Gabriel Garcia Marquez </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Jean-Pierre Manchette|Fatale]]'' () by Jean-Pierre Manchette</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Sound of Waves|The Sound of Waves]]'' () by Yukio Mishima </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Jean-Pierre Manchette|Three to Kill]]'' () by Jean-Pierre Manchette</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Dom Casmurro|Dom Casmurro]]'' () by Machado de Assis </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Josef Skvorecky|The End of Lieutenant Boruvka]]'' () by Josef Svorecky</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Hour of the Star|The Hour of the Star]]'' () by Clarice Lispector </small>
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|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Edogawa Ranpo|Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination]]'' () by Edogawa Ranpo</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Eca de Queiros|The Maias]]'' () by Eca de Queiros </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Edogawa Ranpo|The Black Lizard and Beast in the Shadows]]'' () by Edogawa Ranpo</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Chingiz Aitmatov|Jamilia]]'' () by Chingiz Aitmatov </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Kido Okamoto|The Curious Casebook of Inspector Hanshichi]]'' () by Kido Okamoto</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Shen Fu|Six Records of a Floating Life]]'' () by Shen Fu </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Xiaolong Qui|Death of a Red Heroine]]'' () by Xiaolong Qui</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Gone with the Wind|Gone with the Wind]]'' () by Margaret Mitchell </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Robert van Gulik|Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee]]'' () by Robert van Gulik</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Rebecca (novel)|Rebecca]]'' () by Daphne du Maurier </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Boris Vian|I Spit on Your Graves]]'' () by Boris Vian</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Nadja|Nadja]]'' () by Andre Breton </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Boris Vian|The Dead All Have the Same Skin]]'' () by Boris Vian</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Lady Chatterley's Lover|Lady Chatterley's Lover]]'' () by D.H. Lawrence </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The New York Trilogy|The New York Trilogy]]'' () by Paul Auster</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Romance of Tristan and Iseult|The Romance of Tristan and Iseult]]'' () by Joseph Bedier </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Jonathan Lethem|Gun, With Occasional Music]]'' () by Jonathan Lethem</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Alessandro Manzoni|The Betrothed]]'' () by Alessandro Manzoni </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Long Goodbye|The Long Goodbye]]'' () by Raymond Chandler</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:A Room With a View|A Room With a View]]'' () by E.M. Forster </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Inherent Vice|Inherent Vice]]'' () by Thomas Pynchon</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Far from the Madding Crowd|Far from the Madding Crowd]]'' () by Thomas Hardy </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Shooting Party|The Shooting Party]]'' () by Anton Chekhov</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Camille|Camille]]'' () by Alexander Dumas </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Yiddish Policemen's Union|The Yiddish Policemen's Union]]'' () by Michael Chabon</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The French Lieutenant's Woman|The French Lieutenant's Woman]]'' () by John Fowles </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Postman Always Rings Twice|The Postman Always Rings Twice]]'' () by James M. Cain</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Red and the Black|The Red and the Black]]'' () by Stendhal </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Fantomas|Fantomas]]'' () by Marcel Allain</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Bachelor of Arts |The Bachelor of Arts]]'' () by R.K. Narayan </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Georges Simenon|Dirty Snow]]'' () by Georges Simenon</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Enchanted April|The Enchanted April]]'' () by Elizabeth von Arnim </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Geoffrey Household|Rogue Male]]'' () by Geoffrey Household</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Love in a Fallen City|Love in a Fallen City]]'' () by Eileen Chang </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Kenneth Fearing|The Big Clock]]'' () by Kenneth Fearing</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Tale of Genji|The Tale of Genji]]'' () by Murasaki Shikibu </small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Young-Ha Kim|Photo Shop Murder]]'' () by Young-Ha Kim</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Ivan Turgenev|First Love]]'' () by Ivan Turgenev </small>
|-
|-
|}
|}
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<h2>Science fiction</h2>
<h2>Science fiction</h2>
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| colspan="5" |<h3>Dystopian science fiction </h3>
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| colspan="5" style="background:#C3D69B;" |'''Essential works'''
|-
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:BraveNewWorld FirstEdition.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Brave New World|Brave New World]]''<br />(1931)<br />by Aldous Huxley</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:1984first.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Nineteen Eighty-Four|Nineteen Eighty-Four]]''<br />(1949)<br /> by George Orwell</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:Farenheit 451.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Fahrenheit 451|Fahrenheit 451]]''<br />(1953)<br />by Ray Bradbury</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:LogansRun.jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:Logan's Run|Logan's Run]]''<br />(1967)<br />by William F. Nolan & George Clayton Johnson</small>
| style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center" |[[File:AScannerDarkly(1stEd).jpg|80px]]<br /><small>''[[wikipedia:A Scanner Darkly|A Scanner Darkly]]''<br />(1977)<br />by Philip K. Dick</small>
|-
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Additional dystopian science fiction'''
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#C3D69B;"|'''Essential works'''
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Iron Heel|The Iron Heel]]'' (1908) by Jack London</small>
|-
|-
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:BraveNewWorld FirstEdition.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Brave New World|Brave New World]]''<br/>(1931)<br/>by Aldous Huxley</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:We (novel)|We]]'' (1921) by Yevgeny Zamyatin</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:1984first.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Nineteen Eighty-Four|Nineteen Eighty-Four]]''<br/>(1949)<br/> by George Orwell</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:Farenheit 451.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Fahrenheit 451|Fahrenheit 451]]''<br/>(1953)<br/>by Ray Bradbury</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:LogansRun.jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:Logan's Run|Logan's Run]]''<br/>(1967)<br/>by William F. Nolan & George Clayton Johnson</small>
|style="background:#D7E3BC;" width="120" align="center"|[[File:AScannerDarkly(1stEd).jpg|80px]]<br/><small>''[[wikipedia:A Scanner Darkly|A Scanner Darkly]]''<br/>(1977)<br/>by Philip K. Dick</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5 style="background:#8DB3E2;"|'''Additional dystopian science fiction'''
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Kallocain|Kallocain]]'' (1940) by Karin Boye</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Iron Heel|The Iron Heel]]'' (1908) by Jack London</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Man in the High Castle|The Man in the High Castle]]'' (1962) by Philip K. Dick</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:We (novel)|We]]'' (1921) by Yevgeny Zamyatin</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Stand on Zanzibar|Stand on Zanzibar]]'' (1968) by John Brunner</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Kallocain|Kallocain]]'' (1940) by Karin Boye</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The World Inside|The World Inside]]'' (1971) by Robert Silverberg</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Man in the High Castle|The Man in the High Castle]]'' (1962) by Philip K. Dick</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said|Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said]]'' (1974) by Philip K. Dick</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Stand on Zanzibar|Stand on Zanzibar]]'' (1968) by John Brunner</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang|Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang]]'' (1976) by Kate Wilhelm</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The World Inside|The World Inside]]'' (1971) by Robert Silverberg</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Handmaid's Tale|The Handmaid's Tale]]'' (1985) by Margaret Atwood</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said|Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said]]'' (1974) by Philip K. Dick</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:The Giver|The Giver]]'' (1993) by Lois Lowry</small>
|-
|-
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang|Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang]]'' (1976) by Kate Wilhelm</small>
| colspan="5" |<small>''[[wikipedia:Dune (novel)|Dune]]'' (1965) by Frank Herbert</small>
 
|-
|-
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Handmaid's Tale|The Handmaid's Tale]]'' (1985) by Margaret Atwood</small>
| colspan="5" style="background:#8DB3E2;" |'''Recommendation images'''
|-
|-
|colspan=5|<small>''[[wikipedia:The Giver|The Giver]]'' (1993) by Lois Lowry</small>
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:128088780713.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Scifilit.jpg|80px]]
| width="120" align="center" |[[File:Sci_fi_chart.jpg|80px]]
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Fantasy

Epic fantasy

Essential works

The Lord of the Rings
(1954–1955)
by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Black Company
(1984—)
by Glen Cook
A Song of Ice and Fire
(1996—)
by George R. R. Martin
Malazan Book
(1999–2011)
by Steven Erikson
The First Law
(2006—)
by Joe Abercrombie
Additional epic fantasy
The Coldfire Trilogy (1991—1995) by C.S. Friedman
The Silmarillion (1977) by J. R. R. Tolkien
Shannara (1977—) by Terry Brooks
The Swordbearer (1982) by Glen Cook
The Wheel of Time (1990—2013) by Robert Jordan
The Deed of Paksenarrion (1992) by Elizabeth Moon
Mistborn (2006–2008) by Brandon Sanderson
The Kingkiller Chronicle (2007—) by Patrick Rothfuss
The Book of The New Sun (1980) by Gene Wolfe


Young Adult

Essential works

The Hobbit
(1937)
by J. R. R. Tolkien
Earthsea
(1968–2001)
by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Belgariad
(1982–1984)
by David Eddings
His Dark Materials
(1995–2000)
by Philip Pullman
Harry Potter
(1997–2007)
by J. K. Rowling
Additional Young Adult
Watership Down (1972) by Richard Adams


Weird fiction

Essential works

The House on the Borderland
(1908)
William Hope Hodgson
At the Mountains of Madness
(1936)
by H. P. Lovecraft
Perdido Street Station
(2000)
by China Miéville
City of Saints and Madmen
(2001)
by Jeff VanderMeer
The Emperor of Dreams
(2002)
by Clark Ashton Smith
Additional weird fiction
The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1931) by H. P. Lovecraft
Kraken (2010) by China Miéville
The Wasp Factory (1984) by Iain Banks
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Horror

Classic Horror

Essential works

Frankenstein
(1818)
by Mary Shelley 		File:Dracula.png
Dracula
(1897)
by Bram Stoker 		File:The Monk.png
The Monk
(1796)
by Matthew Lewis 		File:The Turn of the Screw.png
The Turn of the Screw
(1898)
by Henry James 		File:Poe.png
The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allen Poe
Additional Classic Horror
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) by Robert Stevenson
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) by Washington Irving
The King in Yellow (1895) by Robert Chambers
Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) by Charles Maturin
Ghost and Horror Stories (1964) by Ambrose Bierce


20th Century Horror

Essential works

Collected Stories
( )
by H.P. Lovecraft
Best Ghost Stories
( )
by Algernon Blackwood
Casting the Runes and Other Stories
( )
by M.R. James
It
( )
by Stephen King
House on the Borderland
( )
by William Hope Hodgson
Additional 20th Century Horror
The Tenant () by Roland Topor
Pet Sematary () by Stephen King
Boy in Darkness () by Mervyn Peake
the Haunting of Hill House () by Shirley Jackson
I Am Legend () by Richard Matheson
The Silence of the Lambs () by Thomas Harris
Song of Kali () by Dan Simmons
Something Wicked This Way Comes () by Ray Bradbury
Books of Blood () by Clive Barker
The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories () by Horacio Quiroga
Japanese Gothic Tales () by Kyoka Izumi
Kwaidan () by Lafcadio Hearn
Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination () by Edogawa Ranpo
The Blind Owl () by Sadegh Hedayat
The Golem () by Gustav Meyrink
Beast of the Heartland and Other Stories () by Lucius Shepard
Lukundoo () by Edward Lucas White
Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories () by Robert Aickman
Cold Tales () by Virgilio Piñera
The Other Side () by Alfred Kubin
Aura () by Carlos Fuentes


New Horror

Essential works
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Mystery/Crime

Essential works

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
()
by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Big Sleep
()
by Raymond Chandler
The Complete Father Brown Stories
()
by G.K. Chesterton
The Maltese Falcon
()
by Dashiell Hammett
That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana
()
by Carlo Emilio Gadda
Additional Crime/Mystery
The Thirty-Nine Steps () by John Buchan
The Name of the Rose () by Umberto Eco
Tales of Mystery & Imagination () by Edgar Allen Poe
Tales from Two Pockets () by Karel Capek
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold () by John le Carre
Rebecca () by Daphne du Maurier
Fatale () by Jean-Pierre Manchette
Three to Kill () by Jean-Pierre Manchette
The End of Lieutenant Boruvka () by Josef Svorecky
Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination () by Edogawa Ranpo
The Black Lizard and Beast in the Shadows () by Edogawa Ranpo
The Curious Casebook of Inspector Hanshichi () by Kido Okamoto
Death of a Red Heroine () by Xiaolong Qui
Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee () by Robert van Gulik
I Spit on Your Graves () by Boris Vian
The Dead All Have the Same Skin () by Boris Vian
The New York Trilogy () by Paul Auster
Gun, With Occasional Music () by Jonathan Lethem
The Long Goodbye () by Raymond Chandler
Inherent Vice () by Thomas Pynchon
The Shooting Party () by Anton Chekhov
The Yiddish Policemen's Union () by Michael Chabon
The Postman Always Rings Twice () by James M. Cain
Fantomas () by Marcel Allain
Dirty Snow () by Georges Simenon
Rogue Male () by Geoffrey Household
The Big Clock () by Kenneth Fearing
Photo Shop Murder () by Young-Ha Kim



Romance

Essential works

Daphnhis and Chloe
()
by Longus
Song of Songs
()
by Solomon
The Story of the Stone
()
by Cao Xueqin
Troilus and Criseyde
()
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Anna Karenina
()
by Leo Tolstoy
Additional Romance
Love in The Time of Cholera () by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Sound of Waves () by Yukio Mishima
Dom Casmurro () by Machado de Assis
The Hour of the Star () by Clarice Lispector
The Maias () by Eca de Queiros
Jamilia () by Chingiz Aitmatov
Six Records of a Floating Life () by Shen Fu
Gone with the Wind () by Margaret Mitchell
Rebecca () by Daphne du Maurier
Nadja () by Andre Breton
Lady Chatterley's Lover () by D.H. Lawrence
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult () by Joseph Bedier
The Betrothed () by Alessandro Manzoni
A Room With a View () by E.M. Forster
Far from the Madding Crowd () by Thomas Hardy
Camille () by Alexander Dumas
The French Lieutenant's Woman () by John Fowles
The Red and the Black () by Stendhal
The Bachelor of Arts () by R.K. Narayan
The Enchanted April () by Elizabeth von Arnim
Love in a Fallen City () by Eileen Chang
The Tale of Genji () by Murasaki Shikibu
First Love () by Ivan Turgenev


Science fiction

Dystopian science fiction

Essential works

Brave New World
(1931)
by Aldous Huxley
Nineteen Eighty-Four
(1949)
by George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451
(1953)
by Ray Bradbury
Logan's Run
(1967)
by William F. Nolan & George Clayton Johnson
A Scanner Darkly
(1977)
by Philip K. Dick
Additional dystopian science fiction
The Iron Heel (1908) by Jack London
We (1921) by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Kallocain (1940) by Karin Boye
The Man in the High Castle (1962) by Philip K. Dick
Stand on Zanzibar (1968) by John Brunner
The World Inside (1971) by Robert Silverberg
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974) by Philip K. Dick
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (1976) by Kate Wilhelm
The Handmaid's Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood
The Giver (1993) by Lois Lowry
Dune (1965) by Frank Herbert
Recommendation images
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