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Aphoristic | ||||
Essential Aphoristic Literature | ||||
![]() Tao Te Ching (4th century BCE) by Laozi |
![]() The Book of Ecclesiastes (3rd century BCE) |
![]() Meditations (2nd century) by Marcus Aurelius |
![]() Pensees (1669) by Pascal |
![]() The Waste Books (1799) by Georg Lichtenberg |
Additional Aphoristic Literature | ||||
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Doorstoppers | ||||
Doorstopper Literature Download | ||||
Essential doorstoppers | ||||
![]() The Tale of Genji (11th century) by Murasaki Shikibu |
![]() The Story of the Stone (18th century) by Cao Xueqin |
![]() The Count of Monte Cristo (1844) by Alexander Dumas |
![]() In Remembrance of Things Past (1927) by Marcel Proust |
![]() The Man Without Qualities (1942) by Robert Musil |
Additional Doorstoppers | ||||
Outlaws of the Marsh (14th century) by Shi Nai’an | ||||
Three Kingdoms (14th century) by Luo Guanzhong | ||||
The Decameron (14th century) by Giovanni Boccaccio | ||||
Gargantua and Pantagruel (16th century) by Francois Rabelais | ||||
Journey to the West (16th century) by Wu Cheng’en | ||||
The Faerie Queene (1596) by Edmund Spenser | ||||
Don Quixote (1615) by Miguel Cervantes | ||||
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) by Robert Burton | ||||
Nicholas Nickleby (1839) by Charles Dickens | ||||
David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickens | ||||
Bleak House (1853) by Charles Dickens | ||||
Les Miserables (1862) by Victor Hugo | ||||
War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy | ||||
Middlemarch (1874) by George Eliot | ||||
The Way We Live Now (1875) by Anthony Trollope | ||||
Kristin Lavransdatter (1920–1922) by Sigrid Undset | ||||
Before the Dawn (1929) by Toson Shimazaki | ||||
Musashi (1935) by Eiji Yoshikawa | ||||
The Arcades Project (1940) by Walter Benjamin | ||||
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941) by Rebecca West | ||||
The Recognitions (1955) by William Gaddis | ||||
Life and Fate (1959) by Vasily Grossman | ||||
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (1965) by Marguerite Young | ||||
Women and Men (1987) by Joseph McElroy | ||||
Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace | ||||
Rising Up and Rising Down (2003) by William T. Vollmann | ||||
2666 (2004) by Roberto Bolano | ||||
Parallel Stories (2005) by Peter Nadas | ||||
Against the Day (2006) by Thomas Pynchon | ||||
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Novellas | ||||
Novellas and Contemporary Novellas Download | ||||
![]() Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad |
![]() Heart of a Dog (1925) by Mikhail Bulgakov |
![]() Dream Story (1926) by Arthur Schnitzler |
Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) by Nathanael West |
![]() Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell |
Candide (1759) by Voltaire | ||||
The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) by Johann Woflgang von Goethe | ||||
Mathilda (1820) by Mary Shelley | ||||
The Girl With the Golden Eyes (1833) by Honore de Balzac | ||||
Taras Bulba (1835) by Nikolai Gogol | ||||
Diary of a Madman (1835) by Nikolai Gogol | ||||
A Hero of Our Time (1839) by Mikhail Lermontov | ||||
The Murders of the Rue Morgue (1841) by Edgar Allen Poe | ||||
A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens | ||||
The Double (1846) by Fyodor Dostoevsky | ||||
The Loved One (1848) by Evelyn Waugh | ||||
Bartleby the Scrivener (1853) by Herman Melville | ||||
Scenes of Clerical Life (1857) by George Eliot | ||||
The Lifted Veil (1859) by George Eliot | ||||
First Love (1860) by Ivan Turgenev | ||||
The Cossacks (1863) by Leo Tolstoy | ||||
Therese Raquin (1867) by Emile Zola | ||||
The Eternal Husband (1870) by Fyodor Dostoevsky | ||||
The Torrents of Spring (1871) by Ivan Turgenev | ||||
Around the World in 80 Days (1873) by Jules Verne | ||||
![]() Notes from Underground (1864) by Fyodor Dostoevsky |
![]() Of Mice and Men (1937) by John Steinbeck |
![]() Nausea (1938) by Jean-Paul Sartre |
![]() The Ballad of Sad Cafe (1951) by Carson McCullers |
![]() One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) by Solzhenitsyn |
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson | ||||
Daisy Miller (1878) by Henry James | ||||
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886) by Leo Tolstoy | ||||
Pierre and Jean (1887) by Guy de Maupassant | ||||
Alien Hearts (1887) by Guy de Maupassant | ||||
The Horla (1887) by Guy de Maupassant | ||||
Looking Backward (1887) by Edward Bellamy | ||||
The Man Who Would be King (1888) by Rudyard Kipling | ||||
Billy Budd (1888) by Herman Melville | ||||
The Devil (1889) by Leo Tolstoy | ||||
The Duel (1891) by Anton Chekhov | ||||
The Red Badge of Courage (1895) by Stephen Crane | ||||
The Time Machine (1895) by H.G. Wells | ||||
Master and Man (1895) by Leo Tolstoy | ||||
The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Henry James | ||||
The Awakening (1899) by Kate Chopin | ||||
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) by Arthur Conan Doyle | ||||
The Call of the Wild (1903) by Jack London | ||||
Three Lives (1906) by Gertrude Stein | ||||
Botchan (1906) by Natsume Soseki | ||||
![]() The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
![]() Thousand Cranes (1952) by Yasunari Kawabata |
![]() The Unnamable (1953) by Samuel Beckett |
![]() The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea (1965) by Yukio Mishima |
![]() The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) by Thomas Pynchon |
The Secret Sharer (1909) by Joseph Conrad | ||||
The Mysterious Stranger (1910) by Mark Twain | ||||
Ethan Frome (1911) by Edith Wharton | ||||
Death in Venice (1912) by Thomas Mann | ||||
The Dead (1914) by James Joyce | ||||
The Metamorphosis (1915) by Franz Kafka | ||||
The Lemoine Affair (1919) by Marcel Proust | ||||
Siddhartha (1922) by Hermann Hesse | ||||
The Fox (1923) by D.H. Lawrence | ||||
Story of the Eye (1928) by Georges Bataille | ||||
A Room of One's Own (1929) by Virginia Woolf | ||||
At the Mountains of Madness (1931) by H.P. Lovecraft | ||||
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) by James M. Cain | ||||
The Big Sleep (1939) by Raymond Chandler | ||||
The Stranger (1942) by Albert Camus | ||||
Cannery Row (1945) by John Steinbeck | ||||
Snow Country (1947) by Yasunari Kawabata | ||||
The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger | ||||
Junky (1953) by William S. Burroughs | ||||
Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury | ||||
![]() The Pearl (1947) by John Steinbeck |
![]() The Old Man and the Sea (1951) by Ernest Hemingway |
![]() The Key (1956) by Junichiro Tanizaki |
![]() The Castle of Crossed Destinies (1973) by Italo Calvino |
![]() Too Loud a Solitude (1976) by Bohumil Hrabal |
Night (1955) by Elie Wiesel | ||||
Pedro Paramo (1955) by Juan Rulfo | ||||
Seize the Day (1956) by Saul Bellow | ||||
Giovanni's Room (1956) by James Baldwin | ||||
The Subterraneans (1958) by Jack Kerouac | ||||
No One Writes the Colonel (1961) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | ||||
A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess | ||||
Outer Dark (1968) by Cormac McCarthy | ||||
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut | ||||
Child of God (1973) by Cormac McCarthy | ||||
Dusklands (1974) by J.M. Coetzee | ||||
The Pathseeker (1977) by Imre Kertesz | ||||
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | ||||
A Pale View of Hills (1982) by Kazuo Ishiguro | ||||
The Tenth Man (1985) by Graham Greene | ||||
South of the Border, West of the Sun (1992) by Haruki Murakami | ||||
The Actual (1997) by Saul Bellow | ||||
The Body Artist (2001) by Don Delillo | ||||
The Dying Animal (2001) by Phillip Roth | ||||
Everyman (2006) by Phillip Roth | ||||
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Poets | ||||
Translated/English-language Poets | ||||
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Further recommendations | ||||
Symbolist Movement | ||||
Charles Baudelaire ( ) | ||||
Arthur Rimbaud ( ) | ||||
Paul Verlaine ( ) | ||||
Stéphane Mallarmé ( ) | ||||
Alexander Blok ( ) | ||||
Imagist Movement | ||||
William Carlos Williams () | ||||
Ezra Pound () | ||||
Hilda Doolittle () | ||||
Richard Aldington () | ||||
F. S. Flint () | ||||
John Gould Fletcher () | ||||
Amy Lowell () | ||||
Beat Movement | ||||
Allen Ginsberg ( ) | ||||
Gregory Corso ( ) | ||||
Lawrence Ferlinghetti () | ||||
Harlem Rennaisance | ||||
Langston Hughes () | ||||
James Weldon Johnson () | ||||
Countee Cullen () | ||||
Transcendentalism | ||||
Walt Whitman () | ||||
Ralph Waldo Emerson () | ||||
Other Modern & Contemporary Poets | ||||
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Anne Sexton () | ||||
Sylvia Plath () | ||||
Ted Hughes () | ||||
John Ashbery () | ||||
John Berryman () | ||||
Rainer Maria Rilke () | ||||
Hart Crane () | ||||
Robert Frost () | ||||
Georg Trakl () | ||||
W. B. Yeats () | ||||
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Short Story Collections | |||||
Short Story Collections Download | |||||
Classic | |||||
![]() A Parisian Affair and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant |
![]() First Love and Other Stories by Ivan Turgenev |
![]() The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy |
![]() Three Tales by Gustav Flaubert |
![]() Dead Men Tell No Tales by Emile Zola | |
Further classic collections | |||||
The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky | |||||
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe | |||||
The Kruezter Sonata and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy | |||||
The Queen of Spades and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin | |||||
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892–1895 by Anton Chekhov | |||||
The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896–1904 by Anton Chekhov | |||||
Carmen and Other Stories by Prosper Merimee | |||||
Modern | |||||
![]() Elephant by Raymond Carver |
![]() Dubliners by James Joyce |
![]() Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges |
![]() Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway |
![]() South of No North by Charles Bukowski | |
Further modern collections | |||||
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Short Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald | |||||
In the Heart of the Country by William Gass | |||||
Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner | |||||
The Return by Andrei Platonov | |||||
The Collected Short Stories by Roald Dahl | |||||
Contemporary | |||||
![]() Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace |
![]() The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami |
![]() Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño |
![]() The Dog of the Marriage by Amy Hempel |
![]() Life After God by Douglas Coupland | |
Further contemporary collections | |||||
How We are Hungry by Dave Eggers | |||||
Drown by Junot Diaz | |||||
Break it Down by Lydia Davis | |||||
No One Belongs Here More than You by Miranda July | |||||
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Theater/Drama | ||||
Theater/Drama Download | ||||
Classical through Medieval | ||||
![]() The Three Theban Plays by Sophocles |
![]() The Oresteia by Aeschylus |
![]() Electra and Other Plays by Euripides |
![]() The Complete Plays by Aristophanes |
![]() Plays and Fragments by Menander |
Classical through Medieval cont. | ||||
The Pot of Gold and Other Plays by Plautus | ||||
Four Tragedies and Octavia by Seneca | ||||
The Comedies by Terence | ||||
The Loom of Time by Kalidasa | ||||
The Plays of Hrotswitha of Gandersheim | ||||
Japanese Noh Dramas | ||||
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By theme
Classics | ||||
Classics | ||||
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Modern Classics | ||||
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Depressing Literature | ||||
Exit Level Literature Download | ||||
Depressing Literature Download | ||||
![]() Journey to the End of the Night (1932) by Celine |
![]() The Book of Disquiet (1935) by Fernando Pessoa |
![]() No Longer Human (1948) by Osamu Dazai |
![]() Stoner (1965) by John Edward Williams |
![]() The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years (1980) by Chinghiz Aitmatov |
Oblomov (1859) by Ivan Goncharov | ||||
Germinal (1885) by Emile Zola | ||||
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886) by Leo Tolstoy | ||||
Hunger (1890) by Knut Hamsun | ||||
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) by Thomas Hardy | ||||
Jude the Obscure (1895) by Thomas Hardy | ||||
Jakob von Gunten (1909) by Robert Walser | ||||
Kokoro (1914) by Natsume Soseki | ||||
Skylark (1920s) by Dezső Kosztolányi | ||||
The Maimed (1923) by Hermann Ungar | ||||
Moravagine (1926) by Blaise Cendrars | ||||
The Sufferings of Prince Stenenhoch (1928) by Ladislav Klima | ||||
Will O'The Wisp (1931) by Pierre Drieu la Rochelle | ||||
On the Heights of Despair (1934) by E.M. Cioran | ||||
Death on Installment Plan (1936) by Louis-Ferdinand Celine | ||||
Of Mice and Men (1937) by John Steinbeck | ||||
Mouchette (1937) by Georges Bernanos | ||||
Ask the Dust (1939) by John Fante | ||||
On the Marble Cliffs (1939) by Ernst Junger | ||||
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) by Carson McCullers | ||||
The Tartar Steppe (1940) by Dino Buzzati | ||||
Our Lady of the Flowers (1943) by Jean Genet | ||||
The Lost Weekend (1944) by Charles Jackson | ||||
Snow Country (1947) by Yasunari Kawabata | ||||
The Setting Sun (1947) by Osamu Dazai | ||||
If This is a Man (1947) by Primo Levi | ||||
The Tunnel (1948) by Ernesto Sabato | ||||
Death of a Salesman (1949) by Arthur Miller | ||||
Thousand Cranes (1952) by Yasunari Kawabata | ||||
This Business of Living (1952) by Cesare Pavese | ||||
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) by Alexander Solzhenitsyn | ||||
Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964) by Hubert Selby Jr. | ||||
Death and the Dervish (1966) by Mes Selimovic | ||||
Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) by Jean Ryhs | ||||
The Trouble With Being Born (1973) by E.M. Cioran | ||||
The Thorn Birds (1977) by Colleen McCullough | ||||
The Hour of the Star (1977) by Clarice Lispector | ||||
Rituals (1980) by Cees Nooteboom | ||||
The Melancholy of Resistance (1989) by László Krasznahorkai | ||||
The Emigrants (1992) by W.G. Sebald | ||||
To Live (1993) by Yu Hua | ||||
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? (1994) by Lorrie Moore | ||||
4:48 Psychosis (1999) by Sarah Kane | ||||
The Road (2006) by Cormac McCarthy | ||||
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (2010) by Aimee Bender | ||||
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Drugs | ||||
Drug Books | ||||
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Humor | ||||
Humor Literature Download | ||||
![]() Candide (1759) by Voltaire |
![]() The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) by Oscar Wilde |
![]() The Code of the Woosters (1938) by P.G. Wodehouse |
![]() Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller |
![]() A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) by John Kennedy Toole |
Further recommendations | ||||
As You Like It (1599) by William Shakespeare | ||||
Much Ado About Nothing (1599) by William Shakespeare | ||||
Twelfth Night (1602) by William Shakespeare | ||||
Five Women who Loved Love (1685) by Ihara Saikaku | ||||
A Modest Proposal (1729) by Jonathan Swift | ||||
Gulliver's Travels (1735) by Jonathan Swift | ||||
Zadig (1747) by Voltaire | ||||
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1767) by Laurence Sterne | ||||
Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen | ||||
Dead Souls (1842) by Nikolai Gogol | ||||
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain | ||||
Three Men in a Boat (1889) by Jerome K. Jerome | ||||
The Devil's Dictionary (1906) by Ambrose Bierce | ||||
I Am a Cat (1906) by Natsume Soseki | ||||
Botchan (1906) by Natsume Soseki | ||||
The Trial (1915) by Franz Kafka | ||||
Kappa (1927) by Ryunosuke Akutagawa | ||||
Envy (1927) by Yuri Olesha | ||||
Vile Bodies (1930) by Evelyn Waugh | ||||
Right Ho, Jeeves (1934) P.G. Wodehouse | ||||
The Master and Margarita (1937) by Mikhail Bulgakov | ||||
All About H. Hatterr (1948) by G.V. Desani | ||||
Lucky Jim (1954) by Kingsley Amis | ||||
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1966) by Tom Stoppard | ||||
The Naked Ape (1967) by Jimmy Carr and Lucy Greeves | ||||
The Dice Man (1971) by Luke Rhinehart | ||||
The Princess Bride (1973) by William Goldman | ||||
Money (1984) by Martin Amis | ||||
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) by Douglas Adams | ||||
Stark (1989) by Ben Elton | ||||
Good Omens (1990) by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett | ||||
A Dirty Job (2006) by Christopher Moore | ||||
Shades of Grey (2009) by Jasper Fforde | ||||
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Surrealism | ||||
Surrealism (the movement) | ||||
![]() Nadja ( ) by Andre Breton |
![]() Hebdomeros ( ) by Giorgio de Chrico |
![]() Locus Solus ( ) by Raymond Roussel |
![]() The Leg of Lamb ( ) by Benjamin Peret |
![]() Babylon ( ) by Rene Crevel |
More Surrealism | ||||
The Hearing Trumpet ( ) by Leonora Carrington | ||||
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders ( ) by Viteszlav Nezval | ||||
Edition 69 ( ) by Jindrich Styrsky | ||||
The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch ( ) by Ladislav Klima | ||||
Dark Spring ( ) by Unica Zurn | ||||
The Lives of the Gods ( ) by Alberto Savinio | ||||
Blue of Noon ( ) by Georges Bataille | ||||
Paris Peasant ( ) by Louis Aragon | ||||
Zenobia ( ) by Gellu Naum | ||||
The Passive Vampire ( ) by Gherasim Luca | ||||
Aurora ( ) by Michel Leiris | ||||
Witch Grass ( ) by Raymond Queneau | ||||
The Poet Assassinated ( ) by Guillaume Appollinaire | ||||
Last Nights in Paris ( ) by Phillipe Soupault | ||||
Surrealism (the style) | ||||
![]() Froth on the Daydream ( ) by Boris Vian |
![]() The Blind Owl ( ) by Sadegh Hedayat |
![]() the Opposing Shore ( ) by Julien Gracq |
![]() Maldoror ( ) by Comte de Lautreamont |
![]() Aurelia and Other Writings ( ) by Gerard de Nerval |
More Surrealism | ||||
Tonguecat ( ) by Peter Verhelst | ||||
The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffmann ( ) by Angela Carter | ||||
Motorman ( ) by David Ohle | ||||
Invitation to a Beheading ( ) by Vladimir Nabokov | ||||
The Skewed Tales ( ) by H.C. Artmann | ||||
The Woman in the Dunes ( ) by Kobo Abe | ||||
The Adventures of the Ingenious Alfanhui ( ) by Rafael Ferlosio | ||||
At Swim-Two-Birds ( ) by Flann O'Brien | ||||
The Third Policeman ( ) by Flann O'Brien | ||||
The Tenant ( ) by Roland Topor | ||||
Moravagine ( ) by Blaise Cendrars | ||||
Kangaroo Notebook ( ) by Kobo Abe | ||||
The Complete Works ( ) of Urmuz | ||||
One Thousand and One-Second Stories ( ) by Inagaki Taruho | ||||
The Invention of Morel ( ) by Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||||
Heartsnatcher ( ) by Boris Vian | ||||
Locus ( ) by Felipe Alfau | ||||
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead ( ) by Barbara Comyns | ||||
Nightwood ( ) by Djuna Barnes | ||||
Hopscotch ( ) by Julio Cotazar | ||||
The Complete Stories ( ) of Franz Kafka | ||||
Ubu Roi ( ) by Alfred Jarry | ||||
Dogra Magra ( ) by Kyusaku Yumeno | ||||
Opium and Other Stories ( ) by Geza Csath | ||||
Blaugast ( ) by Paul Leppin | ||||
The Street of Crocodiles ( ) by Bruno Schulz | ||||
Phosphor in Dreamland ( ) by Rikki Ducornet | ||||
The Selected Works ( ) of Konrad Bayer | ||||
Pedro Paramo ( ) by Juan Rulfo | ||||
The Palace of Dreams ( ) by Ismail Kadare | ||||
The Obscene Bird of Night ( ) by Jose Donoso | ||||
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