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172titles18,856,579words107authors~1257 hof reading
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A handful of books that show what the shelf does best: a novel, a gothic horror, a ghost story, an essay, a short story and a modern classic.
Pride and Prejudice1813 · 122,000 words
Frankenstein1818 · 75,000 words
The Turn of the Screw1898 · 41,876 words
Walden1854 · 106,298 words
The Yellow Wallpaper1892 · 6,052 words
Metamorphosis1915 · 21,982 wordsNewest arrivals
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Bleak House1853 · 351,226 words
The Three Musketeers1844 · 226,061 words
The House of the Seven Gables1851 · 104,846 words
A Princess of Mars1912 · 67,255 words
Common Sense1776 · 22,127 words
The Nicomachean Ethics-340 · 116,452 wordsBrowse the shelf
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- Books by decade — 1800s to the 1900s
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