Invest your time in reading the true masterpieces of world literature, the greatest works by the masters of their craft, the revolutionary works, the timeless classics and the eternally moving storylines every person should experience in their lifetime:
Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
Siddhartha (Herman Hesse)
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
The Madman: His Parables and Poems (Kahlil Gibran)
Ward No. 6 (Anton Chekhov)
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Overcoat (Gogol)
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Walden (Henry David Thoreau)
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
Macbeth (Shakespeare)
The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot)
Odes (John Keats)
The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire)
Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott)
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Emma (Jane Austen)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Lorna Doone (R.D. Blackmore)
The Lady of the Camellias (Alexandre Dumas)
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Vanity Fair (Thackeray)
Dangerous Liaisons (De Laclos)
The Mill on the Floss (George Eliot)
Dona Perfecta (Benito Pérez Galdós)
Swann's Way (Marcel Proust)
Sons and Lovers (D. H. Lawrence)
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
The Wings of the Dove (Henry James)
The History of a Scoundrel or Bel-Ami (Guy de Maupassant)
Two Years in the Forbidden City (Princess Der Ling)
Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
Pepita Jimenez (Juan Valera)
The Way We Live Now (Anthony Trollope)
The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)
A Room with a View (E. M. Forster)
Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser)
The Blazing World (Margaret Cavendish)
The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)
The Republic (Plato)
The Golden Ass (Apuleius)
Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
Art of War (Sun Tzu)
Candide (Voltaire)
Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes)
Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Frederick Douglass)
Dream Psychology (Sigmund Freud)
The Einstein Theory of Relativity by H. A. Lorentz
The Science of Being Well (Wallace D. Wattles)
As a Man Thinketh (James Allen)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie)
A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Sign of Four (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
The Call of Cthulhu (H. P. Lovecraft)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving)
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells)
The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Black Cat (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum)
Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgersson (Selma Lagerlöf)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
White Fang (Jack London)
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Jules Verne)
Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
A Little Princess (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
The Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling)
Tarzan of the Apes (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
The Complete Fairytales of Brothers Grimm
The Complete Fairytales of Hans Christian Andersen
Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw)
Botchan (Soseki Natsume)
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
