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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
English · A2 · fantasy
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
English · B2 · romance
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
English · B2 · gothic
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
English · B1 · mystery
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
English · B1 · classic
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
English · B2 · gothic
Dracula
Bram Stoker
English · B2 · gothic
The Time Machine
H. G. Wells
English · B1 · science fiction
The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells
English · B2 · science fiction
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
English · A2 · fantasy
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
English · B1 · children
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
English · B2 · children
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
English · B1 · adventure
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
English · B2 · gothic
The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling
English · B1 · adventure
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
Herman Melville
English · C1 · adventure
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
English · B1 · classic
Anne of Green Gables
L. M. Montgomery
English · B1 · children
The Call of the Wild
Jack London
English · B1 · adventure
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
English · B2 · comedy
Peter Pan
J. M. Barrie
English · A2 · children
Emma
Jane Austen
English · B2 · romance
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
English · B2 · romance
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
English · B2 · gothic
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
English · C1 · gothic
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
English · B2 · classic
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
English · B2 · classic
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
English · C1 · classic
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
English · B2 · adventure
Gulliver’s Travels
Jonathan Swift
English · B2 · adventure
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
English · B1 · adventure
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
Jules Verne
English · B2 · science fiction
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
English · C1 · adventure
The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas
English · B2 · adventure
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
English · B1 · adventure
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
English · B2 · adventure
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
English · A2 · children
The Railway Children
E. Nesbit
English · A2 · children
The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells
English · B1 · science fiction
The Island of Doctor Moreau
H. G. Wells
English · B2 · science fiction
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
English · B2 · mystery
A Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle
English · B1 · mystery
The Sign of the Four
Arthur Conan Doyle
English · B1 · mystery
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
English · B2 · mystery
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
English · B2 · mystery
The Marvelous Land of Oz
L. Frank Baum
English · A2 · fantasy
Ozma of Oz
L. Frank Baum
English · A2 · fantasy
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
L. Frank Baum
English · A2 · fantasy
The Road to Oz
L. Frank Baum
English · A2 · fantasy
Anne of Avonlea
L. M. Montgomery
English · B1 · children
Anne of the Island
L. M. Montgomery
English · B1 · children
A Princess of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs
English · B1 · science fiction
The Gods of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs
English · B2 · science fiction
The Warlord of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs
English · B2 · science fiction
The Second Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling
English · B2 · adventure
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
English · B2 · romance
Persuasion
Jane Austen
English · B2 · romance
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
English · C1 · romance
Lady Susan
Jane Austen
English · B2 · romance
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
English · B2 · classic
Bleak House
Charles Dickens
English · C1 · classic
Hard Times
Charles Dickens
English · B2 · classic
The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens
English · C1 · comedy
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Mark Twain
English · B2 · science fiction
The Prince and the Pauper
Mark Twain
English · B1 · adventure
The Innocents Abroad
Mark Twain
English · C1 · adventure
White Fang
Jack London
English · B1 · adventure
The Sea-Wolf
Jack London
English · B2 · adventure
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
English · C1 · classic
The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
English · C1 · gothic
The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper
English · C1 · adventure
The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
English · B2 · classic
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
English · B1 · gothic
The Awakening
Kate Chopin
English · B2 · classic
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
English · B2 · classic
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
English · C1 · classic
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
English · B1 · gothic
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
English · C1 · gothic
The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James
English · C1 · classic
The American
Henry James
English · C1 · classic
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy
English · B2 · classic
Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
English · C1 · classic
Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
English · B2 · romance
Silas Marner
George Eliot
English · B2 · classic
Middlemarch
George Eliot
English · C1 · classic
The Mill on the Floss
George Eliot
English · C1 · classic
The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins
English · B2 · mystery
The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins
English · C1 · mystery
Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray
English · C1 · classic
Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson
English · B1 · adventure
Catriona
Robert Louis Stevenson
English · B2 · adventure
The Black Arrow
Robert Louis Stevenson
English · B2 · adventure
The Lost World
Arthur Conan Doyle
English · B1 · science fiction
The Poison Belt
Arthur Conan Doyle
English · B1 · science fiction
Tarzan of the Apes
Edgar Rice Burroughs
English · B1 · adventure
The Return of Tarzan
Edgar Rice Burroughs
English · B1 · adventure
The Beasts of Tarzan
Edgar Rice Burroughs
English · B2 · adventure
The Son of Tarzan
Edgar Rice Burroughs
English · B2 · adventure
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
Edgar Rice Burroughs
English · B2 · adventure
Little Men
Louisa May Alcott
English · B1 · children
Jo’s Boys
Louisa May Alcott
English · B2 · children
Eight Cousins
Louisa May Alcott
English · B1 · children
Rose in Bloom
Louisa May Alcott
English · B1 · children
The Story of the Treasure Seekers
E. Nesbit
English · A2 · children
The Wouldbegoods
E. Nesbit
English · A2 · children
Five Children and It
E. Nesbit
English · A2 · fantasy
The Phoenix and the Carpet
E. Nesbit
English · A2 · fantasy
The Story of the Amulet
E. Nesbit
English · B1 · fantasy
Pollyanna
Eleanor H. Porter
English · A2 · children
Pollyanna Grows Up
Eleanor H. Porter
English · B1 · children
The Princess and the Goblin
George MacDonald
English · A2 · fantasy
The Emerald City of Oz
L. Frank Baum
English · A2 · fantasy
The Patchwork Girl of Oz
L. Frank Baum
English · A2 · fantasy
Tik-Tok of Oz
L. Frank Baum
English · A2 · fantasy
The Scarecrow of Oz
L. Frank Baum
English · A2 · fantasy