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A
- About a Boy
- A Christmas Carol Summary
- A Clockwork Orange
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Aeneid
- Aesop's Fables
- A Farewell to Arms
- A Hero of Our Time
- The Alchemist
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- And Quiet Flows the Don
- And Then There Were None
- Anna Karenina
- A Rose for Emily Summary
- The Art of War
- A Separate Peace
- As I Lay Dying
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- A Tale of the Two Cities
- Atlas Shrugged
- Atonement
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- The Awakening
B
C
- The Call of the Wild
- Candide
- The Canterbury Tales
- Canzoniere
- The Catcher in the Rye
- The Chairs
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- The Cherry Orchard
- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
- Christ Legends and Other Stories
- Chronicles of Narnia - Prince Caspian
- Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- Chronicles of Narnia - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- The Chrysalids
- The Cid
- Cinderella Summary
- Cipollino
- The Color Purple
- Confessions
- Conrad: The Factory-Made Boy
- Crime and Punishment
- Cry, the Beloved Country
- Cyrano de Bergerac
D
E
F
G
- The Gardener
- Gargantua
- Germinal
- The Giver
- The Glass Menagerie
- The Golden Goose
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears Summary
- Gone With the Wind
- The Good Earth
- The Gospel of John
- The Government Inspector
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Great Expectations
- The Great Gatsby
- Grendel
- The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
- Gulliver's Travels
- The Gypsies
H
- Hamlet
- The Handmaid's Tale
- Hansel and Gretel Summary
- The Happy Prince Summary
- Hard Times
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- Hedda Gabler
- Heidi
- Hills Like White Elephants Summary
- Hiroshima
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- The Hobbit
- Hound of Baskervilles
- The House of the Seven Gables
- The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
- The Hunger Games
I
L
- Lassie Come Home
- The Last Days of Socrates
- The Last of the Mohicans
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- Les Miserables
- Letters from my Mill
- Life Is a Dream
- Life of Pi
- Little Lord Fauntleroy
- The Little Match Girl Summary
- The Little Mermaid
- Little Nicholas
- The Little Prince
- Little Red Riding Hood Summary
- Little Thumb
- The Little Water Sprite
- Little Women
- Lolita
- The Lord of the Flies
- The Lottery and Other Stories
- Lottie and Lisa
- Love in the Time of Cholera
- The Lovely Bones
M
- Madame Bovary
- The Man in the Iron Mask
- The Martian Chronicles
- The Masque of the Red Death Summary
- The Master and Margarita
- Maus: A Survivor's Tale Part One
- Maus: A Survivors Tale Part Two
- Maya the Bee
- Medea
- Memoirs of a Geisha
- The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
- Metamorphoses - Apollo and Daphne
- Metamorphoses - Narcissus and Echo
- Metamorphoses - Orpheus and Eurydice
- Metamorphoses - Pyramus and Thisbe
- Metamorphoses - Venus and Adonis
- The Metamorphosis
- The Misanthrope
- The Mistress of the Inn
- Moby Dick
- Momo
- Mother Courage and Her Children
- Mrs Dalloway
- The Murders in the Rue Morgue
- My Family Right or Wrong
N
O
- Oedipus Rex / Oedipus the King
- Of Mice and Men
- The Old Man and the Sea
- Oliver Twist
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- One Hundred Years of Solitude Summary
- One Thousand and One Nights
- On the River
- Orlando: A Biography
- Orlando Furioso
- Othello Summary
- The Overcoat
P
- The Pale King
- Pantagruel
- Paradise Lost
- Paul is Alone in the World
- The Paul Street Boys
- The Pearl
- Persuasion
- Peter Pan
- Phaedra (Phèdre)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Pinocchio
- Pippi Longstocking
- The Plague
- The Poem of the Cid
- The Poisonwood Bible
- The Pot of Gold
- Pride and Prejudice
- The Prince
- The Prince and the Pauper
- The Princess and the Pea Summary
- Prometheus Bound
- Puss in Boots
- Pygmalion
R
S
- The Scarlet Letter
- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole
- The Secret Life of Bees
- Sense and Sensibility
- Siddhartha
- Silas Marner
- Sinbad the Sailor - One Thousand and One Nights
- Six Characters In Search of an Author
- Slaughterhouse Five
- The Sleeping Beauty
- The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood
- The Snow Queen
- Snow White Summary
- The Song of Roland
- Song of Songs
- The Song of the Nibelungs
- The Sorrows of Young Werther
- The Sound and the Fury
- Speed Surf
- The Steadfast Tin Soldier Summary
- Steppenwolf
- The Story of Doctor Dolittle
- The Story of the Three Bears Summary
- Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- The Stranger
- The Sun Also Rises
- The Swaggering Soldier
- The Swineherd
T
- The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish
- Taming of the Shrew
- The Tell-Tale Heart Summary
- The Tempest
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Therese Raquin
- The Three Musketeers
- Thumbelina Summary
- The Time Machine
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Town Musicians of Bremen
- The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
- Treasure Island
- The Trial
- The Twelve Dancing Princesses
- Two Friends