Lady Susan is the only full novel written by Jane Austen that was not published in her lifetime.

Washington Square by Henry James is the story of the gentle, dull Catherine Sloper who falls for the ambivalent Morris Townsend, who her father believes is a fortune hunter.

First published in 1886, The Bostonians is one of James' wittiest social satires.

The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908.

Creative Unity is a collection of essays from Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore, who in 1913 became Asia's first recipient of the Nobel Prize.

Death consists in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing.

In Jack London's 1910 story Before Adam a young boy dreams that he is living the life of an early hominid, giving human evolution an early and entertaining portrayal.

Jack London's novel The Sea Wolf became an instant bestseller on its release in 1904.

Knut Hamsun's novel The Growth of the Soil won the Norwegian writer a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920.

Christine is brought up by her itinerant musician father, whose death she mourns endlessly.

The House on the Borderland is a supernatural horror novel by William Hope Hodgson.

Dead Souls is a socially critical black comedy.

Thomas Hardy (1840 1928) was a naturalist and writer, whose fiction sits on the cusp of the Industrial Revolution and is filled with an imminent sense of nostalgia for the coming transformation of the British countryside.

Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is the love story between the good shepherd Gabriel Oak and the proud heiress Bathsheba Everdene.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a novel in three parts, written as a letter from Gilbert Markham to his brother-in-Law.

A Princess of Mars is the first in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series. This science fiction planetary romance, packed full of dangerous feats and swordplay, is set on a dying Mars.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz chronicles the adventure of Dorothea in the land of Oz.

The Sheik is a book by Edith Maude Hull, an English novelist of the early twentieth century.

Jules Verne's classic science fiction story Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

Miles Franklin wrote My Brilliant Career as a romance to entertain her friends.