The best Fiction of all time -- Part II.
Explore the greatest fiction books of all time in Part II of our definitive list. Discover timeless classics and must-read novels that every book lover should experience.
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The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
"The Moonstone is a page-turner," writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazing story through the recountings of its several narrators, all …
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Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller
The account of a young writer and his friends in free-wheeling Paris.
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The Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad
'An impenetrable mystery seems destined to hang for ever over this act of madness or despair.'Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's …
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The Robe
by Lloyd Cassel Douglas
Christ's robe has a strange effect on the pagan soldier who wins it in a dice game after the Crucifixion.
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An Enemy of the People
by Henrik Ibsen
Widely regarded as one of the foremost dramatists of the nineteenth century, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) brought the social problems and ideas of his …
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Dodsworth
by Sinclair Lewis
Yielding to the wishes of his spoiled wife, a wealthy American industrialist abandons his ideals to enter the frivolous world of European high society
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Main Street
by Sinclair Lewis
Features the story of a college graduate from St. Paul who leaves to marry a doctor in a small, middle-class town, only to find her …
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Passenger to Frankfurt
by Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie is more than the most popular mystery writer of all time. In a career that spans over half a century, her name is …
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The Plague
by Albert Camus
“Its relevance lashes you across the face.” —Stephen Metcalf, The Los Angeles Times • “A redemptive book, one that wills the reader to believe, even …
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The Trolley Car Family
by Eleanor Clymer
The Parker's acquisition of an old trolley car results in a delightful summer in the country and a new job for Father.
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Homer Price (Puffin Modern Classics)
by Robert McCloskey
Welcome to Centerburg! Where you can win a hundred dollars by eating all the doughnuts you want; where houses are built in a day; and …
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Utopia
by Thomas More
Revised introduction; new chronology and further reading Translated with an Introduction by Paul Turner.
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Clutch of Constables
by Ngaio Marsh
Troubled waters... Celebrated painter Troy Alleyn, aboard the Zodiac on a cruise of the English waterways, finds a colorful constellation of personalities on its passengers …
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Train Man
by P. T. Deutermann
A terrorist sabotages bridges over the Mississippi as a military train heads west with a shipment of chemical weapons. FBI agents Hush Hanson and Carolyn …
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The Firefly
by P. T. Deutermann
According to the DC cops, the fiery destruction of an upscale plastic surgery clinic and its staff is just business as usual. With the whole …
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Gone, But Not Forgotten
by Phillip Margolin
Betsy Tannenbaum, feminist defense attorney, is involved in the series of disappearances which are similar to those of 10 years ago, when the killer was …
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The Pool in the Desert
by Sara Jeannette Duncan
In The Pool in the Desert, first published in 1903, Sara Jeannette Duncan explores the impact of isolation on the small British communities of Victorian …
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The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
The uncut version of Upton Sinclair's classic 1906 novel about the shocking working conditions endured by immigrants in early twentieth-century Chicago stockyards and packinghouses.
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Tortilla Flat
by John Steinbeck
Danny, a mule skinner during the First World War, returns to Tortilla Flat to enjoy the carefree and amoral life of the paisano
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The Poorhouse Fair
by John Updike
At the Diamond County Home for the Aged, the inmates prepare for the annual ritual of the Poorhouse Fair. The elderly residents take pride in …
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The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
by Franz Werfel
During World War I, Gabriel Bagradian learns of Turkish plans to exterminate the Armenians and leads five thousand inhabitants from his village to the mountain …
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Bhowani Junction
by John Masters
First published in 1954 in the wake of the partition of India, John Masters' great novel Bhowani Junction has increased in stature over the years. …
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A Man Lay Dead
by Ngaio Marsh
It's All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Murdered. At Sir Hubert Handesley's country house party, five guests have gathered for the uproarious parlor game …
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Dune
by Frank Herbert
• DUNE: PART TWO • THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Directed by Denis Villeneuve, screenplay by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, based on the novel Dune …
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Stranger in a Strange Land
by Robert A. Heinlein
Epic, entertaining, Stranger in a Strange Land caused controversy and uproar when it was first published. Still topical and challenging today, the story of Valentine …
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Plum Island
by Nelson DeMille
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER CELEBRATING THE 20th ANNIVERSARY WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR Wounded in the line of duty, NYPD homicide detective …
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Vector
by Robin Cook
A Russian emigre, disgruntled at being denied the American dream, has the technological know-how to unleash a deadly bioweapon on the streets of New York. …