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Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice: Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy's legendary romance. Regency-era wit and social satire - summary, analysis, and where to buy.

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird: Scout, Atticus Finch, and Boo Radley in 1930s Alabama. Classic on justice and racism - summary, analysis, and where to buy.

Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn: Huck and Jim raft down the Mississippi River. American literature classic on freedom and morality - summary and where to buy.

Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre: Jane and Mr. Rochester at Thornfield Hall. Gothic romance and female independence - summary, analysis, and where to buy.

Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland: Alice meets the Mad Hatter, Cheshire Cat, and Queen of Hearts. Classic fantasy - summary, characters, and where to buy.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: Victor creates life and unleashes tragedy. The novel that launched science fiction and asks what we owe our creations.

Kerouac's On the Road: Sal and Dean's cross-country journeys that defined the Beat Generation. Freedom, jazz, and the open American highway.

Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince: a philosophical fable about love, loss, and seeing with the heart. One of the most beloved books ever written.

Huxley's Brave New World: a chilling vision of engineered happiness and lost humanity. The dystopia that predicted our addiction to comfort and pleasure.

Golding's Lord of the Flies: stranded boys descend from civilization to savagery. A searing fable about the darkness within human nature.

Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea: Santiago's epic battle with a giant marlin. The Nobel Prize-winning parable of courage and endurance.

Orwell's Animal Farm: a barnyard revolution turns to tyranny. The devastating political fable about power, corruption, and betrayed ideals.

Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises: expatriates drink, love, and watch bullfights in 1920s Paris and Spain. The novel that defined the Lost Generation.

Achebe's Things Fall Apart: Okonkwo's world shatters as colonialism arrives in an Igbo village. The foundational novel of modern African literature.

Du Maurier's Rebecca: a new bride is haunted by her husband's glamorous dead wife at the great estate of Manderley. Gothic suspense at its finest.

Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms: love and war on the Italian front. A masterpiece of spare prose and devastating emotion.

Kafka's The Metamorphosis: Gregor Samsa wakes as an insect and discovers the monstrous indifference of the world. A masterpiece of modern alienation.

Voltaire's Candide: a devastating satire of optimism as Candide endures every disaster the world can inflict. Wickedly funny and razor-sharp.

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five: Billy Pilgrim unstuck in time, from the Dresden firebombing to an alien zoo. An anti-war classic.

Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front: young German soldiers face the horror of WWI trenches. The definitive anti-war novel.

Louisa May Alcott's Little Women: the March sisters navigate love, loss, and ambition in Civil War-era America. A beloved classic of growing up.

Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl: a teenager's life in hiding during the Holocaust. A timeless testament to hope and the human spirit.