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📚 Homer (c. 8th century BCE) The Iliads of Homer – this poem about Troy is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. Like the Odyssey, the poem is divided into 24 books and was written in dactylic hexameter. It contains 15,693 lines in its most widely accepted version. The Iliad is often regarded as the first substantial piece of European literature and is a central part of the Epic Cycle.

📚 Natalie Sumner Lincoln (1881 - 1935) The Blue Car Mystery – The story opens conventionally with a murdered man found on the floor of his library in Washington D.C. As the plot unfolds several possible assailants are discovered. There are the dead man’s fiancée and housekeeper, and her hunchback son, his niece whose father needs money and her shell shocked brother; and of these may be responsible. Or even the lawyer who when summoned by the victim’s niece drove to the scene of the crime in one blue car and drove away in another that later furnished a clue. All of these innocent people are more or less guilty, and one unsuspected person thoroughly so.

📚 E. F. Benson (1867 - 1940) The Room in the Tower, and Other Stories – gathers refined Edwardian ghost tales marked by psychological unease rather than shocks. Benson favors suggestion, social settings, and creeping inevitability. The title story exemplifies his skill at letting ordinary rooms become quietly, memorably sinister, with understated menace and restraint.

📚 Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823 - 1901) The Long Vacation – The Long Vacation tells the story of the Underwood family dynamics over years of growth, change and interactions. 👎 Boring...

📚 George Eliot (1819 - 1880) Daniel Deronda – The work's mixture of social satire and moral searching, along with its sympathetic rendering of proto-Zionist ideas, has made it a controversial final statement from one of the most renowned Victorian novelists. 👎 I couldn't make it past file 24, and the last 10 were becoming intolerable. Boring...

📚 Frederick Marryat (1792 - 1848) The Phantom Ship – Set in the mid-17th century we follow the exploits of Philip Vanderdecken, the son of the captain of the Flying Dutchman, as he attempts redeem his father's reputation, rescuing him from a life of eternal suffering. Philip is employed by the Dutch East India Company and sets sail on a series of adventures that include sea battles, shipwrecks, and encounters with the supernatural.

📚 Edgar Wallace (1875 - 1932) The Just Men of Cordova – Once again our vigilante heroes lend their great talents to serve against those outwith the law; The setting is the Spanish city of Cordova, wherein a number of wealthy European financiers have succumbed to a mysterious poison. Manfred, Gonzales, Poiccart and another meet out justice in there usual inimitable fashion, thwarting the devious shenanigans of the criminals of the early twentieth century.

📚 Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835 - 1915) Lady Audley's Secret – Mary Elizabeth Braddon's first novel, Lady Audley's Secret, was one of the most popular English novels of its day. Published serially in 1862, it tells the story of the lovely Lucy Graham, who becomes Lady Audley at the beginning of the novel, and who conceals a scandalous secret from her new husband and his family. The plot, which includes madness, bigamy, attempted murder, and seduction, made this a shocking but highly successful story for Victorian audiences. It remains one of the best examples of 19th century sensational fiction, and is a wonderfully absorbing book.

📚 Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) Bartleby the Scrivener, A Story of Wall Street – "Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by Herman Melville. The story first appeared, anonymously, in Putnam's Magazine in two parts. The first part appeared in November 1853, with the conclusion published in December 1853. It was reprinted in Melville's The Piazza Tales in 1856 with minor textual alterations. The work is said to have been inspired, in part, by Melville's reading of Emerson, and some have pointed to specific parallels to Emerson's essay, "The Transcendentalist." The story has been adapted twice: once in 1970, starring Paul Scofield, and again in 2001, starring Crispin Glover.

📚 Jane Austen (1775 - 1817) Pride and Prejudice – classic comic romance, in which the five Bennett sisters try to find that most elusive creature: a single man in possession of a large fortune. 👍

📚 Mary Cholmondeley (1859 - 1925) The Danvers Jewels – Colonel Middleton is entrusted by his critically ill military superior, Sir John Danvers, with carrying some valuable family jewels from India back to his nephew, Ralph, in England. Ralph is a younger son, but is favoured over his brother, Sir Charles Danvers, who becomes a suspect when, in the course of a large house party and some amateur theatricals, the jewels go missing. The story follows what happens to the jewels.

📚 Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) Hard Times, Locked Out and On Strike – In a soot-covered industrial town where markets overshadow the human spirit, a retired merchant devotes his life to a philosophy of rationalism and self-interest and forbids his children to engage in imaginative pursuits.

📚 Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774) The Vicar of Wakefield – It is the story of the family of Dr Primrose, a benevolent vicar, and follows them through their fall from fortune and their ultimate rise again. The story provides insight into family life and circumstances in the mid 18th century and the plot has many aspects of a pantomime like quality: Impersonation, deception, an aristocratic villain and the abduction of a beautiful heroine. (Wikipedia)

📚 E. Nesbit (1858 - 1924) Salome and the Head – Edmund Templar is visiting some relatives before being shipped off to the war in South Africa. Wandering in the New Forest, he encounters a strange girl dancing in a clearing, to the music of a penny whistle played by a crippled boy. Eight years later, on his return from the war, he traces the girl, now a young woman, and her musician, and gets deeply involved in their strange history and their stranger future.

📚 Rodrigues Ottolengui (1861 - 1937) An Artist In Crime – opens with a mysterious conversation on a train. Expert detective Jack Barnes overhears a late-night discussion between two men considering the possibility of committing a perfect crime and avoiding capture for at least a year. Is this an opportunity Barnes can't resist, or is this too good to be true? 👎

📚 August Derleth (1909 - 1971) The House of Moonlight – As a boy living in Sac Prairie, Wisconsin, with his grandfather Jasper, Steve goes to visit up-and-coming pianist Joel Merrihew and his mother. But what he finds in Joel is a troubled and broken man, struggling with an inner turmoil whose soul is as restless and conflicted as the dense and complex Symphony in D Minor by Franck of which Joel is so fixated. 👎

📚 Hamilton Aïdé (1826 - 1906) Elizabeth's Pretenders – A fin de siècle society tale of a young English heiress who must surely be in need of a husband. The multiple pretenders to her hand are managed adroitly by this woman with an independent will and mind.

📚 Honoré de Balzac (1799 - 1850) The Ball at Sceaux – The central character is Émilie de Fontaine, youngest daughter of a noble but impoverished family in post-revolutionary France. Her hapless father hopes to find her a good marriage, but Émilie, spoiled and willful, has repeatedly turned away suitors. She has a list of requirements for any prospective husband, one of which is that he must, of course, be “the son of a peer of France.” She holds firm to this resolve, but events have a way of turning out surprisingly.

📚 Honoré de Balzac (1799 - 1850) At the Sign of the Cat and Racket – The title (“La Maison du Chat-qui-pelote”) refers to a sign that hangs over a Parisian fabric shop, depicting a cartoon cat playing racquetball. The business is owned by a family with a narrow view of prim bourgeois propriety. Their complacency is disrupted when a gifted young man of artistic temperament and aristocratic upbringing woos their daughter.

📚 Honoré de Balzac (1799 - 1850) The Commission in Lunacy – An aristocratic woman wants the courts to declare her estranged husband mentally incompetent to manage his own affairs. To achieve this, the petition must pass through the hands of an examining judge — a man of old-fashioned integrity and conscience.

📚 The Pickwick Papers (1836) by Charles Dickens 👍

📚 The Count of Monte Cristo (1844) by Alexandre Dumas 👍

📚 Henry James (1843 - 1916) The Sense of the Past – Henry James’s unfinished novel The Sense of the Past (published posthumously in 1917) follows Ralph Pendrel, who inherits an old London house and mysteriously slips back into the eighteenth century. The tale explores time, memory, and identity with James’s characteristic psychological depth, though it remains fragmentary. 👎 What is this guy even babbling about? I abandoned this after the fourth file, which was probably three files too many.

📚 Edgar Wallace (1875 - 1932) The Other Man – The Other Man by Edgar Wallace is a 1911 mystery novel set in foggy London. A young street messenger navigates a web of intrigue involving financial schemes, romantic rivalries, and the enigmatic Count Poltavo. With suspenseful twists, T.B. Smith battles master criminal Gregory Silinski, revealing hidden motives and dark secrets.

📚 The Box Office Murders (1929) Freeman Wills Crofts – A is a classic British detective novel featuring Inspector French. The story revolves around the suspicious deaths of several young women working in cinema box offices across London. French’s meticulous, methodical investigation style is showcased as he uncovers a sinister conspiracy beneath the surface of routine city life. Crofts, a master of the “humdrum” detective school, builds tension through logical deduction and careful police work rather than flashy action. The novel reflects Crofts’ engineering background and commitment to realistic procedural detail, making it a standout entry in Golden Age detective fiction.

📚 William Le Queux (1864 - 1927) The House of Evil – a gripping mystery involving hidden identities, dark secrets, and murder. Set in early 20th-century England, it follows a journalist entangled in sinister events surrounding a mysterious house, blending suspense, intrigue, and deception in Le Queux’s signature melodramatic, fast-paced storytelling style. 👎

📚 Harold Bell Wright (1872 - 1944) When a Man's a Man – When a Man's a Man is a novel written by Harold Bell Wright, an author who was quite popular in the first decades of the 20th Century. This engaging story, somewhat melodramatic in its unfolding, begins with the introduction of a stranger to the still untamed Arizona landscape and to its life and people. The novel explores the contrast between the modern, civilized life of the cities with that found in the West, with its physical demands and, the author would assert, its more sincere and wholesome lifestyle. The novel's central theme may very well be an exploration of what makes a man a 'true man.' 🗣 I'm confident that you will never read a book that uses the words "manhood" and "womanhood" more.

📚 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 - 1873) The House by the Churchyard – Murder, mystery, mayhem, romance and relationships. Our classic who-done-it takes place in olde Dublin, Ireland in the village of Chapelizod around the Royal Irish Artillery base. A mysterious skull has been uncovered in the church graveyard. Whose skull is it, and how did it get those two crushing head wounds and the large hole in it, and why? 👎

📚 John Street (1884 - 1964) The Murders in Praed Street – A series of murders occur in Praed Street of London and the eccentric scientist Dr Priestly sees the connection in them. Only to discover that he himself is next in the list!

📚 William Hope Hodgson (1877 - 1918) Men of the Deep Waters – A short story collection of stories about the sea. 👎

📚 John Buchan (1875 - 1940) Greenmantle – Richard Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world, and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to meet up with his friend Sandy in Constantinople. Once there, he and his friends must thwart the Germans’ plans to use religion to help them win the war, climaxing at the battle of Erzurum. – 🗣 I never had any connection with the characters or the plot. 👎

📚 Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834) The Adventures of Ulysses – Lamb used Homer's Odyssey as the basis for the re-telling of the story of Ulysses's journey back from Troy to his own kingdom of Ithaca. Not a direct translation and deemed modern in its time, Lamb states in the preface that, "I have gained a rapidity to the narration which I hope will make it more attractive and give it more the air of a romance to young readers".

📚 Theodore Dreiser (1871 - 1945) An American Tragedy, Volume 1 – Loosely based on a true story, this is the tale of Clyde Griffiths. At a young age, Clyde realizes that money and influence can get him the finer things in life. As a young man, he finds himself torn between the poor but virtuous Roberta, and Sondra the wealthy socialite. Can there be a happy resolution to this love triangle? Follow Clyde throughout his young life as he struggles to figure out whether he can truly have everything he wants. This is volume 1 of 2. - Summary by Tatiana Chichilla

📚 John David Borthwick (1824 - 1892) The Gold Hunters – This is a robust, rough and tumble, first-hand account of the early California gold rush years 1851-1854 by a Scottish adventurer and artist J. D. Borthwick. The first edition, published in 1857 was called Three Years in California. Reprints have used the more descriptive title The Gold Hunters.

📚 G. A. Henty (1832 - 1902) In Freedom's Cause – A stirring tale from a master of historical fiction set in the time of Robert Bruce and William Wallace and their struggle for Scotland's independence. At Chapter 18, the new reader (who was to read the remaining chapters) became hard to understand, so I TTSed the Project Gutenbert text and listened to the rest that way.

📚 Natalie Sumner Lincoln (1881 - 1935) The Meredith Mystery – While spending a weekend at Ten Acres, David Curtis, a blind physician, stumbles upon the dead body of his host, John Meredith. Suspicion falls upon Meredith's niece. Curtis determines to clear her name.

📚 Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937) The House of Mirth – The House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is a novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in rich society. It is one of the first novels of manners in American literature, and one of the first to openly explore how American Victorian society offered little social mobility for women.

📚 Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875 - 1950) The Land that Time Forgot – The Land That Time Forgot is a science fiction novel, the first of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Caspak trilogy. His working title for the story was "The Lost U-Boat." Starting out as a harrowing wartime sea adventure, the story ultimately develops into that of a fantastical lost world.

📚 W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965) The Moon and Sixpence – Told in episodic form by a first-person narrator providing a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character, Charles Strickland, a middle-aged English stockbroker, who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire to become an artist. The story is, in part, based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin.

📚 George Gissing (1857 - 1903) Will Warburton – Published two years after Gissing's death, this novel tells the story of Will Warburton. Will loses his money in a failed business venture and has to come to terms with his new job as a grocer. This is a book about acceptance, love, and, of course, the meaning of money and status. 23 novels.

📚 Clayhanger (1910), by Arnold Bennett – A coming-of-age story about Edwin Clayhanger, who leaves school, has his ambition to become an architect thwarted by his tyrannical father, Darius, and so works in the family printing business. Edwin eventually takes over the business successfully. The story follows Edwin’s relationships with his family and the mysterious Hilda Lessways. - The Clayhanger Family - 4 part series

📚 George Eliot (1819 - 1880) The Mill on the Floss – It centres on the lives of brother and sister Tom and Maggie Tulliver growing up on the river Floss near the town of St. Oggs (a fictionalised version of Gainsborough, in Lincolnshire, England) in the years following the Napoleonic Wars, with both as young adults eventually meeting a tragic end by the Mill which the family holds so dear. In large measure, their lives are dominated by their father, a successful miller brought down by his inability to resist settling arguments in a court of law. – People making their lives hard for themselves.

📚 Nat Gould (1857 - 1919) Who Did It? – Following the dissolution of the New South Wales government, Henry Bryce is ready to take on the Labour Party for the seat of Balmain East. But no sooner is the campaign underway than his body turns up in Sydney Harbour. Who did it?

📚 Richard Harding Davis (1864 - 1916) In the Fog – The story is set in London, at an elite gentleman’s club called "The Grill," where an American gentleman arrests the attention of four other men by relating how one night he got lost in a thick London fog. He stumbled upon a house where a double murder was just committed. The victims of the murder were a young nobleman and a Russian princess. He escaped from the house and reported the killings to Scotland Yard. But they were unable to find the location of the dwelling. All very strange, as three of the other gentlemen all offer more information and perspectives on various details of the incident as they endeavor to solve the mystery.

📚 Esther Haven Fonseca ( - fl. 1937) Death Below the Dam – The body was found at five-thirty of a dark March morning, hanging head down in a tree, ten feet from the ground. There was a small, clean bullet hole in the back of the head, but there was no blood visible. It had been washed away, all of it, and even the garments that covered the cold limbs were dripping wet.

📚 Richard Harding Davis (1864 - 1916) The Lost House – Austin Ford, the London correspondent of the New York Republic, is spending some idle time in the American Embassy chatting with the Second Secretary, when suddenly a note is brought in. This note is an appeal for help, found in the gutter in a dark alley. The writer claims to be a young girl, who is kept against her will locked up in a lunatic asylum by her uncle.

📚 Carolyn Wells (1862 - 1942) The Maxwell Mystery – Phillip Maxwell is well known for his lavish dinner parties and all who are privileged to be invited to Maxwell Chimneys always look forward to an interesting evening. Present is Peter King, a long-time friend of Phillip's (also the narrator of this little story), a couple of good friends, a detective, an English Earl, a husband and wife and finally the beautiful Milly. She is the little coquette whom Phillip has proposed to many times hoping that this will be the last. It will be the last but not for the reason he expects!!! Halfway through the evening a shot is heard. Phillip is dead and Milly also shot but holding a gun in her hand. As the clues increase so do the list of suspects until it is clear outside help is needed and master detective Fleming Stone is sent for to help unravel the mystery.

📚 The Federalist Papers (1787-8) by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay – The Federalist Papers is a collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay under the collective pseudonym "Publius" to promote the ratification of the Constitution of the United States. The collection was commonly known as The Federalist until the name The Federalist Papers emerged in the twentieth century.

📚 William Frend De Morgan (1839 - 1917) Somehow Good – A mysterious man arrives in London and, in a freak accident, gets electrocuted on an underground train and loses his memory. A young lady called Sally Nightingale feels responsible, and brings him home to her mother. But in a strange twist of fate it transpires that her mother is the man's ex wife, whom he left twenty years earlier in unhappy circumstances. The old attraction is there, but what will happen if and when his memory returns?

📚 Herbert Gorman (1893 - 1954) The Place Called Dagon – A strange romantic tale of a cult of evil descended from early witchcraft days. Mirroring an unusual element of New England society, it tells the story of a young man and girl caught in the toils of an ancient ritual.

📚 Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) Kidnapped – A historical novel written in the late 19th century. The story follows the adventures of David Balfour, a young Scottish lad, who embarks on a journey to claim his inheritance only to be met with betrayal and danger.

📚 Dorothy Richardson (1873 - 1957) Pointed Roofs – "Pointed Roofs" is the first volume of "Pilgrimage," a series of thirteen autobiographical novels by Dorothy Richardson considered to have pioneered the "stream of consciousness" technique of writing. – Boring. Nothing really happens. 👎 Next day thoughts. In this case the stream of consciousness demonstrates how people in Western society have most judgemental thoughts, which creates an underly state of suffering at all times. This woman is not a happy person, and her suffering is all self created by her mind.

📚 Thomas L. Sherred (1915 - 1985) Cue for Quiet – The story of a man with a headache — who found a cure for it! And the cure gave him more power than any man could dream of. – Comic book level dialogue.

📚 Harold MacGrath (1871 - 1932) The Pagan Madonna – set in Shanghai, tells a story of intrigue, murder, and illicit art “collecting.” The paths of Jean Norman, a Red Cross nurse from the United States, Ling Foo, a shifty pawn shop keeper, and Anthony Cleigh, millionaire art collector, cross and recross in growing intrigue over a string of beads.

📚 Maurice Nicoll (1884 - 1953) The Blue Germ An English physician and a Russian research scientist jointly develop a bacillus that transforms disease causing germs into benign microorganisms effectively eliminating death by natural cause. The well-intentioned inventors take matters into their own hands, gifting mankind with their extraordinary boon, by spreading the bacillus globally beginning with the water supply in England.

📚 John Meade Falkner (1858 - 1932) Moonfleet – The novel is set in a fishing village in Dorset during the mid 18th century. The story concerns a 15 year old orphan boy, John Trenchard, who becomes friends with an older man who turns out to be the leader of a gang of smugglers.

📚 Frederik Pohl (1919 - 2013) Plague of Pythons – In a post-apocalyptic world where every government in the world has been overrun by its own military machinery, only to see that military machinery self-destruct, people are randomly being affected by a plague that seemingly takes over their brains and forces them to commit heinous crimes.

📚 Gertrude Atherton (1857 - 1948) Ancestors: A Novel – With the sudden death of her father and no chance of a rich husband, poverty was looming and the young woman may be forced to earn her living. – The author seems to be a very unhappy and judgemental woman. The book contains long stupid speeches pretending to be dialogue. 👎

📚 Ghost Story Collection 001 – A collection of ten pieces, read by various readers, about the unreal edges of this world in legend and story; tales of love, death and beyond. If just one story prickles the hair on the back of your neck, or prickles your eyelids with the touch of tears, we will have succeeded.

📚 Ivan Goncharov (1812 - 1891) The Precipice – a story of the romantic rivalry among three men, condemning nihilism as subverting the religious and moral values of Russia. (This promises to be a laugh a minute) With 24 files left, only 13 files in I just can't continue this book. Why are Russian writers so miserable?

📚 Grant Allen (1848 - 1899) The Type-Writer Girl – Juliet Appleton is an officer’s daughter who is forced to make her own way in the world after her father’s death. Having been trained in typewriting and shorthand, she obtains employment at a law office, only to find that she cannot bear to work with her unpleasant colleagues and employer. – Melodramatic shit.

📚 Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876 - 1958) Dangerous Days – A novel likely written during the early 20th century. The story revolves around Natalie Spencer, a meticulous and somewhat superficial hostess, and her husband Clayton, who seem to be living in a world of societal expectations against the backdrop of a looming war. – Lots of melodramatic nonsense. The characters are like self absorbed children. Were people really like this prior to WW1?

📚 Dolores Hitchens (1907 - 1973) The Cat Saw Murder – Samantha, the cat to whom a fortune had been left, was very much the center of the whole story, from the moment when she brought in to Miss Rachel some delicious-looking raw meat, with glistening poison crystals on it, through to the time when she saw murder committed, but remained shining black when the whole tiny room was made a red shambles.

📚 George Borrow (1803 - 1881) Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest – This unusual narrative by eccentric self-taught English linguist, traveller and one-time bible salesman George Borrow combines elements of autobiography, fantasy and anti-Catholic polemic. Borrow's spent his life working as a Bible translations for missionary purposes. Most of the book involves supernatural arguments between various Christian groups of his time. Today these issues seem comically funny.

📚 Gertrude Barrows Bennett AKA Francis Stevens (1883 - 1948) Citadel of Fear – Two adventurers discover a lost city in the Mexican jungle. One is taken over by an evil god while the other falls in love with a woman from the ancient Mexican city of Tlapallan. Citadel of Fear was first published as a serial in Argosy Magazine in 1918-1919. It was eventually republished as a novel in 1970. It is now considered a "lost classic". - Pretty much shit. Gave up about 3/4's in.

📚 G. D. H. Cole (1889 - 1959) The Brooklyn Murders – Two relatives of a prominent theater personality Sir Vernon Brooklyn are found murdered on the day after a party in honor of Sir Vernon on his 70th birthday. While Inspector Blaikie is on the trail, Superintendent Wilson is the brain behind it. But there is also a pair of lovers who aren't far behind the police trying to unravel the mystery. – Very slow, uninteresting, give it a miss.

📚 Charles J. Dutton (1888 - 1964) The Crooked Cross – Bartley is to visit his friend Carter for the summer but sends his friend Pelt ahead to a town in New York. Pelt, Carter and Carter's friend from across the ocean, a Scotland yard man Ranville are invited to a dinner with Professor Warren and anthropologist. The dinner never happens as the three find Warren dead inside a locked house.

📚 Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928) Far from the Madding Crowd – The novel is set in Thomas Hardy's Wessex in rural southwest England, as had been his earlier Under the Greenwood Tree. It deals in themes of love, honour and betrayal, against a backdrop of the seemingly idyllic, but often harsh, realities of a farming community in Victorian England. It describes the life and relationships of Bathsheba Everdene with her lonely neighbour William Boldwood, the faithful shepherd Gabriel Oak, and the thriftless soldier Sergeant Troy.

📚 Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957) Clouds of Witness – The second in her series featuring Lord Peter Wimsey.

📚 E. M. Forster (1910) Howards End – About social conventions, codes of conduct and relationships in turn-of-the-century England. Howards End is considered by many to be Forster's masterpiece.

📚 Booth Tarkington (1869 - 1946) The Midlander (Growth Trilogy Vol 3) – It is the story of a family at the top of the socioeconomic heap in a Midwestern market town that is about to grow into an industrial city.

📚 Booth Tarkington (1869 - 1946) The Magnificent Ambersons (Growth Trilogy Vol 2) – The second in his Growth trilogy after The Turmoil (1915) and before The Midlander (1923, retitled National Avenue in 1927). It won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

📚 Booth Tarkington (1869 - 1946) The Turmoil (Growth Trilogy Vol 1) – The trilogy traces the growth of the United States through the declining fortunes of three generations of the aristocratic Amberson family in a fictional Mid-Western town, between the end of the Civil War and the early part of the 20th century, a period of rapid industrialization and socio-economic change in America.

📚 Louis Bromfield (1896 - 1956) The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg – About the live of a self described “vain” man and his romance with a lady, Annie, whom many considered to be a saint. It also tells of how appreciative he and his wife were to Annie as they knew that without her their meeting would never had taken place so their children would not have been born.

📚 Milo Hastings (1884 - 1957) City of Endless Night – The year is 2041. Since the end of WWI, Berlin has been an enormous subterranean city, home to 300 million citizens who have never seen the sun, and presided over by the autocratic Hohenzollern dynasty. - Found myself listening while doing the dishes and other chores and at various points thinking to myself; "what the hell is this guy babbling about now?" This book is quite tiresome.

📚 Alfred Walter Stewart (1880 - 1947) The Case With Nine Solutions – This book was written by Alfred Walter Stewart under the pseudonym J.J. Connington. Sir Clinton Driffield is a respected police professional assigned the task of solving a convoluted crime of murder. The case involves a coy temptress, her husband, a secret admirer and a young man with a romantic interest in the temptress. Sir Clinton and his assistant, Inspector Flamborough must whittle down the circumstances and causes of death from nine potential scenarios. The process leads them through scientific clues, messages from a secret source and good old fashioned deductive reasoning.

📚 Freeman Wills Crofts (1921) The Ponson Case – When the body of Sir William Ponson is found in the Cranshaw River near his home of Luce Manor, it is assumed to be an accident – until the evidence points to murder. Inspector Tanner of Scotland Yard discovers that those who would benefit most from Sir William’s death seem to have unbreakable alibis.

📚 Emile Zola (1840 - 1902) The Fortune of the Rougons – the first novel in Émile Zola's monumental twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. The novel is partly an origin story, with a large cast of characters - many of whom become the central figures of later novels in the series - and partly an account of the December 1851 coup d'état that created the French Second Empire under Napoleon III.

📚 Henry Beston (1888 - 1968) The Outermost House – Chronicles a year Beston spent living on the dunes of Cape Cod.

📚 Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1794 - 1872) History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, Volume 1 – devoted to the earlier period of the movement in Germany, i.e., Martin Luther's time, at once earned a foremost place among modern French ecclesiastical historians, and was translated into most European languages.

📚 Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849 - 1924) The Head of the House of Coombe – follows the relationships between a group of pre–World War One English nobles and commoners. It also offers editorial commentary on the political system in prewar Europe that Burnett feels bears some responsibility for the war, and some pointed social commentary.

📚 Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) Walden – The text is a reflection upon the author's simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and—to some degree—a manual for self-reliance.

📚 George Hodges (1856 - 1919) Fountains Abbey; the story of a mediaeval monastery – The story of Fountains Abbey, one of England's most famous medieval monasteries, from its foundation in the twelfth century to its suppression at the time of the Reformation; with a description of its various buildings, and an account of the daily life of the monks.

📚 Edgar Wallace (1875 - 1932) The Squealer – From the golden age of detective fiction, Edgar Wallace was a prolific author with over 170 novels to his credit, including King Kong. More than 160 films have been made of his works, and a publisher once claimed that a quarter of all books read in England at the time were written by him.

📚 Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962) Siddhartha – A 1922 novel that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha.

📚 Robert Colby (1920 - 2004) Murder Mistress – Scott Daniels is a washed up showbiz announcer who hit the bottle a few too many times and blew his big chance. But he starts to think his luck is turning around when, after a disappointing trip to New York to negotiate a comeback, he crosses paths with a sexy, sophisticated dame named Valerie who offers him five hundred bucks to show up to the scene of a car accident and sneak a large tan briefcase from the trunk of one of the cars. 👎

📚 Emile Zola (1840 - 1902) The Ladies' Paradise – The novel is set in the world of the department store, an innovative development in mid-nineteenth century retail sales. Zola models his store after Le Bon Marché, which consolidated under one roof many of the goods hitherto sold in separate shops. 👎

📚 Edgar Wallace (1875 - 1932) The Double – Cambridge-educated Richard Staines, newly promoted to DI by Scotland Yard, has enjoyed a meteoric rise in his career. When he finds himself trapped on a balcony in Belgravia during a thunderstorm, he smashes some glass in desperation to gain access to an acquaintance’s property, only to find a crime in progress.

📚 John Meade Falkner (1858 - 1932) The Lost Stradivarius – a short novel of ghosts and the evil that can be invested in an object, in this case an extremely fine Stradivarius violin.

📚 Daniel Defoe (c.1660 - 1731) The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders – first published in 1722. It purports to be the true account of the life of the eponymous Moll, detailing her exploits from birth until old age. The novel is based partially on the life of Moll King, a London criminal whom Defoe met while visiting Newgate Prison.

📚 R. Austin Freeman (1928) As A Thief In The Night – Harold Monkhouse is usually such an uncomplaining patient so when his brother Amos calls in one night, what he doesn’t expect is to see him at Death’s door. Suspicions aroused, he demands an urgent second opinion. And when Harold is later found dead from arsenic poisoning, Amos is left in no doubt that foul play is afoot.

📚 Julia Peterkin (1880 - 1961) Scarlet Sister Mary – A 1928 novel. It won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1929. The book was called obscene and banned at the public library in Gaffney, South Carolina. The Gaffney Ledger newspaper, however, serially published the complete book. Gave up in Chapter 5, and read the wikipedia summary. I could see it was gonna be a waste of time.

📚 A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World Volume 1, by James Cook (1728 - 1779) – Having, on his first voyage, discovered Australia, Cook still had to contend with those who maintained that the Terra Australians Incognita (the unknown Southern Continent) was a reality. To finally settle the issue, the British Admiralty sent Cook out again into the vast Southern Ocean with two sailing ships totalling only about 800 tons. Listen as Cook, equipped with one of the first chronometers, pushes his small vessel not merely into the Roaring Forties or the Furious Fifties but becomes the first explorer to penetrate the Antarctic Circle, reaching an incredible Latitude 71 degrees South, just failing to discover Antarctica.

📚 Henry James (1903) The Beast in the Jungle – Almost universally considered one of James' finest short narratives, this story treats appropriately universal themes: loneliness, fate, love and death. 👎

📚 Julia Mary Cartwright (1893) The Pilgrims' Way from Winchester to Canterbury – Julia Cartwright provides readers with a meticulously researched account of the historical and literary significance of the famous pilgrimage route in England.

📚 Wilhelm Hauff (1844) The Cold Heart – Dissatisfied with his life of poverty, Peter Munk, a poor charcoal burner, summons an ancient spirit who rewards him with three wishes.

📚 Ingersoll Lockwood (1896) 1900 or The Last President – New York City is riven by protests following the shocking victory of a populist candidate in the 1896 presidential election, who brings on the downfall of the American republic. What the actual fuck did I just listen to?

📚 Edward Whymper (1871) Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69 – When he first saw the Alps in 1860, Edward Whymper was a 20-year-old English wood engraver whose dream was to become an arctic explorer. Ambitious and hungry for adventure, he fell in love with the challenge the Alps presented and set out to conquer them peak by peak.

📚 Mack Reynolds (1968) Mercenary – It is the first in a series about Joe Mauser, a soldier in a rigid, caste-based society that makes it very difficult to better oneself. A childish political screed. Laughable 👎

📚 The Vanishing Man (1911) R. Austin Freeman – A young doctor, former student of the legal and medical expert Dr. John Thorndyke, finds himself almost accidentally drawn into a case in which a man has vanished.

📚 J. S. Fletcher (1920) Exterior to the Evidence – At the foot of Black Scar, the loneliest spot on the moors and the most dangerous, lay the body of Sir Cheville Stanbury. All indications pointed to an accident, a misstep off the ledge of Black Scar Pass, until certain events aroused suspicion and a verdict of murder was decided upon.

📚 Dead Men's Money (1920) J. S. Fletcher – A classic mystery from J.S. Fletcher, full of murder, red herrings, romance, an old castle, chests of gold, and English lawyers.

📚 The House on the Borderland (1877) William Hope Hodgson – The novel is a hallucinatory account of a recluse's stay at a remote house, and his experiences of supernatural creatures and otherworldly dimensions. 👎

📚 Oscar Wilde (1891) The Picture Of Dorian Gray – A young, beautiful Dorian Gray makes a deal to keep his youth while his portrait bears the marks of his hedonistic life. Consumed by pleasure and unchecked desires, Dorian descends into darkness, leaving a trail of destruction, while his hidden portrait reveals the true cost of his choices.

📚 Robert Balmain Mowat (1917) The Later Middle Ages – The Scottish historian, Robert Balmain Mowat writes, “When this period opens one of the finest epochs in German history had just closed, and a time of confusion begun.” With the death of the Emperor Frederick II, Germany’s many feudal territories became practically hereditary sovereignties, her Free Imperial Cities almost independent states. But within the walls of these city-states, as in their Italian counterparts, commercial life flourished. During this period the Great Schism divided Christendom and was with infinite difficulty resolved. This was the age of Dante, Boccaccio, and Petrarch, of the Hundred Years’ War, of the rise of Spain, and of the Turkish conquest of Constantinople.

📚 Tension, by E. M. Delafield

📚 Arnold Bennett (1923) Riceyman Steps

📚 The Cambridge Medieval History, Volume 01, The Christian Roman Empire and the Foundation of the Teutonic Kingdoms, by John Bagnell Bury

📚 The Old Man in the Corner (1908) by Baroness Emma Orczy

📚 Ernest Oldmeadow (1907) Susan

📚 Paul Laurence Dunbar (1901) The Fanatics

📚 Abbie Farwell Brown (1910) The Christmas Angel

📚 H. G. Wells (1915) Bealby; A Holiday

📚 William Hope Hodgson (1908) The House on the Borderland

📚 Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1866) The Lady's Mile

📚 Vladimir Korolenko (1886) The Blind Musician

📚 Beatrice Harraden (1894) Ships That Pass in the Night

📚 The Dark Flower (1913) by John Galsworthy

📚 Flaming Youth (1923) Samuel Hopkins Adams

📚 Ideala (1893) Sarah Grand

📚 Louis Couperus (1890) Footsteps of Fate

📚 George du Maurier (1898) The Martian

📚 Olivia Rossetti Agresti (1903) A Girl Among the Anarchists

📚 The Red Planet (1917) William John Locke

📚 Willa Sibert Cather (1925) The Professor's House

📚 The Rome Express (1910), by Arthur Griffiths

📚 The Hand in the Dark (1909), by Arthur J. Rees

📚 The Clue of the Twisted Candle (1916) Edgar Wallace

📚 The Loot Of Cities (1900), by Arnold Bennett

📚 The House Of The Arrow (1924), by A. E. W. Mason

📚 The Hemlock Avenue Mystery (1908), by Lily A. Long

📚 The Warden (1855) Anthony Trollope

📚 Four Noncanonical Sherlock Holmes Short Stories, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

📚 Sir Nigel, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

📚 Les Misérables (1862) by Victor Hugo 👍

📚 A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens 👍

📚 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll 👍

📚 Wuthering Heights (1847), by Emily Bronte 👍

📚 The Man in the Iron Mask, By Alexandre Dumas 👍

📚 In Kent with Charles Dickens (1880), by Thomas Frost

📚 The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde 👍

📚 Siddhartha (1922), by Hermann Hesse 👍

📚 The Quest of the Historical Jesus, by Albert Schweitzer 👍

📚 The Man of Property (Forsyte Saga Vol. 1) (1906), By John Galsworthy 👍

📚 Bleak House, by Charles Dickens 👍

📚 The Woman in White (1859), By Wilkie Collins

📚 The Talisman (1825), by Sir Walter Scott

📚 Poor Miss Finch (1872), by Wilkie Collins

📚 The Poisoned Pen (1913), by Arthur B. Reeve

📚 Mrs. Raffles (1905), by John Kendrick Bangs

📚 An Eye For An Eye (1900), by William Le Queux

📚 Paul and Virginia (1788), by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

📚 Murder at St. Dennis (1952), by Margaret Ann Hubbard

📚 Cleek of Scotland Yard (1914), by Thomas W. Hanshew

📚 The Mystery of the Hidden Room (1922), by Marion Harvey

📚 The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation (1917), by J. S. Fletcher

📚 The Peril Finders (1902), by George Manville

📚 John Silence (1908), by Algernon Blackwood

📚 A Fair Mystery (1886), by Charlotte M. Brame

📚 Ralestone Luck (1938), by Andre Norton

📚 The Talleyrand Maxim (1020), by J. S. Fletcher

📚 The Orange-Yellow Diamond (1921), by J. S. Fletcher

📚 The Secret of the Silver Car (1920), by Wyndham Martyn

📚 Against Odds (1894), by Lawrence L. Lynch

📚 A Silent Witness (1915), by R. Austin Freeman

📚 The Mystery of the Downs (1918), by Arthur J. Rees and John R. Watson

📚 The Curved Blades (1916), by Carolyn Wells

📚 The Three Hostages (1924), by John Buchan

📚 Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness (1912), by Selma Lagerlöf

📚 The Torrents of Spring (1872), by Ivan Turgenev

📚 The House of the Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

📚 At the Villa Rose, by A. E. W. Mason

📚 The Death of the Lion, by Henry James

📚 Tommy and Grizel, by J. M. Barrie

📚 Policy and Passion, by Rosa Campbell Praed

📚 To Build a Fire (1902), by Jack London

📚 The Rainbow (1915) D. H. Lawrence

📚 Women in Love (1920) D. H. Lawrence

📚 Persuasion (1817) Jane Austen

📚 The Story of Aristotle's Philosophy (1923) Will Durant

📚 Voltaire and the French Enlightenment, by Will Durant

📚 The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair

📚 Castles in the Air, by Baroness Emma Orczy

📚 The Sea Wolf, by Jack London

📚 Armadale (1864) Wilkie Collins

📚 The Man Who Lost Himself, by H. De Vere Stacpoole

📚 The Coral Island, by R. M. Ballantyne

📚 The Professor, by Charlotte Brontë

📚 The Thing from the Lake, by Eleanor M. Ingram – What the actual fuck?

📚 Good Wives, by Louisa May Alcott

📚 Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott

📚 Dombey and Son, by Charles Dickens

📚 The Man Who Would Be King, by Rudyard Kipling 👍

📚 Manalive, by G. K. Chesterton

📚 Anne of the Island, by Lucy Maud Montgomery

📚 The Eight Strokes of the Clock, by Maurice Leblanc

📚 Jimbo, by Algernon Blackwood

📚 Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton

📚 The Custom of the Country, by Edith Wharton

📚 Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery

📚 The Last Galley, Impressions and Tales, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

📚 The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, by Howard Pyle

📚 Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf

📚 In Chancery (Forsyte Saga Vol. 2), by John Galsworthy

📚 The Monk: A Romance, by Matthew Lewis 👍

📚 A Sicilian Romance (1790), by Ann Radcliffe

📚 The Italian (1796) , by Ann Radcliffe

📚 The Castle of Otranto (1764), by Horace Walpole

📚 Uncle Silas, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

📚 The Dream of the Red Chamber Book II, Xueqin Cao

📚 The Dream of the Red Chamber Book I, Xueqin Cao

📚 The Yellow Face (1906) by Fred M. White

📚 Henry James (1898) The Turn of the Screw

📚 Moby Dick, or the Whale (1851) by Herman Melville 👍

📚 Treasure Island (1881), by Robert Louis Stevenson 👍

📚 Emma (1815) Jane Austen 👍

📚 Dracula (1897, by Bram Stoker) 👍

📚 The Four Feathers, by A. E. W. Mason

📚 The Count's Chauffeur, by William Le Queux

📚 The Unseen Ear, by Natalie Sumner Lincoln

📚 The Human Chord, by Algernon Blackwood

📚 Lord of the World, by Robert Hugh Benson

📚 Anything Once, by Isabel Ostrander

📚 The Flood, by Emile Zola

📚 Prince and Heretic, by Marjorie Bowen

📚 The Castle of Twilight, by Margaret Horton Potter

📚 The Wood Beyond the World, by William Morris

📚 The Machine Stops, by E. M. Forster

📚 Vera, by Elizabeth von Arnim

📚 The Gods and Mr Perrin, by Hugh Walpole

📚 The Lost Mr. Linthwaite, by J. S. Fletcher

📚 Creatures of the Abyss, by Murray Leinster

📚 The Rescue, by Joseph Conrad

📚 The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (1895) by Gustave Le Bon

📚 A Thin Ghost And Others (1919), by M. R. James

📚 The Begum's Fortune (1879), by Jules Verne

📚 The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James

📚 Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, by M. R. James

📚 The Middle Temple Murder (1920) by J. S. Fletcher

📚 Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers

📚 The Man Who Knew Too Much (1922), by G. K. Chesterton

📚 The Paradise Mystery (1920), by J. S. Fletcher

📚 The Old Man in the Corner (1908), by Baroness Emma Orczy

📚 The Big Bow Mystery (1892), by Israel Zangwill

📚 The Return of Clubfoot (1922) by Valentine Williams

📚 The King in Yellow (part 2) (1895) Robert W. Chambers

📚 The King in Yellow (part 1) (1895) Robert W. Chambers

📚 The Lady in Blue (1905) by Auguste Groner

📚 The Red House Mystery (1922) by A. A. Milne

📚 Short Story Collection Vol. 099.

📚 Waverley, Volume 2 (1814) Sir Walter Scott

📚 Waverley, Volume 1 (1814) Sir Walter Scott

📚 The Painted Veil (1925) W. Somerset Maugham

📚 The House Opposite (1903) Elizabeth Kent

📚 The Old Church Clock (1843) Richard Parkinson

📚 The House with the Green Shutters (1901) George Douglas Brown

📚 The Age of Innocence (1920) by Edith Wharton

📚 Middlemarch (1871) by George Eliot

📚 After Dark (1856) Wilkie Collins

📚 The Way of All Flesh (1903) by Samuel Butler

📚 The Crimson Cryptogram (1900) by Fergus Hume

📚 The Gold Bag (1911) by Carolyn Wells 👍

📚 The Clue (1909) by Carolyn Wells

📚 Malcolm (1875) by George MacDonald

📚 The Silver Bullet (1903) by Fergus Hume

📚 The Damnation of Theron Ware (1896) by Harold Frederic

📚 Anna Karenina,by Leo Tolstoy

📚 In the Mayor's Parlour (1922) by J. S. Fletcher

📚 My Man Jeeves (1919), by P. G. Wodehouse

📚 The Nebuly Coat (1903) by John Meade Falkner

📚 The Czar's Spy (1905), by William Le Queux

📚 Psmith in the City (1910), by P. G. Wodehouse

📚 Men Like Gods (1923) H. G. Wells

📚 The Haunted Bookshop (1919) Christopher Morley

📚 Mercenary (1962) Dallas McCord Reynolds

📚 Silas Marner (1861) George Eliot

📚 Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor (1869) Richard Doddridge Blackmore

📚 The Pink Shop (1911) Fergus Hume

📚 813 (1910) Maurice LeBlanc

📚 32 Caliber (1920) Donald McGibeny

📚 The Haunted Hotel, A Mystery of Modern Venice (1878) Wilkie Collins

📚 Barchester Towers (1857) Anthony Trollope 👍

📚 Doctor Thorne (1858) Anthony Trollope

📚 The Great God Pan (1894) Arthur Machen

📚 The Cathedral (1922) Hugh Walpole

📚 The Thirteen Travelers (1920) Hugh Walpole

📚 The Lost Parchment by (1914) Fergus Hume

📚 Planet of the Damned (1962) Harry Harrison

📚 Scarhaven Keep (1920) J. S. Fletcher

📚 The Chestermarke Instinct (1918) J. S. Fletcher

📚 Jules Verne (1875) The Mysterious Island – The novel is a crossover sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas and In Search of the Castaways, though its themes are vastly different from those books.

📚 Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 1 (1907)

📚 Ghost Story Collection 001 (2006)

📚 Ghost Story Collection 002 (2006)

📚 Ghost Story Collection 003 (2007)

📚 Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 4

📚 The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel (1917) A. E. W. Mason

📚 Around The Campfire, by Sir Charles G. D. Roberts

📚 The Corner House (1906) Fred M. White

📚 The Clock Struck One (1898) Fergus Hume

📚 A Chain of Evidence (1923) Carolyn Wells

📚 The Borough Treasurer (1919) J. S. Fletcher

📚 Colonel Quaritch, V.C.: A Tale of Country Life (1888) H. Rider Haggard