Invest your time in reading the true masterpieces of world literature, the greatest works by the masters of their craft, the revolutionary works, the timeless classics and the eternally moving storylines every person should experience in their lifetime:
Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
Siddhartha (Herman Hesse)
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
The Madman: His Parables and Poems (Kahlil Gibran)
Ward No. 6 (Anton Chekhov)
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Overcoat (Gogol)
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Walden (Henry David Thoreau)
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
Macbeth (Shakespeare)
The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot)
Odes (John Keats)
The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire)
Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott)
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Emma (Jane Austen)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Lorna Doone (R.D. Blackmore)
The Lady of the Camellias (Alexandre Dumas)
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Vanity Fair (Thackeray)
Dangerous Liaisons (De Laclos)
The Mill on the Floss (George Eliot)
Dona Perfecta (Benito Pérez Galdós)
Swann's Way (Marcel Proust)
Sons and Lovers (D. H. Lawrence)
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
The Wings of the Dove (Henry James)
The History of a Scoundrel or Bel-Ami (Guy de Maupassant)
Two Years in the Forbidden City (Princess Der Ling)
Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
Pepita Jimenez (Juan Valera)
The Way We Live Now (Anthony Trollope)
The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)
A Room with a View (E. M.
