The Death of Ivan Ilych – Leo Tolstoy (1886)
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy explores the existential crisis of Ivan Ilych, a judge confronting mortality and the superficiality of his life.
Classics
Psychological
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Historical
Romance
North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell (1855)
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell explores the contrast between England’s industrial North and agrarian South through Margaret Hale’s perspective.
Historical
Satire
Middlemarch – George Eliot (1872)
Middlemarch by George Eliot is a social novel exploring ambition, marriage, and reform in 19th-century provincial England.
Mystery
Supernatural
The Turn of the Screw – Henry James (1898)
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James is a psychological ghost story about a governess convinced that malevolent spirits are haunting two children.
Psychological
Thus Spake Zarathustra – Friedrich Nietzsche (1883)
Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche presents philosophical reflections on the Übermensch, the death of God, and self-overcoming through allegory and parables.
Mystery
Psychological
Supernatural
The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins (1859)
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins is a gothic mystery involving mistaken identity, crime, and a conspiracy that unravels through multiple narrators.
Satire
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray (1847)
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray follows Becky Sharp’s rise and fall in 19th-century high society, contrasting her ambition with Amelia Sedley’s virtue.
Psychological
Science Fiction
The Island of Dr. Moreau – HG Wells (1896)
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells follows Edward Prendick, who discovers a remote island where Dr. Moreau conducts gruesome experiments blending human and animal life.
Classics
Historical
Mystery
Bleak House – Charles Dickens (1853)
A fog-bound labyrinth of law and secrets entwines lives high and low, where love endures, justice falters, and every truth waits to be unearthed in the shadows.
Non Fiction
Beyond Good and Evil – Friedrich Nietzsche (1886)
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche critiques traditional morality and challenges concepts of truth, religion, and power with bold philosophical insights.