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Romance

The Great Gatsby

“He throws the biggest parties in New York. Nobody knows who he really is.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 196 episodes · full original text
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Mystery & Crime

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“He can tell where you’ve been just by looking at your shoes.”

Arthur Conan Doyle · 403 episodes · full original text
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Mystery & Crime

The Hound of the Baskervilles

“Footprints by the body. Not a man's. The footprints of a gigantic hound.”

Arthur Conan Doyle · 228 episodes · full original text
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Horror & Gothic

Tales of Mystery & Terror

“I heard the beating of his hideous heart.” Ten tales you'll read with the lights on.

Edgar Allan Poe · 198 episodes · full original text
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Horror & Gothic

Dracula

“The Count is a perfect host. The doors only lock from the outside.”

Bram Stoker · 589 episodes · full original text
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Horror & Gothic

Frankenstein

“He wanted to defeat death. He did. And now it's following him.”

Mary Shelley · 285 episodes · full original text
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Mystery & Crime

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

“A respectable doctor. A monster in the fog. Why do they share the same key?”

Robert Louis Stevenson · 97 episodes · full original text
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Horror & Gothic

The Picture of Dorian Gray

“He stays young and beautiful forever. His portrait pays the price.”

Oscar Wilde · 306 episodes · full original text
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Adventure

The Count of Monte Cristo

“Betrayed on his wedding day. Buried alive in prison for 14 years. Now he's back.”

Alexandre Dumas · 1819 episodes · full original text
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Romance

Jane Eyre

“She fell for her mysterious employer. Then she heard the laughter from the attic.”

Charlotte Brontë · 713 episodes · full original text
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Pick Your Poison

🔍 Mystery & Crime🦇 Horror & Gothic💘 Romance⚔️ Adventure🏡 Family & Coming-of-Age📚 Short Stories🗽 American Classics

Clue-ly Addictive

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
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Dracula
Bram Stoker
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Famous Readers’ Picks

The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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📣 Bill Gates
“The novel I reread the most”
The Aeneid
Virgil
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📣 Mark Zuckerberg
His favorite book, which he quotes in interviews
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
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📣 Steve Jobs & Barack Obama
A teenage favorite of Jobs, on Obama's list of favorites
King Lear
William Shakespeare
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📣 Steve Jobs
“I loved King Lear”
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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📣 Jordan Peterson
A Dostoevsky he says changed how he sees the world
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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📣 Jordan Peterson
His go-to example of how bitterness destroys a person

Bite-Sized Plots (1 min each)

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Short story
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The Yellow Wallpaper
Short story
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The Monkey's Paw
Short story
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The Tell-Tale Heart
Tales of Mystery & Terror
▶ 1 min
A Scandal in Bohemia
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
▶ 1 min
The Black Cat
Tales of Mystery & Terror
▶ 1 min
The Red-Headed League
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
▶ 1 min
The Cask of Amontillado
Tales of Mystery & Terror
▶ 1 min
The Cabuliwallah
The Hungry Stones & Other Stories
▶ 1 min
The Masque of the Red Death
Tales of Mystery & Terror
▶ 1 min
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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The Oval Portrait
Tales of Mystery & Terror
▶ 1 min
The Hungry Stones
The Hungry Stones & Other Stories
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Do Not Read at 3 a.m.

Carmilla
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
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The Monkey's Paw
W. W. Jacobs
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The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux
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The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
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The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
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Tales of Mystery & Terror
Edgar Allan Poe
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
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Dracula
Bram Stoker
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Are We There Yet?

Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
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The Odyssey
Homer
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The Time Machine
H. G. Wells
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
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The Aeneid
Virgil
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Swoon-ward Bound

The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
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The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux
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White Nights
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
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Star-Spangled Stories

The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
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Tales of Mystery & Terror
Edgar Allan Poe
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Name-Drop Worthy

A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
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The Odyssey
Homer
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
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King Lear
William Shakespeare
▶ Read
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
▶ Read
The Aeneid
Virgil
▶ Read
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
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Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
▶ Read
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky
▶ Read
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The Hungry Stones & Other Stories
Rabindranath Tagore
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Meet the Authors

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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
▶ Read
Tales of Mystery & Terror
Edgar Allan Poe
▶ Read
Dracula
Bram Stoker
▶ Read
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
▶ Read
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
▶ Read
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
▶ Read
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
▶ Read
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
▶ Read
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
▶ Read
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
▶ Read
The Hungry Stones & Other Stories
Rabindranath Tagore
▶ Read
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
▶ Read
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoevsky
▶ Read
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
▶ Read
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
▶ Read
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
▶ Read
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
▶ Read
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
▶ Read
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
▶ Read
King Lear
William Shakespeare
▶ Read
The Aeneid
Virgil
▶ Read
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky
▶ Read
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
▶ Read
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
▶ Read
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
▶ Read
The Odyssey
Homer
▶ Read
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
▶ Read
The Time Machine
H. G. Wells
▶ Read
Carmilla
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
▶ Read
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
▶ Read
The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux
▶ Read
The Monkey's Paw
W. W. Jacobs
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