The Science of Getting Rich / Wallace D. Wattles

Title: The Science of Getting Rich
Author:  Wallace D. Wattles

Subjects: Career; Business; Self-help

The book explain how to overcome mental barriers to attract wealth. It also explain how creation, rather than competition, is the hidden key to wealth attraction. This book is based on the Hindu philosophies that One is All, and that All is One. It is one of the best and must read book of all time of its kind. 

Winnie-the-Pooh / A. A. Milne

Title: Winnie-the-Pooh

Author: A. A. Milne

Subjects: Children; Fiction; Fantasy

"The best book of verses for children ever written."-A. Edward Newton. A. A. Milne named the character Winnie-the-Pooh after a teddy bear owned by his son, Christopher Robin Milne. It is one of the must read book for childrens.

A Japanese Boy / Shigemi Shiukichi

Title: A Japanese Boy 

Author: Shigemi Shiukichi

Subjects: Autobiography; Social 

If you want to learn about Japanese culture in the early 1900's this book is for you. It is written in beautiful language. It is about Japanese culture and more.

Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen

Title: Hedda Gabler 

Author: Henrik Ibsen

Subjects: Classic; Play; Drama

Hedda's married name is Hedda Tesman; Gabler is her maiden name. Ibsen wrote: "My intention in giving it this name was to indicate that Hedda as a personality is to be regarded rather as her father's daughter than her husband's wife." The title character, Hedda, is considered one of the great dramatic roles in theatre.

The Age of Innocence / Edith Wharton

Title: The Age of Innocence 

Author: Edith Wharton

Subjects: Fiction

The Age of Innocence makes Wharton the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in the year 1921. The story is set in the 1870s, in upper-class, "Gilded-Age" New York City. It is fundamentally a story which struggles to reconcile the old with the new. 

The Tale of Peter Rabbit / Beatrix Potter

Title: The Tale of Peter Rabbit 

Author: Beatrix Potter

Subjects: Classic; Children; Fiction

The story focuses on a family of anthropomorphic rabbits. The widowed mother rabbit keeps her four rabbit children, Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter from entering the vegetable garden of a man named Mr. McGregor. Her triplets (Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail) obediently refrain from entering the garden, but Peter enters the garden to snack on some vegetables. What happened then.

All’s Well That Ends Well / William Shakespeare

Title: All’s Well That Ends Well 

Author: William Shakespeare

Subjects: Play; Drama; Comedy

The play is based on a tale of Boccaccio's The Decameron. The play is considered one of Shakespeare’s "problem plays"; a play that poses complex ethical dilemmas that require more than typically simple solutions.

Romeo and Juliet / William Shakespeare

Title: Romeo and Juliet 

Author: William Shakespeare

Subjects: Classic; Drama; Play; Tragedy 

The title characters Romeo and Juliet are regarded as archetypal young lovers. The Story is about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. Romeo and Juliet borrows from a tradition of tragic love stories dating back to antiquity. One of these is Pyramus and Thisbe, from Ovid's Metamorphoses, which contains parallels to Shakespeare's story.

The Hound of the Baskervilles / Arthur Conan Doyle

Title: The Hound of the Baskervilles 

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Subjects: Fiction; Detective; Mystery

The book tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson investigate the case. One of the most famous stories ever written, the book was listed as number 128 of 200 on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novel".

As You Like It / William Shakespeare

Title: As You Like It 

Author: William Shakespeare

Subjects: Drama; Play; Comedy 

As You Like It follows its heroine Rosalind as she flees persecution in her uncle's court, accompanied by her cousin Celia to find safety and, eventually, love, in the Forest of Arden. In the forest, they encounter a variety of memorable characters, notably the melancholy traveller Jaques. Jaques provides a sharp contrast to the other characters in the play, always observing and disputing the hardships of life in the country.

The Comedy of Errors / William Shakespeare

Title: The Comedy of Errors 

Author: William Shakespeare

Subjects: Classic; Drama; Play

The Comedy of Errors tells the story of two sets of identical twins who were accidentally separated at birth. A series of wild mishaps based on mistaken identities lead to wrongful beatings, a near-seduction, the arrest, and false accusations of infidelity, theft, madness, and demonic possession.

Ethan Frome / Edith Wharton

Title: Ethan Frome 

Author: Edith Wharton

Subjects: Fiction

The novel is written by Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist Edith Wharton. Ethan Frome runs a small farm and cares for his ailing mother. A relatively unhappy woman is sent by family to help. She works very hard cleaning and caring for the home. In his gratitude, Ethan married her soon after his mother's death. But soon after their marriage, she takes to get bed. A remarkably demanding and miserable existence for Ethan. Who now works the farm and cares for his wife.

The Sign of the Four / Arthur Conan Doyle

Title: The Sign of the Four 

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle 

Subjects: Fiction; Detective; Mystery

It is second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts and two corrupt prison guards.

Wealth of Nations / Adam Smith

Title: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 

Author: Adam Smith

Subjects: Economics

The book offers one of the world's first collected descriptions of what builds nations' wealth, and is today a fundamental work in classical economics. By reflecting upon the economics at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the book touches upon such broad topics as the division of labour, productivity, and free markets.

Anne of Green Gables / Lucy Maud Montgomery

Title: Anne of Green Gables 

Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery

Subjects: Classic; Children; Fiction

It is about adventures of Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old orphan girl, who is mistakenly sent to two middle-aged siblings, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, who had originally intended to adopt a boy to help them on their farm. The novel recounts how Anne makes her way through life with the Cuthberts, in school, and within the town.

Brave New World / Aldous Leonard Huxley

Title: Brave New World

Author: Aldous Leonard Huxley

Subjects: Classic; Science Fiction 

The Modern Library ranked Brave New World as #5. novels of the 20th century. It is about futuristic world state where people were genetically modified and society is mainly intelligence based hierarchy. And this utopian society is challenged by a single individual. The novel is often compared to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

A Farewell to Arms / Ernest Hemingway

Title: A Farewell to Arms

Author: Ernest Hemingway

Subjects: Classic; Fiction; Historical Fiction

A American Frederic Henry, serving as a Lieutenant in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army. The book is about a love affair between Henry and Catherine Barkley during World War-1. One of the best novel from hemingway and can be read. 

Mrs. Warren's Profession / George Bernard Shaw

Title: Mrs. Warren's Profession 

Author: George Bernard Shaw

Subjects: Drama; Play 

In this book Mrs. Warren is a mother of a young modern daughter, Vivie. She is proprietress of a string of successful brothels. She was a former prostitute. It illustrate Shaw's belief that the act of prostitution was not caused by moral failure but by economic necessity.

The New Machiavelli / H. G. Wells

Title: The New Machiavelli 

Author: H. G. Wells

Subjects: Fiction; Political

The novel's themes are politics and sex, both abiding preoccupations of the author. Biographer David Smith called The New Machiavelli, Wells's most autobiographical novel. The main character Dick Remington, has a passion for statecraft and reforming the social and political systems. But how his affair forced him to abandon his dreams is the main story.

A Modern Utopia / H. G. Wells

Title: A Modern Utopia 

Author: H. G. Wells

Subjects: Political; Fiction

The book is written more as non-fiction than fiction. In this hybrid book, H.G. Wells describes his ideal world state. Two travelers fall into a space-warp and suddenly find themselves upon a Utopian Earth controlled by a single World Government.