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.

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".

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.

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.

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. 

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.

A Study In Scarlet / Arthur Conan Doyle

Title: A Study In Scarlet

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Subjects: Fiction; Detective; Mystery

The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in popular fiction. It was the first work of detective fiction to incorporate the magnifying glass as an investigative tool. A Study in Scarlet was among the first to be adapted to the screen. 

Anthem / Ayn Rand

Title: Anthem 

Author: Ayn Rand

Subjects: Fiction

In the present book mankind has entered another Dark Age. The concept of individuality has been eliminated. Everything is now carefully planned. A young man try to rebels. He flees into the wilderness with the girl he loves. Together they plan to establish a new society based on rediscovered individualism.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / James Joyce

Title: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 

Author: James Joyce

Subjects: Classic; Fiction

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a novel of sexual awakening, religious rebellion and the essential search for voice and meaning that every nascent artist must face in order to fully come into themselves. it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce and an allusion to Daedalus, the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology. 

Casino Royale / Ian Fleming

Title: Casino Royale

Author: Ian Fleming

Subjects: Fiction; Spy

It is the first James Bond book. The story concerns the British secret agent James Bond, gambling at the casino in Royale-les-Eaux to bankrupt Le Chiffre, the treasurer of a French union and a member of the Russian secret service. Casino Royale deals with themes of Britain's position in the world, particularly the relationship with the US in light of the defections to the Soviet Union.

The War in the Air / H. G. Wells

Title: The War in the Air 

Author: H. G. Wells

Subjects: Classic; Fiction; Science Fiction 

Wells's this works is notable for the use of the aircraft for the purpose of warfare and the coming of World War I. Actually there was no such planes in the world when this book had been written. the visions conjured by Wells were prophetic of the Second World War rather than the First one.

The Island of Doctor Moreau / H. G. Wells

Title: The Island of Doctor Moreau 

Author: H. G. Wells 

Subjects: Classic; Science Fiction 

A mad scientist creates human-like hybrid beings from animals. The novel deals with a number of philosophical themes, including pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, and human interference with nature. This book is a great masterpiece of science fiction of its own kind. It is inspiration for several movies.

The Jungle / Upton Sinclair

Title: The Jungle 

Author: Upton Sinclair

Subjects: Classic; Fiction; Political 

The novel portray the life of immigrants in the United States in Chicago when it is published in 1906. The book depicts working-class poverty, harsh and unpleasant conditions, and a hopelessness among workers. These elements are contrasted with the deeply rooted corruption of people in power. A review by the writer Jack London called it "the Uncle Tom's Cabin of wage slavery.

The Moonstone / Wilkie Collins

Title: The Moonstone 

Author: Wilkie Collins

Subjects: Classic; Fiction; Mystery

The Moonstone and The Woman in White are widely considered to be Collins's best novels. The Moonstone of the title is a diamond. It is protected by three hereditary guardians on the orders of Vishnu, and waxes and wanes in brilliance along with the light of the moon. The moonstone considered to be the first detective novel, and it established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel. Very interesting read. 

The First Men In The Moon / H. G. Wells

Title: The First Men In The Moon 

Author: H. G. Wells

Subjects: Classic; Science Fiction; Fiction

It is the story of a journey to the Moon of two men, a businessman narrator, Mr. Bedford, and an eccentric scientist, Mr. Cavor. Bedford and Cavor discover that the Moon is inhabited by a sophisticated extraterrestrial civilization of insect-like creatures they call "Selenites". Like other books from Wells, this book also inspire a lot of people. 

Me-Smith / Caroline Lockhart

Title: 'Me-Smith' 

Author: Caroline Lockhart 

Illustrator: Gayle Hoskins
Subjects: Fiction

This may not be considered as a classic and not recommended by many but it is a kind of its own and have its own reader base. Smith, is an insufferable with an overblown sense of self-importance. Susie is just annoying, and so is her mother, the Indian woman. Dora is the cliché woman that all men would like. The character MacArthur seemed intelligent.

Master and Man / Leo Tolstoy

Title: Master and Man 

Author: Leo Tolstoy 

Translator: Louise and Aylmer Maude 

Subjects: Classic; Short Story

A land owner with peasants find themselves losing the road and getting lost due to snow. They Nikita, soon finds himself about to die from hypothermia. Vasily Andreyevich decides to leave Nikita to die and sets out on his own on the horse. He wanders through the snow in circles and eventually falls off the horse, finding himself back by Nikita and the sleigh. The master then lies on top of the peasant to keep him warm through the cold night. In the morning, peasants dig out the sleigh, which was only half a mile from town. They find Vasily Andreyevich and the horse dead but Nikita is still alive.