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9volumes · ~3,400 pp
Progress and Poverty
Henry George · 1879
Social Problems
Henry George · 1883
Protection or Free Trade
Henry George · 1886
The Theory of Political Economy
W. S. Jevons · 1871
All 9 volumes in this shelf+
01Progress and Poverty Henry George
02Social Problems Henry George
03Protection or Free Trade Henry George
04The Science of Political Economy Henry George
05A Perplexed Philosopher Henry George
06The Theory of Political Economy W. Stanley Jevons
07Principles of Economics Alfred Marshall
08The Single Tax: What It Is and Why We Urge It Henry George
09Natural Taxation Thomas G. Shearman
100volumes · a few years
War and Peace
Tolstoy · 1869
Middlemarch
Eliot · 1872
Moby-Dick
Melville · 1851
Crime and Punishment
Dostoevsky · 1866
All 100 titles · ★ marks a good starting point+
01War and Peace Tolstoy★
02Middlemarch Eliot★
03Moby-Dick Melville
04Crime and Punishment Dostoevsky★
05Pride and Prejudice Austen★
06Anna Karenina Tolstoy
07The Brothers Karamazov Dostoevsky
08Great Expectations Dickens★
09Jane Eyre C. Brontë
10Wuthering Heights E. Brontë
11The Odyssey Homer★
12The Iliad Homer
13Don Quixote Cervantes
14The Divine Comedy Dante
15Hamlet Shakespeare★
16King Lear Shakespeare
17Bleak House Dickens
18Emma Austen
19The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain
20Frankenstein Shelley
21Vanity Fair Thackeray
22Madame Bovary Flaubert★
23Les Misérables Hugo
24The Count of Monte Cristo Dumas
25Tess of the d'Urbervilles Hardy
26The Portrait of a Lady James
27Dracula Stoker
28The Picture of Dorian Gray Wilde★
29Heart of Darkness Conrad
30Persuasion Austen
31David Copperfield Dickens
32Sense and Sensibility Austen
33A Tale of Two Cities Dickens★
34Gulliver's Travels Swift
35Robinson Crusoe Defoe
36Treasure Island Stevenson
37The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne
38Walden Thoreau
39Uncle Tom's Cabin Stowe
40Little Women Alcott
41The Mill on the Floss Eliot
42North and South Gaskell
43Far from the Madding Crowd Hardy
44The Aeneid Virgil
45Candide Voltaire★
46Eugene Onegin Pushkin
47Dead Souls Gogol
48Fathers and Sons Turgenev
49The Awakening Chopin
50The Age of Innocence Wharton
51Sons and Lovers Lawrence
52A Room with a View Forster
53Howards End Forster
54The Time Machine Wells
55The War of the Worlds Wells
56Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Verne
57Around the World in Eighty Days Verne
58The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle
59The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle
60The Moonstone Collins
61The Woman in White Collins
62Kim Kipling
63The Call of the Wild London
64The Red Badge of Courage Crane
65Three Men in a Boat Jerome
66The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde
67Cranford Gaskell
68Silas Marner Eliot
69The Return of the Native Hardy
70Nostromo Conrad
71The Secret Agent Conrad
72Washington Square James
73The Turn of the Screw James
74Ethan Frome Wharton
75The House of Mirth Wharton
76My Ántonia Cather
77O Pioneers! Cather
78Main Street Lewis
79Winesburg, Ohio Anderson
80The Enchanted April von Arnim
81The Secret Garden Burnett
82Anne of Green Gables Montgomery
83Peter Pan Barrie
84Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Carroll★
85The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Baum
86A Christmas Carol Dickens
87The Wind in the Willows Grahame
88Black Beauty Sewell
89The Jungle Book Kipling
90A Little Princess Burnett
91The Prince Machiavelli
92Meditations Aurelius
93The Republic Plato
94Essays Montaigne
95Leaves of Grass Whitman
96The Souls of Black Folk Du Bois
97Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Douglass★
98A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Wollstonecraft
99The Wealth of Nations Smith
100On Liberty Mill★
24volumes · the foundations
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Wollstonecraft · 1792
The Wealth of Nations
Smith · 1776
Elements
Euclid · c. 300 BC
Meditations
Aurelius · c. 175
All 24 volumes in this shelf+
01The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith
02Elements Euclid
03Meditations Marcus Aurelius
04The Republic Plato
05Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle
06A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Wollstonecraft
07On Liberty J. S. Mill
08The Prince Machiavelli
09Leviathan Hobbes
10Two Treatises of Government Locke
11The Social Contract Rousseau
12An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Hume
13The Essays Montaigne
14Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences Galileo
15The Voyage of the Beagle Darwin
16Experimental Researches in Electricity Faraday
17Relativity: The Special and General Theory Einstein
18The Analects Confucius
19Tao Te Ching Laozi
20The Histories Herodotus
21The Wealth of Knowledge: Novum Organum Bacon
22Discourse on Method Descartes
23Common Sense Thomas Paine
24Democracy in America Tocqueville
7volumes · Summer 2026
Anne of Green Gables
Montgomery · 1908
Persuasion
Austen · 1817
The Secret Garden
Burnett · 1911
A Room with a View
Forster · 1908
The Enchanted April
von Arnim · 1922
Cranford
Gaskell · 1853
All 7 picks for this season+
01Anne of Green Gables L. M. Montgomery
02Persuasion Jane Austen
03The Secret Garden F. H. Burnett
04A Room with a View E. M. Forster
05The Enchanted April Elizabeth von Arnim
06Cranford Elizabeth Gaskell
07Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome
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