Recs if you like The Mayor of Casterbridge...
1001 Books to Read Before You Die
Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.
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Niche Classics
Overlooked, lesser known classics from all over the world and of many genres.
This list also exists as a book club on Fable under the same name.
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Bleakness Is My Weakness
For when you need to wallow in melancholy and misery: a collection of pessimistic, cynical, downbeat, depressing, doom and gloom fiction for my disillusioned friends.
More to come!
Got the holiday blues? Check out my list Christmas with the Cranks!
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Books Mentioned in MLM Litfic Side Quest
Books referenced by name within the 15 books that make up the Men Loving Men in Literary Fiction Side Quest. I don't remember every single one, so please comment any I'm missing as you read the quest books!
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Classics & Modern Lit ⊹ ࣪✧₊⁺🕯⋆.˚
I will update this list frequently! Recommendations welcomed.
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Oxford Reading List for English
Found this online - a reading list of a first year English course at Oxford University. Wanted to create this for my own enjoyment and figured someone else might like it too! I only added the fiction and poetry books and I also did not add any companions.
The last bit (from bottom up to Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway) are required reading - top half is recommended.
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: List
The Primary Works section of the Reading List of Thomas C. Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor
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classics to read by candlelight
classic literature that feels like running through a field in a long skirt or writing ink-stained poems at midnight, elegant prose, moral themes, academia, mostly from between 1500-1900 (a few exceptions)
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The Telegraph’s “50 greatest books of all time”
On August 9, 2026, The Telegraph published a list of “The 50 greatest books of all time” by Jake Kerridge
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