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.
created by catbones
last updated February, 2026
Sign of the Labrys
Margaret St. Clair
Naked Lunch
William S. Burroughs
The Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies
Clark Ashton Smith
The Fatal Eggs
Mikhail Bulgakov
Stamboul Train
Graham Greene
The Diary of Lady Murasaki
Murasaki Shikibu
Cymbeline
William Shakespeare
Catâs Cradle
Empire of the Sun
J.G. Ballard
R.U.R.
Karel Äapek
The Pillow Book
Sei ShĹnagon
East Goes West (Penguin Vitae)
Younghill Kang
Romance in Marseille
Claude McKay
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Joan Lindsay
Tartuffe
Molière Molière
The Book of the City of Ladies
Christine de Pizan
The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Bone People
Keri Hulme
The Siege of Krishnapur (Empire Trilogy, #2)
J.G. Farrell
The King of Elfland's Daughter
Lord Dunsany
Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern, #1)
Anne McCaffrey
Nostromo
Joseph Conrad
O Pioneers!
Willa Cather
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
Dhalgren
Samuel R. Delany
Ammonite
Nicola Griffith
Black Snow
Between the Acts
Virginia Woolf
This list is actually incredible!
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