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Every book on the shelf.
Independent, modern, hand-curated. Filter by genre or publisher. The shelf rotates every Tuesday.
Tarzan of the Apes
After his parents die in the African jungle, an infant is adopted and raised by a family of great apes.
$7.50
The Iron Heel
Jack London’s fierce dystopian-political novel confronts oligarchy, repression, class conflict, and revolutionary memory.
$7.50
Burning Daylight
The novel follows a Klondike prospector who builds a fortune in mining before entering the business world of early twentieth-century America.
$7.50
Martin Eden
Jack London’s ambitious novelist-hero climbs through class aspiration, self-education, romantic idealism, and social disillusion in a fierce modern classic of literary ambition.
$8.00
The Sea-Wolf
Jack London strands a cultivated survivor aboard a sealing schooner ruled by Wolf Larsen, creating a sea novel of violence, philosophy, power, and endurance.
$8.00
Men Like Gods
Men Like Gods follows several people from 1920s England who are transported into a parallel world with an evolved human society.
$7.00
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
A superb Sherlock Holmes collection featuring some of Arthur Conan Doyle's most memorable investigations and character moments.
$8.00
The Lost World
Arthur Conan Doyle sends Professor Challenger into the Amazon in a classic adventure filled with dinosaurs, danger, and discovery.
$7.50
Plain Tales from the Hills
This volume contains short stories set among the British residents of India's hill stations in the 1880s.
$7.50
Kim
Rudyard Kipling’s great picaresque follows Kimball O’Hara across colonial India through espionage, spiritual quest, railway movement, and a world alive with competing loyalties.
$8.50
Captains Courageous
Rudyard Kipling turns a boy-overboard rescue into a sea-going coming-of-age novel about labor, discipline, pride, and earned self-respect aboard a North Atlantic fishing schooner.
$7.50
From the Earth to the Moon
The novel follows members of a post-Civil War gun club as they attempt to launch a projectile toward the moon.
$7.00
Journey to the Center of the Earth
A scientist and his nephew follow an ancient manuscript on an expedition into a volcano to reach the Earth's center.
$8.00
Around the World in Eighty Days
An English gentleman attempts to travel around the world and return within eighty days.
$7.50
The Black Tulip
Alexandre Dumas turns seventeenth-century Holland, political danger, and tulip fever into a fast-moving historical adventure.
$7.50
Queen Margot
A fast-moving historical novel of royal marriage, court intrigue, and sectarian conflict in sixteenth-century France.
$9.00
No Name
Wilkie Collins delivers a gripping sensation novel of inheritance, identity, sisters, and revenge in Victorian England.
$8.50
Armadale
The novel follows two men, both named Allan Armadale, whose lives become linked through a shared family history.
$8.50
Under the Greenwood Tree
Thomas Hardy’s early novel turns a Dorset village choir and a gently complicated courtship into a warm rural comedy rich in custom, music, and seasonal atmosphere.
$7.00
The Woodlanders
Thomas Hardy’s tragic woodland novel of love, social pressure, class tension, and the slow ruin of human hopes.
$8.00
Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy's novel follows Jude Fawley, a working-class stonemason in Victorian England, as he seeks access to university education.
$8.50
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy's tragic masterpiece explores guilt, pride, fate, and ruin in one of the great character studies of Victorian fiction.
$8.00
Far from the Madding Crowd
In this novel, a woman who owns a farm in rural England becomes involved with three different men.
$8.50
Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Tess Durbeyfield, a young woman from a rural family, navigates relationships and social expectations in nineteenth-century England.
$8.50
Daniel Deronda
The novel follows Daniel Deronda's exploration of his identity and his encounters with Gwendolen Harleth in Victorian England.
$10.00
Adam Bede
George Eliot’s first novel brings rural labor, moral consequence, and intimate human conflict into a broad, patient work of Victorian realism.
$8.50
Silas Marner
The story centers on Silas Marner, a weaver living in the English village of Raveloe, and his relationships with his neighbors.
$7.00
Middlemarch
The novel traces several residents of a Midlands town and their intertwined experiences of marriage, vocation, and provincial society in the 1830s.
$11.00
Wives and Daughters
Elizabeth Gaskell’s great domestic novel of family change, courtship, social nuance, and moral intelligence.
$9.00
Mary Barton
Mary Barton portrays the struggles of a working-class family in 1840s industrial Manchester.
$8.00
North and South
A richly observed Victorian novel of industry, class, conscience, and slow-burning romance by Elizabeth Gaskell.
$8.50
Cranford
Cranford observes the social routines and domestic lives of women in a small nineteenth-century English town.
$7.00
Sanditon
Sanditon is Jane Austen's unfinished novel about a coastal town being developed into a seaside resort.
$5.50
Love and Freindship
In this epistolary novella, a young woman named Laura relates the events of her life to a friend of her mother.
$5.00
Lady Susan
The novel follows Lady Susan Vernon through letters detailing her social dealings with family and acquaintances.
$5.50
Shirley
Shirley portrays two women navigating relationships and daily life in a Yorkshire mill town amid early nineteenth-century industrial unrest.
$8.50
Agnes Grey
A clergyman's daughter becomes a governess after her family encounters financial difficulties.
$7.00
The Pickwick Papers
The Pickwick Papers is a polished DotBooks classic novel for readers who want character, atmosphere, and enduring literary appeal in a clean digital edition.
$9.50
Martin Chuzzlewit
The novel follows young Martin Chuzzlewit amid his family’s inheritance disputes and his travels to America.
$9.50