“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.” ― Ernest Hemingway

• the blue hotel by stephen crane
• the open boat by stephen crane
• madame bovary by gustave falubert
• dubliners by james joyce
• the red and the black by stendhal
• of human bondage by somerset maugham
• anna karenina by leo tolstoy
• war and peace by leo tolstoy
• buddenbrooks by thomas mann
• hail and farewell by george moore
• the brothers karamazov by dosteyevsky
• the oxford book of english verse
• the enormous room by e.e cummings
• wuthering heights by emily bronte
• the american by henry james