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George Orwell

A chilling masterpiece that feels more relevant with each passing year. Orwell's vision of totalitarianism is terrifyingly prescient.

Bram Stoker

The opening chapters in Transylvania are among the most atmospheric in horror fiction. Pure dread.

Daniel Kahneman

Changed how I think about thinking. System 1 and System 2 is such a useful framework.

Jane Austen

Austen's wit is unmatched. Elizabeth Bennet is one of the greatest literary characters ever written.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald's prose is like poetry. The green light at the end of Daisy's dock is one of literature's most powerful symbols.

George R. R. Martin

The weakest of the first four books but still better than most fantasy out there. Cersei's POV chapters are riveting.

Mary Shelley

Written by a teenager and it birthed science fiction. Mary Shelley was a genius. The creature's eloquence is the real surprise.

Charlotte Brontë

Jane's fierce independence was revolutionary for its time and still inspires today. "Reader, I married him" - iconic.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The first modern novel and still one of the greatest. Cervantes invented an entire literary tradition.

Herman Melville

Call me Ishmael. Three words and you're hooked. Melville wrote the great American novel and nobody noticed for decades.