mimi10v3Older stories that still generate weather: social comedy, adventure, childhood wonder, gothic unease, early speculation, and the birth of detective logic. Canon matters here less as duty than as a long-running conversation worth joining selectively.
The recorded ratings average 6.5/10, with 2 perfect tens. Recurring authors include L. M. Montgomery, Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott. The strongest-rated pockets are Mystery, Children's, Fantasy.
A place to begin
Highest rated.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Mimi’s noteI had a tattered yellowed paperback copy as a child, cover held on with scotch tape and sections of pages falling out, I assume I took it from my parents shelves though don't remember a…
10/10Classic Literature : Children'sAn Old-Fashioned Girl
Mimi’s noteMy number one comfort read when I'm sick, the main character Polly has the virtues I've aspired to since first reading it as a young girl.
9/10Classic Literature : Children'sNational Velvet
About the bookSet in the English countryside, this novel follows fourteen-year-old Velvet Brown, a spirited girl who wins a difficult, unruly horse in a raffle. Determined to train the animal for the…
9/10Classic Literature : Literary FictionOrlando
About the bookVirginia Woolf’s 1928 novel follows Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabethan England who, after a mysterious three-century sleep, awakens in the modern era as a woman. This fantastical…
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Children's
→26 books · 7.4 avg
Older books that trust children with strangeness, independence, danger, and transformation. Animals, imaginary countries, and journeys offer moral worlds without reducing them to lessons.
Science Fiction
→8 books · 6.4 avg
Speculation before the genre's machinery became familiar: submarines, manufactured life, automated societies, dystopian futures, and invasion as ways of estranging the present.
Literary Fiction
→36 books · 6.6 avg
Social perception across centuries: Austen's wit, Woolf's transformations, Alcott's earnestness, Fitzgerald's shimmer, and many other negotiations between private desire and public form.
Mystery
→6 books · 7.5 avg
The grammar of detection taking shape: Holmes, Poirot, Marple, and their cousins turn small discrepancies into narratives where attention can temporarily restore order.
Adventure
→8 books · 6.3 avg
Journeys into distance, survival, sea, wilderness, and outlaw legend. These books preserve both the propulsive pleasures of the quest and the historical assumptions packed inside it.
Fantasy
→6 books · 7.0 avg
Older stories that still generate weather: social comedy, adventure, childhood wonder, gothic unease, early speculation, and the birth of detective logic. Canon matters here less as duty than as a long-running conversation worth joining selectively.
Historical Fiction
→7 books · 5.7 avg
Older stories that still generate weather: social comedy, adventure, childhood wonder, gothic unease, early speculation, and the birth of detective logic. Canon matters here less as duty than as a long-running conversation worth joining selectively.
Satire
→10 books · 5.3 avg
Vanity, status, greed, and institutional absurdity exposed by narrators willing to let people indict themselves—sometimes gently, sometimes with the patience of a knife.
Horror
→6 books · 4.5 avg
Gothic spaces where love, obsession, inheritance, and performance curdle into haunting. Atmosphere does more work here than gore.
Short Stories
→4 books · — avg
Cosmopolitan classic tales—from Bombay to Budapest to Baghdad—where compressed form preserves voices and traditions that do not fit the shelf's dominant Anglo-American novel.
Grouped reading
Series.
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| 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2] | Various Authors | 2017 | 6 | Read | → |
| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Jules Verne | 1870 | 10 | Read | → |
| A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | 1843 | — | Read | → |
| A Little Princess | Frances Hodgson Burnett | 1905 | — | Read | → |
| A Shadow Passes (Classic Reprint) | Eden Phillpotts | 1919 | 4 | Read | → |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | 1859 | 7 | Read | → |
| A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L'Engle | 1962 | 7 | Read | → |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | 1876 | — | Read | → |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass | Lewis Carroll | 1871 | 8 | Read | → |
| An Old-Fashioned Girl | Louisa May Alcott | 1870 | 10 | Read | → |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell | 1945 | — | Read | → |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | 1878 | 6 | Read | → |
| Anne of Avonlea | L. M. Montgomery | 1909 | — | Read | → |
| Anne of Green Gables | L. M. Montgomery | 1908 | — | Read | → |
| Anne of Ingleside | L. M. Montgomery | 1939 | — | Read | → |
| Anne of the Island | L. M. Montgomery | 1915 | — | Read | → |
| Anne of Windy Poplars | L. M. Montgomery | 1936 | — | Read | → |
| Anne's House of Dreams | L. M. Montgomery | 1917 | — | Read | → |
| Black Beauty | Anna Sewell | 1877 | — | Read | → |
| Bombay Stories | Saadat Hasan Manto | 1940 | — | Unread | → |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 1932 | — | Partly read | → |
| Charlotte's Web | E. B. White | 1952 | — | Read | → |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 1866 | 6 | Read | → |
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes | — | — | Read | → |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker | 1897 | — | Read | → |