mimi10v3Vanity, status, greed, and institutional absurdity exposed by narrators willing to let people indict themselves—sometimes gently, sometimes with the patience of a knife.
The recorded ratings average 5.3/10, with 0 perfect tens. Recurring authors include Mark Twain, Charles Dickens.
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| A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | 1843 | — | Read | → |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | 1876 | — | Read | → |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell | 1945 | — | Read | → |
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes | — | — | Read | → |
| Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift | 1726 | — | Read | → |
| Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | 2005 | 7 | Read | → |
| The Innocents Abroad | Mark Twain | 1869 | — | Unread | → |
| The Jeeves Collection | P. G. Wodehouse | 1992 | 6 | Read | → |
| The Stolen White Elephant | Mark Twain | 1987 | 4 | Read | → |
| Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | 1848 | 4 | Read | → |