- Anna Karenina - A love story with no easy way back.
- Crime and Punishment - A murder plot that becomes a long argument with the soul.
- Don Quixote - A grand quest with a cracked helmet and a faithful friend.
- Great Expectations - A boy, a fortune, and the expensive work of growing up.
- In Search of Lost Time - A life remembered one taste, jealousy, and room at a time.
- Jane Eyre - An orphan who will not be made small, and a house that keeps a secret.
- Madame Bovary - A sharp, sad novel about wanting a larger life.
- Middlemarch - A town full of plans, compromises, and lives that won't stay separate.
- Pride and Prejudice - Courtship, money, manners, and the hard work of seeing clearly.
- The Brothers Karamazov - A family feud that opens into faith, doubt, and the hardest questions.
- The Great Gatsby - A glittering party novel with a hard little knife inside.
- The Sound and the Fury - A broken family, heard from the inside.
- The Trial - A man caught in a case with no clear rules.
- Ulysses - One Dublin day, made vast by the mind.