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Faith’s Verses

The Wanderer: The default verse, if you don’t specify this is generally were things will go. Faith rides a Harley along America’s highways, helping whoever she can and hunting all those nasty things that go bump in the night.

Aftermath: After escaping Sunnydale the Scoobies and Junior Slayers (plus Faith) crash at the Hyperion in LA, taking advantage of Angel's hospitality while they try to figure out what comes next.

Canon: Anything that takes place within the confines of Buffy and Angel's canon goes here. Starts age 17 and goes to 21.

Slayer PI: After several years of being the New Council’s special weapon against rogue slayers Faith just can’t do it anymore, feeling like she kills a little bit of herself with every girl she takes down. This culminates in a screaming match with Buffy that ends with her leaving the Council for good, setting out on her own. Finally tapping into the money both Mayor Wilkins and Dr. Dormer had left her so long ago she returns to Boston, to the home she’d once shared with her first watcher, and takes a page out of Angel’s book by becoming a private investigator focused on the supernatural. She’s trying to heal by helping people, but it’s not as easy as it looks.

Winter Slayer: While in her coma Faith is retrieved by the Watcher’s Council and swept away under the cover of night. She isn’t seen again for many years, but word begins to spread of a new weapon against evil. An agent of the Council who is fearless and unstoppable, and does not care who or what is killed on their path to their goal. This agent is only known as ‘Kairos’. But when someone who’d once known Faith Lehane finally sees this agent they’re stunned. Kairos is the lost slayer, changed and controlled by mystical and mundane means until all that remains is the Slayer rather than the girl. But maybe there’s still some of Faith in there, maybe she just needs some help to get out.

In the Wind: After the collapse of Sunnydale and the Mass Calling of Potential Slayers, various governments were forced to take notice of and acknowledge the supernatural elephant in the room. Most quietly made deals with whatever remnants of the Watchers Council happened to be existing in their borders and went right back to ignoring things But the United States saw an opportunity. They gathered up any girls they could find, and leveraged them against Buffy and the Scoobies until agreements were signed. For the most part they’re in charge, but federal agents are put forward to train as Handlers (the new Watchers as it were). In all of the chaos of this restructuring Faith took it upon herself to duck out, not wanting anything to do with a government run operation. But that’s put her in their cross-hairs in another way, with orders out to either bring her to heel with the new program or bring her in to face imprisonment once again. This time by people who know exactly what she’s capable of and have prepared for a super powered prisoner.

Teen: Covers everything pre-Sunnydale. Starts as young as age 14 and goes up through her calling to 17. From Boston to California and everything in between.

Hogwarts: Faith's a muggleborn witch from America, adopted by a British half-blood researcher and brought back to London before attending Hogwarts in Hufflepuff house.

Descendants: Faith grew up alone on the Isle of the Lost, an abandoned child who doesn't remember her parents. Most likely they were simply a pair of henchpeople to one major villain or another who didn't want to bother with a kid, but no one really knows. Without a gang or parentage to claim things have been rough for her, but she does her best to survive on her own with just her wits and ferocity to protect her.

Star Wars Clone Wars: Faith is a Jedi apprentice in the days of the Clone Wars, her master was ruthlessly killed by a criminal taking advantage of the war’s chaos to increase his wealth and power and Faith barely escaped with her life and a few of the troopers who’d survived the attack.

The Initiative: Instead of switching bodies with Buffy in season four Faith was captured by the Initiative. They used her to study Slayer physiology, and tested the chip on her to see if it would work on ‘her kind’. It did, and she’s currently stuck in their cells under the college wondering what the hell they’re going to do next.

Super Slayer: After a falling out with the New Council Faith finds herself in National City. After discovering the thriving underbelly where demons and aliens alike made their homes in the shadow of the human residents of the city she ended up settling in there, more at home than she'd ever felt among humans.

Not Alone Here: Verse in which a teenage Faith, on the run from Kakistos, attempts to steal from an Astra Inze who had broken away from her husband and Fort Rozz to try a gentler way of saving Earth. Astra takes her in, providing her protection and training and most of all understanding and patience. (verse with @inze but open to other supergirl characters)

The Space Between Stars: Faith is the trusted lieutenant of a smuggler and crime lord in the outer rim, sent to make nice with the Resistance so that they can get a solid contract smuggling supplies to their more remote bases. Contains the subverse ‘We Must be Killers’ with @hopegained in which she works as a mercenary for the First Order and is in general a darker and more twisted person.

Hunger Games: Faith’s a Victor from District 5 who had a hard life even before she was reaped, in recent years she’s fallen into apathy and pays little to no attention to the world outside her home. Won the 64th Hunger Games through a brutal berserker rage despite her own deadly wound. Her first kill is more memorable somehow, unarmed except for a sharpened stick, sinking it straight into his heart on instinct.

Storybrooke: This small town in Maine radiates magic, an open beacon for Faith’s senses. So she’s headed this way to figure out what’s up. This can take place either before or after Sunnydale.

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alarriefantasy · 7 years

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do you know any really long and hella angsty larry fics on aooo ?? sorry to bother you!

No bother at all! I LOVE getting asks!!! Also, I got a little ahead of myself here, so this is a long list! I’m doing this in numerical order starting at 100k and up! I will forewarn you, some of these fics may not be as angsty as you’re looking for, but I figured I’d add them still because you might like them! Hope you find what you wanted! :D

Angsty Fic Rec

take my hand (and my heart and soul) by bananasandboots

Words: 45k

Or, the one where Harry hasn’t spoken to his best friend in sixteen months and can’t remember why.

Even Angels Have Their Demons by AFangirlFantasy

Words: 53k

Louis is appointed the role of Guardian Angel, and his first mission is a boy named Zayn Malik. Unfortunately, it seems that a certain Demon has gotten to him first.

Or… an Angel/Demon AU where Angel Louis hates Demon Harry, but somewhere along the way that stops being so true.

No One Does It Better by nodibs

Words: 49k

Harry’s an alcoholic and Louis is a bartender. The first time they meet isn’t the first time they’ve met.

Tug-of-War by cherrystreet

Words: 63k

Louis’ husband dies suddenly and he is left with nothing. Well, not really nothing. He has Harry. And a St. Bernard puppy named Link, whom his late husband left behind for him. Louis takes care of Link and Harry takes care of Louis. Everything is okay until suddenly, it isn’t.

All Your Dreams Are On Their Way by1Diamondinthesun

Words: 73k

Or, Louis Tomlinson is a grieving author with a deadline. Harry Styles is afraid to realize his potential. The Caribbean is the perfect place to dream bigger. Featuring cocktails, imposter syndrome, and a race-against-the-clock rescue under a starry St. Lucia sky.

don’t tell the gods (we left a mess) by bottomlinsons

Words: 71k

After a misunderstanding with Liam’s mother, Louis agrees to accompany his best friend to a family wedding and pretend to be the world’s best boyfriend. But their simple plan goes awry when he learns that Harry, ex-boyfriend/ex-love of Louis’ life, will also be in attendance. (aka: fake!boyfriends with a twist ft. bromance, romance and cake.)

Truth Be Told (I Never Was Yours) by JustForTommo

Words: 76k

or the one where Louis and Harry have a complicated past, Louis is getting married to someone that’s not Harry, and the universe has decided to have a laugh and make Harry the wedding planner.

Baby, I think we might be too cold to float by forreveries

Words: 81k

AKA: Harry is a journalist that goes to Lake Tekapo, New Zealand, to look into a girl’s disappearance after a year of no movement from police. What he finds instead is his ex boyfriend Louis, who, six years earlier, ghosted him after five months of dating in university. A story of trauma, secrets, and the power of finally letting people in.

And down the long and silent street by whimsicule

Words: 86k

The year is 1881 and if you’re alone in this world you might as well be dead, because starving dogs have no mercy.

Or: Wherein Louis and Harry are on the opposite ends of the social ladder, but their paths still cross on the filthy streets Louis calls his home. The odds are staked against them from the beginning, and even more when Louis’ past finally catches up with him.

Here In The Afterglow by fondleeds

Words: 88k

1970’s AU. In a tiny town in Idaho, Louis’ life is changed forever by the arrival of a curious stranger.

Off The Record by Tomlinsontoes

Words: 90k

Louis is an out of control teen heartthrob, Harry is hired to get him back on track and they both hate each other while they secretly don’t.

Who Painted the Moon Black by throughthedark

Words: 95k

Hunger Games AU where Louis Tomlinson is district six’s victor from the 69th Hunger Games and Harry Styles is district seven’s victor from the 72nd Hunger Games.

Dance to the Distortion by Lis (domesticharry)

Words: 96k

Louis accidentally breaks Harry’s camera lens and in order to get it fixed, they decide to participate in a romantic couples study. The only issue is that they are not actually couple. Well that and the fact they cannot stand each other.

Untangle Me by suicxne

Words: 103k

Louis finds himself out of place in LA, unable to get at an itch that’s been bothering him for years. He supposes back in the early days, home hadn’t been a place. It’d been a person. He’d etched it permanently into his skin for fucks sake.It was always him and Harry. Stuck to each other like super glue. Pulled together by some magnetic force, existing in their own bubble. Everyone could see it, but that was half the problem, wasn’t it?

It’s not like Louis can pinpoint the exact moment in time when him and Harry fell out of sync. There wasn’t really one at all. It had been a gradual slip, like the tide wearing away at a sandstone cliff. Chipping the solid foundations until there was nothing left to stop the structure falling to the waves below. It’s not like he spends all of his time sitting around moping over a lost friendship, he’s good at distractions. But LA only seems to accentuate the distance between them. Two separate planets, not even in the same solar system.

Or the one where Harry and Louis finally get it right.

Take me down with you by harrystylesandstuff

Words: 107k

Louis is fine. He just happens to walk to the suicide bridge of Bristol at least once a week, just happens to be dealing with a lot of anxiety, and just happens to be done with life. But he’s fine.

Everything is just fine until a mysterious guy starts showing up every time he tries to kill himself, and he should be very scared, but he’s somehow very glad to have company. Until he’s not.

AU where Louis tries to kill himself multiple times but he’s not very good at it, Harry keeps showing up out of nowhere, and maybe life isn’t as bad as it looks sometimes.

Give Me Truths by iwillpaintasongforlou

Words: 110k

Louis is a psychology student with a tattoo count as high as his genius IQ. Harry is in a (sort-of) relationship with a homophobic man and hates himself a little more every day. Things fall apart and Louis puts him back together.

Or, the one in which Louis falls in love with a fragile boy and tells him every beautiful truth in the world, as long as it makes him happy.

Soft Hands, Fast Feet, Can’t Lose by dolce_piccante

Words: 112k

American Uni AU. Harry Styles is a frat boy football star from the wealthy Styles Family athletic dynasty. A celebrity among football fans, he knows how to play, he knows how to party, and he knows how to fuck (all of which is well known among his legion of admirers).

Louis Tomlinson is a student and an athlete, but his similarities to Harry end there. Intelligent, focused, independent, and completely uninterested in Harry’s charms, Louis is an anomaly in a world ruled by football.

A bet about the pair, who might be more similar than they originally thought, brings them together. Shakespeare, ballet, Disney, football, library chats, running, accidental spooning, Daredevil and Domino’s Pizza all blend into one big friendship Frappucino, but who will win in the end?

Tired Tired Sea by MediaWhore

Words: 113k

As a B&B owner on the most remote of all the British Isles, Louis Tomlinson is used to spending the coldest half of the year in complete isolation, with his dog and the sea as sole companions. Until, one day, a mysterious stranger on a quest to rebuild himself rents a room for the winter.

nobody shines the way you do by wildestdreams

Words: 115k

Louis pretends to be Harry’s boyfriend to help him win back his douchebag ex-boyfriend, but things don’t go according to plan.

The Dead of July by whimsicule

Words: 117k

or: Harry is Captain America, and Louis’ been dead for 70 years.

Never Be by cherrystreet

Words: 117k

The one where Harry Styles moves to Connecticut from England for nine months as a part of a study abroad program, and he just so happens to move in with Louis Tomlinson and family.

In Vogue by otpwhatever

Words: 121k

Fashion AU. Louis is the editor in chief of Vogue magazine, and Harry’s running British GQ. Featuring Zayn as the crazy creative director and Louis’ confidant, Liam as the sports writer that gets to sit front row at fashion week and DJ Neil as the only sane person in the whole story. (There are no skinny jeans in this fic)

more than just a dream by spit_on_me_larry

Words: 122k

Louis Tomlinson loves his life, he really does. It’s just that he’s constantly on the verge of everything completely going to shit. He’s disorganized and clumsy and hotheaded and just a little bit ridiculous.

And then he meets Harry Styles. Harry is the type of person Louis hates. It seems like everything comes easily to him. He’s rich and brilliant and everyone loves him and he has his life impossibly and perfectly together.

Louis detests Harry Styles. Except for the inconvenient fact that he can’t seem to get Harry out of his head.

Wild And Unruly by 100percentsassy, gloria_andrews

Words: 123k

Harry is a cowboy sitting on the biggest oil reservoir in Wyoming, and Louis is the paralegal assigned to pressure him into selling his land.

got the sunshine on my shoulders by hattalove

Words: 124k

(or, an au based on the movie sweet home alabama.)

Coeur d'Enfants by lavenderforluck

Words: 126k

As Marx said of the bourgeois class: all that is solid melts into air. St. Peter’s verse.

For As Long As I Can Remember (It’s Been December) by green_feelings

Words: 128k

After recovering from a severe accident that causes Harry to lose his memory of three years, he moves to London to start his life over as a star chef. Little does he know that when he falls in love with Louis at first sight, it’s not the first time they meet.

Featuring an unintentional game of hot and cold, Harry chasing memories that won’t come back, Louis burying himself in work to try and forget what he can’t forget, Liam being torn between two of his best friends, Zayn as a moral compass and Niall saving the day with good music and brutal honesty.

Empty Skies by green_feelings

Words: 134k

For three years, Harry has been running from his past. Now, he is moving to London and pledges to fulfil his only dream – making it big in the music industry. Not everyone has a place, though, and the competition is tough. As is his past catching up on him.

Louis is part of the biggest boy band of the world, and getting there had meant a lot of hard work, as well as sacrificing parts of his heart and soul. He’s still happy. Maybe not as happy as he could be, but who is he to complain?

Let’s Fall in Love in a Place You Want to Stay by embro

Words: 134k

A George of the Jungle / Tarzan AU where Louis is a model who meets Wild Man Harry in the Congo. He was raised by apes and barely speaks a word of English and turns Louis’ life upside down.

Love Is A Rebellious Bird by 100percentsassy, gloria_andrews

Words: 134k

AU in which the boys still make music. Louis is the concertmaster of the London Symphony Orchestra, Harry is the New! and Exciting! interim conductor/ex-cello prodigy who “has made Mozart cool again” according to Esquire Magazine (Louis hates him immediately, which is definitely why he internet stalked him in his dark bedroom late at night that one time), and Niall is the best. Zayn and Liam are around too.

Don’t hum Bolero.

Empty Skies by green_feelings

Words: 134k

Featuring Perrie as Harry’s adorable flatmate, Niall as his manager, and Liam and Zayn as Louis’ bandmates.

Lights Will Guide You Home by louisxharry1

Words: 137k

Louis Tomlinson is his school’s resident bad boy and easily the most liked person there. He’s loud and confident and popular. He spends most of his time abusing his parent’s money or partying or playing football. He also spends a good deal of it obsessing over the quiet curly boy in his English class, but no one really needs to know that.

Harry Styles is more or less invisible at the same school (unless he’s being harassed). He’s shy and painfully insecure and quiet. He spends most of his time crying on his bedroom floor with a razor pressed against his skin or trying (and failing) to think of reasons to stay alive.

So, of course, it’s inevitable that they fall for each other.

As You Are by zarah5

Words: 139k

AU. Five years after The X Factor launched his career as a radio host and songwriter, Louis Tomlinson returns as a judge. Falling for a contestant is the last thing he needs. It’s also against his contract.

Empty Gold by rainbow_kings

Words: 148k

AU where Louis Tomlinson attends the vigorous, demanding performing arts school: Guildhall in hopes to complete his theatre degree. He is a scholarship student, always having to work twice as hard to prove his worth which has caused him to feel resentment and anger towards his subordinate position.

Harry Styles is the wealthy, naturally gifted actor who effortlessly snatches all the main roles within the class. The complete contrast to everything Louis is.

Louis Tomlinson and Harry Styles have had bad blood and despised each other for the two years they attended Guildhall together, making each task a competition between each other.

In the final year, when Guildhall produces and performs an original play, Louis is heartbroken to learn the lead role has been been received to Harry and he’s the second role. He’s mostly terrified, however, when he realises he has to date Harry in the play as their characters. They come together through awkward stage kisses that transforms to hate sex, heated arguments, rehearsal times after lectures and baking carrot cake together.

Take My Breath Away by RealityBetterThanFiction

Words: 153k

There is a prestigious school in the British Royal Navy classified as Premier Delta - or as it is known by its flyers, 1D. These select pilots are an elite set of Naval lieutenants who are trained in the skill of aggressive aerial combat. They are instruments of war, trained in times of peace. They are dogfighters, relentless and fearless in their mission to protect their beloved country. From their lofty vantage, they are always watching, waiting, and ready to lay it all on the line.

Lt. Harry Styles, call sign Sparrow, is a prodigy when it comes to flying. The owner of an unrivaled Naval pedigree, being a pilot was always written in the stars for Harry. With his trusty RIO, Lt. Niall Horan, Harry has made an unprecedented ascension in the ranks of the Naval aerial combat elite, and has been recruited to the esteemed Premier Delta flight school, carrying on his family’s legacy. What he finds there are unexpected friendships, perilous challenges, and something beyond what he ever thought possible. Because as his father had always told him, before the great Captain Styles went tragically missing in combat, you don’t fall in love with the sky, you fall in love with what keeps you on the ground.

Nameless Night by green_feelings

Words: 155k

For their 18th birthday, every person receives a letter that reads a simple date. That is the date you’ll meet your soulmate.Harry and Louis have different beliefs, live in different worlds and have different dreams, hopes and fears. Yet, they’re not so different from each other when it comes to love. When their paths cross, there is no doubt they belong together. Except for that one, essential difference: they didn’t receive the same date.

Or, a fic about differences that make no difference at all: Harry and Louis are soulmates. In every way possible. Featuring Niall as a role model, and Liam and Zayn as a different kind of role models.

And Then a Bit by infinitelymint

Words: 158k

(aka Harry and Louis fake a relationship for publicity. Eventually it becomes a lot less fake and a lot more real.)

I Need A Fix Cause I’m Going Down by larryshares

Words: 158k

louis has been dealing with depression for as long as he can remember. he doesn’t expect green eyes and toothy grins and sweet petals in messy curls to save him, but they’re doing a hell of a lot more to help than regular therapy and prescribed pills ever have.

To Destroy a Dam by Evancalous

Words: 198k

AKA: Louis and Harry are best friends for six years. They lose touch, and sixteen years later, fate collides their paths into each other again.

Gods & Monsters by Velvetoscar

Words: 201k

The instructions were simple: seduce and destroy Harry Styles. Not once did they discuss the option of Louis actually falling in love. So, naturally, that’s exactly what he did.

Fading by tothemoonmydear

Words: 202k

Louis knows about beauty; the combination of qualities that pleases the aesthetic senses. He creates that combination every day in the garments he designs while studying fashion at uni. The cut of the design, the color of the fabric, the intricacy of the stitching; it all comes together to create something beautiful. When the science student with the long legs and dimpled smile agrees to model for him, Louis decides he’s found beauty personified. Harry just thinks Louis needs someone to show him how beautiful he is.

Shake Me Down by AGreatPerhaps12

Words: 208k

Harry’s new to college, fresh out of Catholic school and conversion therapy camp, and Louis runs the campus LGBTQIA organization.

Young & Beautiful by Velvetoscar

Words: 227k

Louis, to his horror, attends an elitist university in which the name Zayn Malik means something, Niall Horan doesn’t stop talking, there are pianos everywhere, and Harry Styles, only son of a drug-addled, clinically insane ex-rocker, has a perfect smile and empty eyes.

You are in love by wildestdreams

Words: 270k

The one where there’s late night coffee runs with deep conversations, lots of frat parties with cute frat boys, TV show references, numerous social network interactions, first kisses in the rain and a slow burn love story between two unlikely people.

You’ve got to see yourself from far and wide by Emm77

Words: 286k

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He kissed my lips, I taste your mouth by MrsStylinson

Words: 290k

When Louis moves into the flat next to Harry’s, neither of them thinks it will change their lives. Louis is stuck in a relationship with his controlling and overly possessive boyfriend who he loves too much to break up with.. Harry is content, seeking refuge from the snobby world he grew up in and forging a new path for himself. He does happen to have a habit of wanting to fix people though and when he meets Louis, the gorgeous man with a prat of a boyfriend, he finds himself trying to do just that. While Harry tries to avoid getting tangled in a messy situation, Louis tries to deny that there’s a niggling voice in the back of his head that prefers Harry to his own boyfriend. While both studiously refuse to let change come, they fail to notice that exact force wrapping around them and pulling them tighter together until there just might be no escape from the feelings brewing within.

The Afterlife Fic (The Best I Ever Had in My Entire Life… Or Death) by LovingCup

Words: 491k

AU- After dying in an accident, Louis Tomlinson arrives in the Afterlife. Not Heaven and not Hell, Louis finds himself in Judgment City UK: a pristine city where the food and entertainment are divine and the newly departed must undergo a Review of their life on Earth to determine if they have lived a life worthy of advancement in the universe, or if they must be returned to Earth to be born again in a new body.On his first full day in the Afterlife, Louis meets Harry Styles, and the two have an instant connection. Over the course of their Reviews, they fall in love and begin to find that even though they didn’t know each other on Earth, they are nonetheless linked to one another in perfect ways. Both are hoping to move ahead in the universe together, but they are challenged with the threat of separation if one or both of them is sent back to Earth to be born again

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updated 08.17.19

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The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Set against the tumultuous years of the post-Napoleonic era, The Count of Monet Cristo recounts the swashbuckling adventures of Edmond Dantes, a dashing young sailor falsely accused of treason. The...

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

Il Principe (The Prince) is a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. Originally called De Principatibus (About Principalities), it was origi...

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Animal Farm is a dystopian novella by George Orwell. Published in England on 17 August 1945, the book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World War II. Orwell, a democrat...

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books. A second edition followed in 1674, redivided into twelve...

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

The novel is told through the point of view of Lieutenant Frederic Henry, an American serving as an ambulance driver in the Italian army during World War I.

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

All the King's Men portrays the dramatic political ascent and governorship of Willie Stark, a driven, cynical populist in the American South during the 1930s.

Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust is a tragic play, although more appropriately it should be defined a tragicomedy, despite the very title of the work. It was published in two parts: Faust. Der Tr...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Pri...

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

This lyrical tragedy of two star-crossed lovers and their feuding families is one of the world's most famous love stories.

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

De la démocratie en Amérique (published in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840) is a classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville on the United States in the 1830s and its strengt...

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

A totalitarian regime has ordered all books to be destroyed, but one of the book burners suddenly realizes their merit

Neuromancer by William Gibson

The novel tells the story of a washed-up computer hacker hired by a mysterious employer to work on the ultimate hack. Gibson explores artificial intelligence, virtual reality, genetic engineering, ...

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand's epochal novel, first published in 1957, has been a bestseller for more than four decades as well as an intellectual landmark. It is the story of a man who said that he would stop the mot...

Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell

Homage to Catalonia is political journalist and novelist George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations in the Spanish Civil War, written in the first person.

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago is a book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn based on the Soviet forced labor and concentration camp system. The three-volume book is a massive narrative relying on eyewitness testimon...

Ethics by Baruch de Spinoza

Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophical Investigations is, along with the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, one of the two most influential works by the 20th-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. In it, Wittgenstein discus...

The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of indivi...

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

On Liberty is a philosophical work by 19th century English philosopher John Stuart Mill, first published in 1859. To the Victorian readers of the time it was a radical work, advocating moral and ec...

Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil (German: Jenseits von Gut und Böse), subtitled "Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future" (Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft), is a book by the German philosopher Friedrich N...

The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Watson

The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA is an autobiographical account of the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA written by James D. Watson and pub...

The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Possessed is an 1872 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Though titled The Possessed in the initial English translation, Dostoevsky scholars and later translations favour the titles The Devils or Demon...

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Master and Margarita (Russian: Ма́стер и Маргари́та) is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, woven around the premise of a visit by the Devil to the fervently atheistic Soviet Union. Many critics consi...

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Idiot is a novel written by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky and first published in 1868. It was first published serially in Russian in Russky Vestnik, St. Petersburg, 1868-1869. The Idiot...

Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (original German title Erinnerungen Träume Gedanken) is a partially autobiographical book by Swiss psychologist Carl Jung and associate Aniela Jaffé. The book details ...

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