For you who like to read and enjoy good stories, we have decided to create a wide and special section, with the idea that you can enjoy the best novels whenever you like.
As part of our work, we have selected books that are really interesting and have been developed by talented writers; this has led us to create a wide collection of the best in literature.
Covering all existing literary genres, including internationally renowned authors and those of a new generation, and works classified as classics and others with the potential to become classics, we create a selection worthy of our readers.
Stories developed in incredible settings, with unforgettable characters, and truly captivating and impressive plots, are the ones captured in each of the novels that are part of this section of our digital library.
It is a real pleasure for us to offer you this beautiful and complete selection of the best novels of the universal literary world.
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Best Current Novels
Writers worthy of following, reading, and admiring are constantly emerging, enriching, and expanding the literary world with their creations that qualify as the best current novels.
These new authors impress with their emotionally charged stories, unique characters, and unforgettable atmospheres; they are the ones in charge of continuing the legacy of classic writers and delighting readers with modern narratives.
In this opportunity, we share with you our selection of the best current novels, so that you can enjoy these new and contemporary books.
1) The Candy House
Author: Jennifer Egan
The Candy House is a novel written by Jennifer Egan. It deals with subjects such as the memory and quest for authenticity and human connection.
The book opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is “one of those tech demi-gods with whom we’re all on a first-name basis.” Bix is forty, with four kids, restless, and desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or “externalizing” memory.
Within a decade, Bix’s new technology, “Own Your Unconscious”—which allows you access to every memory you’ve ever had, and to share your memories in exchange for access to the memories of others—has seduced multitudes. But naturally, some people disagree on whether a collective consciousness is a good thing.
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2) To Kill a Mockingbird
Author: Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by the American author Harper Lee. The book is both a young girl’s coming-of-age story and a darker drama about the roots and consequences of racism and prejudice, probing how good and evil can coexist within a single community or individual.
Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, the story follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus–three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman.
Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel about race, class, justice, and the pain of growing up.
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3) Invisible Man
Author: Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man is a novel by Ralph Ellison. It addresses many of the social and intellectual issues faced by African Americans in the early twentieth century, including black nationalism, the relationship between black identity and Marxism, and the reformist racial policies of Booker T. Washington, as well as issues of individuality and personal identity.
The novel is a journey from the Deep South to the streets and basements of Harlem with horrifying battles where black men are reduced to fighting animals, to a Communist rally where they are elevated to the status of trophies. Ralph Ellison’s nameless protagonist ushers readers into a parallel universe that throws our own into harsh and even hilarious relief.
Suspenseful and sardonic, narrated in a voice that takes in the symphonic range of the American language, black and white, Invisible Man is one of the most audacious and dazzling novels of our century.
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4) Sea of Tranquility
Author: Emily St. John Mandel
Sea of Tranquility is a 2022 novel by the Canadian writer Emily St. John Mandel. This is a story of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal—an experience that shocks him to his core.
Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. Within the text of Olive’s best-selling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him.
When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, he uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to madness, a writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth, and a childhood friend from the Night City who, like Gaspery himself, has glimpsed the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe.
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5) Lolita
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is notable for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable narrator, a middle-aged literature professor under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert, is obsessed with a 12-year-old American girl, Dolores Haze, whom he sexually molests after becoming her stepfather. “Lolita”, the Spanish nickname for Dolores, is what he calls her privately.
Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs. Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers greatly in the pursuit of romance; but when Lo herself starts looking for attention elsewhere, he will carry her off on a desperate cross-country misadventure, all in the name of Love.
Hilarious, flamboyant, heart-breaking, and full of ingenious wordplay, Lolita is an immaculate, unforgettable masterpiece of obsession, delusion, and lust.
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6) To Paradise
Author: Hanya Yanagihara
To Paradise is a 2022 novel by American novelist Hanya Yanagihara. It is a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss, and the elusive promise of utopia.
In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor, drawn to a charming music teacher of no means.
In a 1993-Manhattan besieged by the AIDS epidemic, a young Hawaiian man lives with his much older, wealthier partner, hiding his troubled childhood and the fate of his father.
And in 2093, in a world riven by plagues and governed by totalitarian rule, a powerful scientist’s damaged granddaughter tries to navigate life without him—and solve the mystery of her husband’s disappearances.
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7) Beloved
Author: Toni Morrison
Beloved is a 1987 novel by the American writer Toni Morrison. Set after the American Civil War, it tells the story of a family of formerly enslaved people whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a malevolent spirit.
The novel is based on the true story of a Black slave woman, Margaret Garner, who in 1856 escaped from a Kentucky plantation with her husband, Robert, and their children. They sought refuge in Ohio, but their owner and law officers soon caught up with the family. Before their recapture, Margaret killed her young daughter to prevent her return to slavery. In the novel, Sethe is also a passionately devoted mother, who flees with her children from an abusive owner known as “schoolteacher.”
They are caught, and, in an act of supreme love and sacrifice, she too tries to kill her children to keep them from slavery. Only her two-year-old daughter dies, and the schoolteacher, believing that Sethe is crazy, decides not to take her back. Sethe later has “Beloved” inscribed on her daughter’s tombstone. Although she had intended for it to read “Dearly Beloved,” she did not have the energy to “pay” for two words (each word cost her 10 minutes of sex with the engraver).
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8) Olga Dies Dreaming
Author: Xochitl Gonzalez
Olga Dies Dreaming is the debut novel of American writer Xochitl Gonzalez. Set against the backdrop of New York City in the months surrounding the most devastating hurricane in Puerto Rico’s history, this is a story that examines political corruption, familial strife, and the very notion of the American dream―all while asking what it really means to weather a storm.
Despite Olga’s alluring public live, behind closed doors things are far less rosy. Sure, she is a successful wedding planner who can orchestrate the love stories of the 1% but she can’t seem to find her own…until she meets Matteo, who forces her to confront the effects of long-held family secrets.
Olga’s mother, Blanca, a Young Lord turned radical, abandoned her children to advance a militant political cause, leaving them to be raised by their grandmother. Now, with the winds of hurricane season, Blanca has come barreling back into their lives.
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9) Young Mungo
Author: Douglas Stuart
Young Mungo is a 2022 novel by Scottish-American writer Douglas Stuart. 15-year-old Mungo lives with his Protestant family in Glasgow. He meets James, a Catholic boy with whom a relationship blossoms.
Both boys live in the hyper-masculine and violently sectarian world of Glasgow’s housing estates. They should be sworn enemies if they’re to be seen as men at all, and yet they become best friends as they find a sanctuary in the pigeon dovecote that James has built for his prize racing birds. As they find themselves falling in love, they dream of escaping the grey city, and Mungo works especially hard to hide his true self from all those around him.
This is a gripping and revealing story about the bounds of masculinity, the push and pull of family, the violence faced by so many queer people, and the dangers of loving someone too much.
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Best Classic Novels
In this section, we have managed to create a compendium of the most acclaimed literary expressions, with the idea that you can enjoy the best classic novels in one place.
Created by authors who have left their mark on the literary world, these texts contain the most successful, remembered, admired, and read stories of all times; and of the different genres that exist.
We are proud to present you with the most complete collection of the best classic novels so that you can enjoy the most sublime and excellent of universal literature.
10) The Great Gatsby
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway’s interactions with millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby’s obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.
Nick moves to New York in the summer of 1922 to learn about the bond business. He rents a house in a wealthy but unfashionable area populated by the new rich. Nick’s next-door neighbor is the mysterious Gatsby, who lives in a mansion and throws extravagant parties every Saturday night.
As the summer progresses, Nick eventually garners an invitation to one of Gatsby’s legendary parties. He meets Gatsby himself, and later learns more about his elusive neighbor. Gatsby’s extravagant lifestyle and wild parties are simply an attempt to impress Daisy. After an initially awkward reunion, Gatsby and Daisy reestablish their connection. Their love rekindled, they begin an affair. Will they be able to live happily-ever-after?
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11) Don Quixote
Author: Miguel de Cervantes
Full title of part 1 “Don Quixote de la Mancha” and part 2 “Second part of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, a novel published in 1605 (part one) and 1615 (part two)
Don Quixote de la Mancha is one of the most widely read classics of Western literature. Originally conceived as a parody of the chivalric romances that had been in literary vogue for a long time.
It describes realistically what happens to an elderly knight who, confused by the reading of such romances, embarks on his old horse Rocinante, with his pragmatic squire, Sancho Panza, to seek adventure.
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12) Jane Eyre
Author: Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre is a novel by the English writer Charlotte Brontë. The story follows the experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr Rochester, the brooding master of Thornfield Hall.
The novel is a first-person narrative from the perspective of the title character. Its setting is somewhere in the north of England, late in the reign of George III (1760–1820). It covers different stages of Jane’s life, from her childhood at Gateshead Hall, to her time as governess at Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with her mysterious employer, Edward Fairfax Rochester and ultimately marries him.
Throughout each of these sections, the book provides perspectives on a number of important social issues and ideas, many of which are critical of the status quo. It contains elements of social criticism and it is considered by many to be ahead of its time because of Jane’s individualistic character and how the novel approaches the topics of class, sexuality, religion, and feminism.
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13) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Author: James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. It is a book written in a modernist style, and it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, Joyce’s fictional alter ego, whose surname alludes to Daedalus, Greek mythology’s consummate craftsman.
Stephen questions and rebels against the Catholic and Irish conventions under which he has grown, culminating in his self-exile from Ireland to Europe.
The narration begins in 1904 as a projected 63-chapter autobiographical novel in a realistic style. After 25 chapters, Joyce abandoned the protagonist in 1907 and set to reworking its themes and protagonist into a condensed five-chapter novel, dispensing with strict realism and making extensive use of free indirect speech that allows the reader to peer into Stephen’s developing consciousness.
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14) Anna Karenina
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina was first published in 1877. It had begun to appear as a folio in the magazine Russkii Vestnik (The Russian Messenger) between January 1875 and April 1877, but its publication was never completed because of Tolstoy’s disagreement with his publisher over the ending of the novel.
Thus, the first complete edition of the text appeared in book form in 1877. The novel is considered one of the crowning works of realism.
For Tolstoy, Anna Karenina was his first true novel. The physical appearance of the character after whom the work is named seems to be inspired by Maria Hartung (1832-1919), the first-born daughter of the Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin.
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15) A Passage to India
Author: E.M. Forster
A Passage to India is a 1924 novel by English author E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. It was selected as one of the 100 great works of 20th century English literature by the Modern Library and won the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.
The story revolves around four characters: Dr. Aziz, his British friend Mr. Cyril Fielding, Mrs. Moore, and Miss Adela Quested. During a trip to the fictitious Marabar Caves (modeled on the Barabar Caves of Bihar), Adela thinks she finds herself alone with Dr. Aziz in one of the caves (when in fact he is in an entirely different cave), and subsequently panics and flees; it is assumed that Dr. Aziz has attempted to assault her.
Aziz’s trial, and its run-up and aftermath, bring to a boil the common racial tensions and prejudices between Indians and the British during the colonial era.
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16) Mrs. Dalloway
Author: Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf, published on 14 May 1925, that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional upper-class woman in post-First World War England. It is one of Woolf’s best-known novels.
The working title of Mrs. Dalloway was The Hours. The novel began as two short stories, “Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street” and the unfinished “The Prime Minister”. The book describes Clarissa’s preparations for a party she will host in the evening, and the ensuing party.
With an interior perspective, the story travels forwards and backwards in time, to construct an image of Clarissa’s life and of the inter-war social structure. The novel addresses the nature of time in personal experience through multiple interwoven stories.
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17) ULYSSES
Author: James Joyce
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. Parts of it were first serialized in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and the entire work was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce’s 40th birthday. It is considered one of the most important works of modernist literature and has been called “a demonstration and summation of the entire movement.”
Ulysses chronicles the appointments and encounters of the itinerant Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer’s epic poem the Odyssey.
The novel establishes a series of parallels between the poem and the novel, with structural correspondences between the characters and experiences of Bloom and Odysseus, Molly Bloom and Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus and Telemachus, in addition to events and themes of the early 20th-century context of modernism, Dublin, and Ireland’s relationship to Britain. The novel is highly allusive and also imitates the styles of different periods of English literature.
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18) Pride and Prejudice
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
This work arises from a deep understanding of domestic life and the human condition. It is a book full of satire, biting, profound, and anti-romance, all at the same time.
Pride and Prejudice has captivated generations thanks to its characters and its humorous depiction of rural Victorian England’s absurd and contradictory society.
When the handsome and wealthy Mr. Darcy appears in the life of the Bennet family, everything is turned upside down for the five young ladies of the Bennet family. It is then that pride, class differences, hypocrisy, cunning, misunderstandings, and prejudices lead the characters to pain and scandal, but also to knowledge, understanding, and true love.
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19) One Hundred Years of Solitude
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude is a 1967 historical novel that tells the multigenerational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founded the fictional town of Macondo in Colombia.
The magical realist style and thematic substance of One Hundred Years of Solitude established it as an essential representative novel of the Latin American literary boom of the 1960s and 1970s, stylistically influenced by European, American, and Cuban modernism.
Since it was first published in May 1967 in Buenos Aires by Editorial Sudamericana, the work has been translated into 37 languages and sold more than 50 million copies.
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20) 1984
Author: George Orwell
One Hundred Years of Solitude is a 1967 historical novel that tells the multigenerational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founded the fictional town of Macondo in Colombia.
The magical realist style and thematic substance of One Hundred Years of Solitude established it as an essential representative novel of the Latin American literary boom of the 1960s and 1970s, stylistically influenced by European, American, and Cuban modernism.
Since it was first published in May 1967 in Buenos Aires by Editorial Sudamericana, the work has been translated into 37 languages and sold more than 50 million copies.
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