Dante through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise with Virgil and Beatrice; read the Inferno at least.
Becky Sharp climbs through Regency society without a heart; a novel without a hero.
Three brothers, a murdered father and the Grand Inquisitor; Dostoevsky's last novel.
A miners' strike in northern France; Zola went down the pits to write it.
A Roman patrician and a Christian girl under Nero; Sienkiewicz's Nobel.
Captain Nemo and the Nautilus, a giant squid and Atlantis.
Watson meets Holmes at Baker Street and a body with RACHE on the wall; the first case, 1887.
Two aristocrats play seduction as a game by letter, in the last decade before the guillotine.
Mole, Ratty, Badger and Toad of Toad Hall on the riverbank.
A Warsaw merchant in love with an aristocrat; Prus's panorama of 1870s Poland.
D Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis against the Cardinal; all for one.
A Californian dog stolen to pull sleds in the Klondike remembers being a wolf.
A portrait ages while its subject sins; Wilde's only novel.
A spectral dog on Dartmoor and the most famous Holmes novel of all.
Three witches, one prophecy and a Scottish couple who take it literally; the short, bloody one.
A sailor who jumped ship and spends his life making up for it; Conrad's honour story.
Phileas Fogg's wager and Passepartout across a world of new railways and steamships.
Milton's Satan, the most charismatic villain in English verse, and the Fall told in twelve books.
A stolen treasure, a one-legged man and Watson falling in love, in the second novel.
A king divides his kingdom among his daughters and goes mad on the heath.
Iago whispers and the Moor of Venice believes him; the tragedy of a handkerchief.
The letters of a young man in hopeless love; it started a fashion for blue coats and suicide.
Twenty-eight years on an island with a goat, a parrot and Friday; the first English novel.
A bored dandy rejects Tatyana and regrets it; Pushkin's novel in verse.
Whitman's "Song of Myself" and the free verse he kept expanding for forty years.
Build castles upward and score by the level your knight stands on.
Stack your pieces on top of your opponent's in an abstract Sid Sackson designed in 1963.
A cycling race with dice, drafting and a peloton that behaves like one.
Seat the guests so the nationalities work out; a tile game about a crowded bar.
Everyone moves everyone's spy and nobody admits which one is theirs.
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