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92 books with full Intelligence Amplifier™ analysis
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens • 1843
A Christmas Carol follows Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter miser who is visited by three spirits showing him his past, present...
A Sicilian Romance
Ann Radcliffe • 1790
A Sicilian Romance follows Julia and her sister as they uncover horrifying secrets in their father's castle, including m...
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens • 1859
A Tale of Two Cities follows characters caught between London and Paris during the French Revolution, exploring how cycl...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain • 1884
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn follows Huck, a boy escaping an abusive father, and Jim, an enslaved man seeking freedom,...
Alice Adams
Booth Tarkington • 1921
Alice Adams follows a young woman in a Midwestern town desperate to rise above her family's declining fortunes. Through ...
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy • 1877
Anna Karenina tells the story of a married aristocrat who falls into a passionate affair, abandoning social conventions ...
Beowulf
Unknown • 1000
Beowulf is the oldest surviving long poem in Old English, telling of a Scandinavian hero who defeats monsters threatenin...
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche • 1886
Beyond Good and Evil is Nietzsche's critique of traditional morality and philosophy. Written in aphorisms, it challenges...
Candide
Voltaire • 1759
Candide is Voltaire's savage satire of optimism, following a naive young man through disasters, wars, and cruelty as his...
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1866
Crime and Punishment follows Raskolnikov, a destitute former student who commits murder believing himself above ordinary...
Dark Night of the Soul
Saint John of the Cross • 1578
Dark Night of the Soul is a profound mystical treatise describing the soul's journey through spiritual darkness and purg...
Das Kapital
Karl Marx • 1867
Das Kapital is Marx's monumental critique of capitalism, analyzing how value is created through labor and extracted as p...
Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol • 1842
Dead Souls is Gogol's satirical masterwork, following the cunning Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov as he travels through provin...
Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri • 1320
The Divine Comedy follows Dante's journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, guided first by Virgil and then by his ...
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra • 1605
Don Quixote follows a Spanish gentleman who, driven mad by reading chivalric romances, sets out as a knight-errant with ...
Dracula
Bram Stoker • 1897
Dracula is a masterpiece of Gothic horror that introduced the world's most famous vampire. Through letters, diary entrie...
Ecclesiastes
Anonymous • 300 BC
Ecclesiastes explores life's ultimate questions: What is the meaning of existence? What truly matters? This ancient wisd...
Emma
Jane Austen • 1815
Emma follows a privileged young woman who fancies herself a matchmaker, only to discover her meddling causes more harm t...
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson • 1841
Emerson's Essays introduced Transcendentalism to America. Self-Reliance urges authentic individualism; The American Scho...
Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World
Fanny Burney • 1778
Evelina follows a young woman's entrance into 18th-century London society as she navigates the complex world of manners,...
Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy • 1874
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (1874) is a classic work of literature. Through Intelligence Amplifier™ analy...
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley • 1818
Frankenstein tells the story of a scientist who creates life and then abandons his creation in disgust, setting in motio...
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens • 1861
Great Expectations follows Pip, an orphan who receives mysterious funding to become a gentleman, only to discover that s...
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift • 1726
Gulliver's Travels follows a ship's surgeon through four fantastical voyages—to tiny people, giants, flying islands, and...
Hamlet
William Shakespeare • 1601
Hamlet follows a prince consumed by grief and suspicion as he navigates a corrupt court, wrestling with questions of rev...
Hard Times
Charles Dickens • 1854
Hard Times follows the Gradgrind family in an industrial town, where children are raised on pure facts and workers are t...
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad • 1899
Heart of Darkness follows Charlie Marlow, a steamboat captain who travels deep into the African Congo to find Kurtz, a r...
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë • 1847
Jane Eyre follows an orphaned young woman from her harsh childhood through her journey to independence, love, and self-r...
Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy • 1895
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (1895) is a classic work of literature. Through Intelligence Amplifier™ analysis, reade...
Les Misérables: Essential Edition
Victor Hugo • 1862
Les Misérables tells the epic story of Jean Valjean, a man who spent 19 years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread to ...
Letters from a Stoic
Seneca • 65
Explore Seneca's timeless masterpiece with modern insights.
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott • 1868
Little Women follows the four March sisters—practical Meg, tomboyish Jo, gentle Beth, and artistic Amy—as they grow from...
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert • 1857
Madame Bovary follows Emma Bovary, a doctor's wife whose romantic fantasies lead her into affairs, debt, and tragedy. Fl...
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius • 180
Meditations is a series of personal writings by Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, recording his private notes to himself on...
Metamorphoses
Ovid • 8
Metamorphoses by Ovid (8) is a classic work of literature. Through Intelligence Amplifier™ analysis, readers gain deeper...
Middlemarch
George Eliot • 1871
Middlemarch is a study of provincial life in a fictional English Midlands town. Often called the greatest novel in the E...
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville • 1851
Moby-Dick follows Ishmael, a young sailor who joins the whaling ship Pequod, commanded by the monomaniacal Captain Ahab,...
Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle • 350 BC
Nicomachean Ethics is Aristotle's foundational work on how to live well. Rather than abstract rules, he focuses on devel...
Noli Me Tángere
José Rizal • 1887
Noli Me Tángere (Touch Me Not) follows Crisostomo Ibarra, a young Filipino who returns from studying in Europe, idealist...
North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell • 1854
North and South follows Margaret Hale as she moves from the pastoral south of England to the industrial north, where she...
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen • 1817
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (1817) is a classic work of literature. Through Intelligence Amplifier™ analysis, reader...
On Liberty
John Stuart Mill • 1859
On Liberty is John Stuart Mill's seminal work on the nature and limits of power that can be legitimately exercised by so...
On the Shortness of Life
Lucius Annaeus Seneca • 49
On the Shortness of Life is Seneca's urgent letter about how we waste our most precious resource: time. Written 2,000 ye...
Paradise Lost
John Milton • 1667
Paradise Lost is Milton's epic poem retelling humanity's fall from Eden. Through Satan's rebellion and Eve's temptation,...
Persuasion
Jane Austen • 1817
Persuasion tells the story of Anne Elliot, who years ago was persuaded to reject the man she loved. When Captain Wentwor...
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen • 1813
Pride and Prejudice follows Elizabeth Bennet as she navigates love, social expectations, and her own prejudices in Regen...
Proverbs
King Solomon (attributed) • 950 BC
Proverbs offers practical wisdom for daily life, addressing everything from personal character to relationships and work...
Richard III
William Shakespeare • 1597
Richard III follows a ruthless and ambitious man who stops at nothing to seize power, manipulating and eliminating all w...
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe • 1719
Robinson Crusoe tells of a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote island. Often called the first English novel, it's a...
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen • 1811
Sense and Sensibility follows sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood as they navigate loss, heartbreak, and rebuilding the...
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse • 1922
Siddhartha follows a young Brahmin in ancient India who leaves everything to seek enlightenment. Through asceticism, wea...
Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu • 400 BC
The Tao Te Ching is an ancient Chinese text of 81 short chapters offering cryptic, paradoxical wisdom on leadership, nat...
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy • 1891
Tess of the d'Urbervilles follows a young peasant woman whose life is destroyed by a wealthy man's assault and society's...
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain • 1876
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer follows a mischievous boy in a small Missouri town whose pranks and adventures lead him int...
The Aeneid
Virgil • 19 BC
The Aeneid by Virgil (-19) is a classic work of literature. Through Intelligence Amplifier™ analysis, readers gain deepe...
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton • 1920
The Age of Innocence follows Newland Archer, a respectable New York lawyer engaged to the perfect May Welland, who falls...
The Analects
Confucius • 479 BC
The Analects by Confucius (-479) is a classic work of literature. Through Intelligence Amplifier™ analysis, readers gain...
The Art of War
Sun Tzu • 500 BC
The Art of War is the world's most influential treatise on strategy, written over 2,500 years ago by the Chinese militar...
The Awakening
Kate Chopin • 1899
The Awakening follows Edna Pontellier, a New Orleans wife and mother who begins to question everything about her comfort...
The Bhagavad Gita
Vyasa • 400 BC
The Bhagavad Gita by Vyasa (-400) is a classic work of literature. Through Intelligence Amplifier™ analysis, readers gai...
The Blue Castle
L. M. Montgomery • 1926
The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery (1926) is a classic work of literature. Through Intelligence Amplifier™ analysis, re...
The Book of Five Rings
Miyamoto Musashi • 1645
The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi (1645) is a classic work of literature. Through Intelligence Amplifier™ analy...
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1880
The Brothers Karamazov is Dostoevsky's final novel, exploring the moral struggles of faith, doubt, and reason through th...
The Consolation of Philosophy
Boethius • 524
The Consolation of Philosophy is Boethius's dialogue with Lady Philosophy, written while awaiting execution. Through rea...
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas • 1844
The Count of Monte Cristo follows Edmond Dantès, a young sailor falsely imprisoned by jealous rivals, who escapes after ...
The Dhammapada
Buddha • 300 BC
The Dhammapada by Buddha (-300) is a classic work of literature. Through Intelligence Amplifier™ analysis, readers gain ...
The Enchiridion
Epictetus • 125
The Enchiridion (meaning 'handbook') is a short manual of Stoic ethical advice compiled by Arrian, a student of the Stoi...
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald • 1925
The Great Gatsby follows Nick Carraway, a young man from the Midwest who moves to New York in the summer of 1922, rentin...
The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton • 1905
The House of Mirth traces Lily Bart's tragic decline through Gilded Age New York society. Beautiful, charming, and broke...
The Iliad
Homer • 750 BC
The Iliad tells the story of Achilles' rage during the Trojan War—first at his commander who dishonors him, then at the ...
The Interior Castle
Saint Teresa of Ávila • 1577
The Interior Castle is Saint Teresa of Ávila's masterwork on spiritual development and the journey of the soul toward di...
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair • 1906
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (1906) is a classic work of literature. Through Intelligence Amplifier™ analysis, readers g...
The Mill on the Floss
George Eliot • 1860
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (1860) is a classic work of literature. Through Intelligence Amplifier™ analysis, ...
The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins • 1868
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (1868) is a classic work of literature. Through Intelligence Amplifier™ analysis, reader...
The Odyssey
Homer • 700 BC
The Odyssey is an epic poem following Odysseus's ten-year journey home after the Trojan War. Facing monsters, gods, and ...
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde • 1890
The Picture of Dorian Gray tells the story of a beautiful young man who wishes that a portrait would age instead of him—...
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli • 1532
The Prince is a political treatise that explores the nature of power, leadership, and strategic thinking. Through Intell...
The Republic
Plato • 375 BC
The Republic is a Socratic dialogue concerning justice, the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man...
The Romance of the Forest
Ann Radcliffe • 1791
The Romance of the Forest follows Adeline, a mysterious orphan who takes refuge with a family in an abandoned abbey, onl...
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne • 1850
The Scarlet Letter tells the story of Hester Prynne, publicly shamed for adultery and forced to wear a scarlet 'A', whil...
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Baroness Orczy • 1905
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy (1905) is a classic work of literature. Through Intelligence Amplifier™ analysis...
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson • 1886
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886) is a classic work of literature. Through Inte...
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anne Brontë • 1848
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall tells the story of Helen Graham, a mysterious widow who arrives at a decaying mansion with h...
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith • 1759
The Theory of Moral Sentiments explores how humans develop moral judgments through sympathy — our ability to imagine wha...
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith • 1776
The Wealth of Nations is the foundational work of modern economics, exploring how nations create prosperity. Smith intro...
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche • 1885
Thus Spoke Zarathustra follows a prophet who descends from his mountain solitude to share his wisdom with humanity — onl...
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson • 1883
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (1883) is a classic work of literature. Through Intelligence Amplifier™ analys...
Villette
Charlotte Brontë • 1853
Villette follows Lucy Snowe, a young Englishwoman who travels alone to a foreign city to teach at a girls' school, navig...
Walden
Henry David Thoreau • 1854
Walden is Thoreau's reflection on simple living in natural surroundings, based on his two years in a cabin near Walden P...
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy • 1869
War and Peace follows several aristocratic families through Napoleon's invasion of Russia, exploring how individuals fin...
Washington Square
Henry James • 1880
Washington Square by Henry James (1880) is a classic work of literature. Through Intelligence Amplifier™ analysis, reade...
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë • 1847
Wuthering Heights tells the story of Heathcliff, an orphan taken in by a wealthy family, and his obsessive, destructive ...
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The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky·1869
The Idiot follows Prince Myshkin, a genuinely good man returning to corrupt Petersburg society. Dostoevsky's attempt to ...
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky·1864
Notes from Underground is the bitter confession of a resentful, self-aware clerk raging against rationalism, progress, a...
The Symposium
Plato·385 BC
At a drinking party, Socrates and friends compete to give the best speech about love. From comedic origins myths to Socr...
Phaedo
Plato·385 BC
Socrates' final hours before execution. Rather than grieving, he discusses the immortality of the soul with his friends....
Apology
Plato·399 BC
Socrates' defense speech at his trial for corrupting the youth and impiety. Rather than beg for mercy, he argues that th...
The Gambler
Fyodor Dostoevsky·1867
A young tutor becomes addicted to roulette at a German spa, spiraling into obsession. Written from personal experience—D...
Fathers and Sons
Ivan Turgenev·1862
Bazarov, a young nihilist, visits his friend's family estate and clashes with the older generation. Turgenev captures th...
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy·1886
A successful judge discovers he is dying and realizes his entire life has been a lie. In his final weeks, Ivan confronts...
First Love
Ivan Turgenev·1860
A sixteen-year-old boy falls desperately in love with a mysterious older girl—only to discover a devastating secret abou...
Silas Marner
George Eliot·1861
A betrayed weaver becomes a miser, hoarding gold in isolation—until a golden-haired orphan appears at his door. George E...
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy·1886
In a drunken moment, a young man sells his wife and baby at a fair. Twenty years later, as a successful mayor, his past ...
The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins·1859
A mysterious woman in white appears on a moonlit road, launching a conspiracy involving switched identities, a sinister ...
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