Doctor Dolittle takes on an apprentice, Tommy Stubbins, as they set out to find Long Arrow, the world's greatest naturalist.

Liza of Lambeth (1897) narrates Liza's last four months alive.

The Moon and Sixpence is a fictional novel heavily influenced by the life of French painter Paul Gauguin.

The Professor was the first novel Charlotte Bronte wrote, but was only published posthumously.

First published in 1909, A Thief in the Night is the first novel detailing the exploits and intrigues of gentleman thief A. J. Raffles in late Victorian England.

First published in 1899, The Amateur Cracksman was the first collection of stories detailing the exploits and intrigues of gentleman thief A. J. Raffles in late Victorian England.

Sara Crewe's young but doting father sends her to a London boarding school when she is seven.

Anne of Avonlea continues the story of Anne Shirley (heroine of Anne of Green Gables).

Anne of Green Gables is a best-selling novel and Canadian classic. It was originally intended for all audiences, but is now commonly considered a children's book.

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood retells the legends of the English outlaw Robin Hood, adapting the old ballads to be read by children.

The Adventures of Pinocchio is a children's story about a wooden marionette who is wished to life.

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz is the fourth book in Baum's Oz series.

Ozma of Oz is the fourth book in Baum's Oz series.

The Marvelous Land of Oz is the second book in Baum's Oz series.

Miles Franklin wrote My Brilliant Career as a romance to entertain her friends.

Jules Verne's classic science fiction story Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

The Sheik is a book by Edith Maude Hull, an English novelist of the early twentieth century.

James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is the fictional account of the life of a young American man in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz chronicles the adventure of Dorothea in the land of Oz.

A Princess of Mars is the first in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series. This science fiction planetary romance, packed full of dangerous feats and swordplay, is set on a dying Mars.