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| Book | Genre | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Treasure Island | Thriller and adventure | When a mysterious sea-dog arrives at a quiet inn with a treasure map, young Jim Hawkins is drawn into a voyage to find buried riches. But the ship's crew harbours a mutiny, and Jim must use his wits to survive … |
| The Thirty-Nine Steps | Thriller and adventure | A bored colonial returns to London and stumbles into a spy plot to assassinate a foreign leader. Framed for murder, he flees across Scotland with only a dead man's coded notebook. To clear his name and stop the … |
| The Prisoner of Zenda | Thriller and adventure | An English gentleman discovers he is the spitting image of a foreign king and must impersonate him to prevent a coup. As he falls in love with the princess, he learns that honour demands he sacrifice … |
| Around the World in Eighty Days | Thriller and adventure | Pitch: A wealthy English gentleman bets he can travel around the world in eighty days. As he races against time across continents, he discovers that precision cannot control life, and that love matters more than … |
| King Solomon's Mines | Thriller and adventure | Three men and a mystery: when a hunter is hired to find a missing heir and a legendary treasure, he discovers that the greatest wealth is friendship. A thrilling adventure across African wilderness, lost kingdoms, … |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | Crime and mystery | When a baronet dies under mysterious circumstances on the moor, Sherlock Holmes must separate legend from crime. A trained hound, a hidden heir, and a web of deception threaten the new heir's life. Holmes and Watson … |
| A Study in Scarlet | Crime and mystery | When a man is found dead with no visible wound and a cryptic message in blood, a brilliant young detective must solve the mystery before Scotland Yard's bumbling inspectors take credit. But the truth leads back … |
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Crime and mystery | Pitch: Twelve cases of crime and mystery solved by the brilliant Sherlock Holmes and his loyal friend Dr. Watson, from a stolen royal photograph to a murderer using a trained snake. Logic always wins. |
| The Moonstone | Crime and mystery | Pitch: When a sacred diamond vanishes from a country house on the night of a birthday party, a gentleman finds himself accused of theft, and discovers he may be guilty of a crime he cannot remember committing. A … |
| The Woman in White | Crime and mystery | A drawing-master discovers his pupil is engaged to a man connected to a mysterious woman who escaped an asylum. When the woman vanishes and his love is declared dead, he must uncover a conspiracy that reaches into … |
| Pride and Prejudice | Romance | Pitch: A sharp-witted woman must overcome her own prejudice to see the proud man she despises for who he truly is, in a witty Regency romance about love, class, and self-knowledge. Blurb: Elizabeth Bennet refuses to … |
| Persuasion | Romance | When Anne Elliot broke her engagement to naval officer Frederick Wentworth eight years ago, she obeyed her family's wishes. Now, thrown together again by circumstance, they must confront whether constancy or … |
| Emma | Romance | Pitch: A witty, intelligent young woman must learn that love and genuine connection matter more than social management when she falls for the one man she cannot manipulate. Blurb: Emma Woodhouse is handsome, clever, … |
| Jane Eyre | Romance | Pitch: A poor orphan governess discovers love and equality with a mysterious gentleman, but his dark secret threatens to destroy her hard-won independence. Blurb: Jane Eyre is a woman of principle in a world that … |
| Dracula | Gothic and horror | A band of ordinary men and women must unite to stop an ancient evil that has invaded modern England. When a young solicitor escapes a Transylvanian castle with a terrible secret, he discovers that the vampire he fled … |
| Frankenstein | Gothic and horror | Pitch: A young scientist discovers the secret of life and creates a living being, only to abandon it in horror. Pursued by his creation across the frozen Arctic, Victor Frankenstein must confront the consequences of … |
| Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Gothic and horror | A respectable London lawyer investigates the mysterious connection between a brutal criminal and his most trusted friend, only to discover they are the same man. When a scientist's attempt to separate his respectable … |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Gothic and horror | A beautiful young man makes a Faustian bargain to remain eternally young while his portrait bears the weight of his sins. As he pursues endless pleasure and beauty, his hidden corruption spreads to everyone around … |
| Wuthering Heights | Gothic and horror | Pitch: A foundling's obsessive love and thirst for revenge destroy a family across two generations. When Heathcliff returns wealthy to the Yorkshire moors, he systematically ruins those who wronged him, but his … |
| The Turn of the Screw | Gothic and horror | A young governess arrives at a grand house to care for two beautiful children, only to become convinced they are being corrupted by the ghosts of a dead servant and governess. As she fights to save them, her grip on … |
| The Time Machine | Science fiction | A scientist builds a time machine and travels to a distant future where humanity has split into two species: the beautiful but helpless Eloi and the predatory underground Morlocks. Trapped in a world of decay and … |
| The War of the Worlds | Science fiction | When Martians invade Earth with unstoppable weapons, a man must survive the collapse of civilisation and find his wife in a transformed world. A classic tale of human vulnerability and the power of nature's smallest … |
| The Invisible Man | Science fiction | A brilliant physicist achieves the impossible: invisibility. But power without accountability breeds madness. As he wages terror on a small town, society must hunt him down. A dark exploration of ambition, isolation, … |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Fantasy and children's | Pitch: When curious Alice tumbles down a rabbit-hole, she enters Wonderland, a realm where logic fails and nonsense rules. To reach the beautiful garden she seeks, she must navigate mad creatures, size-changing … |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Fantasy and children's | When a cyclone sweeps Dorothy from grey Kansas into a magical land, she must journey to the Emerald City to find the Great Wizard and return home. With three unlikely companions, she discovers that the greatest magic … |
| The Secret Garden | Fantasy and children's | Pitch: When orphaned Mary arrives at her uncle's Yorkshire manor, she discovers a locked garden and a hidden cousin. Together with a local boy, they restore the garden to life, and in doing so, heal themselves. A … |
| The Wind in the Willows | Fantasy and children's | Pitch: When a vain toad's obsession with motor cars lands him in prison, his three loyal friends must rescue him and reclaim their home from invaders. A timeless tale of friendship, redemption, and the true meaning … |
| Great Expectations | Literary | A young man's ambition to become a gentleman and win the love of a beautiful woman is shattered when he discovers his benefactor is a convict. As he learns the true sources of worth, loyalty, character, and … |
| A Christmas Carol | Literary | Modern pitch: A miserly businessman is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve who show him his past, present, and possible future, forcing him to confront the emptiness of his life and the human cost of his greed. … |
| The Great Gatsby | Literary | A self-made millionaire throws lavish parties to win back his lost love, but discovers that wealth cannot erase the past or remake the dream. A tragic meditation on American ambition, desire, and the corruption of … |
| Heart of Darkness | Literary | A seaman's account of his journey upriver into the African interior to meet the legendary trader Kurtz, only to discover that civilisation's restraint is all that separates us from savagery. A meditation on power, … |
| Kidnapped | Thriller and adventure | When seventeen-year-old David Balfour seeks his inheritance from a wicked uncle, he is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Shipwrecked in the Highlands, he befriends a fugitive Jacobite and becomes hunted for a murder … |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Thriller and adventure | A wrongly imprisoned sailor escapes after fourteen years and returns as a mysterious count to systematically destroy those who betrayed him, only to discover that vengeance cannot heal his wounds, only love and mercy … |
| The Three Musketeers | Thriller and adventure | A poor Gascon arrives in Paris seeking glory and joins three Musketeers in a bond of loyalty tested by court intrigue, assassination plots, and a dangerous woman's vendetta. Together they must stop a conspiracy … |
| The Riddle of the Sands | Thriller and adventure | A bored Foreign Office clerk joins an old friend for a Baltic yachting holiday and stumbles upon a German plot to invade England. As they navigate treacherous Frisian sands and uncover a conspiracy of barges and … |
| The Scarlet Pimpernel | Thriller and adventure | A masked English hero rescues French aristocrats from the Terror while his wife, unaware of his true identity, is blackmailed into betraying him. When she discovers the truth, she races across the Channel to warn … |
| The Lost World | Thriller and adventure | A young journalist joins a daring expedition to prove a scientist's impossible claim: that prehistoric creatures still live on a hidden South American plateau. Trapped in this lost world, he must survive dinosaurs, … |
| Captain Blood | Thriller and adventure | A wrongly enslaved doctor becomes a pirate captain to survive, only to discover that true freedom lies in service and love. When the woman he secretly adores rejects him as a villain, Blood must choose between the … |
| Lady Audley's Secret | Crime and mystery | When a beautiful governess marries a wealthy baronet, she hides a deadly secret. A lazy barrister's investigation into his friend's disappearance uncovers a murder that will destroy his uncle's marriage and expose … |
| The Murders in the Rue Morgue | Crime and mystery | When two women are brutally murdered in a locked room with no escape, only one man can solve the impossible crime: the brilliant analyst C. Auguste Dupin. A groundbreaking tale of reason triumphing over mystery. |
| The Innocence of Father Brown | Crime and mystery | A humble Catholic priest with uncanny insight solves impossible crimes by understanding the human heart rather than following clues. Each case reveals that criminals are driven by love, desperation, or madness, not … |
| The Big Bow Mystery | Crime and mystery | When a man is found dead in a locked room with his throat cut, a brilliant detective claims he can solve the case. But as an innocent man faces the gallows, the real murderer confesses, undone not by logic but by … |
| The Leavenworth Case | Crime and mystery | When a wealthy man is murdered in his locked study, suspicion falls on his beautiful niece. A young lawyer must choose between protecting the woman he loves and pursuing the truth. A masterwork of detective fiction … |
| The Red Thumb Mark | Crime and mystery | When a young man is accused of diamond theft based on a damning thumb-print, a brilliant medical barrister must prove the evidence is forged. As his assistant falls in love with the accused's cousin, duty and desire … |
| The Amateur Cracksman | Crime and mystery | When a desperate young man seeks help from the charming cricketer A. J. Raffles, he discovers his friend is a master thief. Drawn into a life of crime, he must choose between loyalty and conscience as a relentless … |
| The Secret Agent | Crime and mystery | A secret agent caught between a foreign power and his own conscience orchestrates a bombing that kills his wife's beloved brother. When she discovers his crime, she murders him. His accomplice seduces her for money, … |
| Sense and Sensibility | Romance | When Elinor Dashwood's family loses their estate, she must choose between her own heart and her duty to protect her impulsive sister. As hidden love and cruel betrayal test her restraint, Elinor discovers that true … |
| North and South | Romance | When a clergyman's daughter moves to industrial Milton, she clashes with a self-made manufacturer over progress and duty. As she learns the human cost of industry and he learns the value of conscience, they discover … |
| Far from the Madding Crowd | Romance | When a beautiful young farmer inherits wealth and independence, she must navigate the desires of three men: a steady shepherd who loves her quietly, a wealthy farmer whose obsession turns to madness, and a charming … |
| The Enchanted April | Romance | Four unhappy English women rent a castle in Italy for April and discover that beauty, freedom and each other can heal what duty and marriage could not. A novel about transformation, second chances and the magic of … |
| The Sheik | Romance | Pitch: A proud English woman is abducted by a mysterious Arab sheik in the Sahara. As captivity turns to passion, she discovers he is not what he seems, and neither is her own heart. A dark romance of possession, … |
| Daddy Long Legs | Romance | A poor orphan girl is given a chance at college by a mysterious benefactor. Through witty letters, she discovers education, friendship and love. But the man she falls for and her secret patron are one and the same, … |
| Carmilla | Gothic and horror | A young woman befriends a mysterious guest at her castle, only to discover her new companion is a centuries-old vampire draining her life. As her health fails and deaths plague the village, she must uncover the truth … |
| The Castle of Otranto | Gothic and horror | A usurper prince is haunted by supernatural judgment when a giant helmet kills his son on the eve of a forced marriage. As divine signs multiply, he pursues an innocent woman and murders his own daughter in darkness, … |
| The Phantom of the Opera | Gothic and horror | A deformed musical genius holds a young opera singer captive beneath the Paris Opera House, forcing her to choose between love and survival. When her true love descends into the cellars to rescue her, all three must … |
| The Great God Pan | Gothic and horror | When a surgeon pierces the veil between worlds through forbidden experiment, he unleashes a monstrous being who corrupts and destroys all who encounter her true nature. A man's rational investigation cannot stop what … |
| The Yellow Wallpaper | Gothic and horror | A woman confined to a room with disturbing yellow wallpaper by her physician husband begins to lose her grip on reality, becoming convinced a trapped woman lives behind the pattern. As she peels away the paper to … |
| The Call of Cthulhu | Gothic and horror | A scholar inherits his uncle's mysterious papers and uncovers evidence of a global cult worshipping an ancient cosmic entity. As he pieces together the truth, he realises that some knowledge brings only terror and … |
| The Island of Doctor Moreau | Science fiction | A castaway discovers a remote island where a brilliant scientist is transforming animals into human-like creatures through vivisection. When the experiments begin to fail, Prendick must survive among the reverting … |
| Journey to the Centre of the Earth | Science fiction | When a mysterious runic manuscript hints at a passage to the earth's centre, a brilliant but obsessed professor drags his reluctant nephew on an impossible journey. As they descend through volcanic tunnels, … |
| A Princess of Mars | Science fiction | A Civil War veteran mysteriously transported to Mars must navigate alien warfare, win the heart of a red princess, and save a dying world. A classic adventure blending romance, action and wonder. |
| Herland | Science fiction | Three men discover a hidden all-female utopia where women have thrived alone for two thousand years. As they learn the society's secrets, they must confront their own beliefs about gender, love, and power. A … |
| Flatland | Science fiction | A Victorian mathematician imprisoned in a two-dimensional world encounters a visitor from three-dimensional space and glimpses a truth that authorities will kill to suppress: that perception itself is a prison, and … |
| Erewhon | Science fiction | A young man crosses forbidden mountains into a hidden country where illness is crime and machines are conscious. As he falls in love and uncovers the society's cruel logic, he discovers it mirrors his own world's … |
| The Last Man | Science fiction | When plague wipes out humanity, one man remains to bear witness. Lionel Verney's journey from a desperate youth seeking love to the last survivor on Earth is a meditation on isolation, mortality, and what it means to … |
| Through the Looking Glass | Fantasy and children's | Pitch: When Alice tumbles through a looking glass into a chess world ruled by illogic, she must journey eight squares to become queen. But in a land where time runs backwards and words mean whatever you want, can … |
| A Little Princess | Fantasy and children's | When Sara Crewe loses her wealth overnight, she is forced into servitude at her boarding school. But she refuses to let poverty strip her of dignity, imagination, or kindness. A mysterious benefactor begins to help … |
| The Jungle Book | Fantasy and children's | Pitch: A boy raised by wolves must choose between the jungle and human society in this timeless adventure. Includes tales of a white seal's quest, a mongoose's courage, and an elephant boy's sacred discovery. A … |
| Five Children and It | Fantasy and children's | Five children discover a magical sand-fairy that grants one wish per day. But every wish goes wrong in unexpected ways. As they learn that magic cannot solve problems without causing trouble, they discover that … |
| The Railway Children | Fantasy and children's | When their father is taken away on mysterious government business, three ordinary children must adapt to poverty in a cottage near a railway line. Through kindness, bravery, and faith in others' goodness, they … |
| The Princess and the Goblin | Fantasy and children's | When a lonely princess discovers her great-great-grandmother is real and magical, she must learn to trust the unseen. A brave miner boy uncovers a goblin plot to invade the mountain kingdom. Together they must stop … |
| Peter and Wendy | Fantasy and children's | Pitch: When Peter Pan whisks the Darling children away to the magical Neverland, they discover that eternal youth comes at a terrible cost. As Wendy becomes a mother to the lost boys and falls in love with Peter, she … |
| The Worm Ouroboros | Fantasy and children's | When his brother is captured by the sorcerer-king of Witchland, Lord Juss embarks on an epic quest across impossible mountains to rescue him, only to discover that true strength comes not from martial prowess but … |
| Anne of Green Gables | Fantasy and children's | When a talkative orphan girl arrives at Green Gables by mistake, she transforms a quiet household through imagination, mischief, and fierce love. Anne must learn that beauty comes from character, not appearance, and … |
| Black Beauty | Fantasy and children's | Pitch: A horse's memoir spanning decades and homes, from a peaceful meadow to brutal London streets and back to safety. Beauty's journey exposes Victorian cruelty to animals and celebrates the transformative power of … |
| Middlemarch | Literary | In provincial England, four lives intersect: an idealistic woman discovers her marriage is hollow, an ambitious doctor's dreams are crushed by debt, a young man must choose between inheritance and integrity, and a … |
| Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Literary | A young woman's past catches up with her when she falls in love with a man who cannot forgive her. Set in rural Wessex, this tragic novel asks whether a person can escape their history or whether society's judgment … |
| Mrs Dalloway | Literary | On a single June day in 1923 London, Clarissa Dalloway prepares for an evening party while a traumatised war veteran spirals toward death. As their paths nearly cross, the novel asks whether life's meaning lies in … |
| To the Lighthouse | Literary | A modernist masterpiece about a family's journey to a lighthouse, interrupted by death and war. Told through shifting consciousness, it explores how art and memory preserve meaning against time's erosion. A profound … |
| Anna Karenina | Literary | In 1870s Russia, a nobleman searches for meaning through love and work while a married woman risks everything for passion. Their parallel journeys explore whether happiness comes from duty, desire, faith, or some … |
| Crime and Punishment | Literary | A brilliant poor student commits murder to prove his theory that extraordinary men transcend morality, then spirals through guilt, interrogation, and psychological torment until a prostitute's faith and love awaken … |
| Madame Bovary | Literary | A provincial doctor's wife dreams of aristocratic passion and romance, reading novels that promise escape from her dull marriage. When seduction arrives, she discovers that love offers no refuge from reality, only … |
| The Age of Innocence | Literary | A brilliant young lawyer in 1870s New York falls in love with his fiancée's scandalous cousin, only to discover that duty, propriety, and his own complicity in society's rules make their love impossible. A tragic … |
| Silas Marner | Literary | A weaver falsely accused and broken by betrayal finds redemption through an abandoned child. When gold is stolen and a girl appears at his door, Silas discovers that love matters more than wealth. A quiet novel about … |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Literary | A boy escapes his abusive father and joins a runaway slave on a raft journey downriver. As con men exploit innocent people and Huck's conscience awakens, he must choose between society's laws and loyalty to his friend. |
| Hamlet | Plays | A Danish prince is haunted by his father's ghost and tasked with revenge. Trapped between duty and doubt, he feigns madness while plotting to kill his uncle the King, only to discover that revenge destroys everyone … |
| Macbeth | Plays | A Scottish general hears a prophecy that he will be king. Driven by ambition and his wife's manipulation, he murders the king and seizes the throne. But paranoia and guilt consume him as he commits further murders to … |
| Romeo and Juliet | Plays | Two teenagers from feuding families fall in love at first sight and marry in secret, but a tragic misunderstanding leads them both to death, finally ending the ancient grudge. A timeless tragedy about love, fate, and … |
| Othello | Plays | A Moorish general's marriage to a senator's daughter is destroyed by his trusted ensign's lies and manipulation, turning love into murderous jealousy. A tragedy of appearance versus truth, where suggestion proves … |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Plays | When magic goes wrong in an enchanted wood, two couples find their love tested by mischief and mayhem. A young woman defies her father to follow her heart, but a fairy's spell turns her world upside down. Can true … |
| Twelfth Night | Plays | A shipwrecked woman disguises herself as a boy to survive in a strange land, only to fall in love with her new master while he pursues another woman who falls for her instead. When her twin brother arrives, chaos and … |
| Doctor Faustus | Plays | Pitch: A brilliant scholar makes a pact with the devil for infinite knowledge and power, only to discover that earthly gain cannot purchase salvation. As his twenty-four years expire and midnight approaches, Faustus … |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Plays | Two bachelors maintain false identities to escape social obligations and pursue love, but their lies unravel when both girls discover the deception. A shocking revelation about a lost baby and a hand-bag proves one … |
| A Doll's House | Plays | A woman discovers her marriage is built on lies and her role as a dutiful wife is a prison. When her secret is exposed, she must choose between duty and authenticity, leading her to abandon her family and walk out … |
| Hedda Gabler | Plays | A brilliant woman trapped in marriage and society manipulates those around her to gain power, only to discover that true control is impossible. When blackmail strips away her last option, she chooses death over … |
| Pygmalion | Plays | A brilliant phonetics professor bets he can pass off a flower girl as a duchess through speech training alone. But when the experiment succeeds, he ignores her emotional crisis and uncertain future. She must choose … |
| The School for Scandal | Plays | A wealthy uncle tests his two nephews through disguise to discover which is truly virtuous. One is a selfish hypocrite hiding behind sentimental language; the other is poor and dissolute but loyal and generous. A … |
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