/r/TrueLit's Top 100 Books (2020)
Les Miserables
Victor Hugo
1 min to start
37 hrs to read
Volume I
Fantine
Book I - A Just Man
I - M. Myriel
4 mins
II - M. Myriel Becomes M. Welcome
6 mins
III - A Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishop
3 mins
IV - Works Corresponding to Words
11 mins
V - Monseigneur Bienvenu Made His Cassocks Last Too Long
3 mins
VI - Who Guarded His House for Him
8 mins
VII - Cravatte
5 mins
VIII - Philosophy After Drinking
5 mins
IX - The Brother as Depicted by the Sister
1 min
X - The Bishop in the Presence of an Unknown Light
18 mins
XI - A Restriction
6 mins
XII - The Solitude of Monseigneur Welcome
4 mins
XIII - What He Believed
6 mins
XIV - What He Thought
3 mins
Book II - The Fall
I - The Evening of a Day of Walking
17 mins
II - Prudence Counselled to Wisdom
5 mins
III - The Heroism of Passive Obedience
8 mins
IV - Details Concerning the Cheese-Dairies of Pontarlier
1 min
V - Tranquillity
2 mins
VI - Jean Valjean
8 mins
VII - The Interior of Despair
11 mins
VIII - Billows and Shadows
3 mins
IX - New Troubles
1 min
X - The Man Aroused
4 mins
XI - What He Does
5 mins
XII - The Bishop Works
4 mins
XIII - Little Gervais
13 mins
Book III - In the Year 1817
I - The Year 1817
8 mins
II - A Double Quartette
6 mins
III - Four and Four
5 mins
IV - Tholomyès Is So Merry That He Sings a Spanish Ditty
3 mins
V - At Bombarda’s
3 mins
VI - A Chapter in Which They Adore Each Other
2 mins
VII - The Wisdom of Tholomyès
8 mins
VIII - The Death of a Horse
3 mins
IX - A Merry End to Mirth
2 mins
Book IV - To Confide Is Sometimes to Deliver Into a Person’s Power
I - One Mother Meets Another Mother
13 mins
II - First Sketch of Two Unprepossessing Figures
3 mins
III - The Lark
4 mins
Book V - The Descent
I - The History of a Progress in Black Glass Trinkets
2 mins
II - Madeleine
5 mins
III - Sums Deposited with Laffitte
4 mins
IV - M. Madeleine in Mourning
3 mins
V - Vague Flashes on the Horizon
8 mins
VI - Father Fauchelevent
3 mins
VII - Fauchelevent Becomes a Gardener in Paris
1 min
VIII - Madame Victurnien Expends Thirty Francs on Morality
4 mins
IX - Madame Victurnien’s Success
3 mins
X - Result of the Success
7 mins
XI - Christus Nos Liberavit
1 min
XII - M. Bamatabois’s Inactivity
3 mins
XIII - The Solution of Some Questions Connected with the Municipal Police
15 mins
Book VI - Javert
I - The Beginning of Repose
4 mins
II - How Jean May Become Champ
12 mins
Book VII - The Champmathieu Affair
I - Sister Simplice
4 mins
II - The Perspicacity of Master Scaufflaire
6 mins
III - A Tempest in a Skull
30 mins
IV - Forms Assumed by Suffering During Sleep
2 mins
V - Hindrances
16 mins
VI - Sister Simplice Put to the Proof
9 mins
VII - The Traveller on His Arrival Takes Precautions for Departure
6 mins
VIII - An Entrance by Favor
5 mins
IX - A Place Where Convictions Are in Process of Formation
10 mins
X - The System of Denials
11 mins
XI - Champmathieu More and More Astonished
6 mins
Book VIII - A Counterblow
I - In What Mirror M. Madeleine Contemplates His Hair
3 mins
II - Fantine Happy
5 mins
III - Javert Satisfied
5 mins
IV - Authority Reasserts Its Rights
5 mins
V - A Suitable Tomb
8 mins
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Book I
A Just Man
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