Are you opposed to kindle? I downloaded it from Project Gutenberg a few years ago: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2680 I started Frankenstein last Fall after reading https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/345. If you want non-fiction, Gulag Archipelago will blow your mind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago. Google Books has the first chapter if you want to see what you think: https://books.google.com/books?id=OW0poTnuCiIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=gulag+archipelago&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gFw2VbTyM9PfoATO2IHYCg&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=gulag%20archipelago&f=false I am also planning on reading the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius,
WHO WANTS TO HEAR ALL ABOUT HOW THERE'S A BIG SECRET (AKA NO ONE ELSE CARES) LITERATURE CONTROVERSY AS TO WHO REALLY WROTE FRANKENSTEIN? Seriously, one of my favorite undergraduate professors literally wrote the books about Frankenstein - he's convinced she really wrote it, and of course, as his student (he also taught my mother in undergrad) I agree, but there's this dillweed out there named John Lauritsen who's convinced that M. Shelly didn't write the book essentially because "a woman couldn't write it." If you're into literature, it's pretty fascinating. Lauritsen blows up the romantics list-serv about once a year clamoring on about how "clearly Percy Shelly wrote Frankenstein for his wife" and so on.
There's a tad more to the argument than that, but don't let that get in the way of your bitter anti-classicism. In all seriousness, Bryson wrote a damn fine book about Shakespeare that talks about the controversy. The conclusion is basically, we'll never know for sure: almost certainly the Bard wrote >90% of his plays, but it is equally almost 100% likely that a couple of the lesser-known ones aren't really his. The shaky attribution thing was common at the time for various industry reasons. The nuts who say it was Bacon or whatever are just nuts.
I recently bought a copy of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and was warned that to read it without also reading the Archipelago is to commit a sin against history. The used book store around the corner has a sort of militant owner/proprietor.