123 Most Popular Free Ebooks from Guternberg
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Without further ado, the hand-picked titles from Project Gutenberg below:-
Classics
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
- This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Little Women by Louise May Alcott
- Don Quixote by Cervantes
- The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
- Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Fiction
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
- Bleak House by Charles Dickens
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin
- The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
- The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Silas Marner by George Eliot
- The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Middlemarch by George Eliot tells
Philosophy and Religion
- Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire
- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Beyond Good and Evil by Freidrich Neitszche
- Discourse of a Method by Renee Descartes
- The Tao Te Ching by Laozi
- The Bible by Douay-Rheims Version, Challoner Revision
- 95 Theses by Martin Luther
- The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
- The Sayings of Confucius by Confucius
- The Golden Bough by James George Frazer
- The Republic by Plato
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- Utopia by Thomas More
- Tao te Ching by Lao-Tzu
- On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation by David Ricardo
- Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
- On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
- Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
Politics, Economics and History
- The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels
- Common Sense by Thomas Paine
- The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
- The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
- Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
- The Histories by Herodotus
Plays and Poems
- Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
- The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
- The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
- Hedda Gabler by Heinrich Ibsen
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
- The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
- The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
- Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Essays / General Nonfiction
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
Ancient Writings
- The Iliad by Homer
- The Odyssey by Homer
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- The Works of Aristotle by Aristotle
- Symposium by Plato
- Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato
- Aesop’s Fables by Aesop
- Beowulf by 8th-century Anglo-Saxon
- The Aeneid by Virgil
- Poetics by Aristotle
Technology and Business
- How to Speak and Write Correctly by Joseph Devlin
Not Just for Kids
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
- Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
- Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
- Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Miscellaneous
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
- The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
- The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci by Leonardo Da Vinci
- Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky
- Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari
- On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
- Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- The Kama Sutra by Vatsyayana