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- The Adventure of the Devil's Foot
Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone
John Filson
- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Anonymous · c.1154
- Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
George M. Gould & Walter L. Pyle · 1896
- The Argonautica
Apollonius Rhodius · c.250 BCE
- Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White
Andrew Dickson White · 1905
- The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
- Barlaam and Ioasaph
John of Damascus · tr.1914
- The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces
Jonathan Swift
- Beacon Lights of History, Vol. III
John Lord
- The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln
Helen Nicolay · 1906
- The Civilization of China
Herbert A. Giles · 1911
- The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
Jacob Burckhardt · 1878
- The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
H. W. Longfellow
- Democracy and Education
John Dewey · 1916
- Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible (Apocrypha)
Anonymous · 1611
- The Economist (Oeconomicus)
Xenophon · c.355 BC
- Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes
Robert Louis Stevenson
- Edward Jenner and Vaccination
D. Fraser Harris · 1915
- The Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan
H. G. Keene · 1887
- Father Damien
Robert Louis Stevenson · 1890
- The Financier
Theodore Dreiser · 1912
- Forty Centuries of Ink
David Nunes Carvalho · 1904
- The French Revolution: A History
Thomas Carlyle · 1837
- The Gentle Grafter
O. Henry
- Hans Brinker; or, The Silver Skates
Mary Mapes Dodge · 1865
- The Haunted Bookshop
Christopher Morley · 1919
- Heimskringla: The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway
Snorri Sturluson · c.1230
- Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
Hesiod · c.700 BC
- Historic Girls
Elbridge S. Brooks · 1887
- A History of Aeronautics
Vivian & Marsh · 1921
- History of Friedrich II of Prussia
Thomas Carlyle · 1858-65
- History of Phoenicia
George Rawlinson
- A History of Science
H.S. & E.H. Williams · 1904
- History of the Conquest of Peru
William H. Prescott · 1847
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon
- The History of the Thirty Years' War
Friedrich Schiller · 1792
- An Ideal Husband
Oscar Wilde
- The Imitation of Christ
Thomas a Kempis · c.1420
- An Interpretation of Slavophilism
Arthur D. Rees · 1915
- James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
James Nasmyth · 1883
- The Jargon File
Eric S. Raymond · 1996
- Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane
Martha Jane Cannary · 1896
- Life and Letters of Robert Browning
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
- The Life of Thomas Telford
Samuel Smiles
- Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain
- Lincoln: An Account of His Personal Life
Nathaniel Wright Stephenson · 1922
- Little Women
Louisa May Alcott · 1868
- Luther's Little Instruction Book
Martin Luther
- The Malay Archipelago
Alfred Russel Wallace · 1869
- Master Humphrey's Clock
Charles Dickens
- Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions
Charles Mackay
- Miracle Mongers and Their Methods
Harry Houdini · 1920
- Miscellaneous Mathematical Constants
Simon Plouffe · ~1996
- A Modest Proposal
Jonathan Swift
- Mrs. Warren's Profession
Bernard Shaw · 1898
- My Aunt Margaret's Mirror
Walter Scott
- The Odyssey
Homer · 1900
- Plutarch's Lives
Plutarch · c.100 CE
- Proposed Roads to Freedom
Bertrand Russell · 1918
- The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
Theophilus G. Pinches · 1906
- Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
Peter Mark Roget
- Royalty Restored; or, London Under Charles II
J. Fitzgerald Molloy
- Russia
Donald Mackenzie Wallace · 1877
- Scientific Method in the Interpretation of Dreams
Lydiard H. Horton · 1916
- The Story of My Life
Helen Keller · 1903
- A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
- The Toys of Peace, and Other Papers
Saki · 1919
- A Tramp Abroad
Mark Twain
- The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Sir John Mandeville · c.1357
- Two Years in the Forbidden City
Princess Der Ling · 1911
- The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation
Carry A. Nation · 1904
- A Visit to Oeningen
T. D. A. Cockerell · 1915
- The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame · 1908
- The Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Raven Edition)
Edgar Allan Poe