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- The Adventure of the Devil's Foot
Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone
John Filson
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain · 1884
- The Adventures of Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi · 1883
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain · 1876
- Aeneidos
Virgil · c.19 BC
- Aesop's Fables
Aesop · c.600 BC
- Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England
Robert Bell · 1857
- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Anonymous · c.1154
- Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
George M. Gould & Walter L. Pyle · 1896
- An Anthology of Australian Verse
Bertram Stevens · 1906
- The Argonautica
Apollonius Rhodius · c.250 BCE
- Arizona Sketches
J. A. Munk · 1905
- Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne · 1873
- The Art of Lawn Tennis
William T. Tilden · 1920
- At the Back of the North Wind
George MacDonald · 1871
- The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Manhattan Engineer District · 1946
- Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White
Andrew Dickson White · 1905
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin · 1791
- The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
- The Ballad of the White Horse
G. K. Chesterton · 1911
- Barlaam and Ioasaph
John of Damascus · tr.1914
- Barnaby Rudge
Charles Dickens · 1841
- The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces
Jonathan Swift
- Beacon Lights of History, Vol. III
John Lord
- The Bible in Spain
George Borrow · 1843
- Bleak House
Charles Dickens · 1853
- The Blue Fairy Book
Andrew Lang · 1889
- The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln
Helen Nicolay · 1906
- The Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England
Charles Mackay · 1863
- Cicero's Orations
Marcus Tullius Cicero · c.63 BC
- 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
- Concerning Christian Liberty
Martin Luther · 1520
- The Conquest of the Old Southwest
Archibald Henderson · 1920
- Contributions to All the Year Round
Charles Dickens · 1859
- The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas · 1844
- Critical and Historical Essays, Volume 1
Thomas Babington Macaulay · 1843
- Critical and Historical Essays, Volume 2
Thomas Babington Macaulay · 1843
- Cyrano de Bergerac
Edmond Rostand · 1897
- Democracy and Education
John Dewey · 1916
- The Description of Wales
Giraldus Cambrensis · 1194
- Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible (Apocrypha)
Anonymous · 1611
- Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences (The 95 Theses)
Martin Luther · 1517
- The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri · 1320
- Dr. Martin Luther's Deutsche Geistliche Lieder
Martin Luther · 1884
- The Early Kings of Norway
Thomas Carlyle · 1875
- The Economist (Oeconomicus)
Xenophon · c.355 BC
- Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes
Robert Louis Stevenson
- Edison: His Life and Inventions
Frank Lewis Dyer & Thomas Commerford Martin · 1910
- Edward Jenner and Vaccination
D. Fraser Harris · 1915
- Essays
Alice Meynell · 1914
- The Essays of Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon · 1625
- Extracts from Adam's and Eve's Diaries
Mark Twain · 1904
- The Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan
H. G. Keene · 1887
- Father Damien
Robert Louis Stevenson · 1890
- Fifty Bab Ballads
W. S. Gilbert · 1876
- The Financier
Theodore Dreiser · 1912
- Flying Machines: Construction and Operation
W.J. Jackman & Thos. H. Russell · 1912
- Forty Centuries of Ink
David Nunes Carvalho · 1904
- The French Revolution: A History
Thomas Carlyle · 1837
- The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims
Andrew Steinmetz
- The Gentle Grafter
O. Henry
- Hans Brinker; or, The Silver Skates
Mary Mapes Dodge · 1865
- Hard Times
Charles Dickens · 1854
- The Haunted Bookshop
Christopher Morley · 1919
- Heimskringla: The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway
Snorri Sturluson · c.1230
- Hellenica
Xenophon · c.362 BC
- Heroes of the Telegraph
John Munro · 1891
- Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
Hesiod · c.700 BC
- Historic Girls
Elbridge S. Brooks · 1887
- A History of Aeronautics
Vivian & Marsh · 1921
- The History of England from the Accession of James II, Volume 1
Thomas Babington Macaulay · 1848
- History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy
Niccolo Machiavelli · 1532
- 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 Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution, Volume 2
James MacCaffrey · 1915
- History of the Conquest of Peru
William H. Prescott · 1847
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon
- History of the Moravian Church
J. E. Hutton · 1909
- The History of the Thirty Years' War
Friedrich Schiller · 1792
- An Ideal Husband
Oscar Wilde
- The Imitation of Christ
Thomas a Kempis · c.1420
- In Flanders Fields and Other Poems
John McCrae · 1919
- Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States
various · 1789-2005
- An Interpretation of Slavophilism
Arthur D. Rees · 1915
- The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin Through Wales
Giraldus Cambrensis · 1191
- James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
James Nasmyth · 1883
- The Jargon File
Eric S. Raymond · 1996
- Le Morte d'Arthur
Sir Thomas Malory · c.1470
- The Legends of the Jews Volume 1
Louis Ginzberg · 1909
- The Legends of the Jews Volume 2
Louis Ginzberg · 1910
- The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
- Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane
Martha Jane Cannary · 1896
- The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald
Anonymous · c.1200
- 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
- Literary Blunders
Henry B. Wheatley · 1893
- A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett · 1905
- A Little Tour in France
Henry James · 1884
- Little Women
Louisa May Alcott · 1868
- The Lodger
Marie Belloc Lowndes · 1913
- The Lord of the Dynamos
H. G. Wells · 1894
- Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
R. D. Blackmore · 1869
- Lucasta
Richard Lovelace · 1649
- Luther's Little Instruction Book
Martin Luther
- Lyrical Poems of Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick · 1648
- The Malay Archipelago
Alfred Russel Wallace · 1869
- Manon Lescaut
Abbe Prevost · 1731
- Master Humphrey's Clock
Charles Dickens
- Masterman Ready
Frederick Marryat · 1841
- The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy · 1886
- Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions
Charles Mackay
- Memoirs of General Baron de Marbot
Baron de Marbot · 2000
- Men of Invention and Industry
Samuel Smiles · 1884
- The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Howard Pyle · 1883
- Miracle Mongers and Their Methods
Harry Houdini · 1920
- Miscellaneous Mathematical Constants
Simon Plouffe · ~1996
- A Miscellany of Men
G. K. Chesterton · 1912
- A Modest Proposal
Jonathan Swift
- The Moravians in Georgia, 1735-1740
Adelaide L. Fries · 1905
- Mrs. Warren's Profession
Bernard Shaw · 1898
- My Aunt Margaret's Mirror
Walter Scott
- Myths and Myth-Makers
John Fiske · 1872
- A New England Girlhood
Lucy Larcom · 1889
- New Forces in Old China
Arthur Judson Brown · 1904
- The Odyssey
Homer · 1900
- An Open Letter on Translating
Martin Luther · 1530
- The Oregon Trail
Francis Parkman · 1849
- Organic Syntheses Vol. II
various · 1922
- Pathological Lying, Accusation, and Swindling
William Healy and Mary Tenney Healy · 1915
- Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant Volume 2
Ulysses S. Grant · 1886
- Phantasmagoria and Other Poems
Lewis Carroll · 1869
- Pharsalia [The Civil War]
Lucan · c.65
- Philebus
Plato · c.360 BC
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde · 1890
- Pictures from Italy
Charles Dickens · 1846
- Plutarch's Lives
Plutarch · c.100 CE
- Poems by Alan Seeger
Alan Seeger · 1916
- Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte · 1846
- Poems by Frances E. W. Harper
Frances E. W. Harper · 1895
- Poems by Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde · 1881
- The Poems of Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1853
- Poems of Sidney Lanier
Sidney Lanier · 1884
- The Poison Belt
Arthur Conan Doyle · 1913
- The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians
Xenophon · c.375 BC
- Proposed Roads to Freedom
Bertrand Russell · 1918
- Reginald in Russia, and Other Sketches
Saki · 1910
- The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
Theophilus G. Pinches · 1906
- Robbery Under Arms
Rolf Boldrewood · 1888
- 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
- Salammbo
Gustave Flaubert · 1862
- The Scapegoat
Hall Caine · 1891
- The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1850
- Scientific Method in the Interpretation of Dreams
Lydiard H. Horton · 1916
- The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett · 1911
- A Selection from the Writings of Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant · 1903
- She Stands Accused
Victor MacClure · 1935
- The Silent Bullet
Arthur B. Reeve · 1912
- Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters
Logan Marshall · 1912
- Sketches by Boz
Charles Dickens · 1836
- Songs of Innocence and of Experience
William Blake · 1794
- Sons and Lovers
D. H. Lawrence · 1913
- The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses
Robert W. Service · 1907
- Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics
Clive Hamilton · 1919
- The Star-Spangled Banner
Francis Scott Key · 1814
- The Story of Burnt Njal
Anonymous · c.1280
- The Story of Mankind
Hendrik van Loon · 1921
- The Story of My Life
Helen Keller · 1903
- A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
- Thomas Jefferson, A Character Sketch
Edward S. Ellis · 1903
- Thus Spake Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche · 1885
- The Toys of Peace, and Other Papers
Saki · 1919
- Tracks of a Rolling Stone
Henry J. Coke · 1905
- A Tramp Abroad
Mark Twain
- The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Sir John Mandeville · c.1357
- A Treatise on Good Works
Martin Luther · 1520
- A Treatise on Parents and Children
George Bernard Shaw · 1910
- Trinity Site
U.S. Department of Energy · 1967
- Two Years in the Forbidden City
Princess Der Ling · 1911
- Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories
Cal Stewart · 1903
- US Copyright Act of 1976
United States Government · 1976
- The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation
Carry A. Nation · 1904
- Vikram and the Vampire
Richard F. Burton
- The Violet Fairy Book
Andrew Lang · 1901
- A Visit to Oeningen
T. D. A. Cockerell · 1915
- Waverley
Walter Scott · 1814
- What's Wrong with the World
G. K. Chesterton · 1910
- The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame · 1908
- The Women of the French Salons
Amelia Gere Mason · 1891
- The Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Raven Edition)
Edgar Allan Poe
- The Works of Max Beerbohm
Max Beerbohm · 1896
- The Yellow Fairy Book
Andrew Lang · 1894