Recommended Books for the Inspired Public
All online, all in the public domain, all have free access
1984 George Orwell [Eric Blair]: “1984”
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
Adieu by Honore de Balzac
A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
Agamemnon by Aeschylus
A History Of Greek Art by Frank Bigelow Tarbell
Alcatraz by Max Brand
Alexander’s Bridge by Willa Cather
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
A Masque Of Days by Walter Crane
A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Antigone by Sophocles, Translation by R. C. Jebb
Beauty and the Beast by Crane, Walter, 1845-1915
Beyond good and evil: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Candide by Voltaire (1759)
Charles Dickens – All the works by Charles Dickens at HathiTrust Digital Library
Common Sense by Thomas Paine (1776)
Confucian Analects by Confucius (500 BC)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud
Electra by Sophocles, Translation by R. C. Jebb
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Ethics by Aristotle
Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne
Grimms’ Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells
Jack and the Bean-Stalk: English Hexameters by Baron Hallam Tennyson Tennyson
Jack and Jill by Alcott, Louisa May
Jacob’s Ladder by E. Phillips Oppenheim
Japanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora Ozaki
Joan of Arc by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Pandora by Henry James
Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen, Translated by William and Charles Archer
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Lilith by George MacDonald
Little women, or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy by Alcott, Louisa May
Lysistrata Aristophanes, 446? BC-385? BC
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flauber
Moby Dick, by Herman Melville
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Nonsense drolleries: The owl and the pussy-cat; The duck and the kangaroo/by Edward Lear; with original illustrations by William Foster: Lear, Edward, 1812-1888
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
Ozma of Oz by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Milton’s Paradise lost: books I & II Milton, John, 1608-1674
Pinocchio; a tale of a puppet: Collodi, Carlo, 1826-1890
Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The remarkable story of Chicken Little
Robinson Crusoe by Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Scrapbook of Russian bookjackets, 1917-1942
Tales of Space and Time by H. G. Wells | Feedbooks
Tender Buttons: Objects-Food-Rooms by Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
The adventures of Cinderella colored
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (pd) text version
The Adventures of Joel Pepper by Margaret Sidney
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The baked head: and other tales
The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe
The book of a hundred hands. Bridgman, George Brant, 1864-1943.
The Book of Dragons by Edith Nesbit
The Book of Household Management by Mrs. Isabella Beeton
The Bostonians by Henry James
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by Francis Scott Fitzgerald
The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of Troy by Quintus, Translation by A. S. Way
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton
The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
A House-Boat on the Styx by John Kendrick Bangs
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
The Inferno
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker
The Land that Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Legend of Good Women by Geoffrey Chaucer (pd) text version
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1859)
The People that Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
The Reluctant Dragon by – Kenneth Grahame
The Right People by Adam Rakunas
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Plague by Jack London
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island by Johann David Wyss
The Tale of Peter Rabbit : Potter, Beatrix, 1866-1943
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Trilby by – George du Maurier
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
What Maisie Knew by Henry James
What the moon saw: and other tales by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence